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Before we start Round 2, we are going to do a 2nd chance round! The following were eliminated in round 1, and will have a chance to re enter the tournament. @DSkillz @broadwaybeyonder @Culwych1 @Gizmo Hibiki @Pizzaguy2995 You all have ONE week to post a new tournament match. The contender with the Highest overall score will be re entered into the tournament. It must be posted before May 5th, 2024 at 11:59PM ET How will this work with the grand prize? Should anyone in this 2nd chance go on to win the tournament, they will receive a $50 Digital Visa gift card and the Runner up will get a $50 Digital Visa gift card. Should someone who was not eliminated in round one go on to win, they will receive the full $100 Digital Visa gift card. If I am in a position to have receive a reward it will instead be passed on to whomever was the next runner up. @Gizmo Hibiki's current match that was entered too late for round 1 will be his submission for the 2nd chance round.

Carnage. Definitely Carnage. Especially if this is current Carnage.

Great Match! I give the setup a 5.0.

Fun match, hadn't heard of Hippo. Looking him up I think I will go with him.

Agreed that was some master creativity. Don't know either of them but Nordstrom seems the better pick.

I'll go with Leah. The Force is with her.

I absolutely love the setup. Great job!

Nice job @broadwaybeyonder don't forget to link this to the tournament thread. Definitley an interesting match up, will have to give it some thought.

I say Carnage too. Interesting matchup though.

Carnage has this, and he has it pretty easily I'd say. Judge Doom can't really compete with a hypersonic Spider-Man villain, cartoon physics or not.

Super super creative, Culwych. I'm going with Nordstrom. The best thing Esther has going for her is that she appears to be a young girl which isn't as useful against a blind man. She can use her voice and I guess he might have a soft spot for young girls given what happened with his daughter and the plot of the sequel which I never saw, but I still think he survives any initial attack and takes her down.

Pretty good set-up, Venom, if a little short. And as mentioned, congrats on making your 200th match! As for the match, Grumble Bee just may have a shot here. Waspinator gets blasted apart on a regular basis on Beast Wars, and Grumble Bee's venom might do some damage to Waspinator's armor.

This result seems fitting. I doubt Kimberly and Arcee would fight for too long before the misunderstanding was cleared up.

Killjoy seems to be a lot more powerful with his spells, traps and near indestructibility bordering on Toon Force.

It's called The Warrior Returns and it's basically an Anti-Isekai story. Tom Talks enthusiastically describes it perfectly here. So imagine if... You ARE THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT!

Over 40 years since Ridley Scott’s Alien came out and the Xenomorphs are still the most terrifying race of Aliens I’ve ever seen on screen, to the point that the idea of an army of them frighten me more then the ones who canonically annihilated humanity in their original timeline. Voting Xenomorphs.

Been a while. Missed out on rating and voting on so many tourney entries. My bad. Good entry, broadway. It's a good story and everyone's in character. One quibble, though: if Kimberly grew to Arcee's height, she'd actually be around 12-15 feet tall. As for the match, Arcee from the '80's 'toon never impressed me much with her combat skill. The show seemed more focused on just making her the "girl" of the Autobots. Her Cybertronian build may give her a durability edge against Kimberly, but I still think Kimberly has the edge in this one. That might've been tricky. The admin panel on the profiles has been on the fritz lately.

200 mathes. Thank you for all your contributions. I was thinking about this matchup in Grumbe Bee's last one and apparently you were too. Waspinator will win this. Grumble Bee's powers won't be any good against as mech being.

Nicely played, and a well deserved win. I'm going to take some small comfort from the fact that for those voters that voted for both of us, it seemed to sway my way - but the singular votes hit me hard. Good luck with the rest of the tournament - keep it up and you'll easily be within reach of the trophy.

An equal sized Kimberly is likely a better hand to hand fighter, but if Acree is at least a regular Transformer soldier then her durability and weapons should be far superior.

Great set up! Love the idea and execution! I’m riding with Team Cowboys. The Gangsters might have more advanced guns and numbers but they’re being wielded by featless mooks, whereas almost everyone on Team Cowboy is an above average fighter at worst and a legendary gunslinger at best. I’ll take quality over quantity every time.

I’m actually leaning Grumble Bee. All five Rangers were needed to take it down, and all five of were far more experienced, skilled and competent heroes then Chloe.

Xenomorphs are perfect hunting creatures, and all the media that has them simply proves that. Everything that comes in touch with them eventually gets taken over by them (sans the Predators, but they are a story of their own.)

Good match with Kimberly! I give the setup a 5.0.

I'm liking Grumble Bee on this one.

I guess everyone forgot Ezio was in SoulCalibur?

I was going to try and randomize it each round, but I think this might be the best option. I'll make a post when all these matches resolve. That's when round 2 will begin.

Lancelot vs The Mandalorian. A very unique matchup but you did a great job making it very entertaining and memorable. Props from me to you friendo.

Well the problem is how precisely is Lucy supposed to kill Korosensei exactly? He’s shown the ability to heal from complete dismemberment at rapid speeds with the only exception being government created bullets and knives that Lucy will have no access to. Whilst Lucy has a healing factor herself, unlike Korosensei it’s not unlimited and can be taxed out after prolonged damage. In a battle of attrition Korosensei will have the advantage in that his healing abilities are much reliable then Lucy’s. I’ll give you Lucy’s raw power advantage but the above video is enough to convince me that Korosensei takes the speed advantage. After one of his students was skewered during battle Korosensei was able to catch every single drop of blood and cell before it could touch the ground and put it back inside her to save her life (spoiler alert but the student had a healing factor herself and could heal as long her body was whole). Keep in mind he was able to do that while dodging attacks from another enemy. So by speed feat’s Korosensei has Lucy beat and that plus his better healing factor and experience makes lean in favor of him during this fight.

Should have switched Arcee's picture to her G1 picture but at least you told us. If comic Arcee is included than she's pretty much like her Prime counterpart, but less athletic and more brutal. Kimberly being enlarge would be disorienting and I think Arcee is better anyway.

Enjoyed the unique setup of this. Going with the defenders if nothing else because they have more legendary characters on their side.

Very creative write up, I enjoyed it.

While I'd be rooting for Powerglide, he stands no chance against a Decepticon warship all on his own. And I don't know much about Ghostbusters outside of the films. But from what I'm seeing, it doesn't seem like Wat has anything that he could do that could take down the Nemesis. Unless Wat has some crazy feat that I'm completely unaware of. My vote goes to the Nemesis.

Thanks for helping this (accidental) Match 1K views!

Thank you! Something surreal with hints of something more going on was my intent. I hope to continue this as long as the interest remains.

Loved this setup. Man, I feel so sorry for anyone up against you in the first round of this Tournament! Wait, that's me! I meant to say this is absolutely awf.... nah, I can't - it's awesome. Well done A fun read, and an interesting matchup. Great style and rhymes, I'd have liked a bit more of an intro but that is nitpicking. I think that Din has other weaponry and too much maneuverability which will help him take this fight fairly easily. Not sure I can vote against the competition, but you get a 4.9 from me.

Easy to read story with good brief intros to the characters. There was a sense of menace throughout especially from Lucy. Unfortunately I don't know much about either so can't comment as to the winner, but the story gives me the impression that Lucy is the more dangerous of the two and that Koro is not going to be able to talk her down!

I think Ezio's biggest advantage that he could possibly have in his fight, his stealth, is taken away from him in order to create a spectacle of a fight, but that just aligns the fight in Rolento's wheelhouse. Rolento, by virtue of being a character in a fighting game series, has proof that he can fare well in a fight where he's not ambushed. Ezio can as well, I'm not disparaging the assassin, he's a master with a sword and a very physically able human being, but I just don't see him doing well against most fighting game characters of equal power.

I really like this fight and I think the right team won.

A match where characters with the same name mix it up is always a match after my own heart, but I agree with the consensus that DC Raven trumps everything here for her team.

Master Raven is Raven's teacher. She's superior. Raven Beak seems to be the same as Samus Aran of Metroid. He would be a danger to Raven. Vulcan Raven comes from Metal Gear. A bit different from Solid Snake but shares that level of deadliness. But yeah, DC Raven trumps everybody here cancelling out lucky shot and any given sunday factors. Team 1 wins

I think the fact that team one has Raven from DC Comics tips the scales in their favor massively.

I could honestly see Garraka destroy the crystal and have Shimo turn on Skar while turning the whole world into their winter nightmare. A terrifying conclusion.

I agree. He could theoretically even beat Yokai with just his gloves if he isn't to arrogant with them.

Sauron casually causes earthquakes and tsunamis with his magic, he can one-shot the robots much quicker then anyone in Team 2. He also has the option of dominating Team 2’s minds and force them to attack each other instead of doing the challenge.

MM is Team 2’s only hope but even he’ll be hard pressed to take on team busters like Kang and Apocalypse.

Not yet. Though it's still possible through the search function.

I agree, but their biggest problem is going to be teamwork. The hero team are all heavy hitters, they have MM's telekinesis to stay in synch, and they are on the same page about what should be done with the objects. The villains would be just as likely to turn on each other than to fight the heroes. Even assuming they are forced to work together, their teamwork wouldn't be as good. Assuming none of them backstabs or betrays the others then the villains have more power and more varied powers

Pretty sure Gurney can take Risky and Samantha. But I'm not sure the Titans can defeat Garraka