Board 8 > The Most Epic ERB of History D19 - WINNER RESULT + Bonus Match

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Epic Rap Battles of History!
Historical figures. Famed creators. Tyrants. Heroes, fictional and real. They've boasted and boosted themselves, dissed and slayed each other (sometimes literally!) in rap battles throughout last month. All to get the title of The Most Epic "Epic Rap Battle of History".
Thirty two rap battles earned their place through your nominations and now one has emerged as the victor.

But who won?

And the winner, with 21 votes, is:

King vs. Poe: 21 (stafoc, v_charon, Lopen, JonThePenguin, trdl23, GenesisSaga, BetrayedTangy, MartinFF7, bwburke94, KommunistKoala, Ngamer, Fluttershy_Pony, hylianknight3, Raka_Putra || Overtime votes: Player_0, Snake5555555555, Great_Paul, Colegreen_c12, Johnbobb, Anagram, _Blur_)

East vs. West: 16 (Crescent-Moon, azuarc, Bitto, ChichiriMuyo, Paratroopa1, DreamEater12, junk_funk, handsomeboy2012, Cybat, GANON1025, hombad46, Mythiot, SockoressKnight, FFDragon || Overtime votes: Hbthebattle, KCF0107)

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Congratulations to Stephen King vs. Edgar Allan Poe! The rap battle is officially Board 8's Most Epic "Epic Rap Battle of History" of them all! All other rap battles will triumph nevermore!

But now, there's one final battle that needs to be done...that's right, who actually won in the most epic rap battle?
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BONUS MATCH
[Stephen King vs Edgar Allan Poe]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56R3hU-fWZY

• 1 vote per user per match
• No unvoting or changing/editing your vote once posted
• Voting will be open for 48 hours
• No vote trading

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Vote form:
Stephen King/Edgar Allan Poe

Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen King

not my favorite but probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite so very solid winner!

Thank you everyone for voting! I love this series so I'm so glad to get good amount of votes for basically every battle!

King vs. Poe is a great battle and IMO it deserves a win, though it's not, like, a personal favorite. I hope this series introduced the featured ERBs to new listeners, or perhaps allowed for new appreciation of them.

And to @_Blur_ I'm sorry that I just saw your post, but that's a great idea about extending the voting time for the semifinals/finals. Hopefully you enjoyed the rounds where you got to vote nonetheless.

Stephen King

Stephen King

Great result. Was my favorite in the bracket by a comfortable margin. Great contest idea too had a good time watching these and actually watched a few that weren't in the bracket too.

Stephen King

"Poe's poems pwn posers" is what tipped my vote in favor of East vs. West

King

Great final. Even though I voted East/West, I have no problem with this outcome. Its almost kinda nice that a traditional ERB won

Stephen King

though major respect to the guy who does Poe who I think only did that, Shakespeare and one of the Doctors? He should've been in more, like maybe not Zach Sherwin level but more than just 3 appearances, geez...

King/Poe winner makes me feel better about the Vader/Hitler blowout, and Philosophers probably in the low 20s of the 32 that made the contest for me so good outcome. Though it makes Gordon Ramsay/Julia Child the ultimate loser. It truly deserved better!!

King won.

I've stated my disinterest with this champion in previous voting threads. I'll just allude to that rather than repeating myself.

Stephen King

Stephen King for sure

I'm fine with the winner. Poe/King is one that I hadn't paid much attention to before the tournament, and it grew on me a lot as the tournament went on.

While I know that X-Stats aren't the most mathematically sound thing to do for a contest like this, I wanted to see what they would look like anyway. The results sure are... something.

1. Poe/King - 50.00
2. Alexander/Ivan - 45.00
3. Philosophers - 43.24
4. Jordan/Ali - 37.60
5. Thanos/Oppenheimer - 31.76
6. Jack/Lecter - 29.90
7. Directors - 29.41
8. Fawkes/Che - 28.83
9. Deadpool/Fett - 27.03
10. Newton/Nye - 26.47
11. Henson/Lee - 25.44
12. Hawk/Gretzky - 23.17
12. Joker/Pennywise - 23.17
14. Zeus/Thor - 22.22
15. Einstein/Hawking - 21.62
16. Potter/Skywalker - 21.38
17. Mario Bros./Wright Bros. - 20.35
18. WW/Stevie Wonder - 20.27
19. Roosevelt/Churchill - 19.66
20. Batman/Sherlock - 19.08
21. Rick/Walter - 17.78
22. Ramsay/Child - 15.09
23. Jobs/Gates - 14.71
24. Artists/TMNT - 13.84
25. Dracula/Vlad - 13.73
26. Ash/Darwin - 13.07
27. Bond/Powers - 11.20
28. Napoleon/Napoleon - 11.10
29. Vader/Hitler - 10.00
30. Zulu/Caesar - 7.91
31. Russians - 3.68
32. Ruth/Armstrong - 3.27

There are three first-round exits in the top ten (two in the top six!), and they seem to mainly there because they lost to one of the only two battles to play King/Poe anywhere close: Philosophers and Ivan vs. The Greats. (Jack the ripper barely lost to Thanos/Oppenheimer, but it lost to Ivan vs. The Greats and didn't get blown out). In general there weren't a lot of close matches, with the exception being the second quartile of the bracket which had a ton of them. So while it's hard to say this represents any kind of true ranking, I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

I prefer Poe's portrayal by a mile but King won by a landslide

I suspected the final brought in some people who never vote that voted disproportionately for Philosophers and I think those lol x-stats certainly suggest it. A lot of the bottom half that were well regarded by regular voters like Jobs/Gates and Artists/TMNT look super weak now

Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen King

King

Well, that was a landslide victory, King totally shut down Poe. Votes, money, success? Poe'll always have less. Nevermore!

Stephen King: 16
Edgar Allan Poe: 0

stafoc posted...

I'm fine with the winner. Poe/King is one that I hadn't paid much attention to before the tournament, and it grew on me a lot as the tournament went on.

While I know that X-Stats aren't the most mathematically sound thing to do for a contest like this, I wanted to see what they would look like anyway. The results sure are... something.

1. Poe/King - 50.00
2. Alexander/Ivan - 45.00
3. Philosophers - 43.24
4. Jordan/Ali - 37.60
5. Thanos/Oppenheimer - 31.76
6. Jack/Lecter - 29.90
7. Directors - 29.41
8. Fawkes/Che - 28.83
9. Deadpool/Fett - 27.03
10. Newton/Nye - 26.47
11. Henson/Lee - 25.44
12. Hawk/Gretzky - 23.17
12. Joker/Pennywise - 23.17
14. Zeus/Thor - 22.22
15. Einstein/Hawking - 21.62
16. Potter/Skywalker - 21.38
17. Mario Bros./Wright Bros. - 20.35
18. WW/Stevie Wonder - 20.27
19. Roosevelt/Churchill - 19.66
20. Batman/Sherlock - 19.08
21. Rick/Walter - 17.78
22. Ramsay/Child - 15.09
23. Jobs/Gates - 14.71
24. Artists/TMNT - 13.84
25. Dracula/Vlad - 13.73
26. Ash/Darwin - 13.07
27. Bond/Powers - 11.20
28. Napoleon/Napoleon - 11.10
29. Vader/Hitler - 10.00
30. Zulu/Caesar - 7.91
31. Russians - 3.68
32. Ruth/Armstrong - 3.27

There are three first-round exits in the top ten (two in the top six!), and they seem to mainly there because they lost to one of the only two battles to play King/Poe anywhere close: Philosophers and Ivan vs. The Greats. (Jack the ripper barely lost to Thanos/Oppenheimer, but it lost to Ivan vs. The Greats and didn't get blown out). In general there weren't a lot of close matches, with the exception being the second quartile of the bracket which had a ton of them. So while it's hard to say this represents any kind of true ranking, I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

Thank you for the X-stats! I personally don't really understand them but I'm so happy to see this tradition, really feels like B8.