Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnder View Post
I'm guessing that they realized that since the audience already knows the tournament is over and who lost, there's no point trying to build a lot of tension in the earlier fights.
Kurapica's fight wasn't about building tension so much as it was about being awesome. Awesome fights are what shounen series are about, in large part. I mean, if you're going to skimp on things because you assume your core audience has seen this already, then why should your core audience watch this again?

Anyway, I was really looking forward to Kurapica's fight being updated and made more awesome, but barring that, there's still the original: