I'll take a new look at the description of first and second stringer later, but I also believe the fanbook may come back to this kind of thing later on.
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No comments on power difference between the two strings. They only say the second string goes through harsh training in order to aim for a position at the first string.
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Talks about the court system.
About the first court, it says "there is a player there that is stronger than the first string?!" alongside Tokugawa's picture.
About the third court, it says it is the core of the 2nd string, where many players of refined explosive individuality gather.
About the fifth court, it's the "gate to hell" where newcomers get stomped.
Then, there is a panel talking about the match "change match" between the first string and the second string which is only descriptive. It does affirm that player selection is decided by the coaches.
Page 19
Talks about the two types of change match. It states those matches are like a "bridge in to a rainbow" that will eventually lead in to the first string.
Extra Notes: Even middle schoolers will go up in courts if they keep winning.
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Change Match: a singles match between players of different courts.
Rules:
* Every morning, the match ups are posted (at 6 am).
* If you win against a person from a lower court, you stay where you are.
Note: For the person in the higher court, you're just protecting your position. The pressure of having to drop down iin case of losing becomes an enemy.
* If you win against a person from a higher court, you change courts.
Note: Since there is nothing to lose, that becomes a weapon.
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Total change match:
A group match instead of singles.
Rules:
* This match must be request by representatives, then the coaches can aprove or not.
* The team that loses must spend 1 week without being able to request another one. But if they did not request the match in the first place, there is no such limit.
* The match is played by 7 players, two doubles and 3 singles, with the player order defined by the players themselves. The first team who wins 3 matches, wins.
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I suppose there was nothing new here...
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About the first string.
Rules of the first string:
* Even in non-official matches, if you lose, you give up the badge.
Note: the number reflects the strength. When challenging for a match, the decision must take in to account the person's number.
* During a change match, the members will be exchanged: Even if it's a group match, the group match's result itself does not matter, as soon as the player loses, he drops out from the first string. The winning player then enters the first string. (TN: then why does it have a different name when there is no difference in practice...? No reason to call it a group match in the first place. Maybe it's simply because every member MUST play)
No. 11 to 20
Those players are reserves. The chances to to play in official matches don't happen often.
Genius 10
Special players even inside the first string. Afterwards, No.5 was replaced by Oni.
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Page 21
This page marks the beginning of the report on the singles matches between friends, with a focus on the losers, that I've already translated. There is a brief introduction written by Saitou himself where he says this is to increase the mental strength of the players.
From page 21 to 51 we have those match reports and the loser's profiles.
Tomorrow I'll get started on page 52-57, where they detail the mountain training.
After page 57, we have the winners side of the VS friend matches, so that should be cool.
