The members of our team are monitoring the lottery process with at least a small amount of tension, as should probably be expected. The same likely goes for the members of the other teams, their coaches and their families…so a considerable number of highly tense individuals, which should make up nicely for the fact that the rest of the people who have this running on their TVs are asleep or not paying attention.
Naturally, the TV channel needlessly heightens the tension by letting a self-declared expert pontificate about the process and its potential consequences. For realism I should have restricted Coachy to uttering nothing but platitudes and drivel, but I actually needed somebody to provide a bit of exposition, so what he says is actually right and relevant. Really missed the opportunity for a gag there…
But the coach’s exposition actually provides some good news for the Yuri Shinkai Gakuen team: their first round opponent will be Bernd das Brot! Which is great, because Bernd das Brot is not a cricket team. And, frankly, our team would probably stand no chance against anything that was an actual cricket team. A sliver of hope! The team is appropriately relieved. They owe it all to Briegel, really, who’s the only being in the universe that could design a raffle machine that reliably selects one specific entity, even without said entity being eligible or their name having been added to the raffle. Or perhaps it’s not actually something about Briegel, but some larger point between Bernd and the universe.
More on Monday.