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The List - 7 Heart-Pounding Tournaments

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Three different World Martial Arts Tournaments take place during Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT.

Oh, look. There's Dragon Ball in the article mentioning its numerous tournaments then specifically picking one to talk about.Oh, look. There's Pokemon with its numerous tournaments being mentioned, but only one is chosen. Your point?

I also echo the exclusion of the Dark Tournament from YuYu Hakusho as a fairly inexcusable offense. That was the first one that occurred to me when I saw the topic of this list. I mean the Dark Tournament is somewhere between a quarter and a third of the show's entire run! At the very least it should have been somewhere on the list, if not sitting high atop it.

I'd ask you what purpose did it serve for you to post those 6 screen caps from the outset of Battle City but you likely wouldn't be able to come up with a good reason for why you felt the need to do something that wasn't inherently necessary.

As for my point the YGO anime has 3 different tournament arcs maybe the writer couldn't choose between the three, maybe they didn't like any of them, maybe as you said they didn't read or watch YGO, It just seems a bit silly to whine about a subjective list not including something you liked personally while posting six screencaps from the thing you liked.

Optitron wrote:

I also echo the exclusion of the Dark Tournament from YuYu Hakusho as a fairly inexcusable offense. That was the first one that occurred to me when I saw the topic of this list. I mean the Dark Tournament is somewhere between a quarter and a third of the show's entire run! At the very least it should have been somewhere on the list, if not sitting high atop it.

Why does it covering a quarter to a third of the show's run make it good or remarkable enough to make the list? Not saying it shouldn't be on it but this doesn't strike me as a strong argument for its inclusion. Not to mention your apparently low bar for inexcusable offense.

Kagami + Kaiba announcing BC + Yami no Chikara = It speaks for itself. I'm sure any knowledgeable Yugioh fan would know the significance of that moment.

So you have no point much like your reply to my comment in the Gantz article. M'kay.

I'd argue that my choice to refer to the decision as a "fairly inexcusable offense" was enough to make that part of my statement fairly innocuous. As to the other part of my remark under question, I suppose that deserves to be expounded upon in order to make a more cogent "strong argument for it's inclusion". The significance of the percent of the show that the Dark Tournament represented is a matter of perspective. If you're someone like me who considers YuYu Hakusho to be among the best shounen action series ever produced, then the fact that the Dark Tournament represents such a significant portion of the show's run implies that the arc must be "good or remarkable", because anything less from such a large portion of the series would be enough to drag the whole thing down with it. Admittedly the original statement by itself wasn't enough to convey this thought, but in my defense I was initially only concerned with pointing out the factual inaccuracy I mentioned in my original post and added my opinions on the Dark Tournament's non-inclusion as an afterthought and an act of solidarity with the numerous other posters who had already made similar statements..