The waiter came back with the edrinks, and a sheet of paper. "The tournament begins on Saturday as I said, registration ended yesterday, no exceptions. There are more than 18000 partcipants" He said reading from the paper. Each contestant will be grouped based on species and talents in the preliminary rounds, wizards will play wizards, dragons will play dragons etc. Each contestant will play 5 preliminary matches, if you win all 5, you skip the qualifying rounds, If you lose a match then you will have to go through a series of playoffs. There are 11 different sections each section has at least 4 regions, some have 5. in all there are 48 sections. The next round will begin once there are only 8200 players left." The waiter said handing the paper to Janeway.