After the king announced that the tournament brackets had been finished and were about to be shown for the first time, he turned around and left the podium his obligation to the tournament complete until the semifinals.
The tournament's brackets then appeared on the viewing screens throughout the arena so that everyone could see them.
Of course, this was also the first time that the competitors were seeing the tournament's brackets as well, so everyone was looking intently for their names.
The tournament had been broken up into four blocks of one hundred twenty-eight competitors with the winner of each block going to the semifinals.
Looking around Marcus found his name in block two and his first opponent was someone named Miguel LaRusso.
Immediately he though it was a strange name for this kingdom, and he wondered if they had come from some far-off nation.
