User blog:John1Thousand/End of the Summer Tournament Signup

It’s time for the tournament! I’m feeling refreshed right now, and I’ve had plenty of time to write Death Battles, OMMs, and DBXs of my own design. Now, do I have lots of free time? Hell to the no. There’s high school sports and school around the corner, I have lots of work hours, shows to catch up on, and my own fights to write... and, finally, a social life! But, also, you guys have been waiting long enough? Hell to the yes.

The format shall be the same; thirty-two characters, single-elimination bracket. Voting will remain with the same format of K.O. or Death. Registration, however, has changed somewhat.

You are allowed to nominate two characters, but you can only do one at a time, and must wait for at least five more nominations before selecting your second. If registration is bleak and/or interest is lacking, you may be able to nominate more with my permission. Of course, as host, I will submit a nomination on my behalf to start, and perhaps one later down the line.

Please pay attention to the following rules.

A picture and the name of the franchise must be included with the nomination

Death Battle Fanon rules apply, even though this is DBX. This means no wiki users, anything past ecchi, or real life celebrities.

Joke characters have a 99% chance of being denied entry with extreme prejudice. Comedic characters like Sokka and Luigi are good to go, but jokes like Muppets, memes, Spongebob, Big Rigs, memes, inanimate objects, memes, FNaF, and especially memes, have no chance.

Please vary with the characters, to make it interesting. A large part of this is introducing me and you guys to some interesting characters.

No Undertale. Most characters simply stand still while you play a minigame to defeat them, and from that, somehow everyone is multiversal.

No Steven Universe. I have my reasons to never get involved with it.

This is the big one, as my effort to reduce salt: between the official shows and three wikis, DB, OMM, and DBX, a character you nominate can have no more than four completed fights. This is to eliminate more popular, and thus salt-generating, characters, whether or not they frequently win or lose. Even if the fight they were in is heavily contested or poorly written, it still counts.

Nicholas Wolfwood has no completed fights on any of the three wikis, or the shows. He is eligible.

Ivy Valentine has two completed fights, one on the official DB and one on the fanon OMM. She is eligible.

Bowser has a crapton of completed fights. He is not eligible.

Please keep in mind I can deny a character for whatever reason, such as perhaps there are too many swordsmen, or too many Capcom characters, or a character is too powerful to write with integrity.

Please keep in mind that there is a 31/32 chance your character will lose. Do not nominate someone if you will throw a tantrum if they lose.

With that said, let’s get to the good stuff! For my first go, I will nominate the smart, serious, Wings of Justice: Tsubaki Yayoi. A diamond in the rough from Blazblue, I found her to be incredibly interesting and expect her to be a fun character to write. I can’t think of any thematic opponents for her in a regular battle, so hopefully he gets a good share here, where theme means absolutely nothing!



All right, hit me up! and stay tuned for a link to the tournament's main page!