User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 418: Challenger, Review./@comment-4999650-20150202192928/@comment-24403746-20150202223642

I completly agree with you Ummi. Personally from the moment there was some sort of random challenger it was already most likely to be Natsu. :c

When I saw the cloak I really would've hoped for Hiro to bring out Zeref or some random other kinda badguy. Another amazing option would've been Gildarts imo. He wanted FT to win the previous one which they did, but that the GMG were such a disgrace this year that he'd show em how the strongest should be or I dunno. It could've been a nice way to start with either options to get a totally different dynamic between the 2 and something like a quest to find everyone instead of *poof* here's OP Natsu and *poof* here's fish addict Happy... Next chapter we'll trow most of the other main kinda guys so you don't have to stay in suspence to what happened to them. :/

All in all I really hoped that we would find out along with Lucy how everyone was doing either with a companion who would make for an interresting combo or some random new guy which we could get to know more.