Tournament Arc

The Tournament Arc is the second arc of *Stick Fighters Z.* It centers around the World Fighter’s Tourney, a tournament with sixteen contestants in the final bracket. It begins with all the contestants that signed up participating in a preliminary round in “the back” (an actual building named “the back” behind the tournament arena). After the preliminaries are finished, the sixteen winners continue on to the final bracket. The final bracket has four rounds, the first round, the quarterfinals, the semifinals, and the finals.

**Plot**

During the preliminaries, Joe, Juan and Peter fight against several opponents including B.U.F. Fman, who peter subdues after figuring out that his buff form sacrifices his speed for his strength. Juan fights and easily defeats Annoying Kidd, and Joe fights and defeats Schlatt. The three find out that Joshua Joskart is not only alive, but in a robot body. They also discover that Sean Tolnpotty, Sam, and Silus Illipez are also in the tournament, and that they are from an opposing martial arts school. Tomketty points out that the presence of the Grape Juice Force means that they’re being hunted. The tournament begins shortly after.

**First Round**

The first match is between Peter Illipez and Grape Juice Force Member 3. The fight doesn’t last long, and Grape Juice Force Member 3 is shot through the head with a Duburupawa Illipez Spiral, Killing him. The next match is between Sam and ???. ??? Easily defeats the cocky Sam, as he believes his opponent to have not shown up. However, ??? Is an invisible man, and throws him out of the ring. Joshua Joskart then defeats Juan Tomketty who uses a Duburupawa Times Three Old Man Beam to injure Joshua Joskart, who immediately regenerates it and defeats Juan Tomketty. Micheal Picheal then fights Grape Juice Force Member Two, launching his Grape Juice Nuke into the sky, Micheal Picheal uses his Sit, Stick Platinum to freeze GJFM 2 in a circle using Stick Platinum: The Circle, and then launching him out of the ring. David Mann, the Five time champ of the World Fighting Tourney beats GJFM 4 by flicking him and then punching him. The sixth fight is between Jaine Idaho and GJFM 5. GJFM 5 then defeats Jaine Idaho. Joe fights and defeats Silus Illipez by using the Duburupawa. Sean Tolnpotty battles and loses against GJFM 1.

**Quarterfinals**

Peter faces off against ??? In the first round, winning by destroying the ground around him in order to knock him off the arena. Joshua Joskart fights against Micheal Picheal, having to outmaneuver his Sit, Stick Platinum. He does so before snapping Micheal Picheal’s neck, killing him. David Mann flicks GJFM 5 out of the arena for the third fight, and Joe overpowers and eliminates GJFM1.

**Semifinals**

Only one round actually happens in the semifinals. Peter and Joshua Joskart battle it out, Peter remembering that this is the man who slaughtered his parents three years ago. Peter goes all out, pulling off a Duburupawa times three Illipez Spiral, but none of it is enough to beat Joshua, who beats him up and launches him out of the ring. David Mann decides to let Joe fight Joshua in the finals and quits, as to not get in the way of this fight, and because he has already won five times.

**Finals**

Joe faces off against Joshua Joskart one final time in episode 17. They begin the fight by warming up, before Joe goes to Duburupawa times three, and Joshua powers up to 100%. The battle comes down to a climactic beam clash between the two, where Joe manages to pull off the Duburupawa times four, blasting Joshua in two. Joshua unfortunately regenerates, and Joe, with very little energy left, fights with all he has left to stay in the ring, using the Duburupawa very sparingly. Joe eventually loses, Joshua kills the announcer, and then flies off, leaving Joe unconscious. After the tournament Peter, Juan, Jaine, ???, Silus, Sam, and Sean all agree to team up and take down Joshua Joskart when he comes back.