Correction - 

this CREEP'S RHYMING'S* was how intended to write it

&

didn't mean to cap "tried" in the closer. 

Was entertaining for an 8 line tbh I hate the whole idea that battles must contain these huge serious haymakers and shit and it sometimes make battles dull. Me personally I prefer a little comedy touch. Lock I didn't like your opener nor did I like the Cassidy bar. The jackass one was pretty funny along with the Casey Anthony bar. Sax, same your opener wasn't for me. Never open a verse saying something like (something something's the only time something something) it's just a bad way to open up especially for an 8.. but the rai bar was your best imo. Had lock winning for having a better count of bars that hit.

I felt like one dude brought the best out of the other. Punches from both were on point but my winners were more effective along with the creative wordplay he had along with it yO. Fairs in

Cool little bout here. Got Rieper with the win here just on the consistency of the punches and the smother rhyming and more polished structure. Saxx did pretty good here, tbh, I liked that raise standard line but the issue is the other lines were a lot weaker imo (which is what gave lock the edge on the consistency of the punches). Cool bout but got lock ahead 

I wrote a long expo but the page crashed oof so I'll keep this briefer than I would. Either battler feel free to hmu in IMs if you want more expo/

Rieper you came extremely light here. Your opener and closer were decent, but they comprised half your verse and were the exact same Saaxxx/sacks nameplay which took away a lot of the impact. Also, your middle two punches were very very very light due to the lack of content that actually had a double meaning (I think the Casey Anthony punch was really filler tbh and GOOD's/GOODZ was the only actual double meaning in that bar). 

Saaxxx this was your best outing to date I've seen. Your multis were off cadence-wise, but they didn't feel too forced and you threw a lot of punches. Most of them were very light, although I thought the Monday Blues bar was decent. The Rai's standards one stood out to me as a well-done personal. Some of your concepts were hella basic (charm/magic) or a little pauseworthy but you had a lot of them and for the most part they were decent.

In what may prove to be the most controversial call of my voting career thus far I'm giving this to Saaxxx. Rieper had two bars that hit harder than Saaxxx's whole verse, but two bars that hit softer. Plus, the two top bars from him were the same nameplay. Rieper had the edge smoothness-wise but in the end I thought Saaxxx was just landing more real punches.