The high-ranking officer took a deep breath and then spoke calmly:
"This year's rookie tournament is gonna be different from every other one in the last century, but I can't share the reasons just yet. The tournament itself won't be the usual solo fights — it's going to be team battles."
Everyone was surprised. Historically, the competition was never purely one-on-one — if it were, tanks would always come out on top, while supports would be dead last. It'd be dumb to compare rookies' strength like that.
That's why tournaments were always organized as battles between people of the same class, with four separate brackets running at the same time.
Mystics were grouped together with fighters. Even though mystics could act as tanks and had a bit of an advantage, they weren't outstanding in that or any other role, since they weren't specialized. In fact, in the whole history of the tournament, only once had a mystic ever beaten the fighters and taken the win.
