Contest Of Marvels Discussion Thread

[Midnight Ice]

Congrats JH!

 

[Phaedrus45]

Dang, that's too cool, JH! Anyway, even better, it's great to have you back. Speaking for myself, you were missed last week. I've been just working like crazy; so, hopefully, I can look at my two matches and get a bit of debate in tomorrow. I did get lucky in not having to go to work until after the Seahawk game was finished. Another butt whooping given by my team for the second week in a row. Plus, got lucky with Chicago and Carolina both loosing..that means the Seahawks have a two game lead over everyone else in the NFC.

 

[POWdER-man]

You probably didn't notice but I disconnected my computer at home on Saturday and I haven't hooked it back on yet. We had to move all the furniture for the x-mas tree, which was a bit of work, and I have been sick so I wasn't feeling up to going back on.

I will try to debate my two matches later, one seems like no point since it's a longshot and I feel I have less of a chance than Carnage vs Drax.

Good job JH...looks like luck has finally turned around for you...

 

[JewishHobbit]

Yeah, I'm excited. I asked my grandmother about paying taxes on it (she's a tax person (whatever they're called) and knows all of that). She says that if the TV was paid for by the place then most probably we won't have to pay taxes, but if it was donated then we will. I'm 99% certain they paid for it in full, so I'll find out today when my wife asks her work if they paid for it or not, or will be turning it in the the IRS. So with luck we won't even have to pay the taxes on it


And Phaed, I accidently deleted all my PM's last night and I don't remember the two points you asked about while I was gone. Could you ask me again so I can decide on them please. Thanks!

 

[JewishHobbit]

My parents bought a 52 inch widescreen DLP a little while back...JH, it is one of the best creations in human existance. Just wait until you play video games on there...sweet lord...or watch widescreen movies.

Yeah, I'm a little behind on the game systems as we discussed a while ago. I was smiling in the shower last night though when I thought about playing Mario 3 on a big screan, and Mike Tyson's Punch Out, That'll be fun! Also, I'm excited about whating LotR on it. And we use to go to my mom's house to watch LOST every week, and now she's asked if she can start coming over here. Now I should REALLY be able to find all those little hints and clues

 

[JewishHobbit]

ATTENTION

Okay guys, I need to clarify a little on the rule of teammates during preptime. It's caused a few questions recently, and that's my fault for not detailing the rule earlier, so I'll go ahead and do so now. BUT NOTE: This takes affect starting next week, as I don't want to interfere with this week's matches. So those of you who may be team members may try to stretch the rules this last week at no consequence. So keep this in mind when voting, this starts NEXT week.

1) From Prep-Time Through the end of the match,... there is to be no people used as a resource. No team members may show up at any time,... this is a one on one battle from beginning to end.

2) You cannot use the resourse of a team member if it is not common to your character. I'll use this week's match as an example: The Thing is facing the Shadow King. Thing is a physical bruiser, but S.K. is a mental villain. The idea was to have Reed whip up something to resist telepathy, rendering S.K. powerless. With Reed now out of the picture, Thing must use what's around the Four Freedoms Plaza. But starting next week, if this thingamijigy (in Grimm speach) is not something that Thing's used before and would commonly have access to himself, even if it is in the plaza, then it's not allowed because it's not his resource, it's Reed's. Other examples are that X-Characters who are telepaths do not all have access to Cerebro, unless they commonly use it, like Xavier, Jean, or Emma. People like Psylocke and M who are telepaths, wouldn't be able to use it because it is not a common resource of theirs. X-Men may get away with a handheld cerebro unit of lesser power, as pretty much every X-character in existance has used one some time or another, but that's a stretch depending on the character.

Does this make sense? If you need me to clarify any better, or have any questions or other team situations you'd need clarification on,... let me know. I'm not always the best at describing what I'm thinking, so let's discuss the rule if we need to. I'm open to criticism.

 

[POWdER-man]

Thanks Phaedrus for posting a location...

 

[JewishHobbit]

ATTENTION

Okay,.. below is a question that was asked of me:

So, can another participant ask a question regarding someone's character in order to have a better understanding of the match-up? And, does someone making a statement in their debate about a question you might have about their character make a difference in asking the question?

Here's my opinion of what is acceptable in an outside player's concerns:

1) If someone states something about a character that you KNOW is wrong, and that you feel could negatively influence the match, you may mention it, but only if you KNOW it is wrong. If the owner of the character debates this, then bring it to me. I'll decide what to do at that point, whether to open the question to those who may know better, finding proof online, etc.

2) If you have a simple question in reguards to clarification of powers, or past, etc, you may ask it. The owner of the character may answer you directly, or choose to open the question up to others who may know the answer better than they. However, all questions and answers by outside sources CANNOT be done in a way that shows favortism toward a certain character in the match. Keep them all objective (I think that's the word). Simply ask your question and get your answer. Do not debate with the owner. If someone disagrees with something that happens in this step, bring it to me.

Those are the only two situations that I can think of where I'll allow conversation outside of the match. If you have any questions let me know.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Voting May Begin!

 

[Sparta*]

Man, i've never debated so hard in my life...

sad thing is, I doubt most people will take the time to read the massive debates

 

[POWdER-man]

pfft I have been having that struggle from the beginning....

Don't worry, I will read it because I know how long it takes to put in your time and come up with a good strategy, than have hardly anyone read it...:

 

[wiegeabo]

I always read the debates.

Always...most always...

ok, 60% of the time, all the time.

 

[POWdER-man]

That doesn't make any sense.....

I am going to be honest, that smells like pure gasoline....

 

[Phaedrus45]

Yeah, I always read the debates before deciding. A few times they generally will not work, no matter how hard you try...i.e. Thanos vs. Songbird. Sometimes, the debates are almost a stalemate; so, I have to decide on my own. Sometimes, in a close match-up, if someone debates and another person doesn't, I will always give my vote to the person who debated...or to the person who debated more than a sentence or two. And, occassionally, a debate does totally change my mind on a match-up.

 

[Midnight Ice]

I take the debates into account always.

 

[Phaedrus45]

I always read the debates, unless it's Blaze versus Powderman. With Powder's luck, you know just vote for Blaze.

 

[POWdER-man]

Yeah well I am definitely 0-4 with Thunderbird so far...hard to say with Deathstrike yet....Plus I have two more matches with Blaze already next round with Xavier vs Thanos and Mr Sinister vs Gideon...

BTW here are my matches for next week versus Blaze...I can already tell I will lose one match right away, unless I can find out anything useful from my research on Nathaniel Richards.........Use his time machine and travel back in time when she was a baby and kill her........
The other match will be an even match between Dragon Man and Wonderman....

17.Kulan Gath (BLAZE) vs.18.Nathaniel Richards (POWDERMAN)
17.Wonderman (POWDERMAN) vs.8.Dragon Man (BLAZE)

Then I have...

23.Terrax (BLAZE)vs.24.Iron Man (POWDERMAN)

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

So, lemme get this straight; Half of you thought Black Panther would have NO CHANCE against Kang, an' yet some of you think Deathstrike would? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

 

[POWdER-man]

Man Wolves, the voting hasn't even ended yet and you have to put all these comments everywhere....

You might as well say, don't vote for Deathstrike you are an IDIOT if you do...or Don't be a DUMBASS and vote for Kang...:

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Yeah well I am definitely 0-4 with Thunderbird so far...hard to say with Deathstrike yet....Plus I have two more matches with Blaze already next round with Xavier vs Thanos and Mr Sinister vs Gideon...

BTW here are my matches for next week versus Blaze...I can already tell I will lose one match right away, unless I can find out anything useful from my research on Nathaniel Richards.........Use his time machine and travel back in time when she was a baby and kill her........
The other match will be an even match between Dragon Man and Wonderman....

17.Kulan Gath (BLAZE) vs.18.Nathaniel Richards (POWDERMAN)
17.Wonderman (POWDERMAN) vs.8.Dragon Man (BLAZE)

Then I have...

23.Terrax (BLAZE)vs.24.Iron Man (POWDERMAN)

Yeah, we really do have an assload of matches against each other, don't we.
Part of me likes it since you're a good debater and are pretty on the ball in this thing, but the other part really wishes it was mixed up a bit more so we'd have a more variety of opponents instead of facing each other week in and week out.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Just goofin' around. Figgered you'd all be sick o' hearin' about Cardiac by now.

 

[POWdER-man]

I enjoy the matches...I just wished they didn't have my semi powerful characters against your uber powerful characters...it seems like I am playing catch up the whole time to try and beat your characters.....I wished they were a bit more even....

Other opponents would be nice since we are already halfway through this second round...

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Well, I'd give ya a fight 'cept most of my decent characters've already been taken down. A couple fer very stupid reasons but thems th' breaks.

 

[POWdER-man]

Hey you still have Wolverine in this thing you should be EXCITED...

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I would be, but it seems my debatin' skills've suffered between rounds so we'll see.