Yeah, I know, I know. That means both our MC AND the guy who's even more fit to be a MC will both lose against a guy from a REGULAR class who's only power is mind control if you answer to him.
But think of it how cool that would be!
Shinsou's quirk is not OP as it leaves YOU to chose whenever or not you fall under his spell by talking or not talking to him. So ofc if you want to win you wanna keep your mouth shut, but obviously Shinsou will do anything to get you to say something like he did with Deku where he insulted the honorable Ojiro, causing Deku to shout in rage and immediately fall under his spell.
I do not see a way for Deku to win this as seen with Ojiro and co that you are COMPLETELY under Shinsou's spell and cannot wake up from it, even under pain, till Shinsou releases you. I think Shinsou will not make Deku simply say "I give up" or make him leave the battleground. No. He will humilate him before the entire audience and his class. He will use him as a chair to sit on. Will make him do and say silly things and he might tell him to beat himself up. If he goes as far to order Deku to hit himself with all his power, Deku's life could be in danger. So the rocksensei will jump in, end the fight because it is going to far and make Shinsou the winner. Maybe even AM will jump in to stop Deku from killing himself. I mean, I dunno how far Shinsou's midncontrol goes, maybe it stops if your life (which could be the reason the mindcontrol becomes undone and Deku wins by hitting Shinsou) would be in danger but we'll see.
So I think Deku will lose this battle and Shinsou will then meet Todoroki who you'd think is so cool there's no way he will let himself say a word to Shinsou. But Shinsou might know about Todoroki's family problems, especially his fathers and might use that to make Todoroki rage and get him under his control as well. And he continues to do so till the final where Bakugou shows that he had grown and, despite being the one with the GREATEST TEMPER of those three, he will not utter a single word no matter what insults Shinsou throws in his face till he wins and has become Number 1 of the first years with Shinsou, a regular class guy being 2nd place before all the other hero students!
That would be my dream final of this tournament!!!
But ofc it won't happen because Deku is the MC and MCs do not lose in the first round plus if Deku and Todoroki wins they will meet each other in the next round which is basically Naruto vs Sasuke fighting each other in a tournament so yeah, Shinsou already lost because he is no MC. Sucks, because that final would have been AWESOME and maybe Hirokoshi surprises me by letting Deku and Todoroki lose against Shinsou, but I doubt the Editor will let that happen and the tournament will go its regular Shounen cliche style............. ;_;