Forum Brawl #4 - Round 3 Voting

[theelkspeaks]

Team Vote Round 3 by

Boss Frostbite Red Stars Artist & CD Red Stars Ragna DB Red Stars MoL FE MoL Red Stars OT Red Stars Ragnarok Writer Frostbite Red Stars

Boss: Frostbite and Red Stars really feel like what I'd expect to see from an AAR on Paradox Plaza or a similar site, very well done!
Artist/CD: I liked the use of dice for something other than sheer randomness, and these two implementations went beyond the obvious.  MoL gets a glare of shame from me since the ability is exactly identical to if they rolled a d3.  Why did it have to be a d6?
DB: Red Stars get an obvious vote for being the one likely to lose the fastest even if the opponent is trying to make you win.  Frostbite loses points for planning this deck as such while ignoring the fact that it could literally just SoSac itself to death in 1 turn from full HP, though otherwise would have gotten my vote.  Ragnarok's can win against an opponent who just doesn't play the damsels, which disqualifies it. Gravy's uses Singularities, which I find a little uninspiring and obvious for the task assigned.
FE: I genuinely believe PVP alone is not the be-all and end-all of the community and solutions which focused only on the game itself I considered insufficient.  The two most comprehensive solutions laid out came from MoL and myself, and I give my hypothetical first place vote to MoL for superior formatting over mine.
OT: I didn't especially like this task when I read it, but many of the submissions were actually pretty fun.  MoL's just feels kinda stilted, and I don't really think it holds up to the others.  Frostbite's was a spell and not a creature, which at least to me made it not quite as successful.  Red Stars' excellent puns on Ghost of the Past surely earned one of my votes, but the second vote was very difficult for me.  I think that Gravy Train had a more interesting card choice and took it a more interesting direction, and didn't especially want to give it to Ragnarok's Dim Shield choice, but in the end, Ragnarok's excellent writing overcame their unoriginal choice to earn my second vote.
Writer: MoL's just doesn't scan like an ERB or like a This Is War, so I just couldn't go for it.  The other four are all really close.  I hadn't actually seen my team's submission for this before I read them, and the slant rhyme on beat this|practice was one of the most glorious word choices in any submission I read.  Among the other submissions, it was very hard to pick, and I very nearly voted for Ragnarok here, but I ultimately felt like the million, million (and yes I get the reference) part just kinda fell flat in the elements context, which was just enough to put it below the submission from Frostbite Borealis.  The use of the different gods made it feel like something from This Is War or an ERB, and I think it really turned out well!  In fairness to the other submissions, I haven't listened to the rap yet (as the others were all only text and I wanted to judge straight text vs. text), but I certainly will now!  Well done!

[ddevans96]

Frostbite loses points for planning this deck as such while ignoring the fact that it could literally just SoSac itself to death in 1 turn from full HP, though otherwise would have gotten my vote.

Fair criticism, but it wasn't 'ignored' - we considered this, but you would have to draw all three SoSacs in order to suicide without using the rest of the deck, which isn't really likely.

[Espithel]

Frostbite loses points for planning this deck as such while ignoring the fact that it could literally just SoSac itself to death in 1 turn from full HP, though otherwise would have gotten my vote.

Fair criticism, but it wasn't 'ignored' - we considered this, but you would have to draw all three SoSacs in order to suicide without using the rest of the deck, which isn't really likely.

Use six sosacs.

[Naesala]

Voting closed

[Naesala]

Boss
1st Gravy Co. AND
Red Stars
3rd Frostbite Borealis Nae's Choice ARTH's choice
4th Meaning of Life AND
Ragnorok

Artist/Card Design
1st Red Stars Nae's Choice
2nd Frostbite Borealis
3rd Ragnorok
4th Meaning of Life ARTH's choice
5th Gravy Co.

Deckbuilder
1st Red Stars
2nd Ragnorok
3rd Meaning of Life AND ARTH's choice
Gravy Co
5th Frostbite Borealis Nae's Choice

Forum Expert
1st Meaning of Life
2nd Red Stars Nae's Choice
3rd Frostbite Borealis
4th Ragnorok ARTH's choice
5th Gravy Co

Offtopicker
1st Gravy Co Nae's Choice ARTH's choice
2nd Frostbite Borealis
3rd Ragnorok
4th Red Stars
5th Meaning of Life

Writer
1st Frostbite Borealis AND Nae's Choice
Gravy Co.
3rd Red Stars
4th Meaning of Life
5th Ragnorok ARTH's choice

Frostbite and Gravy Co. Tied on their 12 point wager, no change.
(putting here so people see it) Gravy Co. wins best Forum Brawl icon, +5 points

[JonathanCrazyJ]

I'd like to draw everyone's attention to a brawl-related wager:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/humor/flyingcat's-new-avatar/new/#new