"The First Matches are beginning," The commentator announced as the first match began.
"We have Rank 998 of First Year vs Rank 894 of First Year," The commentator said and the students loudly cheered.
"We have Rank 996...." The commentator announced rest of the duels as well.
The format of this tournament was a simple duel between two students that were seeded against each other by drawing their names.
Even though luck was involved but the match ups were done considering the Ranks, power and performance of the student. And the matchups were quite fair for the students early on in the Tournament.
But due to the large numbers of student, there were 10 Duels that were happening at the same time, and it would remain that way until the numbers became low.
Only the Students and the Recruiters that wanted even the lowest ranking member of the World Academy, watched these matches keenly.