It’s a minor detail, but it’s also nice to finally get to see the Super Dragon Balls this week. It helps allow for their tremendous weight, both figuratively and literally, to sink in with the audience. It’s crazy to think that things as big as these are being used as bargaining chips. This installment brings forward the idea that Bulma holds a lot of power as the only one that can create this locator for the final Super Dragon Ball. It flirts with the interesting development that Bulma might go rogue and acquire the Super Dragon Ball for herself, in case Universe 7 loses the tournament and things go sour for them. Of all the original Dragon Ball characters, it’s kind of unbelievable, but also deeply fitting, that Bulma is certainly the character that has retained the most relevance in Dragon Ball Super up until this point.

Bulma seems to be pretty set on locating Universe 7’s Super Dragon Balls so that Beerus can’t use his wish on Universe 6’s Super Dragon Balls to possibly annihilate the world on a whim (he is a God of Destruction after all). Goku’s whole “Yeah, cool, whatever” attitude to Bulma’s plan is also wonderfully cavalier. As long as Goku’s still able to fight some new people, he doesn’t care what happens. There’s a really great shout-out to Bulma’s sister, Tights, who only previously appears in the Jaco the Galactic Patrolman Special (don’t worry, Goku and Vegeta have never heard of her before either). She makes for a welcome face here, and don’t worry; she plays a much larger role a few episodes from now in episode 31.

While opposite sides of this tournament are trying to figure out some sort of strategy, Champa reaches a rather exciting conclusion. Since he’s been impressed with the power of Beerus’ Saiyans in Universe 7 and since Champa simply can’t let his brother have anything that he doesn’t, he decides that he should recruit some Saiyans from his own universe for the tournament. It’s this reason alone that this tournament and multiverse concept are so important. It allows the show to suddenly throw new Saiyans—and Super Saiyans by proxy—into the mix, which is deeply refreshing after the same old characters have given some audiences fatigue after so long.

It’s also hard not to smile at moments like when Vegeta is super upfront about how this tournament is his new opportunity to prove that he’s number one and stronger than Goku. Gotta love the guy for being consistent. He gets another great moment in this episode where he dashes off with the Dragon Radar and collects all seven Dragon Balls over the course of a few minutes. Such a task used to be something that could take up an entire season of this show. These guys are truly all grown up at this point.

On the topic of assembling teams, Beerus also heads off to find the person that will be the leader of Universe 7’s team, Monaka. This is pretty damn great because Goku gets a huge kick to the ego in the process by Beerus’ reveal that Monaka is the strongest opponent that he’s ever gone up against and therefore stronger than Goku. A lot of the fun with this sort of tournament is in the decision making over which beloved cast members are going to make the cut, but to suddenly throw a wild card into the mix is a great approach to take. Also, this is supposed be a collection of the strongest warriors in all of Universe 7. It’d be extremely suspicious if the entire team happened to be located on Earth. Monaka at least opens up the realm of plausibility that there are also other strong warriors out there in this vast universe.