So let's all turn our attention to the big screen to see the 1st round matchups.
Everyone looked up to the big screen where the pictures of 128 people were shuffled around to see who would be battling who. Finally 16 pictures showed up on the screen.
And here are the 1st battles of the 1st round.
Greta vs. Brock
Jasmine vs. Paul
Winnona vs. May
Benga vs. Marlon
Falkner vs. Wally
Volkner vs. Narrissa
Caitlin vs. Tyler
Lance vs. Marshal
Brock realised he will have to battle 1st in the tournament. May saw her name and started to think how she could beat Winnona. Tyler's heart sank as he saw he would have to battle an elite 4 member.
These are all the battles that will take Today. So let's get started with battle #1, the frontier brain of the battle arena, the Arena Tycoon Greta, facing off against the Pewter city gym leader, the rock type specialist Brock!
"Tough luck for brock who has to face a frontier brain in his first round battle." Said Max
"So then let's all get in the stands and cheer him on." Suggested Ash.
"And we'll do the same for May and Tyler." Insisted Max.
Everyone started off toward the entrance to the bleachers, except for Tyler who looked to be deep in thought. Ash noticed this and asked him, "Hey Tyler what's wrong?" Tyler broke out of his trance and looked up at realising he just asked him a question.
"I just figure that if I want to win this tournament then I'm going to need to train really hard." He replied.
"Ok. But we'll be in the stands cheering you on in your battle." He said as he clenched his hand in a fist.
"Thanks Ash." Tyler replied as he ran off to do some special training and research. Ash went on to find the rest of his friends in the stands. He found them in the front row along with some faces in the group that weren't there before.
One of them was a 11 year old girl that had blue eyes and dark blue hair. She wore a short pink dress with a white shirt underneath. She had a yellow backpack with her and had a white beanie in her head.
The other was a 13 year old male with black eyes and green hair. He wore a green shirt with brown shorts and blue and white sneakers while having a dark red headband around his head.
"Dawn!" he said excitedly. "it's great to see you again, and Tracy, what are you doing here?" he asked the assistant of professor oak.
"Well I am a pokemon watcher, right? So I'm here to watch some of the most well trained pokemon in the world." Replied the watcher.
"Hi Ash." replied Dawn. "It's great to see you to."
"Hey, where's Tyler?" asked Iris.
"He told me he had some training to do for his 1st battle." Answered Ash.
"Hey the battle is starting!" Gary told the group.
The 8 of them proceeded to sit down and were ready to cheer on their buddy in his first round battle. Here the tournament would officially begin