If you don't feel like playing the game (aka hours of grind for absolutely no reward of any kind), there are ways to get around it...
1. The cheats (
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So all you have to do is write the cheat you want with a little "=xxx", X being the value you want. With these you can make sure you never fail a tournament or any event, really.
2. The VN mode
Because even with cheats, it still takes an obnoxious amount of time to get through the game. My advice would be to play it once all the way through to get the gist of it and see the events that are shared by every route. If that still seems like way too time-consuming for you, at the very least wait to get to the point where you can choose an Arc, so you can see the "introduction" to the game.
Then, you can turn the game into a VN experience, aka only see the events related to the route you've chosen and completely skip the "gameplay" aspect. Here's the
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And how to use it:
Only problem with this is that the background sometimes doesn't change, so it won't always match the scene you're seeing. Other than that, it works fine.
And with that, the game somehow becomes a lot more bearable.