Welcome to Semi-Final Round of the 2023 Text Scheme Championships

Verses are due Tuesday, December 12th by 10:59PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME

Voting ends Tuesday, December 15th by 10:59PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME

Your 5-syllable Scheme is: "MURDER WAS THE CASE"

Make sure the first poster, puts the scheme in the user comments!

Good luck, have fun, and Thanks for Playing ;)

DPS

DPS! 

Entertaining battle here, from both. My winner done better with teh scheme than the other. Props to both. Best of luck to whomever goes through. 

Okay, this one took me a while. I had a winner on first read but I had to go back just to make sure. One battler I feel had the better bars, and overall the better verse. Other battler followed the scheme better and also had solid bars. Both did their thing. Here, I've gotta go with the one that schemed better, as this is a scheme tourney. This will be a toss up for sure because I don't know the level of scrutiny voters will apply. Fairs in, & good luck.

Scheme: MURDER WAS THE CASE

Turnbull

DPS

Expo: Pick Lock, ear to Metal, hands/Lock spinning -> visuals on a Burglar picking a safe.

a pen decide dis / appendicitis, condition where the appendix bursts / inflames and causes stomach aches. These types of punches produce the same effect

"right clique / right click", cut n paste... on a PC you can cut / paste all with the cursor. Some lead ins revolving around how he's been in like four different crews.

iBattle, "Bad / Luck", Dot, "Hart sounding choppy", "Murmur" -- Lockhart had a battle versus Bad Luck on iBattle and pretty much unanimously won. He later battled Dot who many people feel had such a strong performance/delivery that Lock lost 0-1. Heart Murmurs are a condition where the heart sounds choppy or rough as it beats

This six-shooter fits you PERFECT IN THIS CASE cause this "Revolver arm got a mind of its own" - that's WORD TO LIQUID SNAKE! -- i hate you. lol. this was fire.

gb!

^ "Many people" might just be the comment section of YT.

Crazy battle. Both had dope multis with the scheme and stayed on track, ones punches landed harder here and his concepts were fresher

EXPO: Kevin Durant had a burner account on Twitter that he got exposed for. When you're on a Twitter Space, you have to ask for permission to talk. Metal 'n kids/Meddlin kids. Scooby Doo, y'know? Tim McVeigh was the OKC bomber. In Metal Gear Solid 2, Revolver Ocelot was given Liquid Snake's arm as a replacement for his missing arm and it would take over Revolver Ocelot's mind and control his actions. There's a tool you can use to check chains to see if it's fake or not. If it's gold-plated it turns your neck green.

Good battle, MG. Burglar does to safes line was nice.

ACs. Ear to Metal setup was nice tho.

DPS 

I wanted to be fair on this one so I decided not to vote. I just wanted to give some constructive criticism.

Metal you went in on this one! You had the punches.

Lock you always have the references. 

Punch lines are easier to understand because you don't have to think too hard to get it.

References are good but not everyone knows what you are referring too, you've gotta google it , know or just get it.

It helps when you break down your verses a lil bit so others can know how to score them without being too judgmental.

References and punches is a plus! And knowing your opponents weaknesses. I'm def gonna harder next time on you Lock!

The few battles I was in and voted on or just viewed already taught me a lot! I'm coming stronger next battle or competition!

Good luck to the both of you!

One was more creative & used the scheme in a stronger way. 

fair vote in 

DPS

this was closer than expected. Think one did the scheme better. He had more hit and misses, but when it hit, i felt it was better than anything the other put out, ofc imo. thought the other was more consistent throughout but i found myself to be more dependent on his expo to get some of the sht, which i aint a fan of. i dont think there's any losers here, but a winner must be chosen. Goin w/ one who's drop was more to my preference. 1

Feel one honestly was better here surprised tbh gb

Wow! This battle was fire. Metal, that opening bar was freaking CRAZY! Like that was one of the best setups I've ever read. Lockhart, you kept it consistent and had the 2nd best bar in the battle w/ the figure skating reference. 

Hahaha

Props Metal for going toe to toe with Lock