Team Tournament Information and Discussion Thread

pis-vo should be banned. can we simplify things and just say no to speedblitzes in general. speaking in general terms, they rarely happen anyway. then ss and majestic could be used like anyone else.

Originally posted by Validus
True enough. The closest I've seen to a speedblitz is when he flew around in a circle at lightspeed shooting energy in the middle.

Right. The speed blitz is shot down amazingly easy when it's described like that. And if anyone can produce a scan of Surfer going 0 to 5x the speed of light in less time than it would take Superman to move 5 feet, I'd be happy to reconsider.

In the meantime, we have multiple people who will be allowed that can travel over light speed....but in travel speed. I'm merely talking about reactions here within the context of a fight.

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pis-vo seems to be unanimously banned. But I think we can safely let in Surfer and Majestic, given that understanding about the illegitimacy of speedblitzing.

so speedblitzes are illegitimate but legal? or you mean they can't be used by those 2? what about reaction time and cosmic awareness?

speed blitz thinking is making me herbshock

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Right. The speed blitz is shot down amazingly easy when it's described like that. And if anyone can produce a scan of Surfer going 0 to 5x the speed of light in less time than it would take Superman to move 5 feet, I'd be happy to reconsider.

In the meantime, we have multiple people who will be allowed that can travel over light speed....but in travel speed. I'm merely talking about reactions here within the context of a fight.

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pis-vo seems to be unanimously banned. But I think we can safely let in Surfer and Majestic, given that understanding about the illegitimacy of speedblitzing.

Originally posted by leonidas
so speedblitzes are illegitimate but legal? or you mean they can't be used by those 2? what about reaction time and cosmic awareness?

*sigh*

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Travel speed and reaction time are two very different things. As I understand it, speedblitz is someone who can, say, travel the cosmos, and using that speed to attack at nigh-light speeds. There's oodles of problems with this, as no one has ever really shown great reaction time or the ability to attack precisely when at these speeds (besides someone like Flash). Everyone else has to slow down to at least probably around Mach speed (or usually even less) if they actually want to hit someone. So yeah, if you want to try and use it, go ahead.

But A. Every team will probably have people capable of this....making it rather pointless.
B. It's highly questionable whether it would even work.

...on the other hand, reaction time in battle is totally different. H2H speed feats are more than acceptable to use as evidence in the context of a battle. Cosmic awareness is fine too, but it's hardly a catch-all. I've seen people with CA get punked plenty of times.

...so there. Does that clear things up?

good enough. i guess . . .

Originally posted by leonidas
good enough. i guess . . .

If we tried to prevent everyone who could use a speedblitz, it wouldn't be a herald tourney. Nearly anyone at that level can travel over the speed of light. It's not a great situation, but like I said, I think it'll pretty much cancel itself out.

Was there going to be a killibility limit as well? A few of us were talking about banning guys like Iceman.

Originally posted by Validus
Was there going to be a killibility limit as well? A few of us were talking about banning guys like Iceman.

That falls under the "no freaking loopholes" clause. So yeah, anyone without a clear way to kill them wouldn't be allowed. Though we got around that a bit in the past (the street tourney) with guys like Deadpool by saying that something like a decapitation counted as a win since it would at least immobilize him for quite a while (even though it wouldn't kill him).

Well I think the character limits are pretty much set. 😄

Originally posted by Validus
Well I think the character limits are pretty much set. 😄

That's really the hardest part. Then deciding on a few borderline draft picks.

Once the battles start, it's up to the participants....the rough stuff for whoever's running it is right now before and during drafts.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
That falls under the "no freaking loopholes" clause. So yeah, anyone without a clear way to kill them wouldn't be allowed.

So that excludes the Juggernaut... and possibly the Hulk as well then?

juggs is someone i was also curious about. without bfr he'd be pretty much unbeatable at this level.

Originally posted by leonidas
juggs is someone i was also curious about. without bfr he'd be pretty much unbeatable at this level.

Unless somebody had somebody like Martian Manhunter.

Juggs maybe but Hulk has been knocked on his ass way too much for anyone to say he's unbeatable at this level.

Is Batman w/ Motherbox allowed? 😖hifty:

Originally posted by leonidas
juggs is someone i was also curious about. without bfr he'd be pretty much unbeatable at this level.

He's slow and vulnerable to TP. And while teleportation can't be used as battlefield removal, I see nothing wrong with 'beating him' with regular powers by throwing him into the sun or something (presuming the battle's on Earth). So by all means, go ahead and pick him (unless there's widespread dissent). Might not be a bad late-rounder, but I honestly can't see him being much of a force. It would certainly introduce some new strategy elements into the fight.

Originally posted by batdude123
Is Batman w/ Motherbox allowed? 😖hifty:

Seriously. 😐

Originally posted by TheKahn
I've been wondering about the draft. Will both teammates get to draft their "personal" characters in the first round and then draft the "community" character in the second? Or will there be a total of three rounds and one teammates has to wait for the second round to pick the character they want to debate for?

Never mind, this was answered on the other thread.