LM Classic: Yraelz vs. feverish

Thanks to Yraelz for an intense if somewhat frustrating battle. As my opponent won't be able to respond to this final round and most of his arguments seem to be progressing in concentric circles anyway I'll try to keep this brief. Apologies to any UTW fans who have found this debate to be dominated by stubborn arguments over technicalities rather than fun and creative battle strategies. ____ Monkey. I think I've made my points here; Monkey is not a god, nor omnipotent, nor over-powered compared to my opponent's team. It is very annoying to be told I haven't responded to points I have refuted at great length especially when my opponent keeps on modifying his argument in respect of this issue. Pro: "he never does any comparison between monkey's powers and my team's powers." False, see round 3 where I made direct comparisons of speed and other powers. Pro: "Monkey has overwhelming powers, he's a god, he's basically omni-potent in many aspects." I've explained why he is not a god and my opponent then dropped those arguments. There is no justification given for the label of "omni-potent" [sic] which means all powerful; something Monkey is not as I have given many examples of things he can't do (like move faster than 3 of team Pro). All of my opponent's characters as well as most non street level characters in this tournament have "overwhelming powers". ____ Street Level. It's quite insulting the way Pro has attempted to paint my conduct as unfair and I endorse his recommendation for the judges to make their own minds up here. There is a clear contradiction from Pro where he says "...arguing he breaks rules. It's true I do this. However I'm not arguing he breaks rules". ? Pro hasn't responded to me pointing out his acknowledgement of Black Alice being more powerful than Ichigo. This seems to me a clear concession that Alice doesn't fit the bill. If my opponent really wanted a "fair" debate he would have stuck to the rules himself, hopefully his bizarre argument that he has played fair by breaking the rules and I have marred the debate by following them will not convince too many readers. ____ Negative One Sec My opponent seems to have a logical blind spot here and I can only conclude that he is intentionally playing dumb. Pro: "He never travels, he never starts early, he just gets to the start of the match first." Surely I'm not the only person who can see an inherent contradiction here? This argument is anyway completely void if Sentry waits for Seph to cast reflect before he attacks as my opponent suggests, this would clearly give the head start to my team rather than his. ___ Sentry. Pro: "there is no precedent for Dracula's innate ability to just sense people. Otherwise Van Helsing sneaking into his castle multiple times would have been "sensed"." I don't know what version of the novel Pro has been reading. Dracula always seems to sense the actions of the main characters and at no point does Van Helsing enter, let alone "sneak in" to castle Dracula. Pro: "Sentry's hard light constructs. I'm just winning this argument." I can only envy my opponent's self belief here. Throughout this debate most of his assertions about Sentry have been wildly inaccurate and his suggestion that the existence of the Void is an example of Sentry intentionally flooding an area with hard light is the worst one yet. Like the partial mind wipe discussed in earlier rounds, Sentry created the Void unintentionally (a quick glance at the wiki confirms this). More importantly the Void has none of the characteristics of the field of hard light my opponent describes. There is no need for the "bunch of new arguments" my opponent fears because his own claims do not support each other. Pro: "Sentry never travels through the hard light. I said he lowers it before he moves in round 1." Nowhere in round 1 can I locate such a claim. My opponent claims my characters are bound but his can move. There is no logic to this. ____ Black Magic If Sentry launches at my team at the very start of the battle, or even before it as my opponent wants him to, then he will not acquire the protection of reflect and will be controlled by Dracula. If he waits for Seph then the rest of my opponent's strategy is completely void as Sentry will not have his head start. ____ Pro: "In the same way the fact that Monkey can't see through smoke doesn't mean he can see through all other things." Smoke is mentioned as a specific exception to the rule of what Monkey can see through. No other exceptions are given. Pro: "None of my opponent's light filtering equipment would ever have dealt with something as powerful as a million suns of light. They don't work and probably fry due to extreme heat." The points about other vision modes have been dropped, the link on light filtering which explains how white light (like that from a sun) can be filtered from the visual field has been ignored and the "frying" is a new argument in the last round. ____ This debate was certainly hard work but I think I have successfully argued my case. I thank my opponent, the judges, the tournament master, public voters and everyone else for reading. Con.