Tenkaichi Budoukai
The Tenkaichi Budoukai is a tournament held once every three years on May 7. As always, there are exceptions to this. For instance, 11 years passed between the 23rd and 24th Budoukais as the the arena was rebuilt, 7 years passed between the 24th and 25th because of the Cell Game, and 4 years passed between the 25th and 26th because of Majin Buu. The greatest fighters from around the world gather at every tournament to battle it out for the title of world champion and quite a hefty prize. Tenkaichi Budoukai In short it means "The Worlds Best Martial Arts Tournament." Wanna know how I got that? Well, lets take a look at the composition of the word: Ten- means Heavens or Sky, Ka- means Under or Beneath, Ichi- means First or Best, Bu- means Martial Arts, dou-means Way of, Kai- means Meeting. Now, I know your thinking "WTF? 'Heavens Under First Fighting Way of Meeting' doesn't make any sense!" Well, Japanese sentences are constructed differently then English ones, and it would be improper to take every translation literally
• Ten (Heaves or Sky) combined with ka (Under or Beneath) literally gives us "Under the Heavens". Well, what's literally under the heavens? The Earth of course. So these two characters combine to give us "World"
• ichi literally means "First" or "Best", giving us "The World's Best" when combined with the first character
• Bu (Martial Arts) combined with dou (way of) gives you "Martial Arts." Now, I know your saying "Huh? what happened to 'way of''?" Well, in Japanese when you combine one word, Martial Arts (which is the way of fighting), with another which contains a partial definition of the first word, way of, the resulting word has the same meaning of the first indefinitely. This is sort of like saying "Freezing cold" in English
• kai when preceded by Budou literally means "Martial Arts Meeting". Well, what do Martial artists do when they get together, talk? No, they hold a tournament so they can fight. So here, Budoukai gives us "Martial Arts Tournament" Combine both halves of the translation and you get "The World's Best Martial Arts Tournament"
The rules consist of the follows You are disqualified if you:
• Use any sort of weapon or foreign object
• Leave during the tournament
• Kill your opponent
You lose if you:
• Are knocked unconscious
• Go down for a count of 10
• Get knocked out of the ring
• Say "I give up"
Oh, and uhh.. none of this:
• Poking your opponent in the eye
• "Low Blows" (Ouch)
The 21st through the 23rd take place in Dragonball. The rest occur in DBZ
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