Which Grand Battles Updated This Week

[Dragon Fogel]

Kracht holding a dying Emma - "We're all-stars, remember?" (GBS2)

Yeah, I think this pretty much has to be the first scene done.

[Not The Author]

Amethyst trying to reach The Director at the end of Round 6.

Badass Jordan fighting Eemp, Right, and Rong.

Any fight scene from The Casino Royale.

Glere, in The Ascended City, swinging away from an explosion on his grappling hook. Wearing sunglasses.

Vex, Round 2. Y'all know what I'm talkin' 'bout, awwwww yeahhhhh

[Dragon Fogel]

So, early check. A bit later in the day than usual, but let's see where we are.

Battles that still need to update this week:
Season One: Everything
Season Two: IA, BRS2, GM, ISS2, FC, GBe
Season Three: GBS3, SE, RS, PS, GC, WR

We've only had four battles update all week. Looks like this is going to be a very slow week, hopefully we'll get some more activity before it ends.

[Dragon Fogel]

Season One:
None this week.

Season Two:
The Grand Battle Season Two [GBS2]
The Phenomenal Fracas [PF]

Season Three:
The Spectacular Exhibition [SE]
The Relentless Slaughter [RS]
The Glorious Championship [GC]
The Vivacious Deadlock [VD]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

That's only seven battles. Another slow week.

Post total: 12.

[Pharmacy]

DF did I do this right

[Dragon Fogel]

Blah blah, early check, was too lazy/preoccupied with Professor Layton to do earlier.

Season One: Everything, as usual.
Season Two: GBS2, BRS2, ISS2, PF, GBe
Season Three: GBS3, SE, RS, PS, WR

We're having a lot of slow weeks lately, although some of the specific posts that have been made are encouraging. I realize this is midterm time for some (finals for Southern Hemispherers), but it's still nice if you can squeeze in a post here and there, even if it's a short one.

[Dragon Fogel]

Season One:
The Savage Brawl [SB]

Season Two:
Inexorable Altercation [IA]
The Gradual Massacre [GM]
The Fatal Conflict [FC]

Season Three:
The Grand Battle Season Three [GBS3]
The Petty Squabble [PS]
The Glorious Championship [GC]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

Eight battles, eleven posts. At least we're getting activity in some lagging battles.

[Dragon Fogel]

You guys need to post in more battles so I remember these early checks.

Still in need of updates:

Season One: GB2, IS, BM, SB
Season Two: GBS2, IA, BRS2, GM, ISS2, PF, FC, GBe
Season Three: RS, WR

That is, uh, not much activity in S1 or S2. Good job on S3 so far, though.

[Dragon Fogel]

Season One:
No battles this week.

Season Two:
The Great Belligerency [GBe]

Season Three:
The Grand Battle Season Three [GBS3]
The Spectacular Exhibition [SE]
The Petty Squabble [PS]
The Glorious Championship [GC]
The Vivacious Deadlock [VD]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

Seven battles, all but one of them in Season Three. 14 posts, though; PS, VD, and FE had some decent activity, which is good.

[Dragon Fogel]

Mid-week check, I meant to do this earlier today but I was writing tons of words for NaNoWriMo.

Still in need of updates!

Season One: GB2, IS, SB
Season Two: GBS2, BRS2, GM, ISS2, PF, FC, GBe
Season Three: SE, RS, PS, GC, VD, WR, FE

So we have thus far managed to update one battle per season this week. NaNoWriMo is probably slowing things a bit. Still, at least we're getting all the seasons represented this time!

[Dragon Fogel]

Season One:
The Battle Majestic [BM]

Season Two:
Inexorable Altercation [IA]

Season Three:
The Grand Battle Season Three [GBS3]

Three battles, four posts.
I get the feeling November is not going to be a busy month for battles.

[Dragon Fogel]

Hello, this is an early check.

The following battles have not yet updated this week.

Season One: GB2, IS, BM, SB - all four.
Season Two: IA, BRS2, GM, PF, FC, GBe
Season Three: SE, RS, PS, GC, VD, WR

Another slow week, it seems...

[Dragon Fogel]

So this week's results.

Season One:
None

Season Two:
The Grand Battle Season Two [GBS2]
Intense Struggle Season Two [ISS2]

Season Three:
The Grand Battle Season Three [GBS3]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

Four battles, I'm not even going to bother counting posts.

This is not looking to be a strong month for battles. I am saddened.

[SleepingOrange]

Can you really say you're surprised though? Lots of people do NaNo, and since Battles are composed in large part of the kind of people who do it...

[Solaris]

i think that people going "hey man it nano" doesnt exactly make things more positive re:with the posting stuff, but I doubt that everyone who is not posting is also doing nano

things have been in a slump in general and i've noticed from #grandbattle that it seems to be a lot of different things happening to different people all at once and not going away which sucks but there isn't a lot we can do about it

[Dragon Fogel]

Early check time! And this week's looking pretty good.

The following battles are still in need of an update.

Season One: GB2, IS, BM
Season Two: BRS2, ISS2
Season Three: SE, RS, WR, FE

I can't remember the last time we had 11 battles updated at this point in the week. And I intend to update some more battles myself over the next few days.

Looks like we're working our way out of our collective slump!

[Dragon Fogel]

And here's the update! There's still four hours left for more battles to come in, but overall we've already had a great week. Here's the list!

Season One:
Intense Struggle [IS]
The Battle Majestic [BM]
The Savage Brawl [SB]

Season Two:
The Grand Battle Season Two [GBS2]
Inexorable Altercation [IA]
The Gradual Massacre [GM]
The Phenomenal Fracas [PF]
The Fatal Conflict [FC]
The Great Belligerency [GBe]

Season Three:
The Grand Battle Season Three [GBS3]
The Petty Squabble [PS]
The Glorious Championship [GC]
The Vivacious Deadlock [VD]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

That's 14 battles and 21 posts! That's enough posts for another Cool Thing.

Take THAT, November!

Edit: Make that 15 and 22.

The Wretched Rite [WR]

[Dragon Fogel]

And now we're back to a slow-ish week again.

Battles which haven't updated yet:

Season One: GB2, IS, BM, SB; as usual, all four.
Season Two: GBS2, IA, BRS2, ISS2, PF, FC, GBe
Season Three: GBS3, SE, RS, PS, VD, FE

Three battles have updated so far this week. It would be nice if we could see some more.

[Dragon Fogel]

So, it's time for the official check!

Season One:
No battles.

Season Two:
The Battle Royale Season Two [BRS2]
The Gradual Massacre [GM]

Season Three:
The Glorious Championship [GC]
The Wretched Rite [WR]

That's four battles this week. Let's see if we can get the average up at least a little bit in December, shall we?

[Dragon Fogel]

Early check, whee!

Still in need of an update:

Season 1: GB2, IS, BM, SB. The usual suspects.
Season 2: GBS2, BRS2, GM, ISS2, FC, GBe
Season 3: GBS3, SE, PS, GC, VD, WR

Four battles updated so far, and one of them was a round transition. Let's see if we can do better by Saturday.

[Solaris]

"Hey Solaris make a post with all of the grand battleular scenes suggested linked here, kthanks"

ALRIGHT ME OF THIS MORNING!
(Note: not absolute and requires some digging, sorry!)

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Ooh, ooh, I got this. Someone draw the play that Gestalt and Galus put on in round 5 of GB2. I love that scene. [LINK Scroll down to each of Slorange's Parts]

The last part of Glere's Deathpost from Epic Clash where he's on fire. [LINK Starts with last bit in post above]
And Eccentric biting at Sirius in BRS2 [LINK]
OH OH and Parsley and Tom taking out giant robots in PS. [LINK Setup and execution is next post]

A view of the fractured city from Genreshift / Sir Cedric and Horsegark from this scene (VD)
Chaos Jetsam versus Murdoch from the end of Vio Maleficat (GBS3) [LINK]
Cykn'l turning into a hydra as it plummets towards Hydresther (GBS2) [LINK this is when the city comes into play]
The Beckhaviathan from Untitled-1 / Group shot of half-fish RS cast from S'kkoi (RS) [LINK I think it is here? If it isn't just look down and skim for beckahms. Other stuff would take looking at profiles and then the first post of the round]
The battle on the back of the RV held up by Envoy / COFCA (PS) [LINK]

Kracht holding a dying Emma - "We're all-stars, remember?" (GBS2)

Act One

Doop.

Jacob and John in the Volcano Goddess' temple in Firestar (BM) [LINK 'round here]
Doctor Anarchy launching her Absolute Zero bomb in the Afterlife (SB) [LINK]
The victims of the Metafiction genreshift, just storm-watching or something in Genreshift (VD) [LINK to when the storm starts happening]
Six having his existential crisis at Nancy in Fort Ayers (PS) [LINK]
Any scene from The Cathedral of Glass (although the deathpost'd be great, where they're escaping through the field of glass grass) (PC) [LINK and round page]
A pack of incompetent S3 Grandmasters examining a Paradox Lemur, in the Kestalvian Rainforest (GC) [LINK lower in the post and grandmasters]
Gaurinn and Cailean sitting in a space-bar after Gaurinn ate Quantos' arm (GC) [LINK i think]
Algernon sneaking out of Fernwood late at night, to dump a bunch of Holly's pathomantic "residues" in the Misty Swamp (GM) [LINK in this general area]
Jailbreak in Cervaled Fall (IS) [LINK]
Bellona attempting to seduce Zaire/the Redeemer while the battlers' plan is unsuccessfully enacted in Everybody's Dead! (FC) [LINK]

and kinda self-indulgent but I'd love to see Clara - channelling the Organizer - beating the everloving crap out of Konka Rar's cameo copy in the Doomish Temple, from GBII.

FOYT OF THE CENTURY STARTS HERE (The next post where he asks to give Eximo his final orders is touching as well)

I've got a list, too. I keep thinking of ones that involve my characters or that were my idea, so apologies if this is heavy on that.

-Eximo flying away from the construction site on Amethyst's crystal broomstick (GB1) [LINK]
-Eximo protecting Amethyst at the end of Round 5 (GB1) [LINK]
-Cole killing Vandrel Reinhardt (GBe) [LINK]
-Aph proposing to Clara (IS) [LINK lesyays]
-The Manikin about to destroy itself by consuming a newly birthed universe (PC) [LINK]
-ERR fighting Alternate Jordan (PC) [LINK Post obove Introduces Other Jordan]
-Triumphian throwing Azungrada into the lake (FE) [LINK setup for in the next post]
-Anything showing the world the way Parsley thinks it is (PS) [Link to profile, first post]
-Konka Rar and Hoss fighting the giant sorceror (SB) [LINK giant stuff starts here]
-Arkal and Maxwell on a jetpack (GBS2) [LINK red bits are Arkal]
-Mr. Nothing's escape attempt and subsequent death (EC) [LINK]
-Sirius and Photographer singing at a door control panel (BRS2) [LINK]

I'm sure we'll all think of others. If there's a particular scene people are keen on, that will probably be drawn sooner.

Amethyst trying to reach The Director at the end of Round 6. [LINK]

Badass Jordan fighting Eemp, Right, and Rong. [LINK Post obove Introduces Other Jordan]

Any fight scene from The Casino Royale. [LINK to the beginning of the round]

Glere, in The Ascended City, swinging away from an explosion on his grappling hook. Wearing sunglasses. [LINK]

Vex, Round 2. Y'all know what I'm talkin' 'bout, awwwww yeahhhhh

NOTTLES YOU ARE A NAUGHTY PERSON FOR THAT LAST ONE

These are all from Bob.

-Death of The Sunset (GB2) [LINK]
-Hoard of Zombie GB characters (GB2) [LINK to the round it describes]
-Karen and Sarika try to not die (ISS2) [LINK I think this is it]
-Anything Sarika x Marcus, or Maxwell x Vyrmn, or Amythist x Eximo, [profiles are linked]
-Aeon and Nathan eating soup (GB) [LINK]
-Whit blowing up the asteroid (BR) [LINK]
-Anything with Lutherion [Wiki, cool stuff here and a bit on]
-The Tormentor's character introductions (RS) [LINK]

but most importantly
GRAND BATTLE BABIES

[Lord Paradise]

Wait, no one suggested the, uh, that one scene in GC? What am I going to do with this mural I've been painting for five weeks?

[Agent1022]

The battle on the back of the RV held up by Envoy / COFCA (PS)

But which one? The one in between soldier and supersoldier?

[Dragon Fogel]

And now it's time for the official battle check!

Season One:
Intense Struggle [IS]

Season Two:
Inexorable Altercation [IA]
The Phenomenal Fracas [PF]

Season Three:
The Relentless Slaughter [RS]
The Vivacious Deadlock [VD]
The Fearsome Encounter [FE]

Six battles. Better than a lot of recent weeks, but we could be doing better.

Let's see if we can start turning things around this month.

[crepuscularDissembler]

Doctor Anarchy launching her Absolute Zero bomb in the Afterlife (SB) [LINK]

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