In this chapter, we're introduced to some of the rules of the gram-scale tournament, which is a kind of mini-World Cup of poker. Basically, in a poker game, you bet on which team will win, and the team that wins gets to play in the next round. In this case, it's the home team. The other team has to ride in the "panther" position, which means that they have to be the best rider on the team. If anyone else touches the balloon, they're disqualified and lose the bet. In other words, if you're a lower ranked team, you lose. The panther team is the best team in the world, and they've got to beat the higher ranked home team in order to get in the round of cards. This means that if they lose, they get to play the lower-ranked home team again. This is a little weird, because the panther team doesn't have to fight the higher-ranked team, but they do have to beat a lower-ranking home team to get into the tournament. So, if they win, then they'll get to go to the tournament the next time they play. This way, they don't need to worry about whether or not they beat a higher-ranking opponent. In fact, they can just go out and play the game the way they want to play it. This guy is psyched to be in the tournament, but he can't get pumped up for it. He's not pumped up because his mom slaps him when he's done beating the lower ranked opponent. Instead, he gets pumped up by the fact that he can beat the top-ranked opponent. This dude is psyched because he thinks that beating a higher ranked