The Tournament of Heroes - The Royal Cup
The Tournament of Heroes - The Royal Cup is episode 24 from the anime series Zoids: New Century Zero based on TOMY's Zoids model franchise.
Overview
Harry Champ is shown to qualify for the Royal Cup, based on the wild card. The Tigers Team also qualified, thanks to them being the top-ranked class B team. The Royal Cup is a tournament held once every 4 years, open to all class A teams. The backdraft begin to reveal a plan to take over the Zoid Battle Commission, using the Royal Cup as a stage. Dr Layon is put in charge of the Charged Particle Cannon, Altile in charge of wagers and Sarah as the overseer. Vega enters as a combatant, and quickly reaches class S. Teams are placed 6 miles apart on a 600 mile starting line, the first team to reach the finish line is the winner. Except nobody knows where the finish line is exactly. Every time a team wins a battle, they are fed some information about the location of the finish line, winning against 5 teams will give enough information to know exactly where the finish line is. A barrage of Judges are deployed across the entire peninsula. They each govern a section of the field, and any two teams that enter the same region are automatically put into a battle with one another.
The Fulgel team fight against the Thunder Row team, and win (despite the battle not being shown). The Blitz team are placed up against the lightning team. The Lightning team use drafting to build up speed, but are defeated thanks in large to the Shadow Fox's smoke screen. The only Zoid the Blitz team loose is the Zero Jager CAS, in a duel against Jack Sisco.
The Backdraft use the Death Stinger's Charged Particle Cannon (which is identical to the one in Chaotic Century) to shoot down Judge Satellites, while Vega easily defeats a team of Red Horns.
Characters
Zoids
See also:Zoids: New Century Zero