Panthera posted...
If characters are actually conscious of the tournament being ongoing, that means each round is canonical to the next one, and that means that Yuki auto-wins this because in round 1 she already knew she'd be fighting Goku now, sensed everything about him, and if it's needed warped reality to give herself a "if encountering enemy monkey man, transform self into either super durable form or intangible form" contingency plan and he's now boned.
There's a reason matches happen in a void, ESPECIALLY when you start bringing out folks who can perceive the future.
I've always seen it as they don't know anything else except they are in a tournament, and what round it is. Otherwise its just really stupid. Just because you are a normal nice guy does not mean you should be at a disadvantage for a tournament that is supposed to be all about power. (Hence why almost every Super Sonic debate this board has ever had has been full of fail, yes, he would kill, get over it). Luckily with Goku, we actually see him in tournament settings in canon, so he shouldn't (emphasis on shouldn't, there is still the problem of most of this board being unintelligent beyond normalcy) have that disadvantage that you attribute to others like Sonic, like Link, like Kal-el, and so many others.