Ves continued to chat with various other teams. He managed to get acquainted with many different mech designers in the short period of time before the start of the tournament.
Each of them were talented, capable, confident or well-prepared. They had to be in order to have the guts to compete in this kind of tournament.
The relatively low age restriction of the Wild Brawl Bowl did not attract as many weaklings as Ves initially thought. Even if the mech designers didn't have to compete against 99-year old Journeymen with many decades of experience under his belt, they still swore off in fear of ending at the bottom of the rankings.
None of the competitors could fall back on the excuse that they were only beaten because they had to confront mech designers who were three times older than themselves!
