MFX: Contest of Champions Discussion Thread

[Tritch]

Ok I am back from vacation. First day back to work so I might not be able to get the next round started today, but will hopefully have it done and up by tomorrow night.

[Tritch]

Updated with the last wave's results and the next wave's matches.

We had a whopping 3 ties of 4-4 votes, so those 3 match-ups have had a "Round 2" poll posted. The rest of the next wave's matches will be posted tonight or tomorrow.

[Tritch]

Updated with results from the last wave and match ups from the final Round 1 wave - which includes a couple of fun ones. Speaking of fun ones, looking at the layout of Round 2 so far... there are some pretty damn good fights forthcoming.

I'll try to get up this last wave ASAP. This is the last time I have to write up character sheets, so everything after this should go pretty quick and smoothly.

Spread the word so we can get our numbers back up. 8 is plenty but it'd be cool to get a bigger turnout and have more opinions discussed in the threads, especially as we move deeper into the tournament.

Sorry about how slowly we've been moving so far, the holidays was a bad time to start this. Hopefully everyone is having fun regardless.

[Tritch]

Alright got the last tight in Round 1 squared away. Round 2 starts now, with the first half of matches already open. The rest of the tournament should run more smoothly now. But let's get some more discussion and votes going! Tell your fiends

[Tritch]

Okay, the first wave of Round 2 has been updated with winners - and the one draw. Plus, the second wave of Round 2 has been listed.

The polls have been opened as well. Please note that all of the current matches have been shortened to 3 days, as it seems like we're not going to get more than 8 votes and those 8 votes are coming within the first 3 days. Note: the draw from the last wave is still 5 days as I forgot I was going to change it before I created the poll.

Let's get some more discussion going, there are some pretty damn good fights going on now.

[Tritch]

So we've already got 8 votes on each of these fights. Should I close them and move to the next round, or wait a couple days to see if anyone else decides to jump in? We haven't had more than 8 since the first wave of the Round 1, and it was only 9. We did have 10-12 a few times in the prelims though.

[Goldferg]

I'd say give it a day and if nothing changes, call it

[Tritch]

Okay there's been no change since my last post, so I went ahead and locked voting and made the results visible. Results updated in the initial post here, as well as all of the fights in Round 3. Expect the new polls to be posted later today, and I'll probably give them a 2-day time frame unless anyone objects beforehand.

[Tritch]

Update with Round 3 Results & Round 4 Match-ups.

Round 4 polls coming later today. Will move them up to 5 days. 2 days seemed a little rushed, plus I feel like many people aren't as active over the weekend (or maybe that's just me, idk.) Either way, 5 days this round to start with. If activity seems stagnant by Monday afternoon I'll close 'em early but let's expect Wednesday as a close date for now.

@Jack - I guess the Flash's powers aren't the best haha

[Tritch]

Yeah I'm currently working on the profiles for the comic villains tourney, will run that one next. I'll think about a way to incentivize people to write opinions but I'm not sure anything will work. Activity has picked up lately at least!

[Tritch]

Closed up the quarterfinals. Great discussion! Just because the fights over doesn't mean the discussion has to stop either if you disagreed with something. Regardless, we have our final four, and it's certainly not what I would've expected heading in!

Ghost Rider
Iron Man
Hulk
Thor

Let's go!

[Tritch]

Since there's only 2 fights this round, I thought we could spark a little discussion in here as well in addition to the fight discussion.

Take a look at the whole field of 100.

- Heading in, who were your final four (feel free to disregard the bracket for this question)?
- And your winner?
- Which fight was the biggest upset in your opinion?
- Which fight did you assume would go a different way, but it ended up going the way you wanted in the end?
- In your opinion, is anyone missing from IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes? Perhaps just someone they didn't include on the list, or maybe even someone who wasn't around back then?

[Tritch]

1 - Martian Manhunter, Silver Surfer, The Flash (Barry Allen), Hulk

2 - Martian Manhunter - I think he's a super underrated character, and I'm glad he's getting some shine in Supergirl.

3 - I definitely think Daredevil should've beaten Spider-Man, but I don't think it was necessarily I big upset. That was a very close fight. Same with The Flash (BA) vs Hulk and Thor vs Martian Manhunter in my opinion. But I think perhaps the biggest upset, and I know I'll be alone in this, was Luke Cage beating John Constantine. Cage is strong sure, but there's a lot more to winning fights like these than just being strong, and Constantine has that a lot more. But this is probably just an example of bias because I love Constantine lol.

4 - I thought for sure Superman was going to go all the way and win it, so I was pretty surprised that Thor beat him 7-2. I love Superman, and generally the conversations about him being boring because of how overpowered he is annoy me because that's the way he's supposed to be. But as the person running this thing, I didn't want to see him win because it would've been too predictable lol. So as surprising as the final four is, I'm pretty happy about it.

5 - I was pretty surprised at the lack of Captain/Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers). I'm pretty sure she's one of the strongest characters in the comics right now, I think she even took over Captain America's spot in Civil War 2 against Tony (don't quote me on that, I'm not up to CW2 yet - no spoilers please lol). Plus she's been around forever, so there's no reason she shouldn't have been on the editors' minds.

[Goldferg]

My predicted final four would have been Superman, Hulk, Batman (Via popularity power and memetic mutation) and either Flash or Professor X. With Superman winning because he's Superman

My biggest upset was the Thing beating the spectre. Spectre is a fucking GOD TIER character. By rights a character of his powerlevel should have wiped the floor with the ever-lovin' bulue-eyed rockman.

Ghost Rider going over Batman was a pleasant surprise. Thought Bats would take it home (because he's Batman).

Kinda surprised at no Rogue (thought she'd have gotten a nostalgia vote from the 90's toon), no Tim Drake as Robin and no Midnighter (he's a niche title character sure - but so are Yorrick Brown, Spider Jerusalem & Mitchell Hundred and they made it in).

[Tritch]

no Tim Drake as Robin and no Midnighter (he's a niche title character sure - but so are Yorrick Brown, Spider Jerusalem & Mitchell Hundred and they made it in).

Tim Drake was present, he lost to Superman in the preliminaries. But I agree about Rogue!