Post by Wolfe on Oct 16, 2019 0:01:40 GMT -5
The exhibition tournament had begun. The rules for this tournament itself were simple, the fight went on until one of the two entrants was either knocked off of the arena, their aura was fully depleted, or conceded the match. If both participants are knocked off of the arena at the same time, then the first one to get their entire body back on the arena itself is declared the winner. If two people’s aura dropped at the same time, the match is considered a draw and a rematch is scheduled at the next available open timeslot to declare a definitive winner. Draws were so rare as to be a nonissue in the past, but there was a rule for one nevertheless.
The fighting area itself is white concrete measuring approximately fifty meters by fifty meters raised about five feet in the air. The concrete itself is scuffed and shows signs of use, because it was on this area that all classes that used it in the past. The damage dealt in previous years was repaired, sure, but signs of that repair still remained. This was one of the bigger training facilities with some more equipment nearby, and that equipment was put to good use. There was a scoreboard that was lit up with the names of the contestants as well as their faces gracing the board. Contestants started between twenty and twenty-five meters away from each other, with a five meter by five meter block where each contestant could choose to make their starting position.
The semifinals matchup for Class Green was between Erytheia Hellebore and Rosalia Phoenix. Both blondes had handily dispatched their previous opponents in a devastating fashion. They weren’t forced to dig very deeply just yet, so the skill level of each party was masked to a large degree because of how new Rosalia was to Haven. Neither of them knew the other very well, but each of them had electricity themed semblances that were both in the top tier in terms of growth potential.
This was the second semifinal to be fought for Class Green today. Colton had prevailed over Argent in a match that was on the longer end, with Argent using his speed and ability to deflect most of the power of Polarity with his own semblance to extend the fight by staying out of melee range and turning it into a ranged battle until he got too tired to continue his defense and got overran. This meant that the winner of this match would go on to face Colton Deraine in the Class Green final.
On the other end of the bracket, it would be public knowledge that the finals for Class Red were to be fought between Aegle Verdant and Qiu’li. The winner of the Class Green final would face off against one of those two trainees in the Grand Final to determine who got the celebrity treatment at the Vytal Festival and got to participate in the exhibition round there. That wasn’t all, though, because the winner of the Grand Final would also win the first class competition for their team and would ensure favorable mornings for months to come.
Homeroom became a mandatory part of the day starting at eight o’clock in the morning for everyone involved, and it was a decent half mile distance away from the dorms itself. The winning class of this competition will have their homeroom located as near to the dorms as possible with catering staff to serve breakfast until the next clash between classes. The losing class, however, will be exiled to Training Area Four roughly two miles from the dormitory and will have no catering – being forced to pack their own breakfast or wake up super early in order to eat before heading out. Since winter was fast approaching, this was not an ideal situation for anyone involved and harshly punished the losing team by forcing them to wake up earlier and make the trek in the snow every single weekday morning for an indeterminate amount of time.
Naturally, the stakes were high enough that nobody in the right mind wanted to lose. An extra half hour of sleep every weekday morning added up to two and a half hours of sleep a week – or ten hours of sleep a month. That’s a lot of sleep potentially lost due to the commute over, which could have adverse effects in all of the losing class’s performance in school as a whole. That was a distant away concern at this point, however, as the contestants were setting themselves up on the arena itself and waiting for the timer to tick down to zero. Currently it was at around fifteen seconds remaining, allowing for last-minute adjustments on either side to get that little edge they might need before the conflict began.
The fighting area itself is white concrete measuring approximately fifty meters by fifty meters raised about five feet in the air. The concrete itself is scuffed and shows signs of use, because it was on this area that all classes that used it in the past. The damage dealt in previous years was repaired, sure, but signs of that repair still remained. This was one of the bigger training facilities with some more equipment nearby, and that equipment was put to good use. There was a scoreboard that was lit up with the names of the contestants as well as their faces gracing the board. Contestants started between twenty and twenty-five meters away from each other, with a five meter by five meter block where each contestant could choose to make their starting position.
The semifinals matchup for Class Green was between Erytheia Hellebore and Rosalia Phoenix. Both blondes had handily dispatched their previous opponents in a devastating fashion. They weren’t forced to dig very deeply just yet, so the skill level of each party was masked to a large degree because of how new Rosalia was to Haven. Neither of them knew the other very well, but each of them had electricity themed semblances that were both in the top tier in terms of growth potential.
This was the second semifinal to be fought for Class Green today. Colton had prevailed over Argent in a match that was on the longer end, with Argent using his speed and ability to deflect most of the power of Polarity with his own semblance to extend the fight by staying out of melee range and turning it into a ranged battle until he got too tired to continue his defense and got overran. This meant that the winner of this match would go on to face Colton Deraine in the Class Green final.
On the other end of the bracket, it would be public knowledge that the finals for Class Red were to be fought between Aegle Verdant and Qiu’li. The winner of the Class Green final would face off against one of those two trainees in the Grand Final to determine who got the celebrity treatment at the Vytal Festival and got to participate in the exhibition round there. That wasn’t all, though, because the winner of the Grand Final would also win the first class competition for their team and would ensure favorable mornings for months to come.
Homeroom became a mandatory part of the day starting at eight o’clock in the morning for everyone involved, and it was a decent half mile distance away from the dorms itself. The winning class of this competition will have their homeroom located as near to the dorms as possible with catering staff to serve breakfast until the next clash between classes. The losing class, however, will be exiled to Training Area Four roughly two miles from the dormitory and will have no catering – being forced to pack their own breakfast or wake up super early in order to eat before heading out. Since winter was fast approaching, this was not an ideal situation for anyone involved and harshly punished the losing team by forcing them to wake up earlier and make the trek in the snow every single weekday morning for an indeterminate amount of time.
Naturally, the stakes were high enough that nobody in the right mind wanted to lose. An extra half hour of sleep every weekday morning added up to two and a half hours of sleep a week – or ten hours of sleep a month. That’s a lot of sleep potentially lost due to the commute over, which could have adverse effects in all of the losing class’s performance in school as a whole. That was a distant away concern at this point, however, as the contestants were setting themselves up on the arena itself and waiting for the timer to tick down to zero. Currently it was at around fifteen seconds remaining, allowing for last-minute adjustments on either side to get that little edge they might need before the conflict began.
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