マンガ・コミック・
ゲーム・コミュニティ！

In the next pages you might wonder why the rivals are the same as in the original (only for the first combats of course) except for the obvious abscence of Goku.
That tiger guy participated, so there weren´t 136 contestants but 137 just like in the original. In the original Krillin and Goku were the last to take numbers because all the big boys entered the line first. And Goku let Krillin pass, so he was the last. Here the tiger and Krillin were the last because the first had to pee. So when he got to the box only number 70 was still there (there might be another Universe where he didn´t went to the bathroom, but that´s not the case of neither U3 nor U9), so the first matches were exactly the same as in the original. Of course he isn´t Goku so he might not get to the finals...

But why didn´t that guy participated in the Budokai in the original? Well, that is a very interesting story: in case you didn´t recognize him he was the tigger bandit who Goku defeated when saving Roshi´s Turttle. In the original he got his self esteem crushed having been defeated by a little kid. He became very insecure and all the other bandits made fun of him. He got into therapy and finally commited suicide

But here, being a fighter, he recognized Son Gohan and didn´t attack to get the turttle. So his self esteem is still high, he seems himself as a strong fighter and entered the Budokai
. And that´s why there are 137 contestants and he got Goku´s number.