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BATS

Expo: I brought a personal for each of his rounds in the tournament so far. Go back and re-read the verse in question if you don't get one. Nessie Menace has lost to Bleu and Aggo and was recently caught biting. If you don't know what letter blocks are, fuck you. Formatting a hard drive is when you wipe all the data off of it, usually by replacing all of the bits with zeroes.

Yeah but you capitalized the first U which didn't rhyme with anything, so the scheme looked fucked even though it TECHNICALLY wasn't.

ANOTHER fire battle!  Both battlers were super dope.  Again,  I only chose a winner because I had to. I based my decision on who's verse hit with me more and who's flow was SLIGHTLY more fluid.  Kudos to both.  Great show. 

Bleu took this

Good lines from Bleu. Schemes and wordplay we're used thoroughly, really tryna win here with all the elements incorporated.

A lot of well thought out lines with good flow to it from Shodan. I think what's going to be the difference maker for me is the cohesiveness and moreso understanding the verse. We gotta take the battle in face when judging a single battle. Y'all both showed out. Great matchup. Fair is in.

One had harder punchlines here due too better execution, and apart from that both verses had personals and creative concepts which were used effectively, one verse had a few more misses than tha other imo which lead to my voting decision ... Fairs in, good luck to both in this round ...

Didnt expect da vote to got this way. Both was going the personal route but one was more detailed about it. 

One rhymed alot of words to the punch which some can call filler and some can call a build.. 

Other was on some im better and you know it shit flexing with da personal vengeance..

All in all the loser had the better start to the battle. The winner had the better set ups to ME .. good punches from both .  fv in fellaz

I liked this battle and felt both came out the gates strong. However one lost steam eventually after their opener. With lines that weren't flowing for me. This was mainly down to the wordiness and the schemes. At points the schemes were not rhyming in my accent and even putting on an american accent I thought it was rather forced/slanted. They were very wordy in the way that I felt there was too much build up between punches and that affected how well they landed imo. I usually don't bring the whole "style" aspect into my expo's in text but I did honestly feel someone's swagger was a bit more stand out today and that made the read more interesting. That wasn't the only factor that got them the win (lol). For example I felt they were more frequent with their hits and the way the setup a concept and then went onto execute it was clever af. Although a lot of this has come across negative, I want both of you to know you put on a good display. I just needed to explain myself as well as I could as this was closer than I first thought. Rating this at 8-7. Best of luck getting to the finals. 

Close battle felt one flowed way easier and had way more punches throughout the verse fairs in

Close as fuck, read this like 4 times. I think Bleu came with the more cohesive piece from start to finish, when read aloud all the rhyming was clean. Shos verse was really on par for the most part in terms of being clean, but I just think he got slightly over powered conceptually, ever so slightly. I think Bleu had the BOTB. Bleus bars were a bit more aggressive, I liked the concept Sho tried to tie in with referencing Bleus previous rounds, but just didn't come off as strong in the end. Fairs in, honestly think either of you deserve to go through. Good-luck. Bleu - 8 Sho - 8

Bleu took more of the complexity route whereas Shodan took more of the personal route. I felt like Bleu was better at his complexity appraoch than Shodan was at his personals approach. Dissing someone for having made grammatical errors just doesn't hit that hard, even if you're absolutely right about their mistakes. I felt Shodan's verse would've faired much better if he had stuck to the approach in his opener where he had the meth/speed concept going. I did feel that Bleu's verse had references that needed the expo. I'm aware of the argument that obscure references with expos are fine because it allows for more creative avenues, however, due to my personal preference, if this had faced a verse that presented complexity without as much reliance on expos, I would've given more weight to that. Nice battle fellas!

MVGT: Bleu 7-6

Good read but one took this all around for me

Classic Clash.! Punch Count was The Deciding factor for me. Bleu was Great at Multis and Setting up but the punches were just not Shining as Hard as Sho's

EVERYONE HATES WHEN I GIVE THEM A 6 simon

Bleu carried some nice schemes but coulda thrown more punches ..... Sho was good conceptually but I wasn't feeling the slant rhymes

RAPpintor's unexpo'd vote removed.

Rai's unexpo'd vote removed.