This battle made them realize the importance of teamwork; even though their health points had increased considerably, they could still achieve a relatively good performance with divided aggro and cooperative tactics.
However, the three teams felt great regret because not only could they see this point, but Starfire must have seen it as well.
Their only chance to qualify was if Starfire suffered a complete defeat in the third match without scoring, then they would have to fight tooth and nail in the second and third rounds, striving for higher evaluations—that would be a normal competition.
In fact, that's almost how it was. Aside from Starfire's side, the other arenas were as they anticipated, indeed fierce battles of dragons and tigers.
Since everyone's abilities were roughly the same, in similar strength levels, what mattered were luck and tactics.
