A few days ago, the headquarters of Lovely Land started receiving the members from its branches. These members were all here for the tournament.
Even though the sparring sessions before the tournament would not be listed as the official result and Happy would not be personally hosting it, there were just too many people entering the competition this time, and Lovely Land had to ask the elites in the branches to choose their opponents and compete against each other in private before the official tournament.
One of the reasons behind it was so that the elites in the branches would now the strength of the strongest group in Lovely Land, and the second was so that the elites from the branches could calculate their winning chances after they became familiar with their own win-lose ratio.