Iams verse reads like an audio freestyle. Had some funny stuff and dude can rhyme but the verse itself isn't what's gonna succeed in this arena. Read the verses throughout the tourney to see what I mean. Caked got this. Better punches, better overall verse. 

January 7th: Round One Posting Deadline

19:00 EST (USA)

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Ok so I felt Caked just outclassed his opponent here. Caked had simple but effective jabs that overwhelmed Iam, whilst Iam came with pretty played material and just couldn't defend himself. Got my winner, congrats and good luck to whomever advances. 

Cake - I'm not 'buying what you sell' & you're not TOATING WITH PIPES MY MAN but my torture method had him 'hanging from metal', I 'hooked him up' just to SHOW THEM 'HOW NICE (((I-AM'!))) cought that punch/meta at the end there. Nice. All around - Punches were pretty consistant, Multies started off solid up until the very end which the last bar of multie sort of broke apart, but you have already done the damage needed by then. The main thing i actually noticed was the use of word play. That was very nice.

I AM - You started out great, Decent punches and multies. But you started to fuck up with the multies and incomplete punches. I could understand what you was trying to get to. which is a good thing. But the verse as a whole wasn't complete enough as far as holding all basic structures. (Punches, Multies, Metas, WordPlay)

FV In Fellahs  

I'll turn you into a 'joker with this bat-man' but you won't DIE IN GOTHAM, enough with this scheme, he get 'bucks from the machine' haha you THOUGHT A PRICE-SCAN!

- the multies weren't close enough, and because of this, this part didnt flow well...

If you GETTING SMART, with CLEVER BARS, best SEVER HEARTS! Cus without a WEAPON CHARGE, I, ll Break your back like KEVIN HARTS

For the RECORD I hope your RECORDS..NEVER CHAR

Your FORCE is FORCED Fake fony if we DRAW(guns drawn

-these lines had duplicate multies, bad setups, and there were plenty more like it. 

I know sometimes we get in a rush writing, but in all honesty, if we're writing these out over several days, you should be able to piece something a little more complex, together. Fairs in. Gb

one of the best stuff from cakes in recent times shit was all around dope and nice esp the opener, clocked in the face and deion sanders, while NME was caught sticking to a style which is lil dated from a punch point of view currently and that was which kinda worked to his disadvantage here. if you challenege urself and try to update yourself with that sory of well spaced rhyming i did say you did be winning tourneys in no time.

Cheers for the feedback guys... I didn't. Even. Kno I was in a tournament and key'd this up in under an hour....props to cake

.. Good battle 

I got Cake taking this with better concepts and a more fluid verse. Less forced multies and more uniqueness. The opponent did alright but not enough to take my vote. An overall better verse gets my vote. 

Not a bad little bout here. I got CakedOut here because I thnk Nme was just overly basic with both his concepts and rhyming and his drop just appeared elementary overall next to Caked's. Half decent read here though, fairs in.

i felt one was alright but was kinda basic and could been a bit more creatice i think the orrher had alot more punching materisl here and had better metaphors. fairs in fellas! gb.

Overall I thought this was an interesting bout. Caked's drop was nowhere near his potential, and IamTheNme really impressed me with some of their lines. That made this hard to call, and since this is a tourney I'll be keeping my vote concealed.

Caked, I could really see you rushed this. The batman bar was actually decent and could have made a big difference in such a close bout, but "DIE IN GOTHAM" as a multi literally didn't rhyme with anything else that I could see at all. I tried searching, so I'm assuming you forgot to pair it with something cos you were in a rush. Things like this really hurt you here. Other than that things like the price scan punch didn't really make sense when I thought about them because a price scanner doesn't give you bucks, if anything it makes you give money. The clocked in the face bar was basic as fuck but I kinda liked it as a decent one-liner. You also used a ROUNDS bar with the Reeses pieces one (just because things are circularly shaped doesn't mean you can refer to them as rounds. You Must Remember This.). Your closer was a nice end to the verse though.

IamTheNme your rhyming and flow started off well but could be a bit patchy in parts. Overall you had a solid narrative and made a consistent attack on Caked. However, you really need to try punching more. What I mean by that is to try having double meanings in your lines, the Mobbing deep line here was a basic example of this. Try to read up some of the most successful battlers on here, your "alcoholic sobering up" line was one of your best punches the way it had a clever twist so try to have every bar like this going forward.

I'm pretty sure I know which way this will go but I wouldn't be surprised if it went the other way at all. Good spar, and good luck to whoever wins going forward.