The N64 'Back to Basics' Tournament.

Galvasean

The Dark Gods are not pleased. They require a new champion to impose their will. Reality has been twisted, contrived and manipulated to bring potential champions together so that they may unknowingly fight for supremacy
For one, victory will ensure immortality. For all others, death.


Tournament rules:
1. 24 hours for each bout (give or take, some will take longer depending on how busy the judge [me] is).
2. Give a reason, any reason for your selection's victory in the bout.
3. No deus ex machina will be allowed (unless it can be justified based on location and/or scenario)
4. Six votes for victory. Should time expire before a combatant reaches six votes the team ahead wins. Ties will be decided by random draw from among those participants who have voted on the bout. Should they not respond in due time, another voter will take their place.
5. There is a 'home' and an 'away' combatant in each fight. The fight takes place in a location that the 'home' combtant is familiar with. However, the 'away' combatant is considered the aggresor and therefore has had time to plan their assault. The 'home' combatant is being taken by (relative) surprise.
For example:
If Batman were facing Scorpion the location would be the Batcave. In this incident Scorpion is considered to be attacking Batman so Batman might not have all of his gadgets immediately available to him.
If Scorpion were facing Batman the location would be Scorpion's Lair and Batman would have time to prepare the necessary gadgets / strategy etc .
6. All fights take place at night.
7. All discussion, banter, rule clarification, inquiries, allegations of match fixing etc. go here

The first fight will be posted shortly...

Let the galaxy burn!!

Galvasean

Smoke


Versus

Man-Bat


@The Living Forest


"Man-bat has been tipped off to a strange land where he is told a mysterious gray clad ninja holds a vital clue to reversing the effects of his hideous mutations. Using his eco-location to guide him, he closes in on the unsuspecting Smoke..."

Handsome Bob

Man Bat rips this lowly cyborg to pieces. All hail Man Bat!

Galvasean

The first blow is struck.

Man-Bat takes a 1-0 lead

Orim

Smokes ability to teleport gives him an edge that cannot be overlooked in this fight. Beyond this his fighting ability would far surpass Man-Bat and he's used to fighting monsters such as Goro.

The bat goes down hard.

Galvasean

Smoke retaliates

One each

Delirium

Smoke is more than quick enough to evade Man-Bat. he also can dissolve into smoke should Man-Bat get too close.

Smoke to use evade and sneak attacks to defeat Man-Bat.

and to illustrate my point.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGApN7cTOA

Galvasean

Smoke appears to have gained the upper hand

2-1

Solitaire

IF Smoke is still a cyborg (in which form he's pretty much an honorary super rather than a realtype)...

Although virtually invisible to the naked eye, Smoke, unaware that he is being pursued, remains in his solid form. Man-Bat, easily finding the cyborg via echolocation, flanks and ambushes the stealthy cyborg. Allowing himself to lose control to his animal fury for a few short seconds he cannons into the human shape, using his claws and boosted strength and speed, tearing and smashing it in a frenzy designed to cripple or at least gravely weaken his shadowy target. But he soon begins to realise his mistake when even his most telling blows are deflected by what appears to be a reinforced skeleton and internal armor within his victim. The ninja recovers and counterattacks, then with the Bat momentarily off-balance he makes his escape.

Doggedly, Batters continues to hunt his prey, but his first attack was his last. Realising the batlike features of his assailant, Smoke decides to go on the defensive for a while, using his nanites to subtly change his form to meld in with the trees and other solid shapes, blocking the Bat's sonar. Within a few minutes his released nanomachines have harvested enough materials to perform emergency field repairs.

Deciding to end it with a single blow, Smoke takes advantage of the thick, humid air and waits until Batters is standing almost next to him before using his own nanites to temporarily liquidize himself. Now little more than a floating, sentient soup of nanites, Smoke's... smoke ...is inhaled by the hapless Man-Bat. Batters barely has time to realise something is wrong before Smoke, having had enough of himself inhaled, switches back to his solid form, spraying a deluge of pulverized Batters all over the place. His nanites cleaning him of any remaining giblets, Smoke vanishes back into the murk.

Smoke ftw.

I promise not to pull that trick again, just had to do it once

Galvasean

3-1 to Smoke

Kess73

Man-Bat goes down fast and painfully.

If Batman can take Man-Bat in a fight, then a ninja cyborg who can teleport and turn to smoke ( still not as awesome as Sub-Zero though :P) can beat him.


Stinky Smoke for the win.

Galvasean

4-1

Smoke can see victory within his grasp...

cyberwolf77

While Man-bat is a formidable opponent he is truly facing an uphill battle here. His opponent is better trained and equipped to deal with him. Smoke will finish him.

Galvasean

5-1 to Smoke

he need'th but one more blow to finish him

Galvasean

Man-Bat lines up his target and divebombs Smoke from behind, kocking him off his feet. The hideous creature pounces for a follow up, only to land in a puff of smoke. Before he knows what has just happened, he is hit in the back with a small explosive projectile. Smoke rushes forward from the shadows, delivering a brutal kombo of ninjitsu moves to the stunned monster. Man-Bat staggers to his feet, battered and bruised. Smoke finishes him by somehow turning into a hedgehog / porcupine hybrid and firing spikes at him until he explodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXaY81-zYDU

Galvasean

6-1



The next battle will be posted shortly....

Galvasean

Catman


Versus

Spike


@ The Serengeti Plains (night)


"Catman has been making a reasonable living for himself on the plains of the Serengeti, returning to his roots as a world class animal tracker. However, one night it would appear that it is Catman himself who needs to watch his own tacks!"

Solitaire

I'll assume that Rasputin still lingers in quasi-retcon limbo, and that Spike is not implanted with any psychological or physical control mechanism preventing him from giving Catman a shoe-ing. Oh, and that he's actually corporeal today :P

And did I just hear boomy swoon? :P I think we all know who she'd vote for!

Catman is in many ways almost comparable to Spike. Almost. He's incredibly fast and strong for a human, a consummate martial artist, with incredible senses and a powerful if mercurial health regen (his cape).

Spike is also fast and strong, but inhumanly so. He has centuries of armed and unarmed combat experience, and is a practitioner of multiple martial arts with a tendency to throw them all together to create a powerful and versatile freestyle technique that can catch out other fighters with its rapid tactical shifts not to mention punch people clean through walls. At close range his breadth of experience combined with his analytical skills makes him a stronger, slightly less refined version of Taskmaster. And he is also blessed with regenerative capabilities like most elder vampires.

I can see Catman hearing his own ambusher coming and quickly trying to end things with a well-aimed BCatarang to the spinal column. Alas, Spike also had boosted senses and also knows that, universally, Fast-Approaching Whistling Noise = BAD. He hits the dirt and promptly counters the Catarang flying overhead with some well-aimed sarcastic one-liners, although not knowing Catman his usual psychological attacks are eerily absent. Smelling the blood in Catman's veins makes evasion useless - Catman can't hide, let alone outrun Spike. After that its a predictably sorry tale of a talented real-type trying to go up against a boosted Taskmaster-alike, one that mitigates any relative reduction in Taskie-ness with superhuman speed and strength.

Spike FTW.

Handsome Bob

Spike has been told that Catman has been riding Buffy, thus his pursuit of Catman. The revelation causes Spike to go into rage mode and he goes on to destroy Catman. Spike FTW.

:pac:

Orim

Spike is on another power level compared to Catman. He'll drive his fist clean through Catmans chest or some other such gruesome finish.

cyberwolf77

I going to buck the trend here and throw my vote to the cat. He is in element on the Serengeti, while Spike is more of a city boy. Also given Blake's close affinity to the big cats in the area he is going to notice their unease when some dead thing starts stalking through their turf. This gives him time to prepare and show Spike why the dead should stay buried in the past.
Catman to win and feed the corpse to the hyenas.

Galvasean

3-1 to Spike

FewFew

Catman is well aware of Spike approaching, he does have the home field advantage afterall, and it's a home field his tracking skills are atuned to. Spike also knows exactly where Catman is, the heightened senses being put to good use.

It doesn't matter if Catman knows he's coming, Spike is careful enough to avoid any life threathening traps and Catman abushing him gets the two close and personal, just like Spike likes it.

In close combat Spike has him owned. Spike has him for speed, strength and experience. Plus Spike is well used to going toe-to-toe and taking hits from far stronger opponents. Catman is just an above average human. Spike will be drinking on his blood in no time and not even 9 lives would be enough for Catman to win, after all how many lives has Spike already lived through and gained experience from?

Also - Spike is hawt while Catman looks the weiner.

Galvasean

4-1

Catman is on the ropes...

Kess73

I hate Spike.

Spike is stronger than Catman, but I don't see Spike's knowledge of martial arts etc as a problem for Catman as he was able to go toe to toe with Bronze Tiger, and BT is a high end martial artist.

I also hate Catman.

Also Catman has gone one on one with a number of wild animals and did so without firearms or swords. He has fought and bested fully grown lions and bears.

Plus he has that stupid cape/cloak that can heal wounds that would normally kill a man.


I hate Spike


Spike whilst fast strong and highly skilled has been stalemated by humans in the past in one on one bouts.

I think that no matter how stealthy Spike is in his approach, a dead thing moving around in a place free of artifical scents to distract will stand out, and even if he is careful enough to stay upwind of Catman's Wolverine like sense of smell, then the local wildlife will react to the smell of dead thing. Spike may even attract in hyena and lion looking to find the meal they smell.


I think the cape/cloak is what is going to tip it for me, as Catman has a way to survive a normally killing blow with it on, and by the time Spike realises that the cloak has to go, Catman has rammed his Wolverine rip off claws right into Spike's heart.


Crappy Catman for the win.

Delirium

Catman isn't likely to be caught unawares by Spike. He'll use the envirnoment and the big cats to his advantage to take down Billy Idol v2.0 :P

Catman wins

Galvasean

4-3

Who let the cat out of the bag?

Galvasean

Catman's souped up senses catch Spike coming from a mile off, not that Spike cares. he knew well surprise wouldn't be an advantage he could use in this one. This fight will be settled mono-a-mono.
It's a gruelling slugfest between two highly competetive athletes. One small mistake could spell doom for either. As the battle rages on Spike becomes increasingly frustrated, not at all helped by Catman's increasingly boorish taunts. Time to finish this!
Spike rushes Catman in an attempt to overcome him with sheer brute force - just as Catman wanted. Super quick, Catman snaps a big pointy branch from a drying tree and lets Spike's own momentum impale him through the heart, leaving only dust.
A drop in the ocean on the Serengeti plains.

Galvasean

Match ends a 4-4 draw. A randomly selected participant will now cast the deciding vote.

update: the deciding vote has been cast and the winner is....


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Spike!

The next battle will be posted shortly...

Galvasean

The Witch King of Angmar


Versus

Jason Voorhees


@Minas Morgul


"Years of wandering the lands and slaying unworthy opponents, Jason Voorhees has been tasked by unknown forces to kill that which says it cannot be killed, the Witch King of Agmar!
Should Jason succeed, he has been promised a brief moment alone with his own mother. Just how much will be spared should that occur? Only Jason himself knows..."

FewFew

Witch King has this in the bag. Vorhees just doesn't have the weapons or know-how to hurt the Witch King. Witch King gets the easy kill and has the power to reeeeeally kill Vorhees, suck his soul to hell or whatever one needs, I'm sure the Witch King has plenty of tricks up his sleeves.

cyberwolf77

Jason is bad-ass but he be seriously outclassed here. Gotta give it to the Witch-King who isn't a camp counselor running for his life.

Galvasean

2-0 to that which claims it can be killed by no man

Solitaire

The Witch King realises something is wrong... something that smells dead, yet not dead... It abruptly leans back in its saddle to see a machete descend through the space its head formerly occupied, tearing through the spine of its fellbeast. Rolling clear of the howling creature's death-throes it contemptuously brushes aside another blow with its mace.

The thing that stands before it seems alive, yet undead. Its slowly regenerating flesh writhes at the edge of its death-mask. The Witch-King would be amused by its new plaything if not for the fact that the stupid creature had killed a valuable fellbeast. Toying with it, the Witch-King unsheathes its beloved Terror Blade, the dark sigils inlaid in the black Mordor damascus flaring to life, creating a wave of burning plasma that sucks the very air away with its hunger. The vacuum shockwave strikes the almost ragdoll-like figure, twisting it terribly, but the Witch-King is displeased to see that it seems to register no pain and does not howl or flail.

The little not-zombie hurls itself at the Witch-King with amazing speed and ferocity, but it is not enough to outpace the vile lich. It swings its blood-stained blade down at the King only to have its thrust blocked by the Terror Blade, its necrotizing energy rusting clean through the machete and snapping it like an aged twig. The mace descends, its stopping power not hampered in the slightest by its mundane nature, hurling the ragged figure to the ground and crushing its torso. Incredibly, it tries to stand once more. Irritated by this persistent insect, the lich steps forward and, wasting no grace or subtlety upon its foe brings its other hand down in a massive overhead slice, bisecting its target from head to crotch. The necrotizing plasma burns clean through to ensure its opponent never rises again.

Witch-King FTW.

Galvasean

3-0

Delirium

Jason hacks away at the witch king and the wounds turn out to be fatal due to the blade being coated in the blood of dead women.

Jason wins :P

Handsome Bob

If I remember correctly, all it took was a stab in the face to put down the Witch King. Vorhees also has that awful knack for not staying dead, so I'm willing to give him a vote of confidence her.

Jason FTW :pac:

Kess73

Seeing as the Witch King can only be killed by a weapon used by a woman, Jason cannot win.


Jason can hack and slash all he wants, the Witch King simply cannot die at the hands of a man, living or dead.


Witch King FTW.

Orim

Ignoring the fact that Jason doesn't have a weapon that can cause the Witch-King to materialise, I actually thing he is in with something of a shout. He is damn near impossible to kill and he wouldn't feel the terror and fear that is one of the Nazguls primary weapons.

However this a creature that was near Gandalf in terms of magical ability. I can't see him being overly threatened by the slow, shambling Jason. A sweep to the legs with his mace and then a quick stab to the heart with the Morgul knife. Fly away and wait for the new and improved wraith Jason to join him.

Witch King FTW

Galvasean

5 - 2

Despite a valiant effort, Jason looks to be in serious trouble

Galvasean

The Witch King finds himself utterly surprised at Jason's seemingly unstoppable attitude and resistance to attacks that would fell even the most powerful of men or elf. However, Jason is finding himself woefully outclassed and in the rare moments when his strikes do land home, they do not register any effect on the Witch King who is now effectively toying with him.
Not quite sure how best to dispatch of Jason, the Witch King disarms him and has his loyal fell beast frop him in a deep pituntil he can decide what to do with this curious character. He may come in handy in the future.

the Witch King of Angmar wins 6-2.

The next battle will be posted shortly...

Galvasean

'Anytime' The Jungle Hunter Predator


Versus

Daredevil


@ Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan


"A powerful Predator champion has been dispatched in search of a unusual prey item - A human of uncharacteristic strength and agility whose seemingly natural extra sensory abilities rival those of the various technologies currently employed by the Predator race.
'A curious individual no doubt... bring me his skull!!' "

cyberwolf77

I gotta go with Daredevil in this one. His heightened senses allow him to negate the Predator's greatest advantage(invisibility). By the time he realizes this DD has already strung him up from a light post.

Kess73

Yep had to be DD. The predator's trick of bending light to become invisible is worthless against DD, and the fact that DD does not carry a firearm may confuse the Predator into thinking he is not a threat, given that the Predator generally does not attack unarmed foes.


DD has gone toe to toe with the likes of Wolverine and Sabretooth in the past and has beaten both in fights, so I think he would find a way to beat a Predator.


Matt Murdock for the win.

Galvasean

0-2

Daredevil takes up the initiative against hisheavily armed foe

FewFew

At the start I was 100% going to give it to Predator, but... with some thought...

If Dare Devil is the Predator's main target, he's going to want to take him down in a macho man on man kinda way. His light bending will come to nada against Dare Devil, plus Predator doesn't really have that good close combat skills, I mean yes, he's good at killing, but... he's not very agile and Dare Devil is used to dealing with stronger foes. Also, most of Predators weapons are quite noisy, blades etc will signal themselves coming a mile off.

If Predator just wanted to kill him then maybe DD would be in trouble, but if DD is the skull he's after then I think DD in his own territory will take Predator down nicely.

Solitaire

Same here. I don't see Pred standing on a distant rooftop taking DD's head clean off with a sniper pulse, and after that he's screwed. DD has survived Bullseye/Hawkeye many times and his magnetovisual sense makes shadowlurking and even active stealth camouflage irrelevant. After that its a fistfight punctuated with the odd plasma blast whizzing by, and DD's been through that plenty before and come out on top.

Daredevil FTW.

Galvasean

4-0 to DD,

The Predator is not acustomed to being on the recieving end of such a battering!

Orim

It may be too late for Predator but I'm going to have to give it to him. Yes DD will be able to nullify his camouflage but a predator is more then capable of adjusting to a new tactical situation.

Predator might not have DDs agility but he's no slouch. He's can move when he needs to. He proved this when he avoided the massive fire-storm that ripped apart a fairly large section of jungle with only a minor scratch.

I also think that the home/away rule will really make a difference here. DD isn't going to be prepared for a fight on this scale. He won't be defenceless but it's unlikely that he will have the weaponry to put predator down for good. The longer the fight goes the more worn down DD will get and eventually those wrist blades will gut him like a fish. Either that or DD will try to break away and get a plasma bolt right in the back of the head.

Final argument, Predator has dredz. How can you not go for that?

Revolution9

Predator knows he is being bested by DareDevil so decides to activate his self destruct device, killing them both.

Delirium

Predator blasts any ledge/wall as DD is ducking and diving, thus reducing the effectiveness of DDs agility.

Predator uses his shoulder cannon to keep DD at a distance and eventually defeat him.

Predator wins.