I wasn't happy with all the fighting over the world leadership. One or two fights were ok and one could even have several participants, keeping the fights to a minimum.

But why only fight if there are so many other ways to measure suitability (not to speak about mortality and general destruction or contamination of the general area with bits of body). As a neutral authority I decided that something else would be happening in Viable 4.

A tournament over world leadership. Anyone who would take part would be part of being in danger, but the reward for winning would be great. I in fact do not recommend anyone to take part in this madness disguised as a tournament.

Sadly the applications coming in are turning into large towers of bureaucrazy. Maybe I should have put up a warning that the tournament named after me: 'Hungry Games', would be completely unfair due to people like John Chi and Luck Norris taking part and being scaled to take their extensive unfair abilities into account.

And no the preliminary IQ tests would probably not disqualify anyone not above average.

I was pretty sure that no one of the big hitters would fail the test, they were mostly not based around logic but... that doesn't even have to be detrimental here.

But what I do hate is all these applications. I guess I'll just use an electronic device to do it for me, what could go wrong.

Chaol rubbed its metaphoric hands in an IsRealic fashion. Now it had full power over the participants of the 'Hungry Games'. Of course none of the large players would take part (under the assurance that they had all failed the IQ test), instead his favourite plumber Marco Marco would become the new world leader. The rest would be idiots who didn't know what they had applied for.

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The only problem was to prop up Marco Marco in order to stem the cruelty that the writer would come up with, whilst not making it too obvious.

A big conundrum, but a welcome challenge to distract from Volt'Em using its anchor for various unhygienic tasks...

I already knew that Karen would not take part in the tournament, as I would rig it so that she wouldn't be qualified due to not making the IQ test. A very patriarchial thing to do, but well she would perish in that shitshow otherwise. Plus I would have to be very harsh and stuff. First challenge alone...

Yeah not going to happen. Even with that special fight thingy she used against god it wouldn't be viable, I think. Never really saw its full potential probably.

Shame, but how good can it be? Certainly a lot of emotional pain involved in the games or something. Depends probably on the individual.

Let's see who... there seem to be an awful lot IQ test failers in here.

How the hell can humanities intelligence be below the average of the intelligence of humanity?!

Maybe the test was a bit too hard or the machine... machines make no errors tho.

Well here it is - let me just throw Karen out of the match, type in all the viable competitors... hmm shame that Luck Norris and Chi John aren't coming, let's just put them in anyway.

Yeah- have fun in the next chapter: 'Hungry Games - Challenge 1'!