The three female competitors, akiko, goto, and tomizu, are in the middle of eating their way through the first round of the competition when the masked man approaches them. The three of them are psyched to be fighting for the right to eat the best pizza in the world. Tomizu has a public record for eating 80 hamburgers in just 30 minutes. The masked man, zipp, is also psyched because he knows his street name, which means that he is one of the "TPCE fighters" . The other fighters, zoop, and zip, are psyched because they also know their street names, which also means that they are also fighting to win the competition. The third fighter, zip smirkp, has a claw on his table that he can use to grab a slice of pizza, but he doesn't know how to use it. He thinks that the claw is a mechanical trick, but it is just an extension of the claw, which is why the other fighters are so excited to be eating pizza.