for what it's worth, i'll take over as the host since i wasn't a participant, that way i get out of voting on that difficult match lol. read it 5 times and still don't know the winner.....
It would be tough to completely revive the tournament. I'd love for this match to be voted on though.
It really comes down to if you believe that a super massive black hole (I used the entire damn red matter, not just a drop - which has taken down suns and planets) would effectively defeat his team and his sun or if his sun would defeat my black hole.
Those are the two most important factors since they happen at the start of the match. After that it's debating Magneto vs Narada + Persuader. That's a lot more subjective, I think, but unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
I was but kandy kinda disappeared before that and then publically quit the forum. Delph pm'd me saying he would judge it allowing me to take kandy's place, but I guess he was stumped also lol.
It would probably be really difficult... I think myself and Blair are the only contestants who post regularly any more, though smurph does show up from time to time.
If they want, I could do a judgement of this match?
Ok. after reading this match back a couple times in the last half hour (thought it would be a quicker decision), I actually have to give the win, grudgingly, and with a caveat, to B-Dub.
Smurph made some good points and tried to re-direct focus on some elements of B-Dub's plans feasibility to good effect, but I don't believe he has the resources at hand to cope with the singularity of the magnitude destroying all of the Red Matter would create, and that issue was never really addressed. Smurph made a statement that Kandy had already ruled that B-Dub couldn't draft Nero with the Narada and B-Dub, as usual, found a way to tap dance around a rule without completely crossing the line. Kandy posted in the thread and didn't rebuff B-Dub and Psycho Gundam took over coordinator duties, so assuming Kandy and Gundam approved the legality of that tactic, B-Dub is the winner. If not Smurph would be the winner by default, so this vote hinges on whether Kandy or Gundam clarify the legality of merging with the prep area.
Just to note, I did run that strategy by Kandy pre-draft stage and he approved the tactic of merging with the Narada when I presented it to him. I wouldn't have drafted Nero otherwise.