Countdown -- Tournament suggestion

Nonce Equitaur 2

Possible tournament -- Countdown. It would be exclusive to characters that deal with countdown tiles. Alternately, these could be the characters that get buffs. An option might be that some of the fights are Maggia and Hammer, and they also get ranked teams. They could possibly win the tournament if they aren't beaten down. The characters that deal with countdown timers are the following:

Wolverine (X-Force)

Black Panther
Iron Man (Model 40)
The Hood (Classic)
The Hulk
The Punisher (Dark Reign)

Ares
Black Widow (Original)
Captain America (Modern)
Hawkeye (Modern)
Magneto (Marvel NOW!)
Moonstone (Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel)
Spider-Man (Bag-Man)

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my god those are some awful, awful characters. It would just be an IM40 fest.

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Interesting idea and definitely would force people to come up with new ideas for teams. No buffs at all or just 80% to 2 stars, so they would become competitive with 3 stars.
*already has some teams in mind *

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DumDumDugn wrote:

my god those are some awful, awful characters. It would just be an IM40 fest.

Yes, they are awful characters due to the way countdown tiles suck.

However, many players have (unknowingly) dumped a lot of ISO (and maybe some HP) into developing these characters, most likely before they understood how bad countdown tiles suck.

Take a look at how long that list is. That's a *lot* of countdown-related characters.

This kind of tourney would be a nice make-good for people who rely on, or at least spent time & ISO developing countdown characters.

Maybe there could be a more interesting theme that just focuses on lesser-used characters, anti-heroes or something. For instance, Magneto Marvel Now is, or should be, a perfectly good character and he's never been a featured event character to my knowledge. Punisher is also arguably an anti-hero character as well.

Plus, there's also poor Bag-Man Poor, poor Bag-Man

Nonce Equitaur 2

Another group of characters is those that mark up tiles in ways other than countdown.

In the tournaments, characters that use Countdowns or mark up tiles in other ways usually take second fiddle to characters that instantly cause damage or disruption. As mentioned by some others, the characters that fiddle with tiles would make many different good teams. Often, it's predictable which characters will predominate in a tournament. If all the tile marking and countdown characters got buffs, with 200% buffs to rarely-used characters, 100% buffs to moderately-used characters, then we'd see some new team mechanics.

Invisible Woman (Classic)
Wolverine (X-Force)
Doctor Doom (Classic)
Magneto (Classic)

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powerful enough
Spider-Man (Classic)

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powerful enough
The Punisher (Dark Reign)
Bullseye (Dark Avengers Hawkeye)
Captain America (Modern)
Daken (Dark Avengers Wolverine)
Moonstone (Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel)
Spider-Man (Bag-Man)
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)
Hawkeye (Classic)
Iron Man (Model 35)
Storm (Modern)
Venom (Dark Avengers Spider-Man)
Yelena Belova (Dark Avengers Widow)

Nonce Equitaur 2

Add in Hulk and Punisher for this Tourney idea, both have Countdown tiles.

Nonce Equitaur 2

With thirteen countdown-based characters in the current roster, I thought this idea was worth revisiting.