Single gladiators and teams of two gladiators are allowed. You may now sign up for battle.
Also, if you want to be a judge please sign in here. We will be having a hiring process, so you may or may not get the position, though we appreciate your willingness to help.
1. This will be a Ironman (with Extremis)/High Meta Tournament. The characters do not need to be less powerful than Ironman himself, simply in the same power class. If there is a dispute as to how powerful a person is, Blair and Smurph will make executive decisions regarding them. There are no limits on how powerful your characters can be as a team.
An appearance minimum of 10 comics must be achieved for all characters. Those under 10 appearances will be reviewed by both Blair and Smurph, and an executive decision will be made to allow them or not.
2. No offensive matter manipulation. Only the elements of the battlefield or teammates can be altered.
3. Time manip is officially banned.
4. No one-hit kill (OHK) abilities (example: dismemberment via teleportation of limbs/objects into vitals, etc.). This is not to say that your character cannot have such an ability, just that they cannot use it in this way (ie: Blink)
5. No access to the battlefield prior to the beginning of combat. Teams will begin combat .5 kilometers away from each others' position.
6. Prep: Prep is allowed. You get 3 (three) minutes of prep per match. The default prep area is the X-men War Room with a visual of the battlefield you will be fighting in, and where you will be located (but not where your opponent will be). You will not have access to any other X-men facility/utility and that other than the hologram/visual, it should be assumed that anything in the room is mundane.
The only database/computer network you can use is regular internet. You can use Google. Google knows all. No hacking or use of private networks are allowed. Google exists on a multi-universal scale. Marvel/DC/any universe. However, it will not have wikipedia information, just news releases and the like.
This is google in a comic world- the characters you’re fighting aren’t considered fictional, they are more like celebrities with powers, so google information will change accordingly.
Battle Information: Combatants will be given general public information on their opponents (name, basic overview of powers - simple things like "Iceman controls cold" "Strong Man is Strong", or "Storm controls weather", etc), and place of origin. More in-depth information on your opponents can be gained via the use of character information someone on your team might have (assuming you have someone like that, i.e., opponent is Joker, you have Batman on your roster).
7. Tech: Creation of tech is not allowed during prep, however it is during the battle.
The technology can be used to amplify and enhance your characters.
No offensive implement with a greater payload than an independently powered, Extremis Ironman armor is allowed. Defensive technological implements (psi blockers, forcefield generators, armor) will be allowed, as well as communications devices and personal teleporters/means of transportation.
8. Experience is the only thing that carries over from battle to battle. You can not bring any implement that you acquired during the battle to the subsequent rounds. All you'll have is your memories/experiences/knowledge from the previous battle.
9. No amalgamation
10. Duplication/Self Replication: The ability to create copies of yourself (i.e. Multiple Man/Dupli-Kate/Animal Man's ability to replicate themselves) is officially banned
These powers can’t be replicated through tech or any other means.
11. No CIS/PIS
12. Mind Control and Telepathy: Mind control of your opponent, be it by any means (telepathy, hypnosis, possession) is banned. Offensive telepathic assault is allowed.
13. Each poster/team is allowed 10 combat posts plus 4 scan only posts (14 posts total each). Scan only posts are used to post evidence only, not arguments.
14. Battle Field Removal: Battle Field Removal (BFR; removing your opponent from the battlefield via teleportation, banishing, or exertion of force [bfr punching]) is banned.
Teams are confined to the surface area and airspace of the battlefield within the planets atmosphere. Abilities which require a character to momentarily travel extra dimensionally (Nightcrawler's teleportation, Spot's teleportation, etc.), and powers which allow a character to become momentarily out of phase/intangible (Martian intangibility/mass shunt, etc) are allowed. Voluntarily leaving the battlefield, indefinitely or otherwise, means you lose.
15. Power Copying/Negating: Characters that possess the ability to copy/negate the powers of other characters (i.e. Mimic/Leech/Synch) are banned.
These powers can’t be replicated through tech or any other means.
16. Healing Factors: Healing factors are allowed, however if a person is nothing more than paste on the wall that will eventually re-grow itself, they have lost the match. This includes Deadpool and Wolverine. Mr. Immortal, if you so choose to select him, will be, for the purposes of this tournament, dead the first time he dies.
17. Speed Cap: Drafted characters must be within the same power level as Iron Man. If they are deemed higher than that, the character will be banned.
18. Independent Constructs/Constructs: Independently acting constructs are officially banned. Constructs that are not independent must be in line with the power level of the tournament, unless somehow externally amped. 3 constructs are allowed.
20. Probability Alteration/Luck Powers: Probability Alteration characters (a la Longshot, Shamrock, etc) are nixed.
21. Size Alteration/Shrinking Powers: Can’t draft characters capable of shrinking shorter than 1 cm.
22. Creativity is encouraged. Loopholes are to be sought. However, if we have missed something that allows you to be on the level of LT based on a loophole, expect it to be banned.
That being said, if you do find a loophole, or something else that the rules haven’t covered, talk to us first. PM or IM Smurph or Blair and give them a heads up- we could have already had the same situation with another poster and ruled it illegal.
We reserve the right to ban characters or strategies at any point in the tourney.
Scheduling/Battle Format:
Battles will most likely run Sun-Thursdays, with the remainder being for judging. On Wed you will know the new battlefield for the next week.
Battle Format will be dependent on how many people sign up.
It has nothing to do with Ironman's speed, so long as the speedster is still within the same powerlevel as Ironman. Obviously any of the Flashes would not be.
We do this so that you can have more variety in your choices, unless the general consensus is that you all wish to have a more readily specified cap.
Jason says:
what am I supposed to do?
Jon says:
clean your apt before she moves in? buy some pink bed sheets? scented candles?
Jason says:
wait, u have pink bed sheets?
Jon says:
ive said too much
Don't let that fool you. I guarantee Surfer would get his ass whupped by whatever asinine teams are competing in the finals. See the last IM tourney for reference, where heralds would just be holding their own even in the semis.
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