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Your ties are the source of your lead on me.

Working on the follow up. Life has been hectic

Pretty sure I cannot catch Dskillz even if I win out. Congratulations Dskillz. I now battle for second and honor.

Ippo's greater common sense helps him here. Sports master's tendency to showboat may cost him

Classic grudge matches. Red shirts have this as accuracy is a major factor.

Vote bugged? I voted for my guy

I think Scrooge will have an easier time being a spiteful creature of vengeance than Samri will have reforming

There are a lot of godslaying weapons in Faerun, but the last I read a Drizzt novel it was the Bush administration. I'm not sure how he stacks up to the gods of Faerun because that is about the level he needs to be punching at.

The best Jawa argument I can think of is sabotaging the arena with their superior mechanical knowledge.

Your argument in the first is basically "Dracula wouldn't because he wouldn't." Dracula transports people over great distances in the original novel for his purposes from Transylvania to England and vice versa. Dracula could just as easily arrange a North Pole Trip. He has a history of fighting Frankenstein's monster who flees to the North Pole at the end of it's novel. Dracula could have many a reason for travelling to the North Pole. Yeah he has enemies, but assuming he is in the setting of the Polar Express, that is a publication date of 1985 and set in the present day. He has long since outlasted them. And even if the express crew abandons their morality to seduce and drink the blood of the innocent and lead an immortal life of the damned, they lack the physical capability.

Dracula needs to win the match for whatever reason. Just as the express are trying to prey on the innocent, Dracula is trying to get children to the North Pole. The Harkers and Van Helsing track Dracula down after months of him preying on the Harkers and Mina specifically and Van Helsing devising schemes against him for a lifetime. By the time anyone tracks Dracula's Christmas adventure down it will be long over. The express crew lack the gumption to handle Dracula's job wheras Dracula can act like a nice guy long enough to pull this one out.

You assert Dracula will not be able to control himself, but he held Harker for weeks without drinking his blood. Dracula has enough self-control. He is not some thirst crazed new vampire, and if Dracula has set his mind to something, he will achieve it. He manages to get himself to England and causing problems for Lucy and Mina simply from Harker's description and he decided to do it. Further, Dracula set about some of his preying in London, a bustling metropolis. Ok, the crew gets through 1/3 of the Count's job at best.

Literally the first thing Dracula does is entertain company in the novel. Dracula is in the shadows most of the time and unknown. Indeed, per the novel he is generally regarded as just a wealthy nobleman. Fair, but Dracula running a polar express is a thing. Further, it doesn't need to be just one train. Dracula has made use of trains, boats, and carriages all by the original novel and so there is no way to say he can't create a North Pole bound harvest of children keeping them in a happy stupor either through hypnotism or his natural charisma. And once again, you have not made any case on how the Polar Express will try it's side of the challenge.

Scrooge is a businessman and a successful one at that. Beetlejuice has been hoodwinked on deals before. Scrooge can certainly worm his way out through his business acumen.

Dracula knows the Polar Express is a way to get an invite into Santa's workshop. Motivation. He's in it for the blood of Kris Kringle. Dracula is no stranger to planning much longer trips in duration than one night in the voyage of the Demeter. (Also what bounties? Dracula has none of that. Unless Van Helsing is on the polar express I think Dracula is fine.) Further, the Express may do their job better than Dracula, but they cannot handle Dracula's work at all. I don't see Tom Hanks' conductor seducing women, drinking their blood, and having unholy minions to appease his dark hunger.

In defense of the younger Robin, the lower weight may help the balance of the office chair and let's be real, he's raced around in an office chair much more recently than Nightwing.

All the guests entering freely and of their own free will. Let's not forget, Dracula has thralls to keep his household up, and everyone describes him as charming. A few minions can certainly serve the count and even the brides of Dracula fear his wrath to be able to show self-control for a Christmas Eve duration. Dracula may not be as good as the song and dance, but he can do the express's job in a way the express cannot do his.

I figured avoid saying his name and he is fine

I think Scrooge is fine here.

Hotbox vs discipline. Jawas are good, but stormtroopers massacre them. Jemhadar's victory.

Oh this is tough. Brainiac may be smarter but Amazon is pretty resilient. I lean Brainiac but might be persuaded

Coming to an issue of JSA near you

McQueen 's best scenario

Dracula run a delivery to the North pole seems more likely than a train seducing people and drinking their blood.

Finally. Nightwing has longer legs, but Robin has that youthful energy