A true master at work here. He's turning us against one another!
Someone made a "shed" style comment about me earlier in this tourney, and I had to remind them I won the last completed tourney on this site. But yeah, leo's clearly peaked.
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ironically, scoob and i didn't do all that great. we each had like, a 100 ideas, and wanted to use every character out there. we had a blast, but we never really meshed all that well. what i'm saying is, he was an anchor.
Technically, you guys "won" Delph's League of Champions (made it to the finals, at least, then were awarded the win against a no-show). That actually isn't counted as an official win in the respect thread, but you could each have one additional tourney win if we did count it.
So you weren't that ineffective.
But yeah, putting tourney vets together isn't always a recipe for success. I'm a control freak in tourneys. Scoob hated partnering with me, despite us also making the finals together.
You're a control freak? I thought you said that you both independently posted things when you were partnered up together, with him mostly fixing your mistakes
Alternatively, DarkCrawler and I PM'd each other each response we had to make sure it was fact checked and fit with our overall tone.
Some of that was my new-ness though. Scoob had a better grasp on tourneys at that time. We PMd back and forth on overall strategies and writeups and such, but not details. About the only thing we agreed on was Thor, but then we'd use him differently, so there'd be two versions of him in each fight. I think once or twice, Scoob flat-out said "No, that's dumb. Here's what Thor ACTUALLY does..." It was hilarious. We sort of lucked into the synergy between Warlock and Space Phantom...mostly we just picked a fan crush and told each other to stay the hell away from our toys.
But, like, I don't think I let him do any of our writeups, because I wanted them a particular way. He'd make additions and edits, but I definitely went a bit diva on them. That was the control aspect of it. I did the same with Leo and Newjak/Batdude in another tourney. It was a big deal when I finally said "Ok, someone else make this writeup."
Updated Odds-ish (as always, not official and just for fun)
2/1 - Id
4/1 - Digi, PG
6/1 - Charlotte
30/1 - Chip, Abhi, Leo (?)
500/1 - Beatboks
- Beat has been a good sport, but I'm just being honest there.
- Charlotte is lower as a result of facing the current favorite. Otherwise I'd have her slightly better, probably in line with PG and I or just below at 5/1.
- I don't want to make different odds for PG and I, because at this point I don't think either outcome could be considered an upset.
- We've already seen one upset though (PG/Leo).
Next round - Azarenko vs Serena and Sharapova vs Bartoli (going by WTA analogues).
Serena here is Id, who seems to be a wild-roaming monster of this tournament.
Me - Vickie, not only because she's from Minsk just like me, but because of her strength being only certain types of courts (she totally rocks at Australian Open (low-high meta tiers) and has relatively poor performance on Rollan Gaross' courts (mid herald and above))
Digi - Maria Sharapova. STRONG tournament record with solid titles, but counterable by the others on the top.
PG - Marion Bartoli. Everybody knows that she has the strategy best described by the word "annoying" yet this strategy occasionally nets a tourney.
There's a limit to how high odds will go. At a certain point, all anyone will do is toss a dollar in for the chance to win $500, or $1000, or whatever. So from the oddsmaker's perspective, there's no incentive to make it $10,000 when $1,000 will get the same result. As ever, odds don't necessarily reflect actual chances, but the willingness of the public to place a bet.
As it is, at those odds I'd put a couple dollars on you, on the off chance that everyone else disappears and/or has part of their strategy made illegal, and thus leaves in frustration.
Yes, female tennis. I understand a couple of these references.
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