User blog comment:Zolnir/Episode Premier Volume 3/@comment-18396318-20150907013852/@comment-26018514-20150907014839

the tournament is almost assuredly not in episode 1, an epic battle like that is likely an episode entire at least to several episodes long, and they have yet to introduce the new characters involved outside of combat, which will likely be the entire first episode or the second episode(due to the likelihood of subplot episode 1 and tourney start episode 2.