Voting is now open in the Fightclub Christmas Party challenge until Thursday 7th January. If you haven’t already, pop on over to the thread on ImagineFX.com and cast your votes.
XMAS CHALLENGE – Invitation to the Xmas Party
“We’re all due a well earned rest at Fightclub, so everyone’s invited to the Christmas Party. The PB’s have been busy decking the place out in the best Christmas spirit. So come on in grab a glass and a mince pie, and join in the Christmas Carols singalongs.”
FIGHTCLUB CHRISTMAS FREE FOR ALL RULES
This fight starts now, 2nd of December and ends on Thursday 31st December 2009 midnight UK time. Late entries will result in disqualifications. Voting will then be open for one week.
THE BASICS
This is a free for all. ANYONE IN THE IFX FORUMS is welcome to ‘do battle’ using a character of their own original design, shown in conflict with one or more of the other contestants. To enter, post a good, clear image of your character in the FIP thread on IFX.com by Tuesday 17th December. The challenge will last one month. Votes are then cast by members of the IFX forums.
Round 24 Winners: KUSUNOKI NORIKO
And at last, after a long voting session because of a tie, we have a winner. Ander’s Kusunoki Noriko has her first win in a new run of rounds. Her challenge will continue in the New Year after the Christmas challenge. Congrats to Anders.
Round 24: Kusunoki Noriko Vs. Demonessa
Round 24 sees too veterans of Fightclub duke it out, all be it with evolved versions of themselves. Should be another good one.
Solomon’s Demonessa is about six feet tall and her metallic skin is orange, hair is green, boots and forearms are dark red. Her eyes are bright yellow (including the third eye) She has wings that glow blue and are deployed only when she’s flying. She’s a fusion of machinery and demon. It’s been rumoured that she’s the daughter of the Devil!
Ander Soth’s Kusunoki Noriko is tall and slender, being a skilled acrobat and fighter. An expert with Eastern weaponry (and hair-pins) she makes a living as a bounty hunter, mercenary and assassin.
Voting is now open in the Finals thread. See how the fight progressed in the FIP thread.
Vengeance of the Fallen Winner
Seems that Sgt Pepper’s year long grudge with Tellhead was the most popular. Votes went like this: Starfox’s Pepper 6 votes, Anders Soth’s Carlos 2 votes, and Philby’s Leo 2 votes. After all, it was one of the oldest grudges around in FC, so it’s only fair. She gone off to wander the land now, who knows when she might turn up again!
Halloween Challenge – Vengeance of the Fallen
“The Fightclub is quiet tonight. The previous round has finished and all the contestants are taking a well earned rest. A blood red moon hangs in the sky above the arena spires, a chill wind howling between them.
Up on the hill, in the cemetery affectionately dubbed ‘Loserville’, Stan and ‘the Sarge’ have just finished burying the latest victim of the arenas brutal fights.
Dark clouds start to sweep overhead, and a storm starts to pick up. The two men try to hurry off to their truck as soon as they are done, just as a rumble of thunder rattles over the landscape.
There’s something almost supernatural about this storm, the clouds have an eerie green glow, sparking as the lightning starts up. A heavy acid rain starts to fall and flood over the cemetery, seeping down deep into the ground.
Instantly the forks of lightning start to hit the ground, more and more, striking the headstones of the fallen. Stan and Sarge don’t make it to their truck in time and the onslaught of lightning catches them, ending up lifeless, face down in the green mud.
And as suddenly as it starts, it stops. The storm passes over, and there is silence, leaving the ground with a throbbing green glow.
Then a quiet moan is heard, growing louder and louder. From one of the graves, a hand shoots upward from the dirt, followed by the decaying body of one of the Fightclub fallen. Others rise around him.
Soon a squad of undead zombies are moving fast down the hill towards the Fightclub Arena set on vengeance against their living opponents who sent them to this hell…”
THE CHALLENGE
Pick one of your own characters, it must be one who has been defeated in Fightclub in the past, and redesign them as a zombie. Post a pic of your redesign here in the WIP thread first. You’re final will then be an image of your zombie character attacking, fighting, biting or beating, or even being beat by the opponent who put them in Loserville the first time round.
RULES
Deadline for final images and 2 WIP links is midnight Saturday 31st October UK TIME, at which point voting will be open for a week until midnight Saturday 7th November. Final images and WIP links must be posted before the deadline. Failure to comply may result in automatic disqualification.
Round 23 Winner: VARRICK
And after a slightly controversial finish, with late and unfinished images, and an extended deadline, we have it a third win for Darkwrath’s Varrick, and he goes into the undefeated hall of fame, living to fight another day.
Round 23: VARRICK vs TAKEZO
Round 23 introduces another new contestant, ArtRobots Takezo Samura, who is challenging last round winner, Darkwrath’s Varrick
Current champion, Darkwrath’s VARRICK, the Releaser of Souls, a living 1.5 Tonnes, 7.5 feet angel of death and destruction used as a weapon by his Masters. A mysterious sect known only as ‘The Brothers of Purification’. The red behemoth is impervious to extremes in temperature and has incredible speed and agility. Win or lose this will be be Varricks last fight in this batch of rounds, will he make it into the Triple Winners Hall of Fame?
ArtRobots TAKEZO SAMURA comes from back in the late nineteenth century of preindustrial Japan. Born a samurai in a time where such skills were no longer valid to the rising industrialized West, he saw the weakness of the samurai, and quickly adopted the ways of the Shinobi. Takezo believes that if Japan cannot yet beat the Western powers with firepower, they should do it with manpower. Small units doing the work of armies, infiltrating enemy lines, destroying enemy strongholds and causing destruction to enemy supplies and communications. Realizing just the skills of the Shinobi were not enough, he escaped to the West and learned the use of firearms (specifically the revolver and its fast draw techniques), the guerilla tactics of the Apache indians, and the stealth of the Ninja. He attempts to combine those martial arts into a new fighting style for his ideaology of Japan’s special forces. He carries a Colt Revolver and at least 30 throwing knives with one mantra, “Fighting fair is for idiots!”
Both contestants must post one final image in the Finals thread (which will be initiated closer to the time) and minimum of two in the WIP thread. The deadline for final images is two weeks from now, Wednesday midnight-ish BST on 7th October. Voting will then be open for two days. For full rules check them out in the Rules Section.
Round 22 Winner: VARRICK
So, a second win for Varrick, seems noone can get through the powerhouse of a demon. Can he go on to be a triple winner in the last fight in this set of rounds? Time will tell.
