User blog comment:Brotherhood619/How many tournaments?/@comment-1085174-20101005184305

Of course he's him: it is said in the Miday MKI comic. Also in the movie, Raiden sais that "Beign a former champion, Shang Tsung has the right to choose his opponent". BTW, I tought too it should be fun to have a game about Kung Lao's tournament, mainly because I loveprequels more than sequels, but I think it could work pretty well, because unlike you said, it could actually have lots of characters from the franchise! Here's a possible roster: Plus some other monks, of course, that may play like other popular characters, and I think it would be fun to have Siro and Taja too.
 * Great Kung Lao (with a Kung Lao-like gameplay)
 * Shang Tsung
 * Raiden
 * Sub-Zero (an ancestor, of course)
 * Takeda (With a Scorpion-like gameplay)
 * An ancestor of Liu Kang
 * An ancestor of èè*An ancestor of Sonya
 * A Red Dragon member (With a Kano-like gameplay)
 * A Noob-Saibot-like brother of shadow.
 * Maybe Quan Chi
 * Bo' Rai Cho (secret, not partecipating in the tournament)
 * Reptile (secret)
 * Ermac (secret)