So they don’t know we know, despite Huffam’s office becoming a hub of particularly intense journalistic activity. And they also seem to not have rigged the game from the start. And they did participate in 3/4 tournaments. Interesting.
The Striped Officiant doesn’t specify who we think we’re helping by making the tigers win, though.
Putting the pieces together : The Sixth Coil contains a tiger who has been posessed by fingerkings, probably the King of Tigers. The Tigers have to open the coil for some reason. In a slightly different reading from the one in the first paragraph then: the Striped Officiant meant that the player character thinks they’re helping London by spiting the tigers and we are wrong in this belief because the Tigers consider themselves least prepared to face their former King? The way I get it that could tie it all together. They didn’t bother organising this whole shebang just to sacrifice some random Neathy creatures to whatever scary thing is in there. They actually wanted a great team to defeat the evil within the Sixth Coil?
I just wanted to also give credit for my theory above to many other posters, the one with the ideas closest to mine being waterpls here.