'Back To Basics' Tourney Discussion

Galvasean

Hey guys. I have 32 combatants selected (thanks for the PM suggestions). I'm thinking of starting the tournament properly on Monday evening.

The theme of the tournament is 'the night'.

Commence idle speculation!

Orim

Ash Williams to finally get a long deserved tournament victory.

That is all.

FewFew

The world is plunged into a week long eclipse and the darkness summons its most heroic and infamous sons and daughters, for a battle of the agggggessssssssss

cyberwolf77

Finally a tournament where I get to vote again. :D:D

Galvasean

Just thought of a slew of characters I want to include... Might delay the launch in favour of a 64 combatant tourney. I'll need more suggestions though to fill the ranks.

We could call the tourney N64 (the N stands for night)

Galvasean

Still need about 20 characters...

PM me!

cyberwolf77

Galvasean wrote: »

Still need about 20 characters...

PM me!

message sent.

Galvasean

Some nice suggestions there.
Got a really nice variety going. Hopefully it all works.

9 places left

cyberwolf77

Wow, that was fast from 20 to 9 in five minutes.

Galvasean

5.....

cyberwolf77

I'm here if you need any advice on it.

Galvasean

2 places left.... 3 if I'm sneaky...

cyberwolf77

Galvasean wrote: »

2 places left.... 3 if I'm sneaky...

Remember to beware the "Galactus" moment.*



























*me putting SwampThing in Centralia, PA is an example

Galvasean

Roster full. Thanks for all the help guys

Galvasean

The draw is complete, and I think the final fight of round one will be an absolute slobber knocker!

64 combatants
Regular rules so it will be very similar to the last tourney (albeit witha much changed roster).
Based on the draw there is a 'home' and an 'away' combatant in each fight. The fight takes place in a location that the 'home' combtant is familiar with. However, the 'away' combatant is considered the aggresor and therefore has had time to plan their assault. The 'home' combatant is being taken by (relative) surprise.
For example:
If Batman were facing Scorpion the location would be the Batcave. In this incident Scorpion is considered to be attacking Batman so Batman might not have all of his gadgets immediately available to him.
If Scorpion were facing Batman the location would be Scorpion's Lair and Batman would have time to prepare the necessary gadgets / stretegy etc

Orim

I like that home and away rule. Could add an interesting dynamic to a lot of fights.

Delirium

what a shocker, LZ voted for batman-bat :P

Galvasean

That was a pretty epic answer by Solitaire.

Galvasean

The rules have been updated.
I originally forgot to state that all battles take place at night (as some combatants are much more combat effective at night, while others spontaneously combust during the day!)

Solitaire

Galvasean wrote: »

That was a pretty epic answer by Solitaire.

I assumed that Batters' only chance would have been to inflict heavy damage in the first attack, but assuming he'd knocked out Smoke's internal weapon manufacturing bays (bear in mind we're talking about a guy who launches grenades, missiles, harpoons and friggin' timed micro-nukes from his body!) he'd just have to do a little... improvising The result? A Smoke-Out/Tremor cross-hax

Galvasean wrote: »

The rules have been updated.
I originally forgot to state that all battles take place at night (as some combatants are much more combat effective at night, while others spontaneously combust during the day!)

Anyone who didn't assume that from the get-go can leave right now :P

Galvasean

LZ will be pleased to know there are no fewer than 3 Resident Evil characters in this one.

Galvasean

C'mon Smoke finish him already! I wanna get the next fight up and running before I go to bed so that I can post the next fight (I dont get back from work 'til after 9 tomorrow).

Galvasean

Forgot I could vote

cyberwolf77

I always abstained from voting in my tournaments.

Galvasean

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

I always abstained from voting in my tournaments.

Yeah, I was planning to avoid voting as much as possible. Decided to make an exception in this case as (barring a very unlikely comeback) Smoke was going to end up winning this bout while I was AFK. Since I won't be online 'til about half 9 tomorrow night I decided to put Man-Bat out of his misery - that way people could carry on with the next round tomorrow and not be waiting around all day for me to post up the combatants.

cyberwolf77

On the current match does Catman have his magic cape?

Galvasean

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

On the current match does Catman have his magic cape?

It's open to interpretation. Is Catman the kind of guy who brings his magic cape animal tracking or does he let his guard down?

cyberwolf77

I need to think on this.

Solitaire

Catman is highly capable when on-form but his form in general is patchy. And his opponent also has regen so I give him at least that, for what it avails him (not too sure about the other powers his cape has ).

cyberwolf77

The cape supposedly just heals mortal wounds

Solitaire

That's what I know about it too, good to know I'm not missing anything vital like a n00b

And even then if it brought him back from death's door, his opponent is all too used to cheap tricks like that as a veteran supernatural-hunter. Oh dear...

FewFew

Galvasean wrote: »

Forgot I could vote

Yeah, I was about to cast my vote and then saw the next fight was already up. Thought I'd been offline for too long, but no, lil Galva voted! Makes sense if there's an issue with the next bout going up I guess. I would have given the win to Smoke anyways.

Handsome Bob

I concur with Kess, Spike sucks major ass.

:P

Solitaire

Catman sucks way worse :P

Handsome Bob

Solitaire wrote: »

Catman sucks way worse :P

I'll hold my hands up and say that I don't know much about Catman, but man I find Spike deeply irritating. He redeemed himself a little in Season 5 of Angel though!

FewFew

Solitaire wrote: »

Catman sucks way worse :P

Catman's name is enough for me to dislike him. I can just imagine him meowing. FACK OFF CATMAN!

Solitaire

I didn't know much about him either, so had a long look at his track record. He's tough enough when on-form, but he spends more of his time as an out-of-condition has-been or locked up in some space penitentiary for supervillains, and even manages to look out of place there :P

Its also easy to underestimate Spike. He's somehow stayed in one piece (more or less ) for nearly a decade switching between supervillain and antihero despite being up against an awful lot of supers over the years... but as they're not Marvel characters and Spike sounds a bit like your archetypical "all bark no bite" sarkyvillain I suspect he'll get little credit and a lot of hate

Galvasean

Gotta admit I was expecting Catman to be dead and buried by the time I got home tonight. He's putting up a good fight. The Dark Gods (they aren't done meddling yet) love a trier....

Next 2 fights should be fairly even contests, while the one after that features two of the tourney's most powerful (on paper) characters. The one after that.... is at a location which I don't think we've done anything quite like it before....

FewFew

Solitaire wrote: »

I didn't know much about him either, so had a long look at his track record. He's tough enough when on-form, but he spends more of his time as an out-of-condition has-been or locked up in some space penitentiary for supervillains, and even manages to look out of place there :P

Its also easy to underestimate Spike. He's somehow stayed in one piece (more or less ) for nearly a decade switching between supervillain and antihero despite being up against an awful lot of supers over the years... but as they're not Marvel characters and Spike sounds a bit like your archetypical "all bark no bite" sarkyvillain I suspect he'll get little credit and a lot of hate

I think when you look at the opponents Spike has beaten compared to Catman, well, Catman is one of those characters they just have hanging about and occasionally drag in with a power boost when they want a surprise.

Solitaire

And with no power boost specified other than his trademark cape how on earth has he drawn level with Spike?!? :eek: People seem to think that Spike is incapable of staying cool and make him fight like a rookie fledgeling. He's usually the one who analyses his opponent and gets under their skin, not the other way around!

FewFew

Solitaire wrote: »

And with no power boost specified other than his trademark cape how on earth has he drawn level with Spike?!? :eek: People seem to think that Spike is incapable of staying cool and make him fight like a rookie fledgeling. He's usually the one who analyses his opponent and gets under their skin, not the other way around!

Yeah, must say I think Galva's vote was way off in that respect. Plus Spike has beaten faster foes than Catman. Plus Spike can take more punishment than Catman. Yes, Catman's cape heals him from a mortal wound... but I'm pretty sure it doesn't give him Wolverine-esque healing powers, from what I understand it's more like he's on the point of dying but he doesn't die, not that he heals fully.

Galvasean

Spike has run in headlong loads of times in Buffy and Angel. Plus Catman's a taunter. Spike can dish that out but seems to lose his cool whenever they slag him back.

Galvasean

2 minutes until the match ends. Then I'm using a random number generator to pick a participant to cast the deciding vote.

Galvasean

Round 1, battle 3 is up

cyberwolf77

Galvasean wrote: »

2-0 to that which claims it can be killed by no man

However, does get messed up by women and hobbits.

Galvasean

FWIW, as far as 'claims' such as the Witch King, for the sake of the tourney they are considered little more than idle boasts, as there are one or two characters in the pot claiming invincibility.

I go by a little rule:
"If it has matter... It can be destroyed!"

cyberwolf77

Really though the witch kiing says "no man" can kill him. In theory then Smoke could kill him with ease. Smoke is no longer a man

Galvasean

"I'm not a man. I'm Batman."

cyberwolf77

Buffy, nuff said.

FewFew

I actually forgot how the Witch King died while casting my vote. He still would have taken Jason down, but I had an odd idea in my head that he fell when the big ol' eye went out. Silly me, forgot all about the Rohan lady etc. I really should watch those movies again, or possibly re-read the books again.

Galvasean

Koth wrote:

Jason hacks away at the witch king and the wounds turn out to be fatal due to the blade being coated in the blood of dead women.

Awesome reasoning FTW.

Once again someone looked like they weren't going to make it through the night only to fight back with gusto!