User blog comment:Zolnir/Flaw in Tournament Setup/@comment-27633656-20160318002302/@comment-3257939-20160318014609

The problem with how you're using this quote, Zolnir, is the ignorance the purpose of said refs.

A referee's job is to ensure that the participants follow the rules of the sport or tournament. If a rule is broken, it's the  referee's job to decide the punishment of the  offender. The referees, however, do not have permission to adress the offender with violence or any form of aggression. If it comes to that, another source, with the capacity and the permission, will interfere.

One can argue that since this is a fantasy world like your novels then it should have a similar treatment. However, there is a major part missing from the Vytal Festival Tournament:

There are no rules.

The participants are not given any handicaps. They're allowed to use whatever means they can find to finish their opponents. There are only three procedures to follow:


 * If you're out of the ring, you do not come back.


 * I f your Aura hits zero, you're out.

* If your opponent is out, you do not keep attacking them.

This is where the difference in referees and other sources come in. These three rules have no punishment that the referee can give in case these are broken. If these were to be broken, it would be considered an illegal offense and another source should be called to deal with the offender.

That is exactly what happened to Yang. A referee came to take her in? No, it was a group of armed soldiers.

It's true that a referee should have been at the tournament. But they wouldn't have made a difference because that's not their jobs. As for your novel's referees. Are you should they're truly referred to as that? Or are they their own thing? After all, it is a thrashy chinese novel, right?