It's just really odd that the lucky loser system was never used, other than maybe increasing the tension for Atobe vs Fuji/Ryoma since the latter players had much better scores? In that case, Atobe shouldn't had joined, they coaches made that rule for cases like this then ignored it.Mouri will not be replace what matter we do. Even if we would have prefer Irie or Fuji.
Also Mouri makes Ochi stronger. So, they have doubles bonus. And Ochi can only use Warp with Mouri. So it will be like Ohmgari supporting Kin..now Mouri will support Ochi.
Though, they might lose to Julio/Silva
If it's to bring up Irie from the dead then there'll be at least some sort of justification. His story ended in a very sad way whereas Mouri got a ton of love in his match with Yanagi. I can easily see Mouri injuring himself (for Ochi's sake?) right before D1, especially since he did it already in the G-10 challenge.
I'm not sure Warp is the Howling they got.