Sorry for the delay. During the whole process of getting my comp upgraded and then afterwards, Pool G wiped itself out three times. Including one where I had over half the stuff done. So, you guys got the quick and dirty. I'll post results for Pool F at the start of Pool H so that this thing can get started again.
Pool G
Match 49
Breakfast, held by many to be the most important meal of the day, edging out even supper in terms of importance. It involves the breaking of each night's fast, and gives one the energy they'll need in order to face the coming day. Of course, this brings us to the two ways in which breakfast can be considered a competition. Namely, the making of it, and the enjoying of it.
First up from the town of Sunnyvale, comes Buffy the Vampire Hunter. She may not be a master chef, but her Keeper Giles certainly knows the importance of a balanced breakfast. Especially when you need to keep up at a long day at school before spending the night busting vamps. Really, with a schedule like that, enjoying a good breakfast is the only kind of relaxation you can get.
But against her from the Six Dutchies is the royal stablemaster, Burrich. Through his career he's had to watch over men at arms and animals, children and royalty, and he's had to make them all breakfast. And since he's as common a man as you're like to find, he also enjoys a good breakfast himself.
Match 50
Spelling Bees are the time honoured tradition of having to know how to spell really wierd Greek and Latin words that you'll never hear in real life, let alone use. And having to do it in front of a crowd composed entirely of friends, family, bored journalists with no career prospects, and scrabble geeks.
Our first contestant is an expert in all things, from astrophysics to computer hacking. And undoubtedly, somewhere in that vast memory also lies a dictionary. Of course, this competitor has one major flaw. He can't speak. Yes, the astromech droid R2-D2 takes to the stage, in one of the few competitions where his protocol buddy C-3P0 would be better suited, but don't count this resourceful droid out for the count just yet.
After all, just because his name really is just a letter, and he is fully capable of speaking doesn't mean that Lord Zedd is in any way competant. A card-carrying villain of the most prosaic sort, he is undoubtedly also his own worst enemy. Heck, even if he somehow does find himself winning, he's practically guaranteed to do something to make the word he's spelling grow to giant size, ensuring his own defeat, somehow.
Match 51
This match is the Decathalon, that standard challenge of ten events. Our first contestant, Hong Meiling will come into this with a pretty good lock on the technical skills, but she'll still have to find a way to overcome her foe, the classic Chocobo, in the events chocobos are best at, the four separate foot races, and other things involving speed and jumping.
Match 52
There are some matches where, despite having two competitors who are well suited for facing each other, and competant within their own fields, just get a match where they both are utterly useless. This time, on the challenge of getting rich quick, we find ourselves in just that situation as an ex-slave and a military man duke it out to become the next rich uncle moneybags.
Belcoot at least once had the excuse of needing a ton of cash to try and free all the slaves in Falena. But since his buddy the prince has used more legislative measures to reach that same goal, he's gone from being a kick-ass freedom fighter, to being the husband of an innkeeper. Not exactly the most prosperous of moves. Of course, his opponent is Ryusei Date, who, despite being the head pilot of the biggest and best mech the Earth Federation has, still isn't considered to be officer material. And this is before you consider how much of his paycheque must go to feeding his obsession with giant robots, which is still exceptionally healthy in spite of his working with them every day. Somehow, one of these two has to figure out how to make a quick buck.
Match 53
What is Mantracking? Simple, you and a buddy are dropped off in the wilderness with supplies, a compass, a map, and a finish point 40km away that you need to reach within 36 hours without getting caught. And on your tail? An expert in tracking people. And while he doesn't have a map, he does have a guide who's an expert in the area, and he has horses while you're on foot and lugging all your stuff. You can't do anything to him, or you lose (trying to trick or fool him doesn't count, that's part of the challenge. Interacting directly or trapping is a no-no)
So, first up is Jack Frost, whose big thing is that he has a lot of options. Being the mascot of his series, he can get his hands on anyone from the Aleph to the practically perfect in every way Souji Seto (on second though, probably not. One of his notable flaws is camping) However, that versatility will come in handy especially since he's also good for hauling around a ton of stuff that might make their trip easier.
His foe is blessed with nowhere near the same range of partners. In fact, Woodstock is almost certainly going to be stuck with Snoopy. He also can't really carry anything. On the other hand, he's a bird so not only is rough terrain meaningless to him, but how the heck do you track a bird? Snoopy will prove easier to track, but he's been on so many adventures he's bound to have some good tricks to use here, as well as dogs also being pretty dang hard to track.
Match 54
Plane crashing has a long and honoured tradition in RPGs, having shown up as early as FF3 and it's Mithril Beak, before being perfected in Grandia 3 with Yuki, Patron Saint of Airplane Crashes. This competition is thusly predictable, but how to win, besides surviving, I leave up to you highly creative folk.
First up, Timelord is aptly named. Sadly, all things spacial, including flight, are somewhat beyond him. In most cases involving flight, this would be a bad thing, but here it might just work to his advantage.
But he's up against Antenora, the Odessa operative who is a noted expert in trainwrecks. Can she apply that kind of knowledge to a more arial sort of disaster? Only time shall tell.
Match 55
Sometimes, you get a match where both of the contestants are super competant, and sometimes you get one where neither are competant (see match 52, above). But once in a while, you get one where if they aren't competant, they at least look the part. This time, on Fashion Makeover, we have that Gothic wonder, Alucard, taking on the King of the Goblins, David Bo... erm, Jareth!
Alucard has several incarnations, and all of them styling, and that includes the folks around him too since he's had the good sense to never co-star with Simon Belmont. Against that, there's Jareth, who has an army of sweatshop labourers, as well as a dream-o-matic envision your best dress system (warning, side effects may include trapping yourself in your own bubble world for all eternity).
Match 56
Hiding Easter Eggs is an ancient task, which inolves placing the colourful eggs such that young children will delight in finding them.
Gary Oak is a master of finding Pokemon, but can he hide eggs effectively? There's also the question of if he'll just seed his own gym, or if the kids are about to face an aftergame quest across the whole of Johto. But, better all of Johto than the whole of Asgard, which is where the Allfather, Odin, likes to toss his random shinies. And while they will be findable, what you'll need to go through to get them will be rather debatable.
Quick Vote Form
49. Buffy Summers v Burrich, Farseer Trilogy - Breakfast
50. Lord Zedd v R2-D2 - Spelling Bee
51. Chocobo v Hong Meiling - Decathalon
52. Ryusei Date v Belcoot - Getting Rich Quick
53. Jack Frost v Woodstock - Mantracking
54. TimeLord v Antenora, WA2 - Plane Crashing
55. Alucard, Castlevania v Jareth, King of the Goblins - Fashion Makeovering
56. Gary Oak v Odin - Hiding Easter Eggs
