Welcome to Round One of the 2023 Text Grand Championship Tournament. You have until the 25th @ 11:59pm to submit your bars. Late entries will be DQ'ed... Best of luck. 

One just flat out made more sense here.. in every way the word can be defined. It's pretty clear so I'll leave it at that. Fair's in.

Nice clash here guys .. CGRs writing style is very reminiscent of RBT .. im sure I got a message from someone called verbgod awhile back claiming he was werdsmiths brother.. hmm  the plot thickens lol . My winner was just too technical in all categories here FV

This was clearly one sided. One was cleaner and coherent. Fairs in. 

Ha, ha, ha really?  Ya'll still think I'm BarTendeR?  Seriously?  I'll drop an audio open battle verse tomorrow to prove it ain't. But all good. Good Luck Masked. 

felt my winner had the stronger multis and punches .fairs in

Fun read from both i respect both MCs and i salute da RM mention from Maskd here. One was kinda funny and had a personality going  the other had lots of wp, personals, flips and many other concepts that hit hard so i got my winner for this round. FV is in. Gl to both. 

Expo 

- his other battle styles are like Bartenders 

- he lost to Arrow 55, 55 under retirement age

- satanic church service, a pentagram is lit on the floor connecting fire lines 

-B/Beyoncé/ single ladies 

-he changed his name just before the battle from "Cant Get Right" to Bnah

Bnah: Saw potential here but lots of played concepts here, the whole "your Mom is a hoe" part for more than half of your verse just wasn't creative enough. Last part was decent but not enough to justify the W here. You had some good inner rhymes but overall your setups were too stretched out for your ending punches. Work on trimming out the fat, any filler that doesn't relate to your punch can get scrapped and you'll be on the right path. Again, some good parts in here, it was mostly your concepts that didn't help you.

Masked-Reaper: Good drop overall, seen better from you tbh but still an enjoyable read, flow & punches were tight and personals took it over the top. Not much to critique here, had a few spots where you were rhyming just to fill out the multi's if I'm going super picky but it flowed well so didn't really hurt you.

Overall: Pretty one sided battle here tbh, Bnah stuck to his mom jokes concept but Masked came with a legit battle verse with all the technical aspects while keeping it easy to read. Props to both honestly, filling out a 16 isn't easy, keep elevating y'all!

thx for the read. Thought one got this due to more natural wording and better scheme work. GL to both

My winner had the more consistent drop good battle overall just the winner was more agreesive.