KILLERS. MOTHERFUCKER.

KILLERS

Congratulations to both of you for making it to round 2 of One Bar Tournament #8!

The deadline to post by is Monday 23rd March, 11:59pm EST.

Good luck!

Expo... 

He did infact bite and it was recent. RULE found proof and banned him. He bit two lines from two different live battles on the YouTube channel, MicMurderahz. He bit a live battler known as Daylyt. This was against Punk in the last gc. 

The Real Deal as in Evander Holyfields nick name, who was the boxer that Mike Tyson bit on the ear, and the real deal as in real live battles. 

Need an expo for anything else just ask yo.  

CakedOut's second expo has been deleted for swaying. It is against the rules to post rebuttal of your opponent's bar. It's actually generally against the rules to post a second expo of any kind, but since I can't see any harm in it I will allow you to repost the following portion if you so desire:

Expo #2: my bar is a triple entendre if you know the winner of race matches arm gets raised at the very end.

I thought this was an excellent and close bout where both hit at the top of their ability. I thought one came through ahead here with better flow due to more extensive rhyming, so my vote goes to Rai. Excellent battle, it's ridiculous this is getting slept on.

This was a decent battle, although I feel one's idea was considerably forced. The other's wasn't the freshest either, but the execution was there. I would caution jamming multis in the bar just for the sake of having them, but I digress, good battle. Vote is in.

Going with rai here even though his bar was played lol. Cakedout, rai sin/raising dont work. At least for me because I dont pronounce rai sin like raising. But ya, that was your only hiccup there.

Congratulations to Rai for most creative bar of the round!

LINES-HE-WILL-GO-AND-STEAL

BRIGHT-EN-ING-SO-LAR-SHIELDS

TY-SON-DID-HO-LY-FIELD

Syllable count: 18

PUNS-AT-TACHED

WON-THE-MATCH

Syllable count: 6

For rhyming, Rai clearly outclassed the opponent with a longer scheme and more multis. He had a tiny bit of internal rhyming witht the "deal" rhyming with the last syllable of the scheme too. Caked had the average two multis (not that that's a bad thing), but the scheme was extremely basic.

As per the bars themselves? Rai managed to hit a 2 punchlines in a bar, with the last 1 hitting harder than the first, with the first acting like a jab leading up to the final punch. Both hit extremely hard though, and i've never seen a concept (solar shields / daylyt) work as both a punch and a set-up at the same time. The bar was creative, hit hard, and had plenty of amazing wordplay and set-ups to boot. Caked, your bar had good structure, and you had a decent concept, but your execution of the bar brought down its potential. Some of the wordplay was stretched a bit, and didn't work both ways. Other than that, it was a decent bar, but with better set-ups and wording, could've been a lot better.

Rhyming: Rai 9-5

Concepts: Rai 9-7

Execution: Rai 8-6

Structure: Rai 9-7

Total: Rai 35-25

Tl;Dr: Rai won an all fronts.

Good Battle

Close ... i read it 2-3 times over. Cakedout i felt your line fell a little flat at the end ... 3 syllable multies never come out right. i usually do 4-5... makes it a little smoother. + the lines were long and it hurt the flow ... I felt your concept was a bit nicer though. Rai .. Ur Multies weren't as simple, but felt kinda forced. try to think of words that run together smooth, and just try rhyming words that need to be rhymed know what i mean? Bonus point for coming personal. Not putting u niggas down, just constructive critisism. Good battle , Fair Vote

Rai: You had a potent personal. I don't know enough about Cake's supposed biting but it's good you explained in the expo.  The whole line dealt with that concept, so there was relevancy. The  "Known For Biting The Real Deal" like how "TYSON DID HOLYFIELD!" line was clever because "Real Deal" was Hollyfield's nickname and it was just a great metaphor. But it also means you're comparing him to Tyson, which is more of a praise than a diss, but I get the overall point about biting. 

CakedOut: Your set-up wasn't really relevant to your main punch (unless I'm missing something). It doesn't necessarily have to be everytime, but it may have helped the main point of the bar hit that much harder. The “rai-sin with the arm” its cos I “WON THE MATCH” line, which is the main nameplay/metaphor meat of the line just didn't hit that hard for me as a metaphor or punch. Yes, winners get their "arms raised", but there are so many things that are much more comparable to either "raising arms" or "winning" than each other. Plus it's just not that disrespectful, which to me, is the point of a punch. The nameplay and metaphor are just embelishment, but the real goal and the way I rate a punch is how disrespectul it is...and saying he raises arms because you won the match just isn't hurtful.

With all that said, I'd five Rai the edge here. Good luck to whoever advances.