Results
Event 29: Dog Grooming
Gai Daigouji (Martian Successor Nadesco) IIIII vs. Ruby (Lunar: Eternal Blue)
Event 30: Mecha Piloting
Big Joe (Xenogears) vs. IIIII II Samus
Event 31: Hide and Seek
Judge Doom (Who Framed Rodger Rabbit) vs. IIIII I Stocke (Radiant Historia)
Event 32: The Metal Gear Challenge
Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) I vs. III Seto Kaiba (YuGiOh: Abridged)
Airship Combat
{Zhuge Liang (Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors)/Michael Carpenter (Dresden Files)/Fox Mulder (X-Files)/Gary Oak (Pokemon)} I v. IIIII I {Morte (Planescape Torment)/He-Man (Prince Adam)/Mirror B (Pokemon)/Bacchus D-79 (Star Ocean: The Last Hope)}
Round 2-A
Event 33: Raising an Army
Depending on when and where you are, raising an army isn't always the easiest of tasks. Regardless, in this competition, both of our contestants have to raise the best, and biggest, army that they're capable of. At the end, the better army will be determined by having them fight. And since this is raising an army, and not leading an army, the contestants won't be leading, instead it'll depend on their managing to recruit suitable leadership along with the rest of the army.
The Rock comes into this with, perhaps not the best grasp of how to raise an actual army, but with loads of charisma and, as his last challenge shows, a decent chunk of cash. This means he should be able to get a fairly loyal force, with no guarantees of how good they'll be. Meanwhile his opponent, Seto Kaiba, not only seems to always be dealing with shady stuff, but he can clearly outspend The Rock since his defining trait is "I have Money". His troops may not be excessively loyal, but he does have experience hiring guards, so how hard can an army be?
Event 34: Frightening Small Children
Kids, as we all know, are supposed to be easily frightened. In fact, it is the job of monsters to scare kids silly. In this contest, we pit two of our contestants to see which of them can better scare a group of small children in the amount of time they're given.
The interesting thing this time is that both contestants are pretty close to being the same damned person this week. And neither of them are all that good at scaring children. First up, we have the leader of the Gurren Brigade, Kamina the man. Who... doesn't scare a single child he comes across. While he seems like he could try if he felt he needed to, he defaults way too easily to being heroic and inspiring and it's hard to tell if, after scaring the children, he might not just have the urge to unfrighten them. Of course, against this is Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth. Who is about as manly and heroic as Kamina. And can compare demon stories to counter Kamina's Beastmen stories. Though... they're not very scary demons...
Event 35: Conversing Only with Song/Movie Titles
This is the classic test of both cultural awareness and quick thinking. Using only the title of works of art, so songs, movies, plays, books, games, you name it, you have to try and keep up a semi-sensible conversation. This means weird tangents are fine, but complete non-sequitirs are not. Also not allowed is saying something that is not a title, or taking more than five minutes to come up with a reply.
Toph may not be an improvisational haiku battlemaster, but she's pretty good at trading quips with the guy who is. Really, she's coming into this with a pretty decent cultural knowlege and a super quick wit. Her one biggest flaw is that books are mostly going to be an unknown to her, which means a whole catagory of potential titles she'll be hard pressed to use. Against this we have Finn from Adventure Time. I'm going to admit to not knowing much about him, but being a heroic type, I'm going to assume he's also quick witted, though I don't know what his cultural knowlege and skill in wordplay will be,
Event 36: Killing Everyone
Look, the title says it all. The goal here is to kill everyone, no exceptions. Whoever can do it the fastest wins. And if neither can do it, whoever gets the higher kill count wins.
We're off to a good start with Buffy, better known as the Slayer. Sure, she mostly just goes after vampires, but the fact that she's so good at downing superhuman threats with pieces of wood means that vanilla humans shouldn't be a huge threat. Really, her biggest problem is that she might just refuse to do it, in which case, her score might be capped at those she will go after. Or just, y'know, to vamps. That said, she was going to have a hard time pulling it off anyways, since she's up against Mordin Solus, a guy who has on his resume, among other things, worked on the newest version of the genophage. For those who don't know, this is essentially a genocide plague, that can be seeded on a planet from orbit. So... yeah. That's just if he wants to be slow and sophisticated about it. Killing Everyone is easily within his grasp.
Event 37: Hotness Contest
So I hear there's some kind of tournament going on where people vote on who they think is the hottest. Welp, in honour of that thing, we're randomly replacing the traditional RandoTourney Beauty Pageant with our own Hotness Contest. Vote for whoever you think is more attractive!
And, in honour of the Nama's we've got ourselves a complete sausagefest going on here, but what a sausagefest as we've got a pair of immortals up for your viewing pleasure. First up is the eternally young Spike, who also has that vampire thing going on. Meanwhile, against him we've got Mr. Nuke 'Em Til They Glow himself, Mohandas Ghandi, fresh from his eight thousand year reign over India and it's assorted conquored territories.
Event 38: Detonating an Asteroid in Space
This just in. NASA reports that there is a bigass meteor heading towards Earth. If it lands, all life as we know it will be doomed to extinction. While we do have a cadre of trained professional astronauts, we're not going to be using them in favour of these two random guys. And, just because using untrained labour isn't crazy enough, we're gonna make them compete too. Each saviour will be loaned a spaceship if they can't get one of their own, as well as enough explosives and a rig to set them up with. Again... if they don't have their own way to deal with a giant space rock. If it matters, anyone who can cast the spell Meteor can use it, but it's pretty much the opposite of helpful in this match since it'll just make this sucker drop faster.
Our first contestant is a man without memory. Ringabel takes to the skies in order to save the Earth, but he does come complete with instinctive knowledge of how to fly. Granted, it's mostly airships, but he is well trained and he might well be able to translate it to spacecraft. After that, all he has to do is finish the job. Given how popular both heros and astronauts are with the ladies, he's sure to motivated to finish this job. His opponent is, well, actually an astronaut with a rating in space combat. Yup, Gai Daigouji has both the skills and the training to knock this one out of the park with ease... if he does it by the book. Odds are, he's not gonna want to do that, and is instead going to grab an Aesti Valis and fire up the Distortion Field in order to hit the meteor with a Gekigan Flare.
Event 39: WWF Wrestling
Everyone knows that WWF Wrestling isn't proper wrestling, it's more like a soap opera for guys. That said, in this competition, it's expected that the contestants will follow everything but the script. Which means that folding chairs are godly weapons, and egging on the crowd and getting them to cheer for you actually does make you stronger until you finally pin down your opponent. Or, they manage to run away from you and stay outside the ring long enough for the ref to officially declare them a wuss and a loser. Either or.
First up is someone who should know how to work a crowd what with his bardic training. Which is good because Edward certainly can't fight. Sadly, his trademark Hide skill won't be of much use here because it'll lead to him both pissing off the crowd and getting declared with a loss. But, if he can get the crowd behind him, he's got a chance. Especially since the universe seems keen on giving him those chances. After all, last time he was up against a child, and now he's up against a woman. Now that I'm done with the pro-Edward side of this, I can now point out that his opponent is less woman, and more goddess. Specifically, Palutena who is prooobably going to be a fan favourite. And now that she's enthusiastically joined Smash, we know that she's going to be good at brawling, grabs, and she'll come with a fan chant ready to go. In addition, she'll be used to grabbing weirder weapons than folding chairs. And just to add insult to injury, her Eye of Palutena means that poor Edward won't even be able to hide.
Event 40: Dealing with a Used Car Salesman
Sooner or later, everyone will have to get a new ride. And let's face it, most people won't be able to afford a new one, because who has that kind of scratch? (Well... our two contestants in this case, but since they got this event, now they get to join in the fun) This means facing the friendly faced con-men and hucksters we know as used car salesmen. The folks out to sell you cars of questionable quality for the highest tag and most useless add-ons they can manage. In this case, the winner will be awarded to the contestant who manages to get the highest quality ride for the cheapest price.
Our first contestant probably doesn't know a whole lot about cars, but he is shown to be clear headed, able to argue effectively, and able to read people. TG Cid is here to show why reading people is better than specific know how, especially since before we had used car salesmen, we had horse traders who filled a fairly similar role. Or, in this case, Chocobo Traders. Against this, we have a competitor who doesn't deal much with cars himself, but does have a lot of experience fishing them out of lakes, rivers, lava, and the emptiness of space. Lakitu should know his cars, though his people knowledge may be lacking. But, this does mean it'll be harder to sell him a lemon, and he won't need much in the way of coverage since he's his own towing company.
Quick Vote Form
Event 33: Raising an Army
The Rock (Wrestling) vs. Seto Kaiba (YuGiOh: Abridged)
Event 34: Frightening Small Children
Kamina (Gurren Lagenn) vs. Captain Gordon (Disgaia)
Event 35: Conversing Only with Song/Movie Titles
Toph Bei Fong (Avatar:tLA) vs. Finn the Human (Adventure Time)
Event 36: Killing Everyone
Buffy Summers (Buffy:tVS) vs. Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 2)
Event 37: Beauty Pageant
Mohandas Ghandi (Civ series) vs. Spike (Buffy:tVS)
Event 38: Detonating an Asteroid in Space
Ringabel (Bravely Default) vs. Gai Daigouji (Martian Successor Nadesco)
Event 39: WWF Wrestling
Edward (FF4) vs. Palutena (KI:U)
Event 40: Dealing with a Used Car Salesman
Cidolfas Orlandu (FFT) vs. Lakitu (SMW)
