Cracker’s Note: This is a repost from the new Awesome Arena Site! You now have a choice between discussing the results here or over there; you’ll be awarded your points either way. Of course, if you decide to conduct all of your Awesome Arena business on the official site, I hope you’ll stop by to visit me here once in awhile.
Batman has kicked the second round of the Tournament of Champions off in style, stomping a mudhole in Martian Manhunter’s hindquarters and continuing my streak of correct predictions. He’ll be moving on to battle the winner of this week’s battle between Thor and Red Tornado.
I had a dilemma this week. Midknight and AJ both had correct predictions and wrote up pretty good breakdowns, even if neither fit my vision of how I think it would have gone down. I don’t picture Batman taking the time to taunt or torture his opponent, especially when it’s a fellow JLA‘er, and I was severely tempted to choose against AJ’s because Batman does NOT kill, especially an ally, unless there is absolutely no other choice. Being the sole arbiter, I suppose I could have followed that temptation, but it felt wrong in a race as close as this. So I flipped a coin.
Luckily for AJ, the quarter loves him more than the eenie-meenie-miney-moe and he gets the five bonus points, resulting in yet another lead change.
Batman and Martain Manhunter step in to the Arena. They circle one another slowly and silently, both preparing to strike. The Manhunter remains intangible in preperation for an attack.
“We don’t have to do this you know.” says Bruce.
“It appears that we do.” Says a suspicious J’onnz.
“No, look, I’ve got it all figured out. You just have to trust me.”
Batman quickly and quietly explains a highly detailed and seemingly fool-proof plan to free themselves and all the other heroes from these sick and twisted geeks that have them trapped. Finally, and hesitantly, the Manhunter agrees and becomes tangible again.
BAM! Batman punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground, while at the same time pulling some kind of weapon from his utility belt and shooting MM.
Martain Manhunter reacts a few seconds to late, attempting to go intangible. He is not only still solid, but now in the worst pain of his life.
“Nanites” Batman explains, “I’m sorry J’onn, I really ment everything I said. I needed to, of course, to get you to believe me, but thats not the point.”
J’onn tries to go intangible again, and fails screaming.
“Please stop that.”
“Bruce -”
“J’onn please, this is hard enough without you pleading.”
Bruce takes a small bottle from his belt, and slowly begins pouring the contents in a cicle around Martain Manhunter, and then on top of MM himself.
“What are you doing?” he says, frightened.
“You know what I’m doing. I’m sorry J’onn. I hope you understand.”
He flicks open a lighter, and drops it to the ground. A bright flames spring to life immediatly, and J’onn screams. He tries to go intangible, only to be injured by the technology immobilizing him.
As his friend burns, Bruce Wayne walks in to the darkness, where he belongs.
Once again, I feel the need to state that my vision of a character doesn’t always agree with our guest break-down person’s vision.
Moving on…
AJhas regained first place with six first round points for correctly predicting victories for Martian Manhunter, Thor, Red Tornado, Captain America, Green Lantern, and Hulk, two second-round points for predicting Batman’s victory over Martian Manhunter, twentry bonus points for posts on his myspace blog and view askew, three more bonus points for signing up for an account on The Forums of Awesome, and the five bonus points for this week’s write-up for a total of THIRTY-SIX POINTS!
Midknight has dropped to second, but just barely with seven first round points for knowing that Batman, Thor, Red Tornado, Captain America, Green Lantern, Hulk, and Superman ain’t nothing to mess with, two second-round points for knowing that Batman REALLY ain’t nothin’ to mess with, ten bonus points for posts on ComicVine, two bonus points for pimping us on his blog, one bonus point for helping Mike search for Batboat pictures, three more bonus points for signing up with Forums of Awesome, and the ten bonus points awarded for his breakdowns the last two weeks to give him a total of THIRTY-FIVE POINTS!
RJP stays in third with two first round points for supporting Batman and Red Tornado, two second round points for backing Batman, 18 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 TWENTY-FIVE 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: AJ - 36 points
2nd place: Midknight- 35 points
3rd place: RJP - 25 points
4th place: Xers- 9 points
5th place: Patrick D. - 7 points
6th place: Dougfungus - 6 points
7th placeWeston - 4 points
8th place: Naimad69 - 1 point
Once again, don’t forget to vote in the poll and tell us who you think will win and why in the comments either there or here! And don’t forget to tell me how your pick will win for a chance at five bonus points!
Finally, remember that since this is the second round, correct predictions are now worth TWO points. The game is far from over, folks.
Let’s get it on!
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