User blog comment:Staw-Hat Luffy/Too Many Participants/@comment-6971349-20130404143154

A few things just came to my mind and I think they need to be brought up:

1- It's been said that Kaido is one of the few alive who could kill Blackbeard. THAT is why Bergess is there, and why Blackbeard probably won't appear anytime soon if at all in this arch. Doflamingo (up to this point) is in the service of Kaido, therefore if Blackbeard were to go after Ace's fruit with a fleet to steal it, he'd basically be declaring war on Kaido. HOWEVER, once the SAD factory is destroyed, Doflamingo will no longer have Kaido's support. That is when Blackbeard would be able to destroy him openly and no one would have a problem with it.

2- It's very unlikely that Kyros is Rebecca's father. Though Kyros may be significant later on, it'd be pretty random for him to just appear out of nowhere to help Luffy (and Rebecca). The only clear chance for that happening would be if it really did turn out that the old Blind guy was Kyros.

3- The structure of the 4 combatants making it to round 2 is designed specifically to work out like this.... Bergess is the winner of Block A. Clearly he is going to be the biggest threat in the colosseum tournament. Luffy is going to win Block C. Rebecca is going to win Block D, which should mean she would be Luffy's ally against Bergess. As for Block B, I already said that either Bellamy or the Prince are going to take the B slot, but the B slot is going to be the first to go in round 2. They'll talk big and say they'll be able to take on all of them including Bergess and then probably get taken out in one hit and/or die. Meanwhile, Luffy and Rebecca would work together to take on Bergess or any other big threats.

4- Luffy's cover--- The second his cover is blown, that eliminates the possibility of the tournament ending with him just winning Ace's fruit peacefully. Whether he wins or not, there's no way they're just going to hand it over to him and so he's going to probably win the tournament, but steal the fruit and fight his way out, bringing about his usual chaos. Whether this means he will have any help or not, be it from the Blind guy, Rebecca (hope so), or his crew (Franky mainly at this point)... is another point of interest.