Forum:Explain Battle City mathematical fail?

I was rewatching Yu-Gi-Oh! again, and noticed a bit of a fault in Kaiba's math. Either that, or I'm a bad observer. I'm gonna go with a math fail though. Anyone with six Locator Cards could enter the Battle City Finals, and only eight duelists could be finalists. How, then, were there any more than 53 (48 requirement and 5 additional possible) duelists in the tournament? There were hundreds of duelists lining the streets in aerial views, and several hints towards there being a lot more duelists than 48. Did I just not hear him say somewhere "First to six" or can this be explained in some other way?

And yes, I know, anime logic, just trying to put forth some discussion. 65.78.161.239 (talk) 23:58, December 1, 2012 (UTC)