Issue 1 Downtime

...wait for it, you'll get it.

RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK
Teri v. Anita
Teri bursts into a huge swarm, hundreds upon hundred of bugs, swarming around Anita going every which way. Anita's awesome sense CAN detect all of 'em, but good luck operating on all that information. She eventually goes down. Winner: Teri, via bugification

Sara v. Will
With this match in the science labs, Sara's got home court. Cutting her way free from Will's grapple, she sneaks off. As Will tries to find her in the crowded laboratory, Sara gets to the liquid nitrogen and lets loose, allowing her to take a Frozen WillPop home for desert. Winner: Sara, via SCIENCE!

Niles v. Veronica
Even limited to about 8 feet due to the ceilings, Ronnie's big enough and strong enough to put the kibash on this relationship. Winner: Veronica, via largeness


LAST MATCHES OF ROUND 1!

Winston "Hazard" Sharpe (0-0) v. Ayami "Mood Ring" Morita (0-0)
Location: The XU Dining Hall
Winston's got a bit of a fixation on other people messing with his emotions; will it be enough for Ayami to defeat the much stronger Sharpe?

Merle "Champion" McClintock (0-0) v. Kathrin "G-Force" Schmidt (0-0)
Location: Wembley Stadium
A large, open, yet indoor arena for the master of might and the goddess of gravity.

Melody Martens (0-0) v. Jayda "Dominion" Nightridge (0-0)
Location: Sydney Hall's Women's Showers
I should specify again that you don't need to KILL your opponent, necessarily.

We have brackets!

http://challonge.com/tournament/show_fu ... n/XULondon

Ayami's strategy is three pronged.

The first emotion to project is terror. This may make Winston flee in fear for a quick win, or at least make him less skilled.
The second emotion to project is agony. Now, this isn't physical pain--she can't hurt someone with her mind--but it'll FEEL like it.
The third emotion to project is arousal, cause, hey, if the first two don't work, she's low on options, and that should at least distract him for her to wack him over the head with a coffee pot or something...

Against Merle Kat would rely on slowing down any punches to a bearable level (assuming he does manage to push in through the gravity field)
For the offense, since there's a lack of tall structures to drop him off of she'd try to surprise him with sudden counter-attacks with extra punch added to them.
Put simply, they'd wail on each other alot and she'd hope her powers give her enough of an edge over Merle's strength.

Against Ayami, Win will likely try to keep himself pumped, keep thinking angry thoughts and about wanting to fight, hopefully it'll, if not influence Ayami in some way to not run away than at least dampen her powers affect on him.

From there he just needs to get close enough to her so he can hit her with a blast, a decent explosive punch to the head should take care of her, if she runs he should be able to chase her down with little problem, except maybe in the 'pained' stage, and if he can't catch her then a large-scale detonation could at the bare least clip her and give Win long enough to compose himself and finish the job whilst she's down.

Kathrin - I don't really see Merle being able to get close enough to her to even be able to land a decent hit.
Jayda - With her teleporting ability and weapons in hand I can see suprising Melody with a knife pretty quickly.

I, too, can't see Merle getting close enough to KAT through the gravity to hurt her...so, I say she immobilizes him for long enough.

Ayami
Kathrin
Jayda

Winston
Kat
Jayda

With how screwed up Winston's head is I think Ayami might actually have a good shot and Jayda's a cold, teleporting murder-machine, so:

Ayami
Jayda

Winston
Kat

AYAMI. Getting close is the key here for Winston, and psychics, even empaths like Ayami, can be tough to close in on quickly. I say Ayami gets out her Agony whammy, and Winston convulses to the ground.

MERLE. All it will take is a glancing blow, which I think Merle will be able to land sooner or later.

JAYDA. There aren't many shadows in showers, But Jayda's skills in stabby will see her through this.

JAYDA'S just got too much skill to let this match go by her. She's a killing machine.

I'm going with the underdogs here. Because I'm like that.

Winston
Merle
Melody

Ayami
Kat
Jayda

Winston
Kathrin
Melody