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I also don't inform people on how they fight with their characters. I don't tell them "If you're going to use boxing, I better see some legit tactics that are used in boxing." If I see something that doesn't make sense, like someone throwing a hook and trying to say it was as fast as a jab in the relative sense against an opponent with equal competence and reflexes, I'll say so in my comments. It's not my responsibility for people to keep up with this knowledge. You come to this tournament to test this knowledge against other people. We're a competition, not a school. If we see something off, we'll say so. We do what we can to inform people how to do well here, but it's up to you to make it logical to us.

This has nothing to do with profile grading, and anyone who uses that as an excuse will just have to wake up to the reality of what it means to join a roleplay tournament. Over all tournament it has been like this: your profile is let in as it is, but you get graded if you do something illogical in the fight. There have been times when I have seen judges make bad calls despite the ability having been let, but sometimes, you just have to judge based on the fight as a whole, and you can't ever fix a character fully during the entry phase. We're not a profile grading school. Don't act like this is suppose to be a high class tournament where everything is perfect.

If you want perfection, go enter a martial art competition, sneak a brick into your glove, and when you're caught and DQ'd, complain to them that it's their fault for letting you in with said brick due to their poor inspections.

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Thats a very interesting defense. I think its highly dependent on being extremely quick though and deadly precise. Thats a lot of things that need to happen perfectly to avoid being cleaved in half.

Wow. OK, well, you answered my question. XD

How you can even pretend like the way you worded that passage and the ludicrous argument you're making now are one in the same, I have no idea.

But your answer is "Yes, I expect my abilities to win the fight for me, requiring minimal thought and effort on my part."

So that's my answer to you. If you don't see why people don't care for that in a roleplay tournament (not a tournament, the roleplay part is first and foremost) then you're going to keep having a bad time.

But here's a little thought exercise for you: If I was somehow allowed to enter a character with a gun--just me, no one else... and I fired said gun at practically point blank, no real way of missing given the velocity...

By your logic it's OK for me to say "It's not my fault your characters cannot teleport and are limited to the speed of a world class human athlete, and thus cannot dodge the bullet."

And technically it is, because someone (Vin) was stupid enough to let me in.

So say I'm the guy with the gun, you're the character that gets shot (and assume for the moment you're not a ridiculous undead, you're more like James--powerful but human, and mortal). Try that on, see how it feels.

I really hope you showed these breathing moments in her fight, then. Remember, this rate is still under our jurisdiction of what we consider fast enough. Anyone who enters into high burst activity in real life can probably sustain it for up to three minutes. Since these are more powerful humans, we can consider that five minutes. For your character, she can probably hold it up to six or seven before she finally reaches the mark of "oh man, my body feels like it just ran for miles." This assumes just general body activity, not additional fighting manuevers. That is what I'm going to be judging on.

This means I should be asleep.

You know.

If you think about it.

How long do most RP fights usually last?

Like a 34 post fight 17 each. Of course it depends on what happens exactly in the fight but I would have to say its not a lot. Thats like 4 minutes, at the most but more like 2 or 3.