User blog comment:El Alamein/Day One: Hunger Games Tournament Redux/@comment-4661256-20160417003415

THE DEATHS


 * 1) Percival S. Anderson:  This is probably mostly because everyone is resentful that Waffle didn't flesh out a character, but still. There's nothing to go off of, so there's no reason to assume he's even marginally prepared to survive in the Games. He'll die a quick and forgettable death.


 * 2)  Aaron Porter:  He's insane. There's no way to sugarcoat it. His mallet and shurikens are bad weapons anyway, but since he believes that he's some great hero he'll probably be very confident in his arsenal. Weapons and equipment aside, though, it really just comes down to the fact that his mental illness is going to make him super reckless, hyper-aggressive, and detrimental to his "team." He's going to flail around wildly and attract a lot of attention despite his predisposition toward "stealth," and this is going to get him killed.


 * 3)  Kouta Johnson:  I feel bad for So-Pro's character, because he wasn't bad, but he made the unfortunate decision to ally with Aaron Porter. Why would you do that??? Aaron's high-profile antics are going to get the two of them killed (assuming they don't turn on each other for obvious incompatibility reasons first). His weapons, at the very least, will be more effective in combat than his ally's, but it won't matter too much when said ally is hampering his ability to use them effectively in a fight.


 *  4)  Mohammed Dean:  Deathblade and I are going to betray Battles. The fact that her character is easily provoked into an aggressive rage and has below-average intelligence only makes it that much easier for the two of us to capitalize on Mohammed Dean's unpreparedness. With no armor, a bat, and a brick, his arsenal is pretty much ineffective unless if the target is already crippled and bleeding to death to begin with. I mean, there's also the fact that he's not trained with his weapons--so even if he did have some effective combat tools it wouldn't matter because he wouldn't know how to use them.


 * 5)  Bradley Jackson:  After Deathblade and I kill Battles I'm going to attack him. (Since Albert is probably going to just have Jackson do all the work fighting Mohammed Dean anyway, this will work well for him.) He's also impulsive and since his preferred style of combat seems to be at long range (considering he can repair his bow and has been using it since childhood), up-close and personal Albert will be able to negate that skill. Also, two of Jackson's weapons are a garrotte and a claw hammer--both improvised weapons and one of them can only be used when the intended target is not paying attention.


 * 6)  Dan the Decapitator:  Dan might have had an advantage as the son of two previous Hunger Games victors, but he's totally and completely insane. I mean, he killed his parents and laughed about it. He's pretty much like the Kazuo Kiriyama of this match, except for the fact that he's got a random arsenal that's preventing him from utilizing his combat skills effectively. That tactical shield cannot be used in conjunction with a katana or with the Viking axe, and since he tends to throw half of his arsenal at his opponent, that's a good way of disarming himself (because even if he does strike his intended target there's still like a dozen other hostile opponents running around who can capitalize on his move). Couple that with the fact that the shield, and the axe will weigh him down significantly and he's dead.


 * 7)  Owen O'Haire:  An arbalest has such a long reload that it's useless after one shot, since it's basically a souped-up crossbow with more stopping power at the cost of a high fire rate. The zweihander is huge, clunky, and a hard weapon to use effectively for someone not trained well with it. The riot shield can't be used with the two-handed sword (or, in my opinion, very effectively in conjunction with the saber or the trench knife). Basically, Owen O'Haire has just a random ragtag arsenal that doesn't complement itself in any way at all. Not only is he weighed down, but apparently he can't control his emotions, so once frustration/fear/whatever set in he's just going to fall apart and get killed.


 * 8) DeJango Farchand:  DeJango's arsenal at least makes a little bit of sense since it seems to have a Roman flavor to it. The problem is that he seems to have no experience at either long or close range combat, which, as you'll probably recognize, means he's not good at combat in general. With little bow and knife experience, his Jagdkommando dagger and compound bow are next to useless. With no knowledge in CQC he's going to pretty much have to hunker down behind his big scutum shield and hope it can protect him from whatever his opponent is throwing at him, but because he's going to tunnel vision over on his opponent instead of remaining aware of his surroundings, he can easily be teamed up on.


 * 9)  Francis Howard:  Finally, we have another classic case of a tribute with poor emotional control and way too much weight on their person with arms and armor. The claymore, steel armor, and war hammer are all going to bog him down so much that it will be all too easy for an opponent to exploit his anger, and once that rage is triggered all hopes of competent combat go out the window. Not a lot else to say. He's just a pretty big target.