The one thing going through my head with this tournament. How long does this thing go for?
Sure, if this is such a huge tournament, it would have a lot of age brackets and things like that.
Even still, I wouldn't expect something like this to take longer than a week.
We've had people fly overseas and back, still had time for tourist montages and other shenanigans.
I've never taken this show seriously and it's cheesy fun. Like others have said, they do like repeating stories.
The karate-verse didn't really need to be a thing, but they're trying their hardest