The first day of the tournament.
Usually, this was also the game that all the high-rated players used as their warm-up. After all, the first round would always give them an easy opponent, a no-named player with an ELO rating of around 1800 to 2000 for them to turn on their engine first. Some people might even say that the real tournament only began in the fourth round, where all the top-seeded players started to fight each other.
However, that didn't mean they could underestimate their opponent. There would be some occasions where a genius whose rating didn't reflect their rating would appear out of nowhere. In the past, Sheva was the one who held that role. However, since he could be considered a high-rated player right now, the roles reversed, and it was he who had to be wary of that this time.
