AJ_Impy posted:Every division so far has a pathetic whipping boy team. Lightly Whipped, A furry, farmer and two cows and A Tarantino Film have only managed one kill each in their humiliating defeats. This Bites haven't even achieved that. Not one enemy has fallen to them. I am looking forward to the whipping boy team on whipping boy team fights, myself. Hours of flailing. Also GO HELMETS!
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I think Tarintino Film has, at least, a minor chance at an upset. Uma and Barkley really need to not get incapacitated in the opening charge, though.
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Tiler Kiwi posted:I think Tarintino Film has, at least, a minor chance at an upset. Uma and Barkley really need to not get incapacitated in the opening charge, though. It's more likely than a Lightly Whipped or This Bites pulling an upset on their fights was anyway.
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Yeah, A Tarantino Film at least has a passable counter of some sort to all of our fighters. They're just not very likely to use it well.
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Ramc posted:It's more likely than a Lightly Whipped or This Bites pulling an upset on their fights was anyway. Hell, Lightly Whipped almost did it to us this round. I'm betting all the money I can on A Tarantino Film for this next match.
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Captaindirtnap posted:Hell, Lightly Whipped almost did it to us this round. I'm betting all the money I can on A Tarantino Film for this next match. Good. More should. Before it is too late.
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Captaindirtnap posted:Hell, Lightly Whipped almost did it to us this round. I'm betting all the money I can on A Tarantino Film for this next match. the biggest problem is that my predictions about everything are consistently wrong so sorry about your money
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please do not bet on A Tarantino Film so that when they win I get more money.
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 Round 3, Fight 5 (But for real this time)  The Plump Helmets, the home team, is on the left side of the arena. Dory (my dad) is a female minotaur. She wields a copper spear and wears a bronze cap, a bronze mail shirt, bronze gauntlets, and bronze high boots. James LargeSausage (Afriscipio) is a male human. He wields an iron halberd and wears a copper cap, an iron mail shirt, iron gauntlets, and leather low boots. Josie the Bludgeonatrix (Ramc) is a female elf. She wields a copper mace and a wooden shield and wears leather armor, leather gauntlets, and leather high boots. Return of Panty Thief (Mr. Vile) is a male yeti. He is empty handed and wears a bronze helm, a bronze breast plate, bronze greaves, bronze gauntlets, and bronze low boots, and his reputation for crowd-pleasing over-the-top violence is well-established. A Tarantino Film, the visiting team, is on the right side of the arena. Uma Thurman (AnoHito) is a female human. She wields a steel two-handed sword and wears leather armor. Urist McLee (Fuubi) is a male dwarf. He is empty handed and wears a copper helm, a copper mail shirt, a copper breast plate, copper gauntlets, and copper high boots. Snarls Barkley (Bene Elim) is a female werewolf. She wields a bronze pike and a wooden shield and wears no armor. Solomon Rabinowitz (Added Space) is a male serpent man. He is empty handed and wears a steel helm, a steel mail shirt, steel gauntlets, and steel high boots. The Plump Helmets are a 2.04 to 1 betting favorite in this match with 11702.00 dwarfbucks in total bets placed on them, compared to 5749.00 dwarfbucks for A Tarantino Film.  Josie and Snarls are our speedsters today, though the first shot is blocked. The first actual damage is James, whose halberd removes Uma's foot. Uma falls over, then, from the floor, manages to bite Dory's eyelid. In response, Dory puts a copper spear to Uma, stabbing her so hard that her spleen ruptures and her teeth cannot maintain their eyelid grip. Also, Snarls bites off James's teeth. Back to Uma. More attacks from Dory and James. It doesn't take many more for James to chop her head off. The Plump Helmets have taken an early, if not unexpected, lead. Solomon the anklebiter bites Panty's ankle, but finds greaves in the way and starts grieving.  Positioning? Hah! Urist happily stands in the center of everything, defying anyone to attack him. James chops at his foot. Uh, didn't this just happen? Urist attempts to break James's toes, so Josie breaks his leg with her mace. Urist is not as wimpy as Uma, though. He bulls through, then punchs James in the gut, hard enough that James is suddenly worried about blowing chunks. James manages one more attack, slightly damaging one of Urist's toes. That's too much. Urist is down. But, wait, what's this? Before that, Solomon bit James in the leg! Paralytic venom floods through him. He pukes. Even as he's ralphing it up, Josie brains Urist. Two down, two to go.  James probably won't be much more help, though. Puking, paralyzed, unconscious, and disarmed. Snarls and Solomon are unharmed, completely. Panty Thief hasn't bothered to be useful yet. So it's still sort of two on two.  Oh, and James finally has his tooth land next to him. So, now Snarls is up to bat. Surely he'll do better than the two fallen teammates. Dory stabs him in two limbs and he's lost his shield and his consciousness. Oh, and now James has managed to overcome paralysis. Surely the rest of those issues will go away shortly, too. Dory stabs Snarls one more time, and the skull outright shatters. One foe remains. Panty has been fighting with Solomon for a bit. It's... not gone well for the serpent. Armor prevents his bites, and so far he's been stunned by Panty's charge.  More teeth land. Panty throws Solomon into the air by one finger, punches him in midair, and then Solomon falls to the floor. Josie thinks Solomon isn't doing it right, and demonstrates by biting him. Panty and Dory try more effective methods. Solomon is not doing well. It's actually still Josie who puts him out, though, as shaking him around with her mouth puts him out. Now it's a race between Josie's mace of skull-fractures, the sheer force of Dory's spear, and Panty's chiropracty to see who gets the kill. Even as Panty chokes him, though, it's Josie who actually breaks his brain. Final Score The Plump Helmets: 4 A Tarantino Film: 0 Kills Josie the Bludgeonatrix: 2 Dory: 1 James LargeSausage: 1 Combat Log
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A Tarantino film confirmed as whipping boys. Plump Helmets join the Subterranean Animists as unbeaten frontrunners. Now let's get this show on the road. The first inter-divisional round sees the Helmets, leaders of Syrupleaf, face the Spooky Scary Skeletons, leaders of Gemclod. The Animists face Team 13, with the Heavyweight Horrorshow off the top of Boatmurdered only by kill difference. There are no all-whipping boy matches. The front runners for top kill count are as follows. 6: Albrik the insignificant 5: Sriracha Fartstorm Returns, Three Gremlins in a Blender, Dusseldwarf, Qwarf and Dory. 4: 7 gladiators 3: 3 gladiators 2: 12 gladiators 1: 16 gladiators 0: 20 gladiators. The divisional top killers: Srirarcha for Boatmurdered, Three Gremlins for Gemclod, Albrik for Syrupleaf and Qwarf and Dusseldwarf for Bronzestabbed. AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Nov 15, 2015 02:08
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Have I mentioned yet that I hate you all?
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Are we supposed to get a new batch of build points for this new round? My total only went from 30 to 60.
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My fighter has two chains.
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That fight log is especially brutal. Jesus christ, Josie.
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Ramc posted:That fight log is especially brutal. Jesus christ, Josie. Harsh, but fair.
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Every night I curse the hundred or so participation points I missed I didn't know those were a thiiing
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Oh for loving out loud! Even with a golden opportunity and three distracted opponents Snarls does nothing. Last lime I let Treeloved handle pre-season training.
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A good poster posted:Are we supposed to get a new batch of build points for this new round? My total only went from 30 to 60. Not between rounds like this. Just going into the playoffs. We are what? A quarter of the way done regular season?
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One-sixth. We get 3 versus our division, then 12 versus each team from the other divisions, then the 3 reverse home/away fixtures from our own division before the playoffs.
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With the first three rounds out of the way, I vote to abolish the home team advantage.
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Pickled Tink posted:With the first three rounds out of the way, I vote to abolish the home team advantage. I am also all for removing the home field advantage on the next 12 fights (and keeping it for the last 3 intra-division ones, to balance out the first 3 rounds where it existed.) All these teams will only fight each other once in the pre-season, so we might as well make it even for that one fight.
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It makes sense to have the interdivisional rounds at a neutral venue since each side only plays the others once.
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Wouldn't it be fairer to wait another round before dropping the advantage, so all teams have had 2 home rounds?
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grobbendonk posted:Wouldn't it be fairer to wait another round before dropping the advantage, so all teams have had 2 home rounds? No, because we reinstate the bonus for the last three rounds, which are the reverse fixtures for the first three. Everyone ends up with 3 home, 3 away and 12 neutral.
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Abolish the home rounds.
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I'll give everyone another day to vote on whether to keep home advantage for the 12 interdivisional rounds, but it looks like early sentiment is heavily in favor of removing it.
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I'm also in favor of removing it. I think it's an unnecessary thumb on the scales of team building and/or luck.
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I vote to run it one way, and then if my team loses, redo the match the other way, and if we still lose, continue changing it and redoing the match until my team wins, then keep that result
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Bad Munki posted:I vote to run it one way, and then if my team loses, redo the match the other way, and if we still lose, continue changing it and redoing the match until my team wins, then keep that result One of the biggest unsolvable mysteries in computer science is the halting problem - there is no general method for determining whether an algorithm is terminating or non-terminating, and we have to constantly build new proofs for specific cases. Fortunately, we can build outwards from obvious results. Your algoritm, for instance, is non-terminating.
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I would drop the home field advantage. Put it back in for last 3 rounds like someone said. I am on mobile, someone got a win/loss record for home teams?
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Voting no home field advantage.
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Seven matches have been won by the away team, out of the 24 matches run so far.
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AJ_Impy posted:No, because we reinstate the bonus for the last three rounds, which are the reverse fixtures for the first three. Everyone ends up with 3 home, 3 away and 12 neutral.
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I vote to remove it.
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I'm inclined to agree, it's been fun and all but it just decreases the odds of underdog teams winning, which is half the fun of these tournies.
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remove and also give mongo 6000 points
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Remove it, too many boring fights
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It's really bad, get rid of it.
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