Curryman's Meta-Amalgam Tourney!

Originally posted by curryman
You're allowed to unlock and access abilities, but you're not allowed to directly boost your abilities beyond your amalgamation.

Once the three characters have been meshed you step into the field.

New powers might surface from your amalgamation, but you are not allowed to use power amplification. I'm specifically talking about the super-power that is known as power amplification.

Your amalgam is going to be beyond high meta, so don't worry about that.

atrust me, mines not. my three are all low meta.
forthnately I never rely solely on power. strategy and tact IMO much more impotant

Waaay more 👆

Agreed to the above, but power doesn't hurt. 😉

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Some notes from the mouth of curry:

- Writeups sent to curry before matches
- Writeups do not count towards the post limit
- He's thinking 5 posts limit
- He's also thinking 6-7 days for a match
- 3 judges initially per match and 5 in the semis/finals
- Double Elimination bracket, as suggested/linked earlier. Scroll back for details.

Judgments should be pm'd. None of that "wait for the first one and make my opinion off of it" stuff that happened before. Isn't that right, Digi?

I finished an epic ass amalgam picture last night. Started after the drafts cause it was unknown if I'd get the characters. Saying it now: imo It's the most epic amalgam pic ever 😉

Digi is right on the money, as is the Gundam.

Judge verdicts will be PM'd to me and then presented once they are in, all of them.

And people, for the love of all that is holy

Your amalgam needs a name and it needs a theme song. If you step into a match without either of those then poppa's gonna have to bring out Mjolnir 🙂

I'm not going searching for songs on youtube. Most of them make my ears bleed.

uhuh

You hear that guys?

Abhi's gonna serenade us in the opening match 🙂

I can't wait to see something happen in the battle zone! When will this stuff start up so I can check in from work :3

Originally posted by curryman
You hear that guys?

Abhi's gonna serenade us in the opening match 🙂

Character name Xama ( Portuguese for shaman)

Them song
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CauqiagWyDM

Wait until the final amalgams are revealed please.

Originally posted by curryman
Wait until the final amalgams are revealed please.

It's a pretty safe bet curry that everyone knows my full amalgam. I had to defend both body and mind ( and counter pick) and only one of the characters I mentioned in thread has been picked as power😉

Originally posted by beatboks
It's a pretty safe bet curry that everyone knows my full amalgam. I had to defend both body and mind ( and counter pick) and only one of the characters I mentioned in thread has been picked as power😉

Yeah, that's true 😄

Actually, I want everybody to pm me their theme-songs, amalgams and names once the discussion is over. Then I'll present every one when I announce the matchups 🙂

Originally posted by Digi
Agreed to the above, but power doesn't hurt. 😉

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Of course not, but just the right amount of subtlety in a strategy can often do a lot more than outright power. I have taken the likes of mark Shaw Manhunter and won tourney battles against Deathstroke, Dr McNinja, and others of that level and higher.

Originally posted by Digi
Some notes from the mouth of curry:

- Writeups sent to curry before matches
- Writeups do not count towards the post limit
- He's thinking 5 posts limit
- He's also thinking 6-7 days for a match
- 3 judges initially per match and 5 in the semis/finals
- Double Elimination bracket, as suggested/linked earlier. Scroll back for details.

This is where i will need some help. As i said a few pages ago from what I've seen tourney's play very differently here.

What do you mean by "write ups". Is this a case of defining the combined character, putting a history to it, what?

I've seen in some debates on the Battles board that someone other than the combatants some times posts the debates. This is completely new to me. What I'm normally used to is the tourney creator set's the scenario. Where the battles at, any conditions, any exclusions and guidelines/rules for the coming battle. From their it's all up to the two combatants to make the thread post and counter etc. Usual form is between you you agree to who goes first etc, and also agree when debates over.

If someone can give be a grief rundown, that would be great.

darwin? as in an omega mutant? hmmm.....

Wait, the song and name are mandatory? lol.

Before we plow forward with that, isn't Darwin's potential a tad higher than high meta? There's a severe lack of limits with many elements of his adaptation. I am voicing an objection.

Originally posted by psycho gundam
Judgments should be pm'd. None of that "wait for the first one and make my opinion off of it" stuff that happened before. Isn't that right, Digi?

Not sure what you're referring to here. Judging in-thread is basically 95% of all tourneys. If you think there was judging bias, get in line. Everyone who's ever lost a match has some gripe or other.

Originally posted by psycho gundam
I finished an epic ass amalgam picture last night. Started after the drafts cause it was unknown if I'd get the characters. Saying it now: imo It's the most epic amalgam pic ever 😉

Is this hyperbole, or is it actually on par with Ambient's incredible drawn pictures of amalgams? If so, I'll be excited to see it.

Shiver Man doesn't meet the requirement for minimum appearances and as such he has been repicked.

Darwin's effectiveness in combat has been well within the limits of high meta, imo.

Edit: I see that Darwin is in low herald. I must be slipping in my old age. I will PM his pick-ee.

Originally posted by beatboks
What do you mean by "write ups". Is this a case of defining the combined character, putting a history to it, what?

I've seen in some debates on the Battles board that someone other than the combatants some times posts the debates. This is completely new to me. What I'm normally used to is the tourney creator set's the scenario. Where the battles at, any conditions, any exclusions and guidelines/rules for the coming battle. From their it's all up to the two combatants to make the thread post and counter etc. Usual form is between you you agree to who goes first etc, and also agree when debates over.

If someone can give be a grief rundown, that would be great.

A match is created either by the tournament host (curry) or one of the judges. Each match gets a location in which the battlefield will take place (ie: Inhuman base on the moon).

You will know about the location ahead of time. You write up a full post (up to 10,000 characters - your first one is free, if you go beyond that into a second post you start eating up your post limit) about how your amalgam fits together, what they do in prep (which will be located at the base of your mind character), and then your version of events in how you either defend or attack your opponent.

You can provide scans to support your version of events that are either beneficial towards your amalgam (feats, etc) or detrimental to your opponent (ie: "this has already happened to Captain Britain and he wasn't able to defend against something like this - and none of his other two characters can do anything against it either."😉. Send that in to the person opening up the match and they will post it for you.

An example of this format can be found here in a match between Smurph (who isn't usually so lazy with his opening posts) and I:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f105/t544014.html

I tend to like to organize everything as much as I can, but it doesn't have to be like that. For an example of someone else's work here is Id vs Smurph/Jake:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f105/t552793.html

Once the write ups are in, you then use your posts to solidify why your version of events is more likely to take place and try to shred their version to pieces by discrediting their theories. Keep it (mostly) clean, and have fun.

^ What Blair said.

Glad we're scrutinizing Darwin. I had forgotten he was listed as low herald, but it makes sense imo.

No issue with the Shiver Man switch. Sounds like he/she just swapped out one phaser for another.

Guy's since I'm somewhat the "unknown quantity" to most of you and I like to be up front. here are a few links to some of my past tourney's so that if anyone wants they can get an idea of how I play/debate.

http://thecomicsledger.*********.com/index.cgi?board=battles&action=display&thread=4806

http://thecomicsledger.*********.com/index.cgi?board=battles&action=display&thread=999

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/tgw-tourney-rnd2-beatboks1-vs-calebhara-1457538/

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/tournament-bounty-hunter-wars-fetts-vs-beatboks1-677946/

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/planetary-plus-beatboks1-vs-dccomicsrule2011-757055/

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/dream-tournament-rnd-1-beatboks1-v-emperorznb-647276/

FYI for those who aren't familiar with them the third last one has in it two of my drafts so you can get an idea of what they can do also.