While Dragon Ball Super has been criticised for having "too many tournament arcs", (though two is hardly that many compared to the original manga and anime) I'm starting to have doubts that we'll have something as straightforward as a 'Tournament of Power 2'. While it's entirely possible that we may get another tournament of some description, I would take a guess that the format would be different to the last two. Both multiversal tournaments had very different formats to past Tenkaichi Budokai-inspired events. The Tournament of Destroyers had a team-based winner-stays-on formula, which allowed for unique shenanigans. Then the Tournament of Power was barely even a conventional tournament at all, just a massive single round battle royale. What could be next?
Zeno, above all, demands entertainment from his mortal and godly subjects, but he also liked to see them work together to improve their universes. Perhaps he sets up a more complex gauntlet-style challenge where the universe champions have to cooperate together -- rather than compete -- against a series of greater opponent. Maybe it'll involve characters from the six unseen universes that may or may not have been revived by #17's wish... I hope we eventually get a reveal that the multiverse is actually larger than we were lead to believe, renewing that sense of excitement from when Beerus first revealed other universes existed to Goku years ago.
However... I wouldn't get my hopes up. As has been more broadly discussed here in other threads, it seems as though Super's initial focus on larger scale storylines involving parallel universes has fell by the wayside, as the last several storylines have scaled back to focusing on conflicts set in Universe 7 alone. While it's too early to say, based on the track record and talk of it being a relatively low-stakes slice-of-life flick, it doesn't seem Toriyama's upcoming Superhero movie will change that either. With his greater input into the Super manga's story direction, Toyotaro has implied in interviews that he too is less interested in exploring other universes for the time being, instead electing for the Granola arc to focus on Saiyan revenge drama in U7 once again. However, as he has many potential arc ideas on the backburner, this could change.
To weigh myself in, I've said my unpopular opinion before that most basic "multiverse exploration" arc concepts have limited appeal. Many people have talked about the always on-the-horizon Planet Sadala arc, but no one ever seems to have any idea what the story would be beyond Goku and Vegeta visiting Sadala and presumably meeting the King as promised... Okay, then what? Same goes for any expectation of Goku travelling to other universes, it's like, for what reason? Part of the problem with the Moro arc in my opinion was that it lacked much in the way of clear justified objectives for the characters and plot beyond the paper-thin "ancient wizard appears to fuck shit up", and as such felt meandering and generic. There were small flickers in the darkness, such as the mystery of Merus, Goku and Vegeta's divergent training arcs, and the hype of the climax, but it only barely scraped some redemption with those. Compare it to the Goku Black arc, which had a similar set-up of a powerful threat randomly appearing, but also weaved compelling motivations, mysteries and backstories for the new and returning cast from the start without wasting too much momentum (admittedly, more true for the manga than the "let's retreat from the present and future three or four times in a row" anime). I have my reservations with the Granola arc, but I respect Toyotaro for pushing forward with a story he personally wants to tell, while also collaborating more with Toriyama to improve the story structure and character motivations to make it all "1000x better".
The Tournament of Power on paper had a pretty braindead premise as well, with Toriyama giving his vaguest outline yet of "an 80-man jumble brawl", but still had a thematically tight story with many moving pieces -- Goku embracing Ultra Instinct, the strained alliance with Freeza, and other characters like #17, Jiren and Kale getting fair shares of focus and development.
So do I think the better alternative is more tournament arcs? Not necessarily, but I'm not completely against the idea either, so long as something interesting or different is brought to the table. I loved the previous tournaments after all, and historically, tournament arcs are designed like checkpoints to showcase how much stronger the Super-Warriors have gotten since the last event, while also giving us as many cool fights and interactions as possible.
