User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-31137559-20170327215000

It seems like Ishibumi is ending the preliminaries way too soon. 1st semester is over so that means it's like July in DxD and the preliminaries end in August. We've only have had two matches of note: Issei vs Baraqiel and Issei vs Dulio. It's kind of weird that Issei has been getting all of these opponents of note but no one else. I know he's the MC, but come on. I find it very shocking that after three months Rias and Vali haven't faced anyone of particular note in this tournament and it's just seems like Ishibumi has been paving the way for them. And we've heard nothing of Tobio so far. Or anyone else of note. I know this is a big tournament, but I feel like it could be done better than this.