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Bestiality.

That's why they call it the best.

Have you seen that video of the chick who lost the bet? Had to ******** her dog, and post it on Facebook. It doesn't show much, but it is downright NASTY

The Overlord Clause (stolen from HoH) basically lets a judge nerf, change, or otherwise make a decision on an ability at any given moment. Or to make any decision they see fit for the sake of the tournament, really.

So if an ability says "chains as strong as steel" a judge can step in and go "You know what? I think that's a bit much. They're weaker from no on for the sake of balance." In this case, the judges decided that the quality of the chains being breakable was more pertinent than their likeness to steel.

Like I said before though, if it was an issue.. the judges should have seen to it in profile grading. But this sort of hindsight judging on abilities does happen, rarely. Normally it comes up when the wording of something is vague and a person makes it definite in a way that the judges had not desired or interpreted. Such has "I make a fireball" being "I make a sphere of all consuming holocaust flames capable of incinerating flesh from bone."

Is it fun to deal with? Not particularly. Much you can do about it? Not really, it's an instance of making a judgment call on an ability's potency, not on the logic of it. So saying "But they're strong as steel!" isn't relevant anymore, because the judges have decided that no, they aren't, by interpreting the breakable aspect to be more important than the steel part in the sense that they've decided how breakable they are, rather than utilizing the likeness-of-steel description.

Such is life in the GTB.

At first I approved of this as a necessity.
Then I thought 'what if a judge did this to me mid-fight. Man that could really ruin what I'm currently doing'.

So basically at any point in my fight if the judge decides something is too powerful they can choose to immediately ruin your current attack and strategy just because the other person calls you in?

That could lose you the fight just because they do a shitty job of moderating at the start.

How the ******** is it fair in a competitive environment to suddenly lose something you were otherwise guaranteed, sometimes during an attack or a defence?

The basis is that the move was previously approved, but when it's seen in action, it exceeds the power level relevant to the fight.
Like Sigil's chains bro. How would you like to be caught up in pretty much an auto-disease, near auto-grapple, auto hit? It's not fair to the other person.

Rp fighting is about being fair to the other person, while asserting yourself as dominant. If you can't find another way to show off the character, there ain't no business getting into a tournament, bro.

Imagine if we lived in a wacky world where you had some idea of what the acceptable scale of power was for the tournament before entering, so you could minimize the possibility of being in that situation. And if profiles were graded by multiple people to make it more likely that issues would be caught in grading, rather than in the middle of a fight?

Crazy s**t right there.