Related to
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/68083/translation-
feedback-request). At this point, the speaker has won the preliminaries. The
elderly chairman of the event, a friend since the previous tournament,
comments that the speaker has won a second time
(やはりこの地域で一番のブレーダーはspeaker君でしたか). Speaker responds with:

  * あったりまえだぜっ!
  * だいたいそんなことは
  * バトルする前から
  * わかっているのに会長も
  * 人がわるいなぁ〜

I get as far as "Naturally!" I'm also thinking バトルする前からわかっているのに is a full
clause and means "even though {you} have known {this} well before I did
battle", but I don't know how to put だいたいそんなことは and 会長も人がわるいなぁ together.
Specifically, そんなこと is marked as the subject, so how does that relate to the
adjective/verb 人がわるい? Is it something like "That sort of thing essentially
makes the chairman a [bad person]?"

Furthermore, I can find little on the translation potential of 人がわるい. I've two
questions about this term. For one, I assume that the speaker takes issue with
the chairman not being 100% certain he'd win, so would "having poor judgement
(of skill)" be a reasonable translation? For two, 人がわるい strikes me as a harsh
thing to say, so I'm curious about the politeness level here. How rude is the
speaker being?

If it matters, the chairman responds that he knows how hard everyone else has
trained since last year and that it was justified not to presume the speaker
would dominate the preliminaries once more
(それはちがいますよspeaker君.あなた達が海外へえんせいしている間,
みなさんは今回の大会のためにとしもつらいとっくんをかされていたのです.だからけっしてspeaker君が勝つとはかぎらないと私はそのようにおもいました).
The speaker acknowledges he's been a jerk after that.

Thanks in advance.
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Sentence structure + 人がわるい
Firstly, although 人が悪い means "mean" (in terms of personality), it is very
often used in a friendly/light-hearted fashion, in which case the meaning
would be closer to "mischievous". I'm not sure I've ever heard it used in a
serious way, although it can have a negative connotation, e.g. when somewhat
annoyed or slightly "shocked" by the purposefully ill-intentioned behavior of
another person.

In any case, I feel there is insufficient context to pinpoint what the actual
meaning is here. Two possibilities that come in mind:

  1. The speaker is referring to the fact that the chairman is making fun of him by "congratulating him" on a victory that was so obvious from the start that 'congratulations' would only come off as sarcasm. I.e., to his ears, it sounds like "Yeah, good job mercilessly beating the crap out of those poor lads. I hope you're proud of your great achievement" _pats back_
  2. The speaker is referring to how the chairman had intentionally arranged for the other party to lose by pairing them with the speaker.

In case 1, you could translate it as "(now) you're just making fun of me" etc,
and in case 2 as "You really enjoy watching people suffer, huh" or something
similar. A more liberal translation could also work.

If the chairman had the power to let him skip the preliminaries altogether,
you could also interpret it as leaning towards 2., i.e. "You just wanted to
see me obliterate those noobs, huh." Alternatively it could be as suggested in
naruto's answer, and he's complaining (in a friendly way) about how the
chairman made him waste time battling opponents far below his level. In this
case, I'd probably just translate it liberally as "you could've just let me
skip the preliminaries" or something.
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I think your source of confusion is the interpretation of のに, which in this
case is sentence-end のに described in the following questions:

  * [What does のに mean at the end of this sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42408/5010)
  * [What is a good synonym for「〜のに」at the end of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11426/5010)

You should read this as two sentences, like this:

> だいたいそんなことはバトルする前からわかっているのに。会長も人がわるいなぁ〜。  
>  To begin with, you should've known this (result) even before I battled, but
> (you actually made me go through the preliminaries)! You're so wicked!

だいたい is "in the first place", "to begin with", "before discussing this". そんなこと
("such a thing") refers to the the result of the preliminaries. 人が悪い is a set
phrase meaning "mean" or "wicked". It does not sound that harsh in a friendly
conversation. So the boy is complaining because he believes the chairman sent
him to the preliminaries even though the result was evident to everyone
(including the chairman).
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