Ep 47 of The Letters Page discussion- Cosmic Contest & Contest winner

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
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I was of the same mind with Bugbear, particularly after how he was described in Nightmist's episode.  I figured that battle would have ended with a giant, bloodsoaked Bugbear, standing atop a mountain of half-devoured Proletariat clones…

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We highly underestimated the operative, given how easy she is in the card game.

 

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<NO SPOILERS>

But I love the right answers far more than mine!

Well...

  • My Champion was WAAAAY off. Didn't consider that character to be that strong to be that strong
  • My tech Tier was also off. Gave one character not enough credit.
  • My Martial Tier finalist was right (I made a mistake in one of the first rounds, but it was a toss up).
  • My Mystic Tier finalist was way off too.
  • My Conqueror tier...let's not talk about that....
  • My cunning Tier was 100% right! Yay!
  • My Eldritch tier was close, I favored someone a little too much
  • My Brusier tier was only close for one of them.
  • THE FINAL ROUND: I got two of my choices in the Final Round. but none of them made it to the the last two.
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I got 41. So not bad, really.

I underestimated Bathory’s advantage over Lifeline, and overestimated Writhe, and COMPLETELY got the bottom half of Bruiser wrong, but whatever. I did well. I also called the Legacy knockout.

I also got all of Conquerer, Arcane, Cunning, and most of Champion and Tech right.

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I wouldn't be surprised if most everyone underestimated Bathory; up until the Blood Magic episode, I'd looked at her as a tougher-than-normal, blood magic using vampire; I certainly didn't think of her as a nigh-unkillable master blood mage.

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I got either 23 or 26 depending on if it counts if you picked a correct winner but they faced the wrong opponent. The only tiers I did even remotely well with were the Mystic and Cunning Tiers. (Coincidence or not that these two tiers contain my favorite Sentinels hero and my favorite Sentinels villain? You decide.)

Sooooo... yeah, I think I'll just take my lore-finding-out deal and be happy with that.

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I got 30 points, anytime a choice of mine won (even if the battle between the two wasn't right)

 

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Some Twitter conversation reminded me that I have even more of an appreciation for Biomancer now, since his whole deal was pretty [bleep]ing badass. Interestingly and amazingly disgusting, but badass.

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Here's how I did:

First round: 21/32 (but four of my tier winners got bounced)

Secound round: 9/16 (including every figher I predicted to make it to round 3 that survived round 1)

Third round: 4/8 (all of my tier winners that survived round 1)

Quarterfinals: 2/4

Semis: 1/2

Final: nope (I had Fixer)

Total: 37

Best tier: Conqueror (perfect)

Worst tier: Eldritch (2/7)

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we got 41 total points, and were also the ones who wrote in guise/setback double knock out

we called the cunning and eldritch teirs correctly, and had only one mistake in the mystic and conqueror tiers.

Our final winner was baron blade fighting against the argent adept.

 

edit:41.5 points, since we got half a point for the double knockout

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I got 36,  but I am proud that I had three perfect tiers

 

Conquering,  Cunning and Bruiser Tier.  I guess I know the baddies better then the good two shoes.  

I think my biggest disappointment were Haka and Parse

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@Cult of Gloom: I ended up with the same final matchup. (Grudge match FTW.)

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I did expect much greater things from Haka; after his episode on the Letters Page, I was viewing him as the unstoppable, unkillable juggernaut whom Fanatic could literally run through, and he'd just laugh it off before punching her into next week.  Not the case, as it turns out.

I did expect bigger things from Unity, but I can see how she'd be out of the fight after dismantling Omnitron-U in the opening round...

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I got a mere 29 and no perfect tiers, though a couple that I missed by only one (Bugbear and Ermine), and one by two (Ra and Tempest).  I too thought Bugbear would feed off the Proletariat clones--I fact, I had Proletariat winning at first, then figured Spite would feed off the clones, then realized Bugbear would have done the exact same thing.  I'm kicking myself for not realizing how Lifeline vs. Blood Countess would go--in retrospect that was obvious from the Blood Magic episode--but I horribly botched that bracket anyway, getting literally every other match-up wrong.  I had no idea Biomancer would turn out to be such a respectable combatant in person.

I'm standing by my brackets for "best story," though.  I made a choice to go with good stories over literal "who would win" results, and it went poorly for me.  I think if I'd understood the format better--I thought it would be lots of individual comics, so each one would have to draw an audience on its own merits--I would have done better.

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My overall champion was Lifeline, so Bathory utterly destroying him was unfortunate for me.

My final tiers were:

Champion:
(Ra)
Fanatic
(Mainstay)
Tempest

Fanatic
Tempest

Fanatic

Tech:
Writhe
Absolute Zero
(Omnitron-U)
Parse

(Writhe)
Parse

(Writhe)

Mystic:
(Harpy)
NightMist
Visionary
Argent Adept

NightMist
Argent Adept

NightMist

Martial: (probably my worst)
Fixer
(ExPatriette)
KNYFE
Setback

(ExPatriette)
Setback

(ExPatriette)

Champion: Perfect!
Infinitor
Zhu Long
Dawn
Progeny

Zhu Long
Dawn

Dawn

Cunning: Perfect!
Baron Blade
Chairman
Miss Information
Green Grocer

Baron Blade
Miss Information

Baron Blade

Eldritch: (no THIS was my worst)
Bathory
Lifeline
Biomancer
(Akash’Thriya)

(Lifeline)
(Akash’Thriya)

(Lifeline)

Bruiser:
Fright Train
Operative
(Bugbear)
(Heartbreaker)

Operative
(Heartbreaker)

Operative

Quarter-finals:
(Dawn)
(Writhe)
(Lifeline)
Operative

Semifinals:
(Dawn)
(Lifeline)

Finals:
(Lifeline)

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As soon as Blade was given his second round, I figured he was going to sweet it, right up to the last minute. Quite the twist.

But how the hell did he get back from the Realm of Discord on his own?

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Thats going to be my follow up since he would be lacking Devices at that point. 

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Is anyone else concerned about the 12 foot tall rat dressed like a train out there now?

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After listening to this episode, I think Fanatic is a good candidate for one of those 'power downgrades'...

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It's OK, Jansa "reset" everyone.  Except Baron Blade.  And Visionary.  And Argent Adept.  And Expatriette.  But everyone else is all good.  Except Bugbear.

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