35 teams were eliminated during the first round.
35 teams defeated their opponents and managed to move on to the second round.
An additional team was lucky enough to get a bye and reached the second round without needing to do anything.
Now, 18 teams were about to square off against 18 other teams.
The tournament employed a random mixer in order to determine the matchups in the fairest and most unbiased possible way.
The mech designer duos started to learn whose mechs their own machines had to fight against next.
It was pretty much a given that no one wanted to meet Team Larkinson so early. Even the more confident teams did not want to leave anything to chance and would rather beat up a weaker team in order to squeeze through the next round as effortlessly as possible.
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