Excellent chapter.
Seeing Bellamy, and Scotch on the cover, I have high hopes that even if 80% of these guys won't pass the battle royale, we'll still see them some other time. Maybe even in this very same arc?
Like, for exampe: what if the end of the arc is a super ruccus like scenario, a la Alabasta, and even the guys that lost must fight for their lives?
And what if we have a super small detour at Ka no Kuni?
I don't know, there are many things Oda can do with this guys not to throwaway their designs, although I get that introducing them is also to give weight to the One Piece world and show that many important figures of the New World want the Mera Mera fruit. That's enough, maybe.
Also, that too gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, in the future, we'll see the likes of Doma, McGuy or the Decalvan bros. again. That'd be awesome.