[Blade Raider]

-Blade's lines about being disabled, please ignore them. It will be explained much, much later. It's bad writing.

-The background for the tournament is the back side of the TMNT lair playset used for the Safe House.

-Round 1: is straight forward. Star, who by the way did not actually go with us to Botcon that year but is here because he's a core cast character, wins because Archangel is new at this. Simple as that.

-There is a 2 panel verison of most of the main character's Kai Blasts, just for drama flare. This is mostly dropped later on.

-Round 2: If you haven't figured it out Metalsamamon was a MISB collector, hence the box. He's Kai Blast is the Wargreymon attack Terra Force, which is a real attack from Digimon. From time to time I'll do that.

-Round 3: Simple sword fight and I think it's one of the only battle without a Kai Blast in it.

-Round 4: Paladin has a Kai Blast named in the next comic. Honestly didn't think this through with these figures. A lot of them have limited articulation, so Paladin gets one that doesn't need him to move a lot. He takes Agent X down fast and we're all okay with that.

-I still like the arm and leg joke. That broken Go-Bot toy was made for this scene.

-Who could possibly be pointing at the Leader-1?! I mean, that Claw could be anyone!

Tomorrow: Semifinals. Plus, every single new character introduced is a Transformer.