Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14061097-20131111023452/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140114230922

139.62.7.140 wrote: I don't want it to be interrupted either. That would just be a repeat of the Chunin Exams. This is anime bro (well technically...it's "American Anime" or something like that, depends on what the term of the day is today that the all knowing people of the YouTube comments section have to decided to name the genre), there's not a whole lot you can with touurnaments that haven't already been done. Naruto's Chunin Exam Arc is hardly the first instance of a tournament being crashed by the antagonists.

Monty is in an interesting position. He has what looks to be a potentially 6/7 round tournament,  10 announced potentially victors and no mention of Mistral or Atlas native participants (apart from Pyrrha). He's got to juggle these in a way that we get a good mix of story progression through, fight scenes that will please the vast majority of different fanatics out there (though I'm sure my version of the plot would likely turn a few heads about the handling of Ren and Nora...) AND still somehow manage to advance the main story arc.

IDEALLY it would be awesome if we could just have a tournament in which 32 people (a likely but never the less just now made up number) from the four regions of Vytal fight it out with a cool action sequence seeing someone interesting win. However such a thing can't really be possible without placing Roman and Cinder as bit players for the next Volume...