User blog comment:Retro7/Fairy Flush Reviews: Pandamonium/@comment-5039438-20120526145639

The setup was necessary. If there hadn't been that much build up, to say how the event should play out, then nobody would care that someone was so reckless as to take all 100. The way it was done, Erza choosing 100 was a massive statement on the strength and determination of Fairy Tail.

Seriously, without the setup I'd be thinking the game was just rubbish because it's too easy. And if it had been done with lesser characters taking some monsters first, it wouldn't have been near as epic as Erza just dominating all 100 monsters that were supposed to sustain the eight competitors over several rounds.