New Theory, and why Jiren is quietly the smartest person in this tournament right now.
Remember how Babidi needed energy to resurrect Majin Buu, and how the fighting energy of both Goku and Vegeta greatly accelerated the whole process?
Jiren might be aware of the fact that all the combined battle power that is being expended in this tournament is secretly going somewhere and is being used for something, which explains further why he has thus far resisted doing anything that wasn't absolutely necessary for him to do. I suspect that thing that keeps going lower and lower into the fighting stage isn't actually tied to the amount of time left in the tournament, but at some point it will be noticed by
someone that it's actually a counter or gauge for something else. It will at some point move in a fashion that isn't at all consistent with the amount of time, or there may be an acceleration that is noticed when more power is being expended in an even higher level fight.
What if the Grand Priest is trying to resurrect or awaken someone or some thing?
That was the point I was trying to make, badly as I always do, but trying.
Introduction of a new character that wasn't even hinted at in z and there you go, form justified.
"Dabura was supposed to be the strongest demon in z" is worthless logic, because the kais were supposed to be the greatest gods in z too, funny how super feels about that though.
Exactly. We've been exposed to the fact that there is far more out there than we originally thought. It takes nothing for exactly that to occur once more, or even a few more times.