The last of Evangel's tournaments...giant cluster****, but that's not what I want to talk about.
I had Ultimate Reed Richards and the Doctor (Wildstorm) among a couple others. Through some loophole-style tactics that were initially legal until mid-tourney (I won a match with them, lost another, then had them banned), I was basically creating Reed's tech instantaneously via telepathy and Doctor's matter manip.
So I go into a match with goober. Goober was the tourney favorite at that point (he went on to win, iirc), and he's also a smart guy. The tourney was double elimination in its early stages (until the finals, iirc), so I actually didn't want to use my masterstroke on him. So I made Reed's dimension canon (the one that hurt Ultimate Galactus) and just fired the thing at him. Tough match, tons of points back and forth, and I lose. Ok, no big deal.
Goober had Super-Adaptoid. Savvy readers will know that Ultimate Reed created that universe's cosmic cube, and Super-Adaptoid has copied a cosmic cube to become just as powerful as it (then replicated and generally went apesh*t). Goober knew this, but I wasn't sure if he knew that I did.
So here was the finals strategy I never got to use: Make the cosmic cube, which was >>>>>>>> anything he could bring to the table normally. Adaptoid copies it, replicates x1000, game over for me. Right?
There's an obscure but clear quote from Reed right around the end of the Ultimate Cube arc, when Reed wrests control of it from Thanos. He reveals that, by its very design, the cube is programmed to respond to Reed over anything else. Essentially, he is its ultimate master. Goober would have been giving his team over to me. So if he copies it, game over, and if he doesn't, my power trumps him.
I was always upset I didn't get to use that, because it was a strategy I was cultivating weeks before our actual match. Still, messy as that tourney was, the right person probably won. It was just an amusing, clever /shakefist moment.
Lo and behold, at request of Sir Digi I'm sharing with your the tales of faraway journey to CBR forum and taking part at their biannual competition called Rumbler's League.
Bad news - I finished 6th overall and not 5th as planned: http://community.comicbookresources...ll=1#post879356
Good news - I lost only to 2 people ahead of me in the table (Estrecca and Cthulhu), beat Dalak the incumbent champion and 2 of my 4 losses are to people below me (Tami and Cleric, where I was screwed by battlefield and the speedblitz respectively). http://community.comicbookresources...Charlotte-DeBel
Here's my match against their Spring 2014 champion for your amusement.
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May 6th, 2013 09:24 PM
