Evangel94's 2nd Slugfest Showdown Tournament Rules & Sign-Ups Thread!

Evangel's Slugfest Showdown Tournament Information
I will be hosting the 2nd Slugfest Tournament. You must enter the tournament with a team of comic book characters. (No Anime or Manga Characters) Western Comics Only.

Team & Draft Information

Teams will consist of seven members:
1. One Herald-level member
2. Two War Machine-level members
3. Two Spider-Man level members
4. Two Captain America-level members

Every team must consist of at least one female member

Drafting will be on a "first come, first serve" basis

1. There will be four days of drafting

• Day one will be for War Machine to Herald-level characters
• Day two will be for two Spider-Man to War Machine-level characters
• Day three will be for two Captain America to Spider-Man-level characters
• Day four will be for two Aunt May to Captain America-level characters

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Rules for Characters

Certain powers are banned

1. Absorbing powers that injure the absorbed character (IE., Rogue)

2. Telepathic mind shutdowns (IE., Jean Grey causing a foe to think themsleves into death, or simply pass out)

3. Offensive organic matter manipulation (IE., Sersi turning a foe into a pig)

• Manipulating one's own organic matter to heal, or regenerate lost body parts is acceptable

4. No death touches/stares/blasts/etc (IE., Decay making a foe's body break down)

5. Reality warping (IE., Franklin Richards bending the time-space continuum to suit his will)

6. Character retrieval (IE., Rick Jones using the Destiny Force)

7. Multiplying (IE., the Multiple Man)

8. Time warping (IE., Hourman)

9. On-the-fly adaptation (IE., Doomsday's ability to come back from the dead immune to whatever killed him)

10. Mind/body swapping (IE., Doctor Doom's mind transfer)

11. Mind control (IE., Emma Frost taking over a foe's mind and using him to fight his own team, kill himself, etc.)

• A mental attack on an opponent is allowed though.

12. Power negation/boosting (IE., Fabian Cortez enhancing a mutant)

• This rule extends to anyone who can enhance a character's pre-existing powers or give them new powers entirely

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Battle Information

Normaly, there will be a 24 hour time period for battles. A new thread will be created for each round of the tournament. A poll will be created, and after the 24 hour time period is over, then whoever has the most votes on the poll wins.

Votes must come from board regulars and tournament participants. Also, If I suspect any cheaters who are using their second forum account that was registered a while ago, you will be banned.

NEW OPTION!
• You can replace the Herald level pick with another Enhanced meta level character in exchange for 36 hours prep in a Doom/Richards type lab or a SHIELD weapon armory. You will still have a seven-man team but without any Surfer/Superman level characters.

. Battlefield removals are non-existant

Prep-time will consist of two hours on the battlefield and with teammates

Teams begin their prep at opposite ends of the battlefield.

1. To prevent premature fighting, the battlefield is split in two, right down the middle

• The battlefield split makes it impossible for teams to spy on one another via any means

G. The battlefield changes climate/location for every battle, but remains a constant 10 square miles

1. Battlefields are devoid of humans, but retain a natural abundance of common materials and animals

Examples of areas of battle:

• arctic ice field
• barren desert
• deciduous forest
• tropic jungle
• empty cavern
• metropolitan city
• The Moon
• Himalayan mountain range
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Additional Information

The tournament host, me, has the right to overturn any character selections

Links about the character chosen must be provided for all characters upon drafting

Certain characters are banned:

1. Hourman
2. Rogue
3. Decay
4. Multiple Man
5. Lord Tantalus
6. Zoom II
7. Amalgams
8. Amazo
9. Super-Adaptoid
10. Stonecutter
11. the Engineer
12. the Doctor
13. Zatanna

• All characters are fighting to save the one thing they hold dear, that is their justification for fighting.

• Although they are fighting for what they hold dear, they would not do anything they wouldn’t do out of character. For example, At the start of the match, Superman wouldn’t speedblitz and rip every opposing team member’s head off.

NEW RULE!
• “Team Friction”: Magneto and Wolverine & the X-Men will not happily work side by side here. Batman and the Joker would never ever work together. If two people on your team have a grudge/history of fighting, they will automatically start to fight each other on the battlefield. You can have good and evil on the same team but you will need a reason why they should work together, if the reason is good enough there will be no team friction. Team friction will reduce how effectively you can fight your opponent. Your team members will be busy fighting, arguing, and getting in eachothers way instead of fighting your opponent.

• Teams will receive the opposing team's roster, but no more.

Characters who have had canon meetings will remember facts on one another and can share this information with their teammates

This is a 16 man tournament. Depending on how many people sign-up it may be reduced or expanded as I see fit. The first 16 to sign-up will have their spot guaranteed.

If I am unable to close or open a tournament thread, I will name a back-up tournament host ahead of time.

In order to participate, you agree to everything listed above.

There are to many banned powers... It really limits your choices.

Originally posted by King Kandy
There are to many banned powers... It really limits your choices.

There are tons of comicbook characters you can choose from that aren't even affected by these rules. You just gotta look. I'm trying to make an even playing field. The powers I banned can abused in a tournament like this. These rules worked really well in the first tournament and made for really interesting battles and strategies.

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two tourneys at the same time??

I think Ill stick with Batdudes 😬

Originally posted by Blair Wind
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two tourneys at the same time??

I think Ill stick with Batdudes 😬

Well, that's completely up to you. My tournament is ready now and can start anytime there is enough people. I also made sure it was ok with the moderators, and they didn't seem mention anything about two competing tournaments interfering with one another. I have their stamp of approval.

Sounds badass, sign me up.

Hey, I just have a quick question: (other than war machine) what are some examples of the second tier of heros?

I'm a bit confused....why do ANY of the combatants even matter?

For example, say that Team 1's Silver Surfer beats Team 2's 'herald leveller,' wouldn't he then be able to MASSACRE War Machine, Spiderman and Captain America with little to no effort? 😬.

Dude, where the **** have you been?

Originally posted by Typhus
Hey, I just have a quick question: (other than war machine) what are some examples of the second tier of heros?

Enhanced Meta Examples would be:
Thing
Colossus
Pre-Extremis Iron Man
The Human Torch (without going nova)
Tempest
Carnivore
Conquest
She-Hulk
etc

For brawlers its like thing and colosus, their strength level would have to be 75 tons or less.

Street Level: No powers at all ala Captain America
Meta: Lower level mutants, Spiderman, Wolverine, Cyclops, Dr. Ocotopus
Enhanced Meta: War Machine, Thing, She-Hulk
Herald Level: Almost any herald of galactus, Superman, Hulk, Thor etc

Originally posted by Evangel94
Enhanced Meta Examples would be:
Thing
Colossus
Pre-Extremis Iron Man
The Human Torch (without going nova)
Tempest
Carnivore
Conquest
She-Hulk
etc

For brawlers its like thing and colosus, their strength level would have to be 75 tons or less.

Street Level: No powers at all ala Captain America
Meta: Lower level mutants, Spiderman, Wolverine, Cyclops, Dr. Ocotopus
Enhanced Meta: War Machine, Thing, She-Hulk
Herald Level: Almost any herald of galactus, Superman, Hulk, Thor etc

But Colossus is class 100, so I'm assuming he would be unusable in that category, even though you used him as an example?

Same with She-Hulk, for that matter.

Originally posted by Soljer
I'm a bit confused....why do ANY of the combatants even matter?

For example, say that Team 1's Silver Surfer beats Team 2's 'herald leveller,' wouldn't he then be able to MASSACRE War Machine, Spiderman and Captain America with little to no effort? 😬.

If Silver Surfer does manage beat the other team's herald level, he would most likely have sustained injuries, be somewhat tired, drained, and not be at 100%. He could help his other teammates, but not without further getting himself injured or even knocked out.

Then there's situations where Surfer may too busy fighting the other herald level character to help his teammates.

Plus its also a matter of team strategy, the kind of terrain they are fighting in, and prep-time.

Originally posted by Evangel94
If Silver Surfer does manage beat the other team's herald level, he would most likely have sustained injuries, be somewhat tired, drained, and not be at 100%. He could help his other teammates, but not without further getting himself injured or even knocked out.

Then there's situations where Surfer may too busy fighting the other herald level character to help his teammates.

Plus its also a matter of team strategy, the kind of terrain they are fighting in, and prep-time.

But the thing is, if the Surfer could buy himself just a FEW nano seconds, he could literally one shot the three other combatants.

Even a hurt, injured, beaten, bruised, bloodied Surfer is not going to have ANY trouble with War Machine, Spiderman, and Captain America....

Originally posted by Soljer
But Colossus is class 100, so I'm assuming he would be unusable in that category, even though you used him as an example?

Same with She-Hulk, for that matter.

Although Colossus has raw strength, he could not beat Silver Surfer under normal circumstances. Same goes for She-Hulk.

E-Meta is a category for comic characters who may be powerful, but can't compete on a cosmic level against any of the heralds of galactus or the likes of Superman, Thor, Gladiator, etc.

But the thing is, if the Surfer could buy himself just a FEW nano seconds, he could literally one shot the three other combatants.

Even a hurt, injured, beaten, bruised, bloodied Surfer is not going to have ANY trouble with War Machine, Spiderman, and Captain America....

Perhaps, but you would have to prove it and That's what this tournament is all about. If you need to know how this tournament goes, just search "slugfest showdown" and look at the previous battles.

Anyway I would appreciate If you would let me know if you plan on signing up. This thread isn't for debates. It's about signing up if you interested in the tournament.

Originally posted by Evangel94
Although Colossus has raw strength, he could not beat Silver Surfer under normal circumstances. Same goes for She-Hulk.

E-Meta is a category for comic characters who may be powerful, but can't compete on a cosmic level against any of the heralds of galactus or the likes of Superman, Thor, Gladiator, etc.

Perhaps, but you would have to prove it and That's what this tournament is all about.

Anyway I would appreciate If you would let me know if you plan on signing up. This thread isn't for debates. It's about signing up if you interested in the tournament.

Agreed, but you said:

"For brawlers its like thing and colosus, their strength level would have to be 75 tons or less. "

Colossus' strength ISN'T seventy five tons or less. Neither is She-hulks.

Did you misspeak, or am I just confused?

Originally posted by Soljer
Agreed, but you said:

"For brawlers its like thing and colosus, their strength level would have to be 75 tons or less. "

Colossus' strength ISN'T seventy five tons or less. Neither is She-hulks.

Did you misspeak, or am I just confused?

I was giving him a general area for where most Enhanced-Metas are strength wise. Around the "75 ton area". I realize Colossus and She-Hulk may actually be stronger than this.

But Right now isn't time for this. This is a sign up thread and I don't want to turn this into any sort of debate.

Do you plan on participating and signing up?

Originally posted by Evangel94
I was giving him a general area for where most Enhanced-Metas are strength wise. Around the "75 ton area". I realize Colossus and She-Hulk may actually be stronger than this.

But Right now isn't time for this. This is a sign up thread and I don't want to turn this into any sort of debate.

Do you plan on participating and signing up?

Sorry for hijacking/spamming your thread.

Unfortunately, I won't be signing up for your debate; I'm currently occupied with Judging batdude's tourney.

Originally posted by Soljer
I'm a bit confused....why do ANY of the combatants even matter?

For example, say that Team 1's Silver Surfer beats Team 2's 'herald leveller,' wouldn't he then be able to MASSACRE War Machine, Spiderman and Captain America with little to no effort? 😬.

For the same reason that the Avengers has guys like Captain America even though it has Thor, who could singehandedly defeat most of their foes. Another example is batman on Justice League.

I might have to reduce the amount of slots if not that many people are interested.

sign me up