"I will participate in this tournament!" Igarashi Sayaka announces as she bursts into the library- the site of the tournament. I stare at her in shock. She never wants to gamble! She gets all of her donation fees from working under Kirari, so she never has to gamble. "I will restore faith in the student council by defeating Kokoro Akari in a tournament gamble!"
The crowd of participants giggle. Ever since the downfall of Yumemite, the approval of the student council has decreased significantly.
I also vastly underestimated the amount of students gambling. There are over 1000 students wanting to participate, meaning each of the stages has to have ten people.
"I accept this offer," I announce to the crowd, much to their dismay. Even though I'm the organizer of the tournament, letting a very wealthy organization, as well as myself, gamble in this supposed charity event doesn't go well with the audience. I tell the crowd that I will reimburse the money lost by being behind Igarashi and I, which calms them down.
"With that," I announce to the crowd, "I will create the randomized brackets!"
I enter the names into a random bracket software I found online, and it outputs a tournament schedule. Because there are 1000 people, there will be 100 people in the second round and ten people in the championship round.
My screen is projected onto the wall of the library, so once I randomize it, there's no way of redoing it without looking like cheating. I click 'Randomize' and see what's on the board.
I sigh annoyedly as I see that Igarashi and I are nowhere near each other on the tournament bracket. We won't be competing until the championship round. I'm going to have to pay quite a bit of money to the runners up for taking their place to the next round. I'm really good at Texas Hold'em- the type of Poker we're playing in the tournament- so there's a good chance I'll be going to the championship round.
"I hope your ready, Igarashi Sayaka," I turn to her as she adjusts her violet ponytail. "You're gonna be in for a wild ride."
"Please," Igarashi responds. "All gambling is is just a bunch of math. There's no need to actually be lucky in this type of gambling. That crap you pulled with Yumemite? That was luck. This? This is all a bunch of probability and statistics."
"Well, good luck with that." I respond to her. I turn to the crowd, who looks eager to start the first few tournaments. We have 25 poker tables to use, so the first round will have to be played over a long time. "Let the tournament begin!" I shout as the crowd erupts in cheers.
