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Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« on: June 02, 2014, 08:52:24 PM »
Event 39- Being Charlie Brown

The art of the loser is more complicated than it seems.  To be Charlie Brown, you must not only fail, but make it natural, fail and make everyone believe you were always going to fail and will always fail.

Ms. Lily was born with a silver spoon, and is used to rigging the game in her favor.  On the other hand, her ability to sabotage herself is unparalleled, so her ability in this match is not to be underestimated.

Athena Cykes is a defense attorney in the Phoenix Wright universe.  Is there a way to be more Charlie Brown?

Event 40- Calvinball

The sport of all children, rules made up on the fly and known only to the players, never to be recorded.

Luca Blight and Bowser are both villains used to changing the rules to suit them.  Both should excel, so it comes down to who's faster on the ball.

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Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2014, 09:06:29 PM »
Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)- Her entire relationship with Raze is being Charlie Brown, and it's glorious.
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)- http://th02.deviantart.net/fs50/PRE/f/2009/262/c/4/c481e48ce7450f10ef3c3700846a6402.jpg Civ5.jpg: It's not just for Civilization any more! Putting in a bloodythirsty psychopath in a game with no rules is going to lead to a really high body count, sadly for Bowser.
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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2014, 07:39:23 PM »
Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)- Deciding factor for me, Lily's charlie brown moments are largely self-inflicted.  Athena gets it from everyone.
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2014, 08:09:50 PM »
Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Kneejerk.  More likely to be believable

Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
No rules?  This will be bloody.

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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2014, 09:16:48 PM »
Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
No vote.  Seems like a close match but I'd need to have actually played MK2 to be sure, for all that I'm pretty familiar with Lily.
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
Not sure what everyone else is going on about, both of these players are pretty *bad* at Calvinball.  Winning Calvinball requires creativity, and Luca has a one-track mind about slaughtering piggies, and Bowser has a one-track mind about kidnapping princesses and stashing them in castles.  So...  this is probably just a slugfest, although not really a high body count one, Calvin & Hobbes just seem to get covered with dirt & scratches.  Well..  Luca does have a flaming sword, and one of Bowser's classic weaknesses is to being shot with fireballs a lot, so I suppose I'll go with the crowd.

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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2014, 10:53:57 PM »
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
Just going with the crowd on this one.

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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2014, 03:33:01 AM »
Huh, looks like I'm going to be going against the crowd this week.

Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Of the five people, including Edgeworth, who sit in the defense bench, Athena has it, by far, the best.  It helps that she's only in the hot seat for a couple of cases and is up against the relatively sane Blackquill (the second best person to Edgeworth, though Klavier does have an argument.  That said, the witnesses Klavier is paired up with more than make up for this).  I mean, hell, Edgeworth only has half a case as a defense attourney, but his half a case is interrogating Larry Butz and opposing the whip happy Franciska von Karma.  Meanwhile, sure, a lot of Lily's suffering is self inflicted, but let's be honest.  So is a decent chunk of Charlie Brown's suffering.  I mean, he knows he's never going to kick that football, but he keeps trying anyways because of futile hope. 

Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
Sure, this is all about creativity, and sure, neither of these people really have it.  But let's be honest, Luca really only ever does the one thing, whereas Bowser's not only survived being the butt monkey of the Mario Universe which is strange and zany enough to rub off on anyone.  But he's also got all those experiences from Smashing, Karting, and Partying; the last of which if you toss it into a blender is basically Calvinball Light.  So, Bowser's got experience which gives him the clear edge.

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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2014, 03:45:39 AM »
Huh, looks like I'm going to be going against the crowd this week.

Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Of the five people, including Edgeworth, who sit in the defense bench, Athena has it, by far, the best.  It helps that she's only in the hot seat for a couple of cases and is up against the relatively sane Blackquill (the second best person to Edgeworth, though Klavier does have an argument.  That said, the witnesses Klavier is paired up with more than make up for this).  I mean, hell, Edgeworth only has half a case as a defense attourney, but his half a case is interrogating Larry Butz and opposing the whip happy Franciska von Karma.  Meanwhile, sure, a lot of Lily's suffering is self inflicted, but let's be honest.  So is a decent chunk of Charlie Brown's suffering.  I mean, he knows he's never going to kick that football, but he keeps trying anyways because of futile hope. 

Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II) vs Bowser (Mario Series)
Sure, this is all about creativity, and sure, neither of these people really have it.  But let's be honest, Luca really only ever does the one thing, whereas Bowser's not only survived being the butt monkey of the Mario Universe which is strange and zany enough to rub off on anyone.  But he's also got all those experiences from Smashing, Karting, and Partying; the last of which if you toss it into a blender is basically Calvinball Light.  So, Bowser's got experience which gives him the clear edge.

I'm straight up with Excal on both of these.
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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2014, 03:50:40 AM »
Dunno the first match so won't pretend to!

Bowser > Luca Blight simply based on the logic that Bowser comes from a universe where NOTHING makes sense, meaning he's sort of prepared for anything.  Logic is only a hindrance in Calvinball.
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Re: Tourney of Random Events Round 5
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2014, 04:22:50 AM »
Being Charlie Brown- Lilianne Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy)- iii vs Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)- ii
Calvinball- Luca Blight (Suikoden II)- iiiii vs Bowser (Mario Series)- iii
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