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

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Good battle WarSand!

Expo: His old username is exwhyzee (XYZ). His crew's leader is DaDDiO, who's avatar is a baphomet (Symbol for the Devil). Plus the rest of his crew has dope killer rhymers, hence "Devils". XYZ are the last 3 letters (digits) in the alphabet. If you put your last 3 fingers (digits) down on your left hand it makes an L.

I got Student edging this due to a better scheme, and a better connecting bar.

X-Y-Z

Ea-Si-Ly

Meet-In-Hell

See-The-L

Total:12

Logged-Out-In-Some-Years

Bars-Down-Yet-Is-Weird

Falls-Count-An-Y-Where

Total: 15.

Althought stastically War had more syllables than Student, his schemes were stretched to the point where barely anything rhymes. Bars is only a partial rhyme iwth Logged (if that), but the biggest mistake is in the last multi in the scheme. Falls barely rhymes with Bars, and Anywhere doesn't rhyme with Yet is Weird or In Some Years (The Latter two do rhyme). In contrast, almost every syllable rhymed in Student's verse with the exception of Meet and See which are also stretched, and partial lines.

As for concepts, War's set-up was not really connected to his punchline, and the double meaning was a bit shaky too. However, in all it was a decent bar, but still kinda dissapointed cause i've seen better from you (if you are exwhyzee). However, just considering the concept you came up with, it hits harder, since it's a personal.

Student, you went with something really creative, which I appreciate, but I don't think really hit that hard. The set-up connected better though, but I've never heard to anyone refer to fingers as digits, unless you're counting with your hands (and even that'sa bit of a stretch.)

Rhyming: Student (6-5)

Concept: Warsand (7-5)

Execution: Student (6-5)

Structure: Tied (8-8)

Total: Tied (25/25 - 25/25)

Since it was tied when I calculated your scores based on my personal voting system as shown above, I decided to give the tiebreaker to Student, since he was better in more categories than Warsand, since Warsand only beat Student conceptually. However, Zone's lackluster rhyming and worse execution, gave Student the edge.

Great Battle To Both Of You

Pretty average WarSand bar, which means it's still damn good. Student I think tried to over complicate it a bit. Right left hell etc. Not really crucial to the concept. And,  It was a dope little connection he found, but I think calling Warsand "the last 3 digits" was just a bit too far for me and I couldn't get there. I definitely dig the home run swing from stu, but o think on this occasion the cleaner more solid bar edges it out. 

Tough. Student obviously put a lot of thought into his bar. But tbh I didn't understand the devil bit until the expo and it had more to do with inactive crew members than Warsand directly so it didn't hit hard. Warsand's bar was pretty basic...talking to Stu a little bit. The pen/pin wp wasn't great but liked the concept and it stuck with the setup angle of painting Stu as a middling type opponent. I think Student was miles more creative here but the execution on two disjointed concepts in a single bar just wasn't there so I gotta lean toward Warsand.

the thing is one was more creative and i like da punch more but the multis were broken and the other wasnt as creative but simple yet had more smoother multis. but i got one edging this here. GL guys. Keep Elevating.

i had been torn for a long time on this battle which is why i did not vote yet, the things which threw me off where student calling fingers digits and the pen and ring reference from exwhyzee. overall i think imma go with x for the better flip. 

WarSand's bar was okay, but didn't have much of a wow factor. Stu's bar was decent but was a little TOO complex to be translated into a hard-hitting punch even though it made sense. Both of you were technically sound and know how to structure a punch. So my vote comes from who's punch landed harder. Best of luck to whoever advances.

Running with Student here only because his bar was thought out. Wasnt GREAT but it made sense. Sandy, you're my dude but your wordplay didnt hit both ways (so with the pen, you outside the ring) that works but (so with the pin you outside the ring) doesnt. I get what you were doing but me personally, if it doesnt make sense both ways, it's bad wordplay. Please dont take that as bad criticism.

Tryna drop this vote real quick here; I think Stu actually had one of the best bars I've seen from him except there was 1 problem - letters are not digits. Numbers are digits, letters (and numbers) are characters. Sand came with a reasonably simple bar where the wordplay didn't really work both ways. Honestly I think this could go either way but I have my winner based on their angle just being a bit stronger. GB

Punk's vote deleted at his request due to misunderstanding a bar.