Season 27, Week 2
Alma Beoulve
(Final Fantasy Tactics) 		 
The cleric Alma's last appearance in the DL wasn't the most stupendous of showings - the metrosexual vampire Joachim wasn't even the most spectacular loss she's had. But nonetheless, Alma's resolve lingers on, and now it's brought her a match that she should have no trouble dominating! Leo is everything Alma preys on - slow, magically inept and surprisingly weak for a big, burly man. With her patented MBarrier spell at the ready, Alma can weather Leo's strongest blows, and with her staff of thwacking held high above her head, she can deliver a brutal, skull-crushing blow to this Zexen guardian's cranium. Once on the path to victory, Alma won't stop - her brother may have faltered in Heavy, but she won't in Middle!

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 t's a defensive struggle for the ages this week. Tank against tank. Magical barrier against frightening defense. Axe against...staff and spell? It's not a classic slugfest by any means, but Leo's battle with Alma could still be one of the greatest defensive battles the Duelling League has ever seen. Both are posessed of top tier durability and incredible mental resources...so it's the type of fight Leo lives for. While Mbarrier may reduce his axe strokes to mere scratches, Alma's physical won't even dent him! With the young Cleric reduced to wasting MP on Ultima instead of something sustainable, it won't take Leo long to run the child cleric out of magic and give her the spanking she deserves for fighting a Knight of Zexen!

CmdrKing
The ancient battle between young magical girl and large, thick-headed knight has been fought again and again, in the Duelling League and beyond.

Usually, the mage wins. After all, there's a reason the phrase "a wizard did it" remains in the popular memory.

Shockingly, today was no different. Young Alma poured her heart into her spellcasting, persevered in the face of adversity, and all that. Heartwarming and Disney-esque.

So much so that Disney has, in fact, bought the rights to Alma's performance this season. They're calling it "The Little Cleric That Could".

Leo even agreed to play himself. It turns out that he's born for stunt work, and is often hailed as the next Arnauld Schwartzenegger.

Gallen/Fraulein in '08? Let's hope so.

Alma Beoulve: 51
Leo Gallen: 37

SageAcrin
Alma did the most logical thing here.

She sneaked into Leo's room in the middle of the night and heavily magnetized his armor. (Okay, so she threatened the Dark Elf and made him do it. If you can't imagine the Dark Elf being threatened by a young girl, you don't know him very well. Especially since she doesn't wear metal.)

Shortly after he entered the arena, fourty eight cameras, several dozen pieces of silverwear, eighteen watches, several digital cameras, innumerable knives, swords, axes, maces, spears and various other weaponry, a kitchen sink, a laundry washer/drier combination, and a sofa, crashed into Leo. Sometime during this, he was knocked out. (Yoshino doesn't like going to matches without being able to do something productive while watching. No one's sure about the sink. As for the sofa, Jecht was really drunk that day and figured, when in Rome.)

Logically, Alma should be disqualified for this, but the judges are still arguing over what she's allowed to do.

They might be done by her next match, but probably not.

Octillus
As for Alma, well, she just needs to keep MBarrier up, and she'll never die. Reraise is a bitch like that.