Congratulations on making it to the quarter-finals. You each have until 11:59pm on the 2nd of April to write and post your 220 character bar. Best of luck, gentlemen.

Decent showing from both here. I have Shodan taking the win in this one, cleaner written piece and a harder hitting punchline. Beat of luck to both. 

Expo: Most slot machines have "bar" symbols with 1, 2, or 3 bars, if you line them up you win a prize

Expo: He dropped a TRI..UMPH bar last round, he was tryna sound out a noise, So a (few at you/ Phew, Atchoo), Yawn, Splat = more noises… Closed caption shows Text(techs) over the Show for the words & sounds.

Best battle of the 2nd round imo. Both concepts were cool, I got my winner based on set-up and impact of their punchline. 

Phracture's bar had a more complex setup with more creative wordplay. It wasn't as straight-forward as his opponent's bar, which is usually what I like to see. Yet despite the perplexity, it made sense, connected quite nicely, and was a much more fortified, entertaining bar nonetheless. He incorporated onomatopoeia as a literary device into one of his takes on wordplay which was a clear and understandable read. In other words, (few at you/ phew atchoo) was extremely clever. along with the techs/text wordplay which I also thought went really hard, scored the W here for me. 

Shodan's bar was also really nice. Not nearly as advanced, but was still a good straight-foward bar. Metaphorical composition towards the end was on point and made total sense; definitely the most creative part of the bar. I honestly felt the expo was unecessary but to me at least. Regardless, the bar he used was rather ordinary and simple compared to what his opponent had to offer.

There could only be one winner and in my opinion the winner knows he won... with that being said MAY THE BES BAR WIN!

First read I thought I had my winner clear but upon really looking.

This was really cleaver ngl. Got my winner with the stronger concept 

Really close one here. I felt one was smoother while the other was slightly stronger. I enjoyed both concepts but I felt like my choice executed their concept better.

BOTR. Felt one was slightly ahead here in terms of flipping their concept into a punch that hit harder.

thought both had great scheme work and decent buildups.. boils down to the end punch for me, and thought one hit a bit harder due to their setup being more related to the punch. 

Phracture: Bar itself was technically good but relied too heavily on the expo, wasn't obvious *they* were other sounds even with the "hear" bit, Sho/Show & Techs/Text wordplays are played too but I liked how you worded it here. Personal angle was a good approach too along with your flow here.

Shodan: Bar was good here, chance/slot machine part was nice, first half could be seen as filler if I'm being super picky but it flowed well along with the rest of your bar, plus the schoolyard insult is nice too see, sometimes these One Bars can get too technical and battlers forget to actually attack their opponents lol anyways props here, quick & simple bar here but it landed.

Overall: Really close matchup here, best of the round so far that I've voted on, came down to execution for me with Shodan edging this with for me, both creative concepts here, props to whoever moves on