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KNIFE FIGHT (okay maybe some johns allowed) (insert knife emoji here)

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Look how good I am at ball chess
 
Why is it the mechalico clause
because i tried to worm back into the contest after losing
and can I be revived I wanna stab people
yes:
MECHALICO CLAUSE

In the interest of extra excitement and also not having to do a 3 way finals I am going to give one person the opportunity to revival blessing/exit the gulag/get medical syringed (depending on which game you like most). The person who is brought back via mechalico clause will participate in round 5 to make it so there are 4 total participants instead of 3.

To be eligible for mechalico clause you must have been knocked out of this tournament via defeat in battle, not via act call or coinflip.

The competition for mechalico clause will be creating the best knife fight logo as judged by me. The rules are no outside resources (stock photos, generative ai, etc.) and it must be done digitally in microsoft paint or another equally simple drawing program (no layers, no fancy tools, etc.) or physically via pen and paper.
Post your logo in the thread and the best logo as judged by me will be reentered into the knife fight.

If you are knocked out in round 4 you are still eligible for mechalico clause so you might want to prepare a logo just in case, even if you are still in the competition right now.

deadline for mechalico clause is same as deadline for r4, so feb 20 @ 7AM UTC
also where is arctovish
in another castle
 
claiming victory over Clem

we agreed on whoever can drink 2 pints (32 fluid ounces) of alcohol the fastest. Here are our submissions:

Clem chose to drink Corona and finished with a time of 57.72 seconds:
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I chose to do Smirnoff Ice Red, White, and Berry because I'm a bitch but I'm a bitch that likes winning and also go USA:

ggs once again Clem, onto the next round
 
My Submission for Mechalico Cause.
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A few words.
Ever since I was a boy. I dreamed of besting phoopes. I dreamed of picking up my knife, shanking him in a dusty alleyway, and holding my bloodied knife up in victory. Not with cheap underhanded tactics. But with the honor and glory of fighting until our last breaths. With this logo I am not simply looking to win a contest or earn a prize. I am going back in with the sole intent to slit phoopes' throat from one side to the other. I promise you a show, a spectacle, with nothing but the heart of the underdog, from the boy who understands that the only way you can lose in this contest is to admit defeat in your heart of hearts, to bow out before great evil and allow it to trample you.
That will be all.
 
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DBD challenged me to "fewest hints on the minute cryptic," and as Smogoff's premier cryptic constructor I think that was a bold but respectable call. I looked at this clue and immediately knew exactly what every component in it was doing, but trying to actually find the word based on that was still hard :psycry: In the end though I solved it in no hints which beats DBD's one hint.

Lowkey was keeping "see who can beat a mini cryptic fastest" in my pocket for if/when I was matched against phoopes lol
 
KNIFE FIGHT ROUND 5

I really liked round 4 so thank you knife fighters. Both phoopes and Clem put in extremely impressive efforts and the Bliz vs DBD matchup was like Ali vs Frazier

The mechalico clause decision was agonizing for me because I love both Clem's and Mechalico's pieces but I'm giving it to Mechalico because I appreciate the expansiveness of the effort and Jynx licking the knife made me laugh out loud

Deadline for round 5 is Feb 24 at 6am UTC

phoopes  vs  Mechalico
BP  vs  Blizihguh
 
really liked round 4 so thank you knife fighters. Both phoopes and Clem put in extremely impressive efforts and the Bliz vs DBD matchup was like Ali vs Frazier
As opposed to the golf match which was more like Ali vs Frasier

I'm so fucking sorry uppa I couldn't resist
 
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