QUARTERFINAL Round Submission Deadline: August 23 at 5pm PST (GMT -7). Good luck fellas!

This is gon be a monstrous battle..

Expo: Rai still can't spell for shit (see what he said about me "romin" in the arena). Benadryl is an antihistamine. In checkers, you flip your pieces to make them kings when they get to the other end of the board. The Gold Standard is when money is backed by gold.

No you idiot. The correct spelling is ROAMING, not ROMING

SHODAN........ JESUS WHAT AN OPENER, HAD TA READ THAT TWICE BUT REALLY FUCKIN CLEVER, THATS SOME WTF SHIT RIGHT THERE.  LIKED THA FIRST TWO PARTS IN THA NEXT TRIO OF MULTI SETS, THA 'HOOKED UP TO A MACHINE' PART WOZ AN OK FINISH.  'MASTER OF CHEQUERS' BAR WOZ A QUICK LIL BITCHSLAP, AND HAD QUITE A QUIRKY SET UP PRECEDING IT.  'MECHANICAL PENCILS' BAR IS BACK IN THE HAYMAKER TERAIN ALONG WITH YOU OPENER, THIS IS ACTUALLY A BIG HIGHLIGHT FROM YOUR VERSE AS THE SET-UP WAS PERFECTLY WORDED.  OPENER TO YOU NEXT BAR THO, I FELT IF YOU CHANGED THA WORDING FROM ''YOUR BACK IN A STRETCHER'' TO ''YA BACK IN A STRETCHER'', YOU WOULDA HAD A DOUBLE MEANING ADDED TO THAT PART AN IT WOULDA PACKED SLIGHTLY MORE OF A PUNCH, BUT THE LAST TWO PARTS OF THE BAR WERE REALLY ENTERTAINING AND WORDED EXTREMELY WELL, AND STRONG, NASA COLLECTORS, CANNIBIS TESTERS LMAO, VERY FUCKING NICE.  DIDNT FEEL YOUR CLOSING FOUR AND A HALF LINES WERE AS CONSISTANT AS THE PARTS PRECEEDING IT THOUGH, ITS NOT THAT THE CLOSER WAS WEAK OR NIT WORDED RIGHT, I JUST FELT THE BREAK-UP OF THE STRING OF MULTI SCHEMES REALLY HURT THE FLOW FOR ME AND KIND OF CHOPPED IT UP A LITTLE, STILL NICE LINES THO AN SET-UP WELL, JUST DIDNT FEEL THE CLOSER JUSTIFIED SOME OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT HAYMAKERS YOU HAD WITHIN YOUR VERSE.  VERY ENTERTAINING READ AS A WHOLE THOUGH, SOME OF THOSE BARS WERE INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE.

RAI.......... GOOD OPENER, THE MIDDLE PART OF THE TRIO STRING OF MULTI SETS WAS MY FAVOURITE PART, LIKED THE SET-UPS HERE ESPECIALLY THOUGH.  REALLY LIKED THE 'CODE INSPECTIONS OF A ROOF' FINISH TO THE NEXT STRING, AND I LIKED THE CONCEPT YOU CARRIED THROUGH THE ENTIRE SET, GOOD STORYTELLING, REALLY LIKED THAT ACTUALLY.  REALLY GOOD NEXT SET TOO, THE 'PLANET MARS' PART AND THE 'AVATARS' FINISH I LIKED ALOT, AND THE CLOSING PART WAS SET UP EXTREMELY WELL IN TERMS OF WORDING.  CLOSER AGAIN THE STRING OF MULTIs WERE CONNECTED WELL AN STAYED CONSTANTLY RELEVENT TO YOUR OPPONANT, JUST LIKE MOST OF YOUR BARS HAVE BEEN THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE VERSE.  GREAT VERSE ALSO.

THIS IS A CLOSE ONE, SHODAN WAS DEFINATELY WAY MORE COMPLEX WITH HIS MULTI SETS, AND SOME OF HIS CONCEPTS WERE A LEVEL ABOVE HIS OPPONANT AT TIMES, BUT RAI's VERSE WAS MORE CONSISTANT AS A WHOLE, AND HIS VERSE WAS MORE PERSONAL AS A WHOLE I FELT.   IS A FUCKIN HARD CALL THIS ONE IF IM HONEST, YOU COULD MAKE A CASE FOR EITHER VERSE WINNING HERE.  OK IVE MADE MY DECISION, BY A HAIR THOUGH.  GL TO BOTH, MAY THE BEST MAN WIN.  FAIR IS DROPPED!

^^^ SORRY IF THERE ARE ANY TYPOS IN THOSE BREAKDOWNS, I WAS TYPING IT AS I WAS READING EACH VERSE BAR FOR BAR LOL.

Shodan:

I enjoyed this. Part of me really wanted to love Benadryl Foray because it was very creative and the multi was hot but another part of me was sad with the been a drill/benadryl WP. I think from here you actually went off pretty hard with a lot of consecutive hits. the 5 line sequence of Tube/Cellar/Checkers/Devil/Pencils really built up a lot of momentum for you as I felt all were strong. Think you finished the verse decently, some more WP would have been nice and also some bars directed specficially at Rai. I felt the closer had a lot of potential but I just wasn't sure like when you say you want to back your paper with the metal, like your backing your money with a gun? I just wasn't too sure although I knew what the idea was. Overall, didn't see any mistakes in the verse and was impressed with multis, the pace, and creativity. 

Rai:

I dunno I feel like at the start here right away i was thrown off. Retribution of this parable's looking is just such un-natural wording. Also, I don't see what his execution being terrible footage has to do with his head being on the chopping block outside of the execution link. From here it was alright, Scope when you shoot was a line I liked alot. professionally hang a level above is another one that made me take a double take but the punch for that was nice dude. I thought starting a line with "basic text tourney?" was really weird, like how is that a question? why? From here, I also know in ur last battle with Shodan u mentioned his loss in the 1bar so to repeat that topic again takes some points off for me. Ifinity Emoji War was completely bonkers (in a bad way). Overall, I thought your multi work and ideas were top notch but the execution in terms of wording was lacking a bit and there were a few lines that stuck out a lot as far lower quality than the rest. 

Vote concealed. GL guys.

This was a decent bout. My loser here had some nice bars, that incorporated good set-ups and packed a big impact, but too many of his lines fell flat, tbh. Reaching quite big on some of them, I think I would have to give execution to my loser, though... but the material he was presenting is what let him down. My winner was just a bit fresher, incorporated better wp, and his execution wasn't bad, I just thought the loser was a tad bit better in that department. My winner did have a miss here and there, though -but not enough to hinder the creativeness he showcased in the rest of his verse. Fairs in, good luck to both of yall!

Nasty battle here. Yooo shodans metaphors are sick and rai got some burns in there. Peace.

Votes in..

Good fucking battle!

My winner barely took it for.me.wit a cleaner read, better jabs n harder punches

Rai that lasting impression bar was dumb fire but I felt you could have come harder through out I've seen better from u but still all around good shit fair vote

This was a really close battle I believe but I'm leaning slightly towards the one who I believe packed better punchlines. FV GB

i like the concepts from both....my vote is going to the cleaner 16 that seemed a litttle less forced in areas than the other....fair is left

Battle of the round right here for sure! Multie game was almost flawless from both and both had there personals landing. I think overall it’s down to personal preference on who takes this one but I’m going with who I think had th more consistent punches landing. Good fucking battle guys. Gd luck to the winner in the next round

Shodan came wit fukkin good wd n punches, i feel like da only ting i dont like about mans style is he use da complex punches to reinforce very simple n repetetiv points, da how man is wit ladies lil scheme was a exception, i liked dat shit, anyway man can fuckin rite n da flow was a smooth reed.

Rai, i had 2 put on a brain accent 2 get da rimes in da 1st 3 lines cuz it red broken at 1st but u get away wit it haha, thout ur concepts for da pounches wer mor streched den shodans in all fairness, trampolines 4 avatars bein a prime example an u were pretty level in terms of angles, and sum of da punches wer just a bit underwelmin 4 me, n i felt u cud've ended stronger, similar level of streched scheme n da fact u sayin man cant make a lastin impression isnt da most insultin shit u no?

i feel like ppl work backwards from da wordplay or wat rimes n c how dey can fit in in2 da ting, like 'i cud make dis b about guns, and da ting dat rime wit dat cud be sayin dat he dont puff a lot of weed' n i think da onus shud b more on thinkin of wat u rlly tryna say bout da other guy, tailor made n made it fuckin rough, insultin, i wanna reed da shit n go dayum, cos its not enough 2 hav clever wordplay 4 a bodybag, its got 2 b sayin sumtin hard about da opponent, dats wat i feel 4 u lot takin dis all serious but yh im dun goin off on 1 i got my winer

both had some nice punches here but imo one edged it with better concepts and execution and had bars where tha punch was executed quicker whereas tha other had lots of jabs which didn't really come accross for me ... fair's in

Now this was hot. Both came with some heavy bars. 

OK now one did have a few lines that seem to be add ons. Like just to contain a flow. Did a little damage to your self to me . punches where great. Ender was nice but scratchy. 

Other guy. Wasted no space. I'm talking connection after connection. Killer punches  relative structure. It was a good read. Ender was strong work.. 

Respect to both... Fv in fellaz #Gang

one had some decent lines but came with some forced multis, my winner had proper multis and some nice hitting punches. Loser would of done better if he tied his multis in better and had stronger setups, I saw what he was trying to do but it didnt flow well. voted, fair. do the same.