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Athena can deal.

The best way to deal with that kind of stuff is to go back to basics. If you don't have fundamentals, no matter how much power you have, you can't use it fully.

I agree for the most part.

but there are bounds of reason, reason that I feel your opponent has crossed.

*shrugs*

I'm sure you'll do fine, once your judge call is in. You have been at this a long time.

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I find this hard to believe.

Link me to it.

Never put faith in people to make their own interpretations without the expectation that every interpretation will be different and thus, a potential source for problems. Tournaments don't use strict rubrics to stifle players or to maintain a hyperspecific methodology; they're strict to make sure that the room for interpretation is minimal so as to avoid two participants figuratively walking into their fight with entirely different ideas of what they should do and how they ought to go about it.

It's not because people are stupid or malicious; everyone will interpret every rubric their own way. But by being as thorough as you can be in your explanations, you minimize the difference between each interpretation because there's less to interpret in the first place. The idea isn't to get everyone thinking exactly the same, it's just to get them on the same page.

Everyone makes mistakes. That's just inevitable when you're running a roleplaying event of any sort. Freeform roleplaying is pretty ******** abstract, so a lot of what goes into running a tournament is a mixture of trying to minimize the potential for mistakes, while learning to play off-the-cuff for when you do inevitably make mistakes.

The worst thing you can ever do is operate under the pretense that you can't or won't make a mistake.

I would not be surprised with how Hollywood is when they make the decision to remake Rocky. Dunno just a funny thought, Rocky vs The North Korean. They will somehow go further, making it MMA base.

People better fear me. Once I knock the rust off.

A beam katana... *sigh*

Why can't we just focus on actual technique? To truly outfight the opponent, maneuvering to gain the upper hand? Don't let your weapons and powers do all the fighting for you!

Your blade is plenty 'special' already, animu hero.