One sided here...Grizz had the overall better and more well structured verse with some good hits like the change his stripes bar. Stryker should pay attention to the verses as the tourney goes on so he can get a good idea of what to aim for if he wants to continue improving here. 

Pretty one sided here. Grizzy had punches, M11 had a freestlye-type drop. Punches win battles win punches. Actually feel grizz went 'overkill' here in comparison to M11. M11 keep at man, don't focus so much on the rhyming aspects (for now) and focus on your actual punchlines, then build them up. Anyway, good luck to both. Fairs in, i'm out. 

January 7th: Round One Posting Deadline

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I got Grizz winning this unanimously. Better punches, better concepts and much more direct compared to stryke. Stryke seemed to come unprepared and his verse was more of a cypher than a battle. 

I feel like Grizz got this easy.. Way better readability with solid punches and metaphors. M11 just couldn't match ... Fairs in folks!

Grizz had better rhyme schemes. Lines stiched together. Much easier to read. Better multis. More punches. Easy vote. M11 you were good but should have switched out Christian lines for punchlines. FV

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Nice spar, one was stronger here though. 

Fairly obvious win for Grizz here. Had a fairly standard Grizz drop with smooth rhyming and witty punches whereas M11 was mostly rambling and didn't really have anything resembling a punch.

Gun bars? naw yo, it wont be a FAIR FIGHT IF I BLAM so i'll play my "Trump card"..(whats that?) ionkno, i jus told my goons "AIR STRIKE N I RAN"!

^^motherfuck !!!!

one sided battle here honestly, stryker you got pitted against one of the all timers of the site and what really impressed me was how he showed you respect and went in hard inspite of that man. something we all should learn from i think. this was a battle done in the right spirit, stryker try developing your rhymes like ur opponent's here and you did be fire bruh.

Grizz's verse sucked with reach after reach even by Grizz's reachy standards. But it was a verse with actual punches which his opponent barely had. So Grizz basically gets an auto-win here. Fair's in.

Loser needs to cap multies, have better setups and punches, and be more creative. 

One sided battle here. I'd strongly suggest the loser pay attention to the later rounds of the tournament to get a better feel for what's expected from their performances on the site. 

i thinks its obvious w for Grizz he put in a more complex structure and got da creative punches down. GJ dude. M1 had one capped multi and was basic for most his verse. Try incorporating more multis, structure and wps in ya verse ans youll get there. Fairs in.

This was a pretty one-sided battle tbh.

GRizzEAT your opener was solid; I noticed you seemed to use a lot of wordplays or whatever where "i" was pronounced the same as "e" (pen/pin, rem/rim); I'm sure this works in your accent but maybe avoid using this in big battles cos not everyone may be convinced.

M11STRYKER you had a lot of rhyming but you really lacked structured punches or any of the structures necessary in a battle verse, like CAPITALISING YOUR RHYMES (like GRizzEAT did here).