Grand Magic Games/X791

The Grand Magic Games in X791, like every other year, were held in Crocus, Fiore inside the Domus Flau.

Participants
Initially, 113 teams took part in the tournament, but after the Preliminary Event, the number of teams participating decreased to only 7. .

Referee & Mascot
The preliminaries and the main games are announced by Mato. It's unknown if he's a pumpkin creature or a man with a costume. His head is a giant pumpkin with eyes and mouth. He wears a striped jacket with a dark cape, pants, boots, gloves and a dark witch-like hat. He's often seen smiling and dancing, but has a bit dark personality, as he smiles when he announces that they won't take any responsibility for deaths in the labyrinth.

Main Events
Chapati Lola is the Grand Magic Games announcer, Yajima and Jenny Realight are the commentators of the event. Chapati gives the audience general information about the Games and the participants, while Yajima gives his opinions about them. Jenny is the Guest of the Games for the 1st Day, also a member of Blue Pegasus Guild and the Miss Fiore. She cheers for her guild during the 1st Day. Jason was the 2nd Day's Guest, saying "Coool" to everything that he sees and since Matt had the day off, Chapati also acted as referee. In the third day, the Magic Council's official Lahar serves as the Guest.

Preliminary Event
In X791, the preliminary event consisted of getting out of a magical labyrinth created by parts of Crocus's buildings. The first eight teams that reached the goal moved on. The inside was like a giant 3D maze that spins. The goal's location was a door with the word "Congratulation!" and "GOAL" written above it, where the Mato waited to greet the winning teams.

Battles/Results

 * Sky Labyrinth

Tournament
The tournament will be divided into 5 days, with two events held each day, one battle and one surprise event. For the surprise event, each team will receive an amount of points based on their position in the end of it:
 * 1st: 10 points
 * 2nd: 8 points
 * 3rd: 6 points
 * 4th: 4 points
 * 5th: 3 points
 * 6th: 2 points
 * 7th: 1 points
 * 8th: 0 points

For the battles, the winning team gets 10 points and the loser won't get any; if the fight ends up in a draw, both teams get 5 points.

The battles will be decided by the organizers based on the fans' votes (however, some battles are arranged according to the Fiore's King's desires ) and will be set up like so:
 * Team A vs Team B
 * Team C vs Team D
 * Team E vs Team F
 * Team G vs Team H

The arena is the entire battle field and the winner is decided when the opponent is rendered incapable of fighting within the thirty minute time limit.

Hidden
The first day's event is "Hidden" in which the participants are:

In this game, the participants are sent to different locations in a town Magically created, which is filled with clones of the competitors.


 * Mages win 1 point when they attack another competitor.


 * Mages lose 1 point if they are attacked by another competitor or if they attack a clone.


 * 10 seconds after being attacked, the Mage will respawn in a different area of the city.


 * Restarts can happen as many times as necessary until the time limit is reached.


 * The winner is the Mage that has the most points after 30 minutes.

Results:

Battles
Two of the matches were sabotaged by outside forces, both involving Fairy Tail.:
 * The first battle between Lucy Heartfilia and Flare Corona was sabotaged by Obra from Team Raven Tail, who used a Dispelling Magic on Lucy to make her lose.
 * The last battle between Jellal Fernandes as Mystogan and Jura Neekis was sabotaged by Ultear Milkovich and Meredy from Crime Sorcière, using Maguilty Sense to impede Jellal so his identity won't be revealed.

Chariot
The second day's event is "Chariot", in which the participants are:

In this game, the participants are made to run along the tops of interconnected chariots, which start at one end of Crocus and end at the Grand Magic Games Arena.


 * Magic can be used at any time to help the competitors reach the goal faster or hinder the other competitors.


 * Falling off the chariots will result in disqualification.


 * The winner is the Mage that reaches the Grand Magic Games Arena first.

Results:

Battles
For each of the battle rounds, the participants chose to put a wager on whether they would win or not.:
 * Toby wagered his "super secret" (his inability to find a sock) for Kurohebi's real name.
 * Elfman bet his sisters for exchanging Bacchus's guild name to Quatro Puppy for the duration of the tournament.
 * Mirajane and Jenny chose to wager that whomever loses is to appear in "Sorcerer Magazine" in the nude.
 * Kagura and Yukino chose to wager their lives.

Pandemonium
The third day's main event was "Pandemonium", in which the participants are:

In this game, the participants are made to enter a temple one at a time. Inside the temple are 100 monsters of different strength levels.


 * The participant in the temple can choose to take on any number of the 100 monsters at a time, but must defeat them all if they wish to continue.


 * If they do defeat them, the number they overcame will be added to their event score.


 * Should they fall in their fight, they will be removed from the event with the score they have earned up until that point.


 * The participants have no control over which level of monster they face, as the generation of the monsters is random, and must choose the number of monsters they wish to face with this in mind.


 * The game ends when either all participants run out of Magic power, or all the monsters are defeated.

However, Erza Scarlet of Team Fairy Tail A finishes the event by herself, resulting in the organizers having to plan a secondary event for the remaining seven teams.

MPF (Magic Power Finder)
The third day's secodary event was "MPF (Magic Power Finder)", in which the participants are:

In the secondary event, participants much hit a Magic power measuring device with the strongest attack they can muster.


 * The device will grant each player a number score, which they will then be ranked on.

Results:

Battles

 * Due to the events of the Team Fairy Tail B versus Team Raven Tail battle, Raven Tail was disqualified for the rest of the games, for the following reasons:
 * Raven Tail's Guild Master, Iwan Dreyar was participating in the tournament, disguised as "Alexei";
 * Team Raven Tail cheated, by having the 4 other members enter the field and attack the single participant, Laxus Dreyar.

Trivia
In Volume 32's extra content, Mashima provided the battle statistics for 31 of the 40 X791 contestants in the Grand Magic Games. The stats, however, were provided not from Mashima's point-of-view as the author but from the view point of Sorcerer Magazine reporter Jason. Which explains why some stats are missing and why others may be inaccurate. Each contestant was rated by Attack, Defense, Speed, Intelligence, and a special stat that was unique to each contestant. For example, Mirajane Strauss's "special stat" was "Pin-Up." The stats were set on a scale from 1 to 5. Although the scale was supposed to stop at 5, the highest any character could get in any stat was COOL! which was slightly above 5. In Jason's opinion, Jura Neekis had the highest stats out of the 31 contestants and Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki had the lowest.