We have less than an hour and a half until the first round of the draft (8pm EST), I thought I'd post an update of the rules of the tournament:
Teams: 2 debators using 3 characters per fight
Power Limit - High herald level
Prep - 5 minutes prior to each fight in a well stocked lounge adjacent to the battle field. No extending of that prep time via artificial means (ie speed force or time manipulation).
Equipment - Characters are allowed to carry only what they normally have in their possession. For example a Green Lantern get his/her ring but Reed Richards can't go back to his lab for the ultimate nullifer or anything else.
Special restrictions:
- Power Duplication: Banned
- Power copying: Banned
- Constructs/Summoning: No summoning and only constructs similar to a Green Lantern's are allowable.
- Time Manipulation: Banned
- Matter Manipulation: Banned on opponents and environment-large scale (ie no turning the entire planet into swiss cheese) otherwise allowed
Reality Manipulation - Banned
- Speed Force: Banned as a method for stealing speed or extending prep time, otherwise speed force characters are allowed
- Information Retention: Fighters start with blank memories at the start of each fight (ie they don't remember past fights)
- Meshing Limit: Power amping is allowed as long as it does not put a character above the Herald limit and can be accomplished once the fight starts or in prep time
- Do feats by the character count if they are in comics that come out after drafts? Yes, as long as they are consistent with the characters' other showings
- Magic users are allowed, so long as they obey the rest of the limits
- No immortality or physically indestrucible characters and no charcters able to continiously transfer their consciousness to an endless number of bodies - one death = out of the fight.
- Additional limits may be placed as new issues come up. If you are uncertain about any character/tactic please feel free to pm Batdude or myself about it before you use it. 🙂
Drafting:
Each round will last a few days, so don't worry if you aren't first (there are plenty of characters to go around).
Characters will be drafted one per round on a first come first served basis. To draft a character please include your name and that of your partner, the character's name, and a link to a current bio.
sample draft post:
Batdude and theKahn draft Superman
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_%28Clark_Kent%29
Failure to include all information will result in you not securing the character and the possibility that someone else may take him/her.
Good sites for Bios
DC:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Marvel:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page
both:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.comicvine.com/