Team Heat (Heat, Alicia, Eileen, Oulan) vs. Team Sephiroth (Sephiroth, Claude, Lin, Titania):
Eileen needs to Copper Flesh Heat turn 1. Seph probably smacks Heat around, Eileen has to do that or Claude/Titania kill Heat. Claude/Titania instead kill Alicia. Heat gets a turn, does whatever, Lin survives, IDs Eileen. Seph at this point has extra turns, DeSpell, Wall, and so on. It turns into Heat/Seph 2, only this time, it's way easier to break through Heat's barriers as Seph has some friends, even if they've been damaged some by Heat.
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H/G: Riou, Freya (VP), Rosa, Leopold, Claude, Alicia
Claude loses to Leopold. Crit lets him one-round except maaaybe if Claude is at full HP, but Claude can't fight that defensively so he won't be. Beats everyone else. 4-1.
Leo has some issues with Riou. I dunno. Kneejerk is he may just sneak by, but it's... really close, a little less durability respect is all it'd take (FS + physical is scary). Still, kills in two rounds as usual, I -think-. Hm... actually, Riou can probably survive a crit turn, he had good HP, and he can fullheal repeatedly until he gets Berserk, so it's FS + berserked physical which... better chance of working. Otherwise he beats the rest. Probably 4-1.
Riou is spoiled by Claude but beats up everyone else well enough. 4-1.
Rosa > Alicia > Freya for the uh-less-good people.
M/H: Lavitz, Moltres, Ashley, Seed, Lin, Eileen
Eileen OHKOs two people in the field (Rock damage against Moltres, Earth against Lavitz). I feel she should have beaten Lin but whatever. Copper Flesh owns Seed, I -think- she outslugs Ashley. 4-1.
Seed spoils Moltres, one-rounds Lin, magic beats Lavitz well enough I'd think. Loses to Eileen, and I think I may buy Dhyer's hype of Ashley over him, weirdly. He does get two turns, which is usually good enough. 3-2.
Moltres loses to Eileen and Seed, but spamlocks Ashley and Lavitz to death easily. Lin had fire res? Don't remember that. If she does, she probably wins. If not, fries. 2-2 for now.
Lin already beat Eileen, also beats Ashley and Lavitz. 3-1.
Ashley beats Lavitz. 2-3, 0-5.
L/M: Zynk (SF 2), Viki, Elena, Darksol (SF 1), Titania, Oulan
Titania arguably robbed her way to a championship, but hey, it works. Doesn't work against Elena, granted. Confuse-locks are fun. 4-1.
Elena beats PCs but loses to DARKSOL. 4-1.
Zynk I think can outslug Oulan, beats Viki, beats Darksol. 3-2.
Darklol beats Elena and Viki which is impressive enough. 2-3.
Oulan beats Darksol and Viki. 2-3.
Viki is Viki. 0-5.