An entertaining read on both sides here. My winners concepts were executed cleaner and his piece read smoother too. Some nice punchlines on both sides though. Best of luck to whoever goes through. Fairs in, gents. 

I thought this was closer than it was until I read it a second time. One's wording issues and odd choice of phrasing lost it for him. Fair's in.

Entries due by: 11:59pm Est on the 10th

Expos:

1) rappers 50 cent and Eminem easily won rap battle beefs with Ja Rule and Benzino in the 2000s

2) Tupac's mom was named Affeni Shakur and she died of a cardiac arrest which is heart related in 2016

3) Rum Nitty aka Cornell Powell his real name is a battle league rapper often performing at URL events and hes from Arizona

4)  Affinity said "shots shots shots" in his text battle with the Chode formerly Armed and Hammered

5) Call Of Duty: Infinity Ward is a video game.. COD is an abbreviattion

6) Affinity means Empathetic in the dictionary

7) apparently Affinity probably had a older account..he said to one the vets here "havent u in 12 years"  and it says where he lives "Over There"

8) my last opponent in the tournament was a one battle battle w/ Row and i lost to him

9) Affro/Aff Row. Afros are puffy hair

Destined 4 Greatness/Write Power

This was hot! Really good battle here.

D1: The Affini line was hot, really good line. Great punch and set up too. Overall a solid verse, ccme bette than I've seen you lately.

Affinity: Really solid opening bar, loved the chess concept. I liked the diss ability too, simple but executed well. I dug the Luke & Dad line too. This was a nice step up from your first battle nice to see you do it in a tournament too.

Overall, really solid battle here, hard to call honestly as both had some stand out lines and both came consistent. I got my vote, fair vote in no hate.

expo:

- Nimzowitch defense is a chess defensive opener with a knight movement. Knights move in L's

-reverse image search his PFP and it thinks you are searching for adults with disabilities/diss ability.if you dont want to do it yourself here is a link to a screen shot of it: https://freeimage.host/i/h7REZv

- wake is for people to see dead folks...Wake Forest is a Division 1 (D1) school here in the states. NCAA is the athletic association that oversees them / N See A double F (AFF)

-every verse he uses quotes on things that mean virtually nothing. Luke/Darth vader is the most common misquote of all time

- his old name was GammaRaymond, Lead is one of the few things that can stop gamma rays

-R.I.P.D is a movie with Mary-Louise Parker.

Option 1

Punches/setups- 7.3/10

Multis- 8.8/10

Concept/schemes- 7.9/10

Wordplay -7.8/10

Showout factor- 7.1/10

38.9/50

decent drop super heavy on multi usage and wordplay flips. The punches were very scatterbrained tho some landed. I don't feel like this reads diss honestly. But well written rap for sure.

option 2

Punches/setups- 8/10

Multis-7.3/10

Concept/schemes-8.1/10

Wordplay - 7.4/10

Showout factor- 8.3/10

39.1/50

decnt drop here, good setups leading to decent punches, some landed flush and others a bit questionable. Wordplay and concepts were ok, also hard to read at times tho. I do feel he show'd up like this a tourney compared to previous work. That's a ver heavy swing for me.

very close, neither were perfect but a good read nonetheless. Good luck, fairs in

gb Affinity 

The fair one is in. To me, one verse is clearly better than the other one. 

Tough decision here 

creativity Vs a well crafted verse. 

Destined, your punches had some very good creativity, but the set ups lacked back on some of them.... a few of the multis just didn't set the punch up ... "dudes dumb silly" for example, it's forced & u wouldn't hear that in an diss battle. Work on those and ur good to go

Affinity, you got the flow & multis on point but some of the punches were either stretched (Nimzowitch was good but I shouldn't need to google punches), Slingshot line was played... or some of the punches didn't hit that hard (Mary Louise finisher for example)

this can go either way, gotta put the vote in so fair decision is in  

GL Both 

Wp

Ok i relized the dumb silly line dont sound right..ok got it

Great Battle

This one is a hard one to pick alot of quotables here with comparable flow and mulities. I have the winner with the most intangibles pulling out of this one for me with a stronger overall performance. But based on preference could go either way. Good Match and GL gentlemen.

Destined that cutting a fin off was fire lol but I feel like aff hit harder especially with his first punch. I was like "wtf is a nimzowitch defense?" Lol so yeah he got it with the vocabulary and his bars were setup and executed at a higher rate/level. I've seen better from destined and don't doubt affinity could do better either. Anyways, props to both for dropping. Respect the fair

D1, your verse is jam packed with forced multies. The awkward delivery really hurt your punches which is too bad because there were some decent ones. 2pacs mom probably being my favorite. 

Aff had a cleanly worded verse that was much easier to follow and made for stronger punch strength. First punch was pretty dope but for me an expo that points out something I get but missed when reading is cool and doesn't detract from the bar at all. An expo that explains something I never would have known at all doesn't make the bar bad by any means, but it does take some shine off it for me. The diss ability punch is pretty hack at this point and there were some multi issues here and there and i think you could have probably simplified the college football concept bar but overall I say your verse was pretty solid and I got you taking this one.

I had a hard time enjoying either read. (Even with the CAPS) but I have my winner for being slightly easier to read and follow. I feel like tournaments make people try so hard that it ends up making it there verse harder to follow and enjoy 

Nice read here.  Both did well.  One set up could've been a bit better but still got the job done.fv in salutes!

Destined flow wasnt great. Punches really wasnt hittin. Repoint crews with current LB is corny AF in imo. Only time crews were the shit is when LB was deep with activity and trying to do crew battles.  Personals was on point tho..keep doin ya thing. 

Assinity... Flow is good. Knight L moves..I've done flipped them years ago. But good mix with the Nimzowitch. Lol bad diss ability...yeah he gotcha Destined. Not sure what Luke and Vader misquotes are...unless you mean people misquote their scene dialogue...idk 

good battle. see it going either way but personally i thought both had some issues.. one rhymes were off at time whereas the others was just unnatural in some multies... overall, one hit harder.