The following will be a title match for the KMC Mid-Herald Championship. Defending his title, will be Existere, who's facing the challenger, Leonidas.Rules are as follows:
1. No posting limit (free form posting, instead).
2. No time manipulation.
3. No insta-kill tactics such as teleporting into solid objects. Even if an attack isn’t instantaneous, any attack that could, as a matter of its nature, not be defended against is considered this.
3. Characters will not have knowledge of who they are fighting pre-fight. In battle, they will only be able to know things if the two characters already knew each other.
4. Non-offensive matter manipulation is allowed.
5. No duplication.
6. No power copying in any way.
7. Only experience carries from previous fights, and only information you could have reasonably discovered in the fight is learned.
8. No immortal characters. Characters should be able to be defeated by reasonably accessible means. Healing factors strong enough to blur the line with this are also banned.
9. While battlefields will change, it is assumed that nobody can leave the whole of the battlefield by any means. This also means no BFR or self-BFR. If you fly too far, you hit an impenetrable wall.
10. No reality warping.
11. Rules may be changed if certain strategies become an obvious problem.
12. Matches last 14 days.
13. ( Prep) You will receive a 5 minute briefing about your opponent. You cannot gather gear that would not be considered standard gear.
The way I read the rules, it sounded like the 5 minute "briefing" didn't allow for actual prep, it was just some basic knowledge while you listened. I was surprised to see any prep in the writeup. So yeah, a more carefully worded rule on prep is likely needed.
Beyond that, happy to see this off the ground so quickly.
The exchange between Abhi and I has been pretty informal leading up to the match, and he had already told me his character before we started. If he hadn't though, and prep was allowed, a defending champ/defending character would have to contest not just against being counter-picked, but being counter-prepped.
...unless champs are meant to know their opponents as soon as a character is drafted. These rules are starting to blend together for me. If that was the case, both characters could effectively prep against the other, so I guess from a rules standpoint it could be fair.
But really, do we want to mess around with too much prep? Tourneys are moving away from that trend, and for good reason.
To be clear though, I'm not bringing this up to mess with this match, which, again, I think is fine. I just hope that more belt battles go through in the future and the rules should be as clear as possible so that can happen without rule confusion getting in the way.