Season Intermission Grandmasters

Grandmaster is the unofficial term given to the multiversal entities that host the Grand Battles. This article concerns those who host the battles of Season Intermission. See The Grandmasters for more information on what a Grandmaster is.
==Season Intermission Hosts==
===The Broadcaster===
The Broadcaster (created by TimeothyHour) is the original host of LAST THING STANDING. He is currently dressed in a particularly snappy prison uniform repurposed into a sort of suit. While a larger-than-life personality, he prefers to act through mediums like the Announcer to both run his battle and his broadcasting network. At the end of Round 1 of LTS, he is arrested by the Broadcasting Standards Authority and sentenced to a twice-life non-parole period of imprisonment. The Broadcasting Standards Authority then has LTS taken off the air, and sends the contestants to a nice resort to relax.
In jail, the Broadcaster sent a representative to the Outsider, convincing them to start QUIETUS. He also (ab)used his phone privileges to broadcast himself, meeting the Sociologist and in a fashion persuading her to start Journal of Sociology. The development of teleportation by certain individuals piqued his attention and brought him into contact with Brian Rethrick, who after some prodding started The BATTLE of the CENTURY.
===The Broadcasting Standards Authority===
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (created by Schazer), known sometimes as Brostauth, is the replacement host of LAST THING STANDING. They are an entity created by The Copyright Police to enforce some semblance of order upon the battle. They adhere to/are a rigid code of ethics. 
===Don Itallio & Femme Itallio===
Don and Femme Itallio (created by Solaris) are the hosts of Vendetta. Also known as the Godfather or the Mafia, Don Itallio is the head of the Multiversal Mafia. He seeks an heir for his position, as he is growing old and he has outlived all his Family heirs. He is an not-quite-elderly man in a black suit with grey stripes, and apparently spends a lot of time in his leather chair.
Femme Itallio is only described as the Don's partner. She wears a dark red suit and a red fedora over her black hair, which makes her, ultimately, not Carmen Sandiego.
===The Incompetent===
The Incompetent (created by Ixcaliber), also known as Alan Cuthbert Hall, is the host of DEATHGAME 9000. The Incompetent was once a mortal scientist, but in when a completely baffling experiment to make infinite cheezits went wrong, he managed to turn himself (and much of his extended family) into Grandmasters. He is a bright orange man in a lab coat and tie, and has the habit of losing the thread of things a lot. He is also, as his name may suggest, incompetent. Spectacularly so. So much so that he had to steal the plans for his robotic Gentlemen from another Grandmaster, the Machinist. He also managed to trap all his contestants inside his savegame data. Despite everything, all he wants is to run a battle so that he can belong in the ranks of Grandmasters.
The Incompetent has currently lost all, or most, of his powers after being afflicted by a curse from an item from the shop of Elizabeth Hixley. Liz was a contestant from a failed attempt to create a battle, who was then placed in Journal of Sociology as an apology by The Incompetent for accidentally killing almost every instance of one of that battles combatants.
===The Haruspex & Vox Nihili===
The hosts of MORITURI TE SALUTANT. The Haruspex (created by Wojjan) is a pale, translucent skeleton of a woman, dressed in a silky gown that seems to be made of textile acupuncture. She hates people talking behind her back, which is why she's running Mori now.
Vox Nihili (created by XX), otherwise known as Stephan or Stephanoxis, was a former Grandmaster who was killed by the Haruspex for (shudder) keeping secrets. He passed on his duty to run a battle to the Haruspex, since his children couldn't do it. Because he ate them.
===The Outsider===
The Outsider (created by Sanzh) is the host of QUIETUS. It is a singular being, and it's not entirely clear what personification it even is of - it is among the kind of personifications where the Heat Death of the Universe is practically normal. They speak of themselves in the multiple, and usually offer a wide/varied/vast choice of delicious adjectives and nouns for the uncertain/confused/thesaurus-less to choose from! It sees the battle as a way to learn about more mundane organisms. They were convinced to start QUIETUS by the Broadcaster, acting through one of his Gentlemen.
===The Sociologist===
The Sociologist (created by Agent1022) is the host of Journal of Sociology. She is dressed in a lab coat, and sports navy blue hair that has one prehensile lock. Despite being a sociologist, her grasp of social interaction is somewhat lacking, as seen when she inadvertently compliments the Broadcaster on his girth. She is obsessed with experiments, seeing the battle as just another sociological petri dish in her collection. She, surprisingly, has very little to do directly with gendery matters.
===The Brian Rethrick===
Brian Rethrick (created by Godbot) is the host of The BATTLE of the CENTURY. A member of the Council of First Contact Ambassadors, who was sought out and co-opted into running BotC by the Broadcaster, who seems to get around a lot for someone ostensibly in prison. He's had to deal with both the responsibilities of running an actual battle and the ancillary responsibilities of running a battle while being part of COFCA, which means things like red tape, broken photocopiers, red tape, missing paperclips, red tape and red tape.
===The Coach===
The Coach (created by Lord Paradise is the host of The $300,000 Fight-A-Thon. He is a balding middle-aged overweight man (at the start of the battle at least; his appearance is a manifestation of his emotional state) who runs a battle in order to raise the three hundred thousand dollars he needs to buy the orphanage back from The Realtor.
==Other Grandmasters==
===The Housewife===
The Housewife (created by Ixcaliber) or Evelyn as she prefers to be known is the mother of The Incompetent and the host of The Bickering Buddyfest, a battle that the contestants of DEATHGAME 9000 are thrown into when she shuts down his idea for a second round.
===The Machinist===
A mechanically minded grandmaster who is mentioned in the first post of DEATHGAME 9000 as the source of The Incompetent's robotic gentlemen. Probably like his cousin or something.
===The Raxu===
The Raxu (created by Ixcaliber) is a multiversal hivemind with only tangential interest in grand battles. Its goal is multiversal conquest carried out through infiltration and conversion. It has varying ways to present itself based on what it believes will be the most effective in any specific scenario, though the most common is as Raxucorp; a hypercorporation that can provide for all of your needs. Its individual units are insectoid in nature, but can through larval implantation take control of other species. Raxu Agents are almost universally considered very attractive for their species and are assigned names from a small generic pool of names so as not to stand out. Its relation to battles is mostly found in Nameless, a character beholden to one universe's branch of Raxucorp, though a pair of Raxucorp Agents have also made an appearance in QUIETUS.
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