User blog comment:B214/Azazel Cup discussion center/@comment-31137559-20180822161017/@comment-31137559-20180825140318

Well saying that some matches have more narrative weight is very pretentious of us though. Any match has narrative weight as long as Ishibumi decides it.

Basically that's up for Ishibumi to decide, not anyone else.

So at the moment, each match has as much narrative weight as the other. Because none of us really have no idea how the story will unfold.

Honestly I'm just predicting that Sairaorg, Mahabali, Issei, Rias, Surtr, Ruval, Dulio, and Vali are going to win their matches. Not because someone is stronger, not because I want to see this certain match, not because I think one holds more narrative weight, etc. But simply because that's how I think Ishibumi will have the matches happen.

And why I think they'll turn out that way. As Crom Cruach said in Volume 24: Intuition(I'm seriously not kidding).