r/TheGreatDebateChamber • u/KenfromDiscord • Jun 04 '20
Clash of Titans 3 Losers Finals
Out of Tier Rules
For Out of Tier requests, Simply debate better than your opponents. The judges will judge the quality of both participants arguments into question and decide a winner based on that.
Battle Rules
Speed - movement speed and combat speed will be set at Mach 1, Combat and movement speed, with their reactions scaled down/up relatively. Speed boosts via abilities, however, are indeed allowed to make one surpass this base speed threshold.
Battleground:
Its SCP-3008. SCP 3008 is an huge space (Current measurements indicate an area of at least 10km2) designed to look like the inside of a regular Ikea store. The arena will be tall enough that the largest submitted character can fit comfortably inside. Combatants start 10 meters away from each other, and in a line spaced 2 meters apart from their allies. Every combatant starts each round being 'teleported' into the arena, knowing full well whomever they face down needs to die or be incapacitated in order for they themselves to advance and win and will do so, and with knowledge of their allies' weapons and abilities. All combatants begin without any weapons drawn or abilities active, hands idle at their sides, weapons holstered, and the moment they teleport in they can begin combat. All combatants are in-character for the tourney itself. No character can escape SCP-3008.
As a side note, the towns that have been set up as well as SCP-3008-2 are not present for the tourney.
Side side note, while combatants cannot exit the arena that does not preclude parts of the arena being torn off and used as weapons.
Combatants spawn in the very center of the Ikea.
Submission Rules
Tier:
Must be able to win an unlikely victory, draw/near draw, or likely victory against
Ben Grimm AKA The Thing
in the conditions outlined above; All entrants will be bloodlusted against The Thing, meaning they will act fully rationally and put down their opponent in the quickest, most efficient manner possible regardless of morality, utilizing any and all possible techniques/tactics/attacks if necessary.
For tier setter fights/OOT requests assume both Thing and your character are bloodlusted
Debate Rules
Rounds will last 5 days, hopefully from Tuesday until Sunday of each week of the tourney; there is a 48 hour time limit both on starting (we do not care who starts, you and your opponent can figure that out) AND on responses, AND ADDITIONALLY each user MUST get in two responses or else be disqualified. If one user waits until the very last minute to force this rule to DQ their opponent without any forewarning to their opponents or the tournament supervisors, they will be removed from this tournament, no exceptions.
Format for each round: both respondents get Intro + 1st Response, then 2nd response, then a 3rd response and closing statement individual of one another that can be posted any time after both 3rd responses are complete. EACH RESPONSE MUST BE NO LONGER THAN THREE REDDIT COMMENTS LONG WITH A HARD CAP OF 25,000 CHARACTERS SPLIT BETWEEN THE THREE.
Rounds will either be a full 3v3 Team Match, or 1v1 single matches. 1v1 matches are determined by randomization. Match format will switch every round, with Team Matches always followed by single matches, and vice versa. First Round will be determined by coin flip.
Brackets Here
Semis will be
3v3 match ups.
Finals Ends June 8th Midnight EST
Format for each round: both respondents get Intro + 1st Response, then 2nd response, then a 3rd response and closing statement individual of one another that can be posted any time after both 3rd responses are complete. EACH RESPONSE MUST BE NO LONGER THAN THREE REDDIT COMMENTS LONG WITH A HARD CAP OF 25,000 CHARACTERS SPLIT BETWEEN THE THREE.
Rounds will either be a full 3v3 Team Match, or 1v1 single matches. 1v1 matches are randomized based on sign up order via an internet list randomizer. Match format will switch every round, with Team Matches always followed by single matches, and vice versa. First Round will be determined by coin flip, and as it is 3v3s, next shall be 1v1, and so on and so forth.
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u/feminist-horsebane Jun 08 '20
Part IV: Team Thunderstrucks Offense
Cannonball
Saying that Cannonball is only wallbusting based on a singular scan from his earliest appearances when he explicitly has better feats is a pretty weak argument. You can call the “shatters a building” scan vague if you want, but there isn’t a reasonable interpretation of “shatters a building” that does anything other than kill your team with the trash durability feats presented for them.
The second building bust posted being a “derelict building” doesn’t prove it to be weaker, buildings go derelict due to mold, infestations, lack of access to utilities, and lots of other reasons other than “this building is actually made of paper mache”, and I have never seen a “small shack” with windows comparable to people.
The sentinel feat isn’t an antifeat, he’s bullrushing a several ton object from below ground levels through the roof of a parking deck and into the sky before breaking it. The crater feat is visibly deeper than the one Comet created, and even if it was the same size, Comet has never taken an attack on it's level.
Ragnarok
The Daken antifeat is just ridiculous- behold, A man, not damaged much. Kate Bishop doesn’t even get hit in the scan presented, and Ragnarok’s electricity having a weak charge is much more damning to my opponents win condition of “superman blue absorbs all electricity to the point that it somehow makes up for his garbage physicals” rather than mine of “punches you once.”
Ragnarok was rebuilt several times after several defeats to the point that by the time he had only a robotic brain before his last modification and weapon upgrade. He was at no point ever noted to get any weaker during any point in his history, pretending that he somehow devolved into a nonfactor has no basis.
Iron Man
My opponent calls these feats “venom tier”, which frankly is irrelevant, because his team lacks even “venom tier” durability. For posterity, here's what one ton of rock looks like, and here's the feat my opponent calls worse than destroying a ton of rock. Furthermore, Comet’s esoteric resistance has no bearing on a KE feat. The only durability presented for Comet by my opponent is scaling to an attack that he doesn’t scale or, or scaling his durability to his lifting strength, and Superman Blue has run and hid from attacks with worse collateral.
None of the antifeats presented by my opponent are meaningful in the context of a 3v2 vs two glass cannons. The reality of this debate is that the best feats presented for my opponent’s team are hideously below what is presented for their offense.
Part V: Team Thunderstrucks Defense
Cannonball
Two street tier antifeats over a history of 30+ years does not disprove the fact that Cannonball has durability above your damage output. The singular blunt force feat you’ve proposed has heavy context to it making it worse than you claim, isn’t used in a combat setting, has no reason to land on someone moving at Cannonballs speed, and has no explicit timeframe.
Ragnarok
This “one shots him” after he takes several stabs through the chest, limbs, and throat, as well as several hits from someone comparable to the tier setter, all in the context of a fight where he’s being held back by Norman Osborn so he can embarrass the Avengers.
Iron Man
Same problem as with Cannonball, just repeatedly comparing it to a singular feat between two characters respect threads without any reason why.
Conclusion
My opponent is outgunned and outnumbered. His two fighters cannot afford to make any mistakes and must react perfectly to any and all threats. They have no reason to act this efficiently from go. My opponent would have you believe that Captain Comet can immobilize, revive, mind read, blast, disassemble, and explode the heads of my entire team simultaneously, and that Superman Blue will instantly go for a lightspeed blitz, spam EMP's and offensive phasing, and never be tagged by anyone on my team. He has to argue this way because it is the only way his team can win- my team, on the other hand, wins by hitting their opponent. Team Thunderstruck should handily take this fight.