>>56518683>How to write them?Have a cast of interesting characters and teams first and foremost. The important ones must leave a mark on readers.
Have in-between episodes unrelated to the matches, keep some matches in the background, or make the tournament itself short if it's not endgame.
Only do six-versus-six in semi-finals and finals, everything else will just make reading through battles exhausting
>How not to write them?Throwing whatever characters with no interesting aspects to their personality or teams. Also wasting full matches on unimportant characters.
Going with several tournaments in short timespans.
Writing a gorillion 6v6 matches
>Why or why not to write them?If your MC is a trainer or your cast is primarily composed of those, you can only really show their worth in tournaments and crises.
>How much is enough?One long tournament is enough (top 256 at most), and even then, only fully show the MC's matches and the important ones involving other characters.
For short tournaments, however, it doesn't matter so long as they don't overstay their welcome. Just don't do more than three.
>How much is too much?When you write a long-ass tournament detailing all matches, many of which you could've easily summarized or cut to one moment.
And, for the love of everything, don't start and end a rivalry in the same tournament.
>"Hehe, wouldn't it be funny if we suddenly started building artificial tension between Kiawe and Gladion despite both characters barely interacting with each other?"That shit sucks.
