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Two men clad all in green enter the arena from opposite sides. They eye each-other warily and almost regretfully before one yells “You’ve had this coming for a long time, fascist pretty boy!” and fires a boxing glove arrow. A green mattress materializes out of nowhere and blocks the arrow while a big green boxing glove flies across the arena and knocks the marksman out.

Green Lantern wins the battle and continues my streak of correct predictions.

Which brings us to our current rankings. Make sure to read all through this one, because I have a new opportunity for bonus points after the announcement of this week’s battle.

AJ is padding his lead with five first round points for correctly predicting victories for Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, Captain America, and Green Lantern, fourteen bonus points for posts on his myspace blog and view askew, and three more bonus points for signing up for an account on The Forums of Awesome for a total of TWENTY-TWO POINTS!

RJP is still chasing AJ in a battle of initials. RJP has two first round points for supporting Batman and Red Tornado, 14 bonus points for posts on Between The Staples and his Facebook account, and three bonus points for signing up for the Forums of Awesome for a total of NINETEEN POINTS!

Correct predictions are proving to be the big difference between these two.

In third place, Midknight has five first round points for knowing that Batman, Thor, Red Tornado, Captain America, and Green Lantern ain’t nothing to mess with, six bonus points for posts on ComicVine, one bonus point for helping Mike search for Batboat pictures, and three more bonus points for signing up with Forums of Awesome, for a total of SIXTEEN POINTS!

In fourth, Xers has four first round points with victories for Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, and Captain America, two bonus points for posts on Cre8Buzz and BlackPlanet, and three more bonus points for signing up with Forums of Awesome for a total of NINE POINTS!

Patrick D. is in fifth place with two points for backing Batman and Martian Manhunter (I wonder who he’ll pick when they fight eachother?”), two bonus points for posts on Patrick Says and his Twitter, and three more bonus points for signing up at Forums of Awesome for a total of SEVEN POINTS!

In sixth place, DougFungus has three first round points for supporting Batman, Red Tornado, and Captain America and three bonus points for signing up at Forums of Awesome for a total of SIX POINTS!

In seventh, Weston backed Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, and Captain America for a total of FOUR POINTS!

Finally, in eighth place, Naimad89 backed Batman to give him ONE POINT!

Once again, the standings are:

1st place: AJ - 22 points

2nd place: RJP - 19 points

3rd place: MidKnight - 16 points

4th place: Xers- 9 points

5th place: Patrick D. - 7 points

6th placeDougfungus - 6
points

7th placeWeston - 4 points

8th place: Naimad69 - 1 point

This week, along with a new battle, Awesome Arena has a new home! Make sure to head over to the new Awesome Arena site to help decide who will win the latest battle between Hulk and Wolverine and then come back over here to let me know who you think will win and why!

Also, while you’re over at the Arena site, take a look around, check out all the new stuff like the wiki and archives and let me know what you think about moving the standings and breakdowns over there as well.

Which is where more bonus points come in. Let me know not only who you think will win, but what methods you think they will employ in order to win. If I use your ideas in next week’s breakdown, I’ll award you five bonus points!!

Make yourself heard, people! Will it be brute strength or cunning and guile?

Only you can decide!

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Ok folks, I’m typing this out with one eye, so this post will definitely be short and possibly contain typographical errors. You have my apologies and I’ll correct any typos ASAP.

With that out of the way, here we go.

Captain America and Booster Gold both step into the arena. Gold, unable to resist bragging, starts listing all of his powers. Flight, enhanced strength, force fields, matter absorption, yadda yadda yadda. Unimpressed, Cap punches Booster in the jaw and knocks him out.

Cap wins, mofo’s.

On to the standings.

AJ (still from the vicious, vicious Civil Blitzkrieg) maintains his lead with four points for picking Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, and Captain America as winners and ten bonus points for posts on the ViewAskew boards and his Myspace page, for a total of fourteen points!

RJP of Between The Staples is hanging strong for someone so frequently wrong with 2 points for his faith in Batman and Red Tornado and ten bonus points for posts on Between the Staples and his facebook account, for a total of twelve points.

Midknight is right on their tails with four points for supporting Batman, Thor, Red Tornado, and Captain America five bonus points for posts on his ComicVine blog and one more bonus point for helping Mike with his search for a batboat for a total of ten points.

Xers is holding strong in fourth place with four points for picking Martian Manhunter, Thor, and Red Tornado and two bonus points for posts on Black Planet and Cre8Buzz, for a total of six points

Patrick D. and Weston are now tied for fifth with four points each. Patrick has two points for his faith in Batman and Martian Manhunter and two bonus points for posts on his blog and twitter and Weston has four points for picking Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, and Captain America.

DougFungus is standing in sixth with three points for backing Batman, The Red Tornado, and Captain America

Finally, in seventh place, Naimad89 has one point for supporting Batman in his week one victory.

As in every previous week, bonus points are making a difference - make sure you pick up an advantage by telling all your friends about this contest and letting me know about the pimpage!

Also, Mike is giving away three bonus points to anyone signing up for the Forums of Awesome! Y’all should take advantage of that one.

Once again, here are the current standings:

1st place: AJ - 14 points

2nd place: RJP - 12 points

3rd place: MidKnight - 10 points

4th place: Xers- 6 points

5th place: tie Patrick D. and Weston - 4 points

6th placeDougfungus - 3 points

7th place: Naimad69 - 1 point

This week, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) will be taking on his longtime friend and occasional partner, Green Arrow (Ollie Queen) in a battle of Galactic-level versus street-level battling.

Can Ollie find a way to overcome the overwhelming power of Hal’s ring? Let us know by voting in Mike’s poll at Panels of Awesome and then coming back over here to make yourself heard and collect your potential point.

Also, don’t forget to pick up three bonus points by signing up for a Forums of Awesome account!

As for me, I’m going to go rest this eye and see if I can become a functioning member of society once again.

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Sorry for being late, folks - we had some network problems for most of the day and just now got everyone back online.

To make up for it, and because this one is fairly simple, you get a breakdown with this post.

Iron Fist opens up with some crazy-ass kung-fu combos, hitting Red Tornado faster than the eye can see. The man’s like a whirlwind! Rand charges up his Iron Fist chi shit and punches Reddy in the chest so hard that the Tornado is actually dented.

Tornado looks at Danny and Danny knows he done fucked up. Red Tornado knocks Rand across the arena with one punch and then shows Iron Fist what a real whirlwind is all about. He creates a wind funnel around Iron Fist and sucks all the air out of Danny’s lungs, making him pass out. The fight is pretty much over at this point, but Red Tornado knows it’s going to cost a fortune for the body shop to get this dent out of his chest and he’s taking that money out of Iron Fist’s ass. The funnel spins faster and faster until it creates a vacuum, making the external pressure on Rand’s body much lower than the internal pressure.

Iron Fist explodes and it takes the cleaning crew all week to clean up the Iron Guts.

As you may have guessed, Red Tornado won last week with authority.

Here are our standings.

AJ (still from the vicious, vicious Civil Blitzkrieg) maintains his lead with three points for picking Martian Manhunter, Thor, and Red Tornado as winners and eight bonus points for posts on the ViewAskew boards and his Myspace page, for a total of eleven points!

RJP of Between The Staples is hanging strong for someone so frequently wrong with 2 points for his faith in Batman and Red Tornado and eight bonus points for four posts each on Between the Staples and his facebook account, for a total of ten points.

Midknight is right on their tails with three points for supporting Batman, Thor, and Red Tornado and four bonus points for posts on his ComicVine blog and one more bonus point for helping Mike with his search for a batboat for a total of eight points.

Xers has moved up to fourth place with three points for picking Martian Manhunter, Thor, and Red Tornado and two bonus points for posts on Black Planet and Cre8Buzz, for a total of five points

Patrick D. has dropped to fifth place with two points for his faith in Batman and Martian Manhunter and two bonus points for posts on his blog and twitter for a total of four points!

Weston is in sixth place with three points for believing in Martian Manhunter, Thor, and Red Tornado

DougFungus is standing in seventh with two points for backing Batman and The Red Tornado

Finally, in eighth place, Naimad89 has one point for supporting Batman in his week one victory.

As in every previous week, bonus points are making a difference - make sure you pick up an advantage by telling all your friends about this contest and letting me know about the pimpage!

Once again, here are the current standings:

1st place: AJ - 11 points

2nd place: RJP - 10 points

3rd place: MidKnight - 8 points

4th place: Xers- 5 points

5th place: Patrick D. - 4 points

6th place: Weston - 3 points

7th placeDougfungus - 2 points

8th place: Naimad69 - 1 point

This week, we have Booster Gold’s technology vs Captain America’s awesome levels of bad-assery! For clarification’s sake, Skeet has been barred from the arena and we’ve resurrected Steve Rogers for one last whoop-ass session.

I have my favorite, but who’s yours? Head over to Panels of Awesome to vote in the poll (and drop Mike a comment or two, he likes those) and then head back over here to tell me who you voted for and why. As in all first round battles, correct predictions get a point and confirmed incidents of spreading the word about our little tournament get bonus points.

Let’s get this party started.

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Week Three of the greatest tournament in the history of mankind has come to an end, and Thor is victorious! My streak has continued, ladies and gentlemen.

This week, we have Iron Fist and Red Tornado battling it out for the privilege of being Thor’s next victim. I’ve yet to make up my mind on this one, so make sure to vote in the poll on POA and then come back over here to influence my vote and lock yours in for points!

Speaking of points, here are our standings.

AJ (of the vicious, vicious Civil Blitzkrieg) has taken sole possession of first place with two points his faith in Martian Manhunter and Thor and six points for pimping our tournament on myspace and the ViewAskew boards three times each, giving him a total of eight points.

On a side note, check out AJ’s essay on how wrong he was to doubt Batman.

Dropping to second place as a result of his foolish belief in Spider-man, RJP of Between The Staples has 1 point for his faith in Batman and six bonus points for three posts each on Between The Staples and his Facebook, giving him a total of seven points

I’m telling you kids, the bonus points are giving people a big advantage. Go on your favorite message boards, post to your myspace, comicspace, facebook… post ANYWHERE! Just pimp us and give me a link and you too can rack up the bonus points!

Back to the standings, Midknight is holding strong in third place with two points for supporting Batman and Thor and three bonus points for posts on his ComicVine blog for a total of five points.

Patrick D. has dropped to fourth place with two points for his faith in Batman and Martian Manhunter and two bonus points for posts on his blog and twitter for a total of four points!

In fifth place, Xers has two points for backing Martian Manhunter and Thor!

Finally, tied for sixth place, Dougfungus and Naimad89 have one point each for supporting Batman in his week one victory.

I know it may seem like some people’s leads are insurmountable with the bonus points they have accrued and are likely to accrue in the future, but there’s no limit to the bonus points that you can earn and the points for battles increase each round! So make sure you participate early and often - it’s nowhere near over!

In summary, here are our current standings:

1st place: AJ - 8 points
2nd place: RJP - 7 points
3rd place: MidKnight - 5 points
4th place: Patrick D - 4 points
5th place: Xers - 2 points
6th place: Naimad69 and Dougfungus - 1 point

Once again, don’t forget to head over to Panels of Awesome to cast your vote in this week’s battle between Iron Fist and Red Tornado and then come back here to lock that vote in and tell me who to vote for!

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Week three has come to an end and, as I predicted, Martian Manhunter is victorious! He’ll be facing Batman next round and I already have a prediction on who will win that battle, but we’ll save that until later. Just remember this, folks - I have yet to be wrong on an Awesome Arena, even before this tournament of champions.

This week, Thor will be taking on the devil-dealing Spider-man. I’ve already aired my thoughts on who would win an actual battle between these two, but will people vote with their heads or their hearts? Thor is far more powerful, but Spidey is far more popular.

I dub this battle Power vs Popularity!! Which will take it, folks?

On to standings.

In a tie for first, we have a tie between the dreaded RJP of Between The Staples and AJ of the dreaded Civil Blitzkrieg with 5 points each. RJP has 1 point for knowing that Batman is a badass and four bonus points for 2 posts each on Between The Staples and his Facebook account. AJ has 1 bonus point for knowing that Martian Manhunter is not to be trifled with and four bonus points for 2 posts each on his myspace and the ViewAskew boards.

Those bonus points are proving to be very effective, kids… START PIMPING!!

In second place is Patrick D. with four points - 2 for respecting the power of The Dark Knight and Martian Manhunter and 2 points for pimping us on his blog and on his twitter account.

Dropping down to third, MidKnight has 2 points for his faith in Batman and his pimp skills on Comicvine.

Annnd tied for fourth with a point each, we have Xers for his prediction of Martian Manhunter’s win and Dougfungus and Naimad69 for their faith in Batman.

Once again, the standings are:

1. RJP and AJ
2. Patrick D.
3) MidKnight
4) Xers, Dougfungus, and Naimad69

Don’t forget to head over to Panels of Awesome to cast your vote for this week’s winner and then head back over here to lock in your vote and discuss who you think will win and why!

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Ok, ladies and gentlemen, we finally have the results of Tournament of Champions Week 1.

As I predicted, Batman was the victor, though it was much closer than I expected. Tony “Wino” Stark was only defeated by seven votes. Batman will have to step up his game if he expects to defeat the winner of our Week 2 bout between The Martian Manhunter and The Flash!

For those who feel the need to differentiate, we’re talking Wally West Flash.

And now for our standings.

In first place, we have the dreaded RJP from Between The Staples, with one point for his prediction of Batman’s victory and two bonus points for pimping the tournament on both his blog and his facebook.

Remember kids: spreading the word about this tournament not only increases your chances of winning, it also improves the prizes since a higher turnout gives us more incentive to increase the prize pool.

In second place, we have MidKnight with one point for his faith in the almighty Batman and one bonus point for spreading the love via Comicvine and the tiebreaker of having more correct predictions than the gentleman in third place.

In third place via the tiebreaker of Midknight having more correct predictions, is AJ with two bonus points for posts on MySpace and the ViewAskew message board. We’ll be looking forward to your guest post extolling the virtues of our lord in crimefighting, AJ!

In fourth place with one point for knowing how awesome Batman is, we have Patrick D. who, lucky for AJ, has yet to spread the word of our tournament on his blog!

Update: I decided to let a few people who only commented on Mike’s blog last week slide and award a few of them points, but from here on, if you don’t follow the rules, you don’t get the points. I think we’ve made it pretty clear now, so no excuses.

Thus, I have awarded DougFungus, Naimad89, and Xers each one point for correctly picking Batman to win Week 1. Wendy and TimH received no points because they crazily supported Ironman. Better luck this week, kids. Rankings are hereby updated…

For those who like a simple numbered list, here are our standings once again.

1) RJP - 3 points
2) Midknight - 2 points with tiebreaker
3) AJ - 2 points
4) Tie between Patrick D, DougFungus, Naimad89, and Xers - 1 point each

If you missed out on Week 1, that’s okay! Just head over to POA’s announcement of this week’s battle, vote in the poll, head back over to this post right here to lock in your vote, and join the discussions on either blog (or both blogs!) about who will win or why. It’s quite possible that you can influence the voting by the persuasiveness of your argument.

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