Official Contest of Marvels II Discussion Thread

[Phaedrus45]

I'm trying to catch up with the paperwork at work; but, I wanted to say a big thank you to Wiegeabo for helping out this week. (I'm just sorry that I will have to destroy one of his characters in a debate this week.)

 

[Phaedrus45]

The following participants have matches this week:

Kytrigger = 5
Midnight Ice = 4
Primemover, Harlekin, Phaedrus45, JewishHobbit, Zoken = 3
Ahura Mazda, Darthphere, Hippy Fascist = 2
Hellstormer, Wiegeabo = 1

Wins:

Wiegeabo = 16
Hippy Fascist = 12
Harlekin, Phaedrus45 = 12
Kytrigger = 11
JewishHobbit = 10
Darthphere, Ahura Mazda = 8
Midnight Ice = 6
Hellstormer, Primemover, Zoken = 5

Losses:

Hellstormer, Phaedrus = 12
JewishHobbit = 11
Darthphere, Ahura Mazda, Hippy Fascist = 10
Kytrigger = 8
Harlekin = 7
Zoken, Primemover = 6
Midnight Ice = 5
Wiegeabo = 3

The following characters have advanced to the Third Round:

Bracket 1: Unus the Untouchable(WIEGEABO) vs. Banshee(HIPPY FASCIST)
Bracket 2: Guardian(PRIMEMOVER) vs. Scarlet Witch(AHURA MAZDA)
Bracket 3: Black Tarantula(ZOKEN) vs. Belasco(PHAEDRUS45)
Bracket 4: Morg(DARTHPHERE) vs. Firelord(DARTHPHERE)
Bracket 5: Punisher(ZOKEN) vs. Warlock M-Tech(WIEGEABO)
Bracket 6: Red Ghost(MIDNIGHT ICE) vs. Baldur the Brave(AHURA MAZDA)
Bracket 7: Mr. Fantastic(KYTRIGGER) vs. Morlun(HIPPY FASCIST)
Bracket 8: Sersi(KYTRIGGER) vs. Senyaka(KYTRIGGER)

 

[Phaedrus45]

I finally had a chance to read through this thread. Sorry about the crap you and your family has had to go through, JH.

Also, Hippy, I definitely want you to stick around. Just do your best.

Finally, after looking through this last week, Wiegeabo almost has the win for Round 2 in the bag. (The only possible scenario, I think, is Kytrigger winning all 5 matches and Wiegeabo losing his one match against me.)

 

[Harlekin]

Oh, so it's not possible that I win my three matches and Wieg loses his? That'd put me 68% win ratio.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Oh, yeah, you're right. I forgot it goes by percentages, unlike Round 1 where I just had to look at total wins. What are the percentages at right now???

 

[wiegeabo]

Rankings:
1. Wiegeabo: 84.21%
2. Harlekin: 63.15%
3. Kytrigger: 57.89%
4. Hippy Fascist: 55.55%
5. Midnight Ice: 55.55%
6. Phaedrus45: 50.00%
7. JewishHobbit: 47.62%
8. Primemover: 45.45%
9. Zoken: 45.45%
10. Ahura Mazda: 44.44%
11. Darthphere: 44.44%
12. Hellstormer: 29.41%

 

[hippy fascist]

The following characters have advanced to the Third Round:

Bracket 4: Morg(DARTHPHERE) vs. Firelord(DARTHPHERE)

Lol! t:

 

[Phaedrus45]

Rankings:
1. Wiegeabo: 84.21%
2. Harlekin: 63.15%
3. Kytrigger: 57.89%
4. Hippy Fascist: 55.55%
5. Midnight Ice: 55.55%
6. Phaedrus45: 50.00%
7. JewishHobbit: 47.62%
8. Primemover: 45.45%
9. Zoken: 45.45%
10. Ahura Mazda: 44.44%
11. Darthphere: 44.44%
12. Hellstormer: 29.41%

Hmmm...even if you lose to me this week, I don't think anyone can match percentages with you.

 

[wiegeabo]

Phead pointed out that Iceman/Psylocke is still listed as an owner in the new brackets. Who owns those characters now?

 

[wiegeabo]

Edit

 

[Phaedrus45]

Later, I'll go through the brackets and post what changes need to be made.

 

[wiegeabo]

Drum roll please....


JewishHobbit = Gamesmaster, Doctor Octopus
Darthphere = Firelord, Morg
Harlekin = Baron Mordo, Blob
DarkHellRider = Monet St. Croix, Death's Head II
Primemover = Baron Karza
Zoken = Goblin Queen
Phaedrus45 = Super Skrull
Hippy Fascist = Paibok The Power Skrull
Hellstormer = Drax The Destroyer
Ahura Mazda = Vargas
Kytrigger = Air-Walker
Wiegeabo = Clea
Midnight Ice = War

Using this list I went through and changed the names of Ice/Psy's old characters.

 

[Phaedrus45]

I noticed one mistake. I got Moon Knight, but Moon Knight got his butt kicked this round by Photon-Genis. But, Drax is missing.

 

[Harlekin]

In the hypothetical situation that everybody wins this final lap of round 2 (which is, of course, impossible), these are the number of characters people will have going into round 3:

1. Wiegeabo: 17
2. Phaedrus45: 16
2. Kytrigger: 16
3. Harlekin: 15
4. Hippy Fascist: 14
4. JewishHobbit: 14
5. Ahura Mazda: 11
5. Midnight Ice: 11
6. Darthphere: 10
7. Primemover: 9
7. Zoken: 9

That's quite a different ranking than what we have now.

 

[Phaedrus45]

In the brackets, I noticed three problems.

Thread 1, Monet belongs to Primemover.
Thread 2, Stryfe belongs to Primemover.
Thread 4, Luke Cage belongs to Primemover.

 

[Phaedrus45]

In the hypothetical situation that everybody wins this final lap of round 2 (which is, of course, impossible), these are the number of characters people will have going into round 3:

1. Wiegeabo: 17
2. Phaedrus45: 16
2. Kytrigger: 16
3. Harlekin: 15
4. Hippy Fascist: 14
4. JewishHobbit: 14
5. Ahura Mazda: 11
5. Midnight Ice: 11
6. Darthphere: 10
7. Primemover: 9
7. Zoken: 9

That's quite a different ranking than what we have now.

But, we're going with percentages. That's why I don't think anyone can match Wiegeabo. I can get 16; but, I still wouldn't be close to Wieg's excellent percentage record.

 

[wiegeabo]

All better now execpt for Drax. I should probably redo the picks, this time with Drax in place of Moon Knight.

 

[wiegeabo]

Hellstormer's characters need to be given out. One of the, Patriarch, is fighting this week. So if you get him, don't forget about him. He's a badass character.

As we agreed, Phead gets the first pick since he was left out last time, and the other five will be given out randomly. Using a random number generator, here's how the characters are broken down.

Pheadrus - Magnus (Exiles)
Harlekin - Patriarch
Midnight Ice - Drax
Wiegeabo - Armageddon (Exiles)
Hippy Fascist - Maverick
Kytrigger- Sunfire (Exiles)


So Harl has an extra match this week. The other five characters have already moved on to the next round.

 

[hippy fascist]

Hippy Fascist - Maverick

 

[Harlekin]

But, we're going with percentages. That's why I don't think anyone can match Wiegeabo. I can get 16; but, I still wouldn't be close to Wieg's excellent percentage record.

I know that, just wanted to show the disrepancy between win/loss and the amount of characters people have.

Getting Patriarch garantuees one of my characters advancing. I'm leaning towards Moonstone, as Patriarch's a bit of a cheap character. On the other hand, he has one mutha****in' badass power.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Man these random drawings do me absolutely no good. So far I have gotten prof X (with his first match against someone immune to telepathy), Vargas, and now no one.

Yes this is me pouting

 

[hippy fascist]

so I cancelled my pull list at my lcs today.

It's not that i have anything against them, it's just that i've done some thinking and to be honest I'm pretty much done with marvel altogether. Now this is not going to turn into some anti Joey Q rant, to be honest I'm not even angry, just apathetic, and that's the problem.

I completely respect Joey Q for sticking to his guns on civil war, in the face of so much bad press a lot of people would just cave and have wanda fix everything. He's doing the right thing, but it's just not right for me

I don't like the concept of hero being one step up from police officer. My heroes were always men of self sacrifice. People who saved lives because they were given a gift and felt the responsibility to use it for the greater good, not for a paycheck. I don't know, maybe I'll come back to marvel after this whole thing wraps up, maybe I won't, but with only a few exceptions I feel when I read my comics now that I'm simply reading stuff to find out what the status quo is in 616 rather than for the stories. For the most part reading my weekly comics has become a chore and at $3 I'm not paying to do that chore anymore.

I want to make one thing clear, I'm not quiting comics. I will stick pick up the boys ))and some of the series that work outside the core marvel universe (runaways/x-factor/nova) but in terms of spidey, the avengers, iron-man, etc...I'm done. From now on i'm sticking to back issues and trades.

While I am upset about this, to a certain extent, I do however feel the extra beer money will help me through this tough time

Anyway, yeah, this is basically my explanation for anything I say that sounds completely foolish in light of forthcoming continuity.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I gotta say Hippy... while most people's whinning about Marvel and quitting comics and Marvel (rather, threatening quitting while buying and claiming to just read them in the shop when questioned about it ) you've managed to do so in a respectable manor. Kudos to you and two thumbs up . I do plan on taking advantage of your lack of knowledge next season

<-------- Joey thanks you for your respectfulness as well. Yo Joe!

And I also want to thank W for the great work he's done in Phaed's, and as it turned out, My, absense. Sorry for not being around for the past week or two. Between the personal problems I mentioned a while ago, and my new job (which has been insanely busy, 2 people doing about 3 to 4 people worth of work) I just haven't had time to do much of anything. I honestly don't even know if I had any characters fight last round. I'm going to go back and check after typing this, and if i lost anyone good, I'm going to be ticked! Anyhow, my apologies, but everything seems to be calming down at home and I'm getting the hang of work (though it'll only get worse from here on out until the end of summer).

So, I think I'm going to just stop working and let Ahura Mazda and his big traveling job support me for the rest of my life. I'll even give him one of my kids, or my wife or something in return. I think that's fair. Anyone else want to jump on the "Ahura supports me" bandwagon? We can form a club and pay royalties to Ahura (who gives us the royalties to begin with). Anyone?

 

[hippy fascist]

I'll still be reading runaways

reilly's gonna get spanked

 

[JewishHobbit]

Hellstormer's characters need to be given out. One of the, Patriarch, is fighting this week. So if you get him, don't forget about him. He's a badass character.

As we agreed, Phead gets the first pick since he was left out last time, and the other five will be given out randomly. Using a random number generator, here's how the characters are broken down.

Pheadrus - Magnus (Exiles)
Harlekin - Patriarch
Midnight Ice - Drax
Wiegeabo - Armageddon (Exiles)
Hippy Fascist - Maverick
Kytrigger- Sunfire (Exiles)


So Harl has an extra match this week. The other five characters have already moved on to the next round.

Whoa... wait! In the thread it says Patriarch is mine. I even debated him and everything. So is he Harlekin's?! Crap.... I just started liking him and everything. Was the thread the mistake, or this part?