>>821673(last one promise)
Unlike other tournaments, there is not much narrative capital to pay off CUM's plot as a protagonistic venture. This kind of rebellion would have been a hit with the crowd and the original Gamemaster, who unapologetically would destroy homeworlds of losers and kill hundred of gnomes just because they got his coffee wrong. DOOMVA hadn't been properly and fully villainous over the course of the tournament or put to task for its more questionable actions until R3 where the sudden slights were stacked up.
Berry carries a microcosm of this same kind of problem of neglecting the full buildup to sell a righteous payoff. If her issue with Clovis was his treatment of his team she did not once interact with the people she wanted to stand up for to take upon the idea of punishing him for the transgressions he's done to others chasing for victory by any means necessary. And from Hyuckleberry's own statements in R2 it seemed less an action she is doing for other people and more something she wanted to do for herself, expunging her frustrations and hate of people who wronged her in the past on a man who had not done anything to her.
So when it washes out and the wishes are made, CUM is excommunicated and Berry ends up having lost her narrative momentum in her loss to Clovis, ironically mirroring the same character narrative stopgap that Berry had imposed on Atta in R2. She hadn't prevented a wish from being made, hadn't prevented Clovis' team from winning, and closed out the tourney effectively alone given nearly her whole team had vaporized under her except Scarlet.
Kind of a bummer ending for such an important character, am I right?
