On the fourth day of the tournament, the audience were having conflicting feelings because of yesterday's match. In yesterday's match, the clearly weaker Afeus had shown great prowess by using his opponent's mentality of underestimating him to his advantage. He even used a new kind of spell that was unheard of, but in the end, he was disqualified and the winner was Hime.
Everyone knew that he was the clear winner of that match, but because of the rules, he had lost. Most of the audience members found it hard to accept Afeus's loss yesterday, so the energy in the arena was weird. There were those that were still excited, but there were also those that had looks of pessimism about them. The loud cheering from the prior days of the tournament wasn't present on this day.
I know the cuts from Ren to the tournament is weird, but the events of the tournament are happening prior to the events of Ren's meeting with the Elven Queen.