Dark Aristokrat
Plo Koon Rulez!
Mace's fought Grievous a few times, Grievous never walked away unharmed. Now, when did Revan ever have time to learn all his skills?
Uh, the training he had under multiple masters in the jedi order. His combat experience in the Mandalorian Wars. His three years spent away. The couple of years he was leading the Sith during the Jedi Civil War. His actions during the war on behalf of the jedi. That right there is a LOT of experience for someone his age. And considering he is a prodigy and held in respect by all who know of him I think it's foolish to dismiss him quite as easily as you do.
And like I said: the circumstances of the Sidious fight are completely up in the air, tos crewed up choreography or just plain bad scripting. I'm no Sidious fanboy, I like Dooku above him, possibly Vader, you can call me an official Obi-wan and Han Solo fanboy, but based on what I've seen/read of Sidious, I hold him in high esteem.
This might surprise you, but I like Sidious too. And I have a realistic grasp of his powers. I've gone over his fights -many- times, as you can see I've been here nearly a year. And in that time I've debated just about every topic here. The point here is that Mace < Revan. Mace's biggest danger was Sidious, whom he floored with little effort. Unless you have conclusive evidence to the contrary, that's what we have to work with.
And the Jedi in the Civil War hadn't seen wars in half a century.
This is incorrect. The Jedi Council and Republic waged war on the Sith Empire after Sadow fled. It fell ten whole years later. Shortly after were the Mandalorian Wars, and the Jedi Civil Wars right after that. This is easily six years of combat experience right there, twice the length of the Clone Wars, and the latter half dealing more with jedi versus sith than perhaps the Schism. The Jedi Order was pushed to the brink of destruction.
The Jedi in the Hundred Years darkness are the only good example there. Revan wasn't in the HYD, Revan wasn't in the Sith War, nor was Revan in the Hyperspace War.
The point remains... Revan lived in times when one's life was decided by the swiftness of another's blade, period. Sidious did not live in mortal fear of his life nor did he fight on many battlegrounds or face off against as many powerful opponents. And again, this is about Mace.
The era of Sadow was a very bad time for the Sith. They had no experience fighting Jedi, they were cowardly, beauracratic...Kressh even talks of being 'elected' to the post of Dark Lord and whines incessantly when they elect Sadow over him. THIS is pinnacle of the new Empire, the Dark Lord everyone thought'd replace the great Ragnos? I've seen nothing to indicate the ancients were anything special.
I'm ignoring this. I already know your stance on the ancient sith and I completely disagree.
Sidious was strong enough to mask himself completely from the Jedi.
So cloak = power? Dooku could do the same, Lightsnake. He held conferences with Sidious on Coruscant and hid himself from Obi-Wan and Anakin in LOE. Hell, Asajj Ventress hid from Obi-Wan in the same room in TCD. This isn't equivalent to power, unless you want to admit that Revan controlled the Star Forge that had a tendency to destroy weak force users, thus Revan can pwn all.
Experience doesn't mean everything all the time and I could pull out quite a few historical examples. In an actual battle, anything could happen to stunt your fighting ability. Revan had several years of experience, that was it.
Experience means a LOT. You obviously know nothing of battle if you say such things.
And learning everything a Sith holocron has to offer, absorbing its powers and learning from the supposedly uber ancient Sith over the course of decades has to count for quite a bit.
Reading a book doesn't mean you know kung fu.
And btw, didn't you say Malak was about equal to Dooku? If Revan can smoke a powered up Malak, why can't he just destroy Mace? Are not Mace and Dooku equals? Actually, I'd argue that Dooku is better than Mace.