7:3 - Malcolm Wilkerson vs. Toph Bei Fong

[UMPIRE]

SEASON 7, ROUND 3

Malcolm Wilkerson

Slot: The Team's Precocious Child
Season Wins: 0
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Malcolm Wilkerson at Wikipedia
Official Site: 20th Century Fox Television

Toph Bei Fong

Slot: The Team's Precocious Child
Season Wins: 0
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Toph Bei Fong at Wikipedia
Official Site: Nickelodeon

Battle Terrain
Precocious Kids: build the coolest treehouse

[Peypeypeypey]

This kind of depends on a few factors. Does it have to be made out of wood? Do they have to build it themselves, or just design it?

Malcom is incredibly smart, but as far as I can remember he wasn't especially creative and was especially not good with his hands. If he has to build it himself, he's in some real trouble in my estimation. He could arguably design a great treehouse, but actually building it would be a real struggle for him. 

Toph, on the other hand, is where this gets dicey. If she can build it out of think sheets of rock and find a tree that could support that, then this is an easy W for her. If she's not allowed to use rock though, it's gonna be a much harder sell. She could still metalbend the nails and such in place, and despite being blind, I actually think she would be better at building the treehouse than Malcom with her seismic sense essentially still letting her see what she's doing. Malcom may be able to design a better treehouse, I'm not sure, but I highly doubt he'd be able to effectively build one, while Toph would be able to build with a lot fewer restrictions. Also, while Toph does tend to keep things simple, we've seen with her sand sculptures, the way she dresses in Ba Sing Se, and a few other times that the simplicity is a choice, an active rejection of the fancy upbringing she was born into, so she can definitely make fancy things if properly motivated

[Z451]

This might prove difficult for Toph due to her physical disabilities.

[C.T.]

2 minutes ago, Peypeypeypey said:

This kind of depends on a few factors. Does it have to be made out of wood? Do they have to build it themselves, or just design it?

Malcom is incredibly smart, but as far as I can remember he wasn't especially creative and was especially not good with his hands. If he has to build it himself, he's in some real trouble in my estimation. He could arguably design a great treehouse, but actually building it would be a real struggle for him. 

Toph, on the other hand, is where this gets dicey. If she can build it out of think sheets of rock and find a tree that could support that, then this is an easy W for her. If she's not allowed to use rock though, it's gonna be a much harder sell. She could still metalbend the nails and such in place, and despite being blind, I actually think she would be better at building the treehouse than Malcom with her seismic sense essentially still letting her see what she's doing. Malcom may be able to design a better treehouse, I'm not sure, but I highly doubt he'd be able to effectively build one, while Toph would be able to build with a lot fewer restrictions. Also, while Toph does tend to keep things simple, we've seen with her sand sculptures, the way she dresses in Ba Sing Se, and a few other times that the simplicity is a choice, an active rejection of the fancy upbringing she was born into, so she can definitely make fancy things if properly motivated

This is pretty much my thoughts on it as well. It really depends on that and Toph finding a tree that could support the weight.

[SSJRuss]

Provided she finds a large enough tree, Toph would make a great tree house.

[Macklemore]

She can bend metal as well, right? That should help out a lot when building a great treehouse. Mix and match metal and rock to make the best treehouse ever.

[UMPIRE]

Match Final Results

Malcolm Wilkerson: 4
Toph Bei Fong: 14