User blog comment:B214/Shin DxD 1 discussion/@comment-41.141.233.60-20180818195452/@comment-31137559-20180821042531

If you're wrong, you have to eat Sona's cakes. Deal? XD

I'm ready for all of my predictions to be wrong. But I'm fairly certain of the matches going that way. Because I'm going off the way I think the matches will go rather than the way I WANT them to go. There's a difference between the two.

Here's how I would WANT the matches to go:

Shooting Star

Indra

Issei

Diehauser

Surtr(I really want to see his team)

Ruval

Tobio or Dulio(really don't care which. I like them both)

Vali

But in my view, I see most of my predictions as coming to fruition. And I really don't see Issei making it past the final rounds. As powerful as his team is, he's a pretty incompetent and inexperienced king. If he wins against Rias, I will see it as the mother of all asspulls.

I see Mahabali winning against Indra because this is the maib tournament not the preliminaries. While Indra has gotten some attention this arc, I don't think it's as simple as Indra beating Mahabali. And besides Ishibumi said that he would give the young gods focus and Mahabali does count as a young god.

I just don't see Diehauser losing to a team with four baby devils on it. Plus I see their development coming much later. As they do serve under Hades. So we won't see the last of them. And besides Issei getting ANOTHER power-up so soon? Not likely. Although we have no idea how strong Balberith is at the moment. All we know is that he could potentially fight a Dragon God.

Honestly while I would like to see Vali vs Tobio, that has kind of already happened. As much as there's a connection, I believe that we're going to see Vali vs Dulio. And see Vali come up with a way to overcone Rudiger's tactics. Rudiger has gotten some focus. I don't see Dulio getting defeated in a match that won't be heavily detailed(Ishibumi did say that Rias' and Vali's matches would be covered along with Issei's). And I feel that Tobio has a Shinto god or goddess on his team.

Although this is all just my predictions. So I really shouldn't take this all too seriously.