MC, if you want to fight me you must join our tournament first! I shall wait for you in the finals

>MC, if you want to fight me you must join our tournament first! I shall wait for you in the finals

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>forcing the MC to go through the entire bracket instead of bending the tournament to your rules

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>Loses
>Tries to destroy the planet anyway
Sore loser cuck must've gotten that from vegeta

tournament arcs are cancer. They always kill the pacing.

He had to in order to make Yusuke stronger, he either dies or succeeds and becomes increasingly powerful in doing so, giving him his final wish.

all the best Shounen arcs are tournament arcs though

>And even when you make it, I'll still have to hold back so you can beat me

Frieza trait also

If Goku managed to ring out Cell within the first few minutes, what would he have done?

Only if you don't care about the other combatants. The best tournament arcs set up situations where you're unsure who will win each fight but you want one or both fighters to win.

Not really.
We all know that Yusuke is going to win but what kept the arc a classic is the question: "At what cost?"
He already lost Genkai and everyone on the team made huge sacrifices of their own to beat their opponent with stakes rising at a moment's pace.
Yusuke's fight was hyped and it delivered hard

>セル様、許してください
>ひざまずきます

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I'm not talking about just "who will win the tournament" I mean "who will win [this fight]". As you say, everyone on the team made huge sacrifices of their own to beat their opponent with stakes rising at a moment's pace. You cared about who was fighting and you cared about the outcome of the fights. They have value beyond just being pointless filler getting in the way of the inevitable outcome of the MC defeating the villain and saving the day.

become a good guy duh
he'd probably get mad and attack them anyway

English?

So what's the beat tournament arc in all shounen, either manga or anime? For me, it's still the YYH, but is there something what can compete?

Rank Wars.
It's only kind of a tournament arc though because it's all squad-based and it's not elimination rounds. I like it because it's different.

Perfect Origin.

based

Minus arc
It flips the tournament arc on its head where the best battle is the first and the last battle is just business as usual

23rd Budokai

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for me it's Exam arcs

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>challenge MC to meet in the finals
>get knocked out in round two/three
Anticlimactic and also hilarious

He had vegeta and freeza's genes, so ofc he'd get buttmad and destroy the planet.

Every shonen ever made

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Jounochi won :(

same thing that happened when Gohan kicked his ass. He would've tried to destroy the whole planet

penis inspection day

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