Originally posted by Jinsoku TakaiReread the first 3 paragraphs. Imo, it's pretty clear that their saber battle was, for all intents and purposes, a stalemate.
I can't seem to extract Grievous being nearly Mace's = from this excerpt. Let's see... Mace decides to end the duel... then proceeds to do so. Yes, I know you specified saber to saber, but I still don't interpret it as such. I wish this duel had occurred on the movies or animated series in order to supplement the novel. Anyways, thanks for the excerpt.
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I nearly forgot that there was a cut-away scene I removed from the excerpt, which depicted Kit Fisto and another Jedi battling a few Magnaguards whilst Mace and Grievous were fighting (I removed said paragraph because it didn't specifically pertain to the point at hand.) However, it does mean that Mace/GG battled for even longer then my post gave them credit for (further proof of what was essentially a saber-stalemate.)