Board 8 > RAP BATTLE V: Know Your Roots - Schedule, Results and Discussion

(+) Yeah! (+)

Alright, well given my schedule, go ahead and give it to Curt, then. I'm really stoked for another battle but it's probably best I just read the battles and vote with the stuff I got going on. You can throw me at the bottom of the lift for replacements.

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Digi
I will not rest until I've found a cure for insomnia.

Curt was definitely in line before me.

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From: DigitalIncision | #051
Alright, well given my schedule, go ahead and give it to Curt, then. I'm really stoked for another battle but it's probably best I just read the battles and vote with the stuff I got going on. You can throw me at the bottom of the lift for replacements.

Alright, that sounds fair.

If Curt takes the spot, the replacement list is Extha, Boko, Digi.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

All four of these battles are finished and open for voting.
(16) w_c vs. (17) Chrono
-http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61679816

(24) Tombolo vs. (9) Mer
-http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61679817

(13) Anri vs. (20) Justin
-http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61679837

(21) Ayvuir vs. (12) ngirl
-http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61679830

Next four battles will go up in morning.

We are probably looking at weekend starts for the first batch of round 2 battles (if results hold and Curt replaces in, those would be DC vs Chrono, Curt vs. Mer, Seginus vs. Anri, and Ed vs. ngirl/Ayv). I may post them on Saturday afteroon and just be more lenient on the timing. As always, we can try to be accomodating if people know in advance that the timing will suck.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

oh Digi dropped out

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Mer

From: Mer_Mer_Yes_Mer | #055
oh Digi dropped out

I'm not saying it's Merfear

But it's Merfear

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

New batch of battles to keep an eye on.

(18) MePieThree vs. (15) Menji
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699469

(23) Walrus vs. (10) swordsman 12
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699450

(14) Biolizard (19) XIII
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699451

(22) ForcefulDragon vs. (11) jdizzy
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699468

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

From: Mer_Mer_Yes_Mer | #055
oh Digi dropped out

Digi gave up his spot to people who seem very eager! Digi already beat Mer handily last time. Wasn't even trying tbqh

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Digi
How come autobiographies don't end with the person writing a book?

Merfear

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"What about the lion from Lion King?" - SuperNiceDog

First victory of the season in the books.

I quit.

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From: Princess Anri | #060
First victory of the season in the books.

I quit.

More Merfear.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Also, hoping for Curt to post in here confirming that he is taking the spot.

If I haven't heard by Saturday morning, the match goes up and the spot goes to Extha.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Wait I am not seriously quitting.

If someone takes my spot I'll spit such furious rage in here that you'll all be forced to shun me from the board.

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From: Princess Anri | #063
Wait I am not seriously quitting.

If someone takes my spot I'll spit such furious rage in here that you'll all be forced to shun me from the board.

Merfear fear

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

I'll try to get ahold of Curt so I don't have to replace.


#Merfear

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"What about the lion from Lion King?" - SuperNiceDog

The only thing we have to fear is Merfear itself.

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Congratulations to Rafael Nadal on a Career Golden Slam. - The Mana Sword

I faced my merfear head on

and got quadrupled

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Virtue: You don't need a reason to randomly include Dr_Football in your sig.
Or to rip off Boko.

We have four raps in the field, I'll post them here when voting can start.

The first batch of results have now all gone final. The bracket has been updated accordingly.

warning_crazy vs. Chrono1219 - Chrono wins, 16-0
Ayvuir vs. ngirl ngirl wins, 6-14
Tom Bombadil vs. Mer Mer wins, 20-4
Anri vs. J_C - Anri wins, 20-0

We now have this weekend's matchups set to go. They will be going up tomorrow (Saturday) morning, but due to the weekend we'll be more lenient enforcing the time limits.

SATURDAY MATCHUPS (order randomized in b8chat)
Chrono1219 vs. Dilated Chemist
Curt vs. Mer
Princess Anri vs. Seginus
Ed Bellis vs. ngirl

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

All I gotta say is, we've seen Tebow and SOPA in raps so far and both were done so poorly. Somebody go back to it. Do it awesome.

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Digi
How come autobiographies don't end with the person writing a book?

My Tebow line was not done "so poorly" Digi.

How could you?!

Tom's, on the other hand...

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Congratulations to Rafael Nadal on a Career Golden Slam. - The Mana Sword

TWO BATTLES READY TO GO
(23) Walrus vs. (10) swordsman 12
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699450

(14) Biolizard (19) XIII
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699451


Likely going to sub in Extha vs. FD as soon as I hear back from FD.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Extha replaces FD, gets his spot against jdizzy.

Extha vs. jdizzy
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61713693

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

SATURDAY MATCHUPS
Chrono1219 vs. Dilated Chemist
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61717531

Curt vs. Mer
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61717529

Princess Anri vs. Seginus
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61717528

Ed Bellis vs. ngirl
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61715542

More overlap than I'd like, but need to keep on track/give extra time for weekend.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Ed Bellis posted...
I don't think I could ask for a better opponent in terms of material to work with! (Although I did have a very below-the-belt line planned for Ayv too.) Here's hoping for a good match!

I wish to know this line!

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A Hot Dog will make you a fatty, a SuperNiceDog will make you a GURU!

Ed Bellis, LAYING DOWN THE GAUNTLET

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

COMPLETED BATTLES
-Walrus falls to swordsman, 4-9
-Bio defeats XIII, "17-16"
-DC is out, Chrono probably wins by forfeit, pending final decision

VOTING IS OPEN FOR
Me Pie Three vs. Menji
-http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61699469

RAPPING IN PROGRESS FOR
-Ed vs. ngirl
-jdizzy vs. Extha
-Anri vs. Seg (hopefully)
-??? vs. Mer (Curt need a replacement. I'd prefer to have Digi replace back into his own spot, as we've now lost two of the byes on that side of the bracket, but I haven't been able to reach him)

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Boko replaces Mer: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61735374

Chrono gets the DQ win over DC
DC still needs a replacement for the loser's bracket, facing loser of Menji/Me Pie Three

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

If you can't find someone who wants to enter with one loss in a double elimination tourney, I don't see a huge problem with giving the loser of that match a bye as long as no one else has a problem with it.

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TimJab you a pimp boi

From: BBallman7 | #080
If you can't find someone who wants to enter with one loss in a double elimination tourney, I don't see a huge problem with giving the loser of that match a bye as long as no one else has a problem with it.

Yeah, if we need to I might, i'm not too stressed over it.

But I'm always hoping to recruit potential rappers!

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

touché

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I treat the pen like a gift, and let my passion awake.
When I feel down each word that I write helps me gravitate.
Trained with the pressure of the world on my back, just for practice sake.
My words destroy mountains and lift weights that make an atlas break.
A fascinate in patterns and a verse can take me past Saturn.
I travel to new worlds with each step, sort of like back packers.
My shine flatters but the sun doubted me, I had to show him a contest.
Then proceeded to give the dwarf star a Napoleon Complex.
We can only lose to ourselves, besides that we're unbeatable.
Only way our ego's get crushed is if our self-esteem was low.
I grew up humble, 'til I got tired of lookin' at the walls I had in my room.
So the day before I had my first ego trip I packed my bags for the moon.
Shot for the stars and landed in heaven like a city visit.
Sky's the limit but **** I'm already there, chillin' with Biggie's spirit.
Unlockin' the mysteries of the universe is easy, I just had the key.
Then I defied physics, made some lyrics and dropped a verse in zero gravity.

Little something I wanted you all to read. Sorry, I had to drop out, just goin' through some stuff right now, that's life. Lost someone dear to me but I'll be back. See you guys in a few weeks.

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Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth! SuperNiceDog beat me.

See you soon, good luck.

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TimJab you a pimp boi

Sorry bro. Hope you all the best.

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Chrono1219

Alec, just sent you a message. I'm not dropping out btw, the message is unrelated to this current tourney.

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TimJab you a pimp boi

I have an idea that I want to throw out there to everyone, Alec said he would be interested, this wouldn't take place until after this tourney is over, and I agree with Alec that there will be a rest period after this one before this would start. I'll just copy the message with a few additions:

I was thinking of having it more like a boxing style, where there are different tiers and belt holders. And instead of everyone voting we could have like 5 judges for each battle (judges being different for every battle to switch it up a bit).

I think it would solve the problem we usually have, which is when people get knocked out, the voting dies out, since people can't officially be eliminated. Also in cases like DC or others that are just busy, people could always take time off because they would have to agree to any match beforehand. Once every month or so we could have a "special event" where there are title matches for all the tiers (I'm thinking there should be 3 or 4 of them depending on how many users we get) and a few other potentially exciting matchups.

In between the big events we could hold a couple weekly small battles (one verse each, no actual rebuttals, so you'd be dissing them on past events or just bars you come up with, so that the user that goes 1st isn't at a disadvantage) which would only affect someone's all time record, and move them up or down the rung a bit. If someone holds a belt for a predetermined amount of time, they can move up a tier, and if someone struggles for too long, they can move down.

It also sets up for some other original ideas we could always come up with in the future that we couldn't do before. A royal rumble style battle, or even freestyle battles where users have 10-15 minutes to come up with 4 lines. Tag team battles where two users make verses together to battle another pair. Not to mention easy differences on how each battle is different. Heavy weight title matches could be three 16 line verses, etc. I'm sure we could think of more. This also means users could join at any time which would hopefully keep this going for a while. I've just started thinking this out so many details would still need to be tweaked, but I'd like to know what everyone else thinks.

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TimJab you a pimp boi

Also one more thing I wanted to add, I think it's a good idea to have judges pm their votes to another user, that way everyone comes to an unbiased decision (or at least as close to unbiased as we can get). I'm not saying that people are affected by others votes, but it's possible that in a close battle people sometimes just vote for the user with more votes because they aren't sure, or even worse they vote for the user with less votes just to make it more interesting.

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TimJab you a pimp boi

jdizzy vs. Extha is now open for voting!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61713693

The final battle of round 1!

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Also, the order for the matches in round 2 are now randomized (proof in the chatstats)

swordsman 12 @ rollthebones2
Biolizard @ Giggs

MePieThree/Menji @ Alec
BBall @ Extha/jdizzy

The first three will go up tomorrow morning. That last match will have to wait a bit.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

That's actually a really nifty idea, BBall.

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Thanks

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TimJab you a pimp boi

Well hello there, Board 8. It's been too long.

Got a PM about this, just now seeing it. I take it battles have already started? :/ I would most definitely come back to be in this.

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- Blur -
Welcome to your Divinity.

Haha, I know. I know. umm livin' it up in a new city with a new job, a new CREW and a new love of life and all is well.

How's good ol' B8 doin?

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- Blur -
Welcome to your Divinity.

Reading old rap battles.

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Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest

Hey Blur!

Indeed, we have started. However, we've already had to bring in several replacements, and we still need to officially replace DC, so you can definitely join if you want!

It's double elimination, and you'd already be credited with one loss, so you'd only have one more loss to work with, but if you are willing we would love to have you!

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

Okay, here's our topic update


UP FOR VOTING
jdizzy vs. Extha
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61713693

Anri vs. Seg
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61717528


UP FOR RAPPING
Boko vs. Mer (1 rap down)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61735374

Bio vs. Giggs (new)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61746952

swordsman 12 vs. rollthebones2 (new)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61746953

MePieThree vs. Alec (new)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61746966

CLOSED
MePieThree defeats Menji, 10-0.
*****

Sorry you're going to end up waiting so long to make your first rap, BBall.

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##Alec
Congrats to Guru champ SuperNiceDog! All hail our Guru overlord.

BLUR.

My favorite rap battle ever is still the one I had against you.

http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Board_8_RAP_BATTLE:_tha_LEAGUE_2_Week_2#Battle_26:_Blur_vs._Princess_Anri

Forever.

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Congratulations to Rafael Nadal on a Career Golden Slam. - The Mana Sword

Forever and always, Anri. Nothing will ever top that battle.

I'm down, sign me up! I'm a pretty busy man nowadays but I will do my best to show up for my battle. Lemme know when my first match will be. If I can get my computer fixed within the next couple of days (should be able to), everything will be perfect. Otherwise I'll have to use my campus's library and it should still work out.

THE HYPE TRAIN COMETH

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Welcome to your Divinity.