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So speaking of injuries and people starting to work out, I may as well post my random story since a random comment in a reddit thread might have saved my life (or at least prevented permanent organ damage). So who knows if this'll help anyone.

tl;dr, be very mindful of your limits when you're first starting to work out, especially if you're coming off an a long period of inactivity. Not doing that can injure or kill you.

I started lifting weights back in October, having very little experience with it, and decided to get a trainer. I'm the type of person that refuses to quit, even if it's obvious that I should or can't handle what I'm doing, and hate failing at something, so I almost always push myself past my limits. On my first leg day with the trainer, I struggled a lot even though I felt like what we were doing shouldn't be particularly intense. (I'm overweight and have a sedentary office job with long hours, and that meant for years I had very little physical activity). I forced myself to keep going and tried to hide how much I was struggling with it. About halfway through, my trainer caught on and ended the workout early.

About 15 minutes after I got home, my legs lost pretty much all of their strength, I collapsed onto the floor, and was completely unable to stand back up. I managed to crawl over to the couch and pull myself onto it. Every time I attempted to stand up, I would either fail to get off the couch or fall over within a few seconds if I did manage to stand. It ended up taking around 8 hours until my legs had recovered enough for me to be able to consistently stand up and walk around. During that time I was trying to text people, text my trainer, and ask Google to figure out if this was in any way normal, and a lot of people assured me that this happens sometimes (and had even happened to them) when you first start. I came across a reddit thread from someone that seemed to be in a similar situation to me, and there was a comment that said "monitor you urine, if it starts to turn brown go to the hospital immediately, you probably have rhabdomyolysis."

So I looked more into it and found out that it can develop even you jump into an exercise routine too quickly when you're just a beginner. It's apparently gotten a lot more common because of CrossFit (which is not what I was doing). Essentially you end up crushing your muscles, parts of your muscles die, start to disintegrate, and enter your bloodstream. Your kidneys can't process those proteins, so if it's severe enough it can cause long term kidney damage or kidney failure, which can be fatal. The next day when I woke up, my quads were swollen, and it was extremely painful. And throughout the day I lost almost all range of motion in my legs, like I could pretty much only move around by locking my knees and waddling. Even though those were all consistent with rhabdo, I didn't want to go to the hospital because I didn't want to waste their time if it turned out that I was just being a big baby. Then later that night, my urine started to turn brown (like the color of watery soda), and I remembered what that comment said. So I went to the ER.

When I was finally able to get my blood tested, it was so thick that they had trouble getting it into the vial, and once they were finally able to fill it I passed out and vomited, at which point they moved me to an individual waiting room and hooked me up to a bunch of stuff. When they finally got the test results, they said that the only way to check for rhabdo is to measure your CK levels (that's the muscle protein that would be entering your blood). They said that a normal value is under 100. The threshold for severe rhabdo is about 3k. Mine was 45k. Also my kidneys, liver, and thyroid were all going haywire as a result. So they admitted me, hooked me up to an extremely aggressive IV, and I ended up having to stay for 5 days continuously hooked to that IV until my CK levels were low enough to release me (they decided to release me even they got down to 5k), along with a $30k hospital bill (which thankfully my insurance covered most of). It took my legs a long time to recover after that, being able to walk more than extremely short distances without getting tired, etc.

It all ultimately ended up fine, I'm still working out and things are going pretty well (though we have been extremely cautious around my legs lol). Just thought I would share since I had no idea something like this was even possible and ultimately that random comment was the reason I knew I had to go to the hospital. Had I waited longer to go, it's very possible that I would have suffered permanent kidney damage or worse. So I guess the more people know about it, the better, and just be careful any time you jump into exercising after a long time being sedentary. Make sure that you ease yourself into it, and don't be an idiot like I was and try to go full throttle when it's obvious you should stop.

Im Still Here
Go the Distance
How Far Ill Go
We Dont Talk About Bruno
Let it Go

Zero to Hero
Let it Go
Whats This?
Bells of Notre Dame

Beauty and the Beast
Ill Make a Man Out of You
Hellfire
Circle of Life

Imperial March
Youre Welcome
Cruela de Vil
X-Files Theme

What Else Can I Do?
God Help the Outcast
This is Halloween
Waiting for a Miracle

Hes a Pirate
Simple and Clean
The Moon
Friend Like Me

Sanctuary
A Whole New World
Surface Pressure
Why Should I Worry?

Chicago

Belle
Be Prepared
Reflection
Poor Unfortunate Souls

How Far Ill Go
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Kiss the Girl
We Dont Talk About Bruno

Another really tough 8-pack today

Boy Meets World Theme
Im Still Here
Go the Distance
Youll Be in My Heart

Star Wars Theme
Whats This
Bells of Notre Dame
He Mele No Lilo

X-Men Theme
Zero to Hero
Let it Go
I Just Cant Wait to Be King

I Wont Say Im in Love
Hellfire
Circle of Life
Part of Your World

Some really rough matchups today. This is a strong 8-Pack.

Everybody Wants to be a Cat
Beauty and the Beast
Ill Make a Man Out of You
Shiny
Duel of the Fates

Cruela de Vil
Duel of the Fates
Where You Are
True Loves Kiss

Imperial March
We Know the Way
Le Festin
Face My Fears

This is Halloween
Call Me, Beep Me
Waiting for a Miracle
I See the Light

The Moon
Lava
Friend Like Me
The Glory Days

Hes a Pirate
Mother Knows Best
He Lives in You
Simple and Clean

Surface Pressure
Colors of the Wind
Why Should I Worry
Gaston

Sanctuary
The Family Madrigal
Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
A Whole New World

Belle
Almost There
Remember Me
Be Prepared

Atlanta

Atlanta

Atlanta

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Don't try to solve any inequalities here, I just played games with the dual types and extra categories to fit as many Pokes in as possible.

I don't think I realized until doing this just how little I like from the Gen VI Dex, despite it having my favorite Pokemon in it.

Thanks for running this, Raka! I had fun!

I'm fine with the winner. Poe/King is one that I hadn't paid much attention to before the tournament, and it grew on me a lot as the tournament went on.

While I know that X-Stats aren't the most mathematically sound thing to do for a contest like this, I wanted to see what they would look like anyway. The results sure are... something.

1. Poe/King - 50.00
2. Alexander/Ivan - 45.00
3. Philosophers - 43.24
4. Jordan/Ali - 37.60
5. Thanos/Oppenheimer - 31.76
6. Jack/Lecter - 29.90
7. Directors - 29.41
8. Fawkes/Che - 28.83
9. Deadpool/Fett - 27.03
10. Newton/Nye - 26.47
11. Henson/Lee - 25.44
12. Hawk/Gretzky - 23.17
12. Joker/Pennywise - 23.17
14. Zeus/Thor - 22.22
15. Einstein/Hawking - 21.62
16. Potter/Skywalker - 21.38
17. Mario Bros./Wright Bros. - 20.35
18. WW/Stevie Wonder - 20.27
19. Roosevelt/Churchill - 19.66
20. Batman/Sherlock - 19.08
21. Rick/Walter - 17.78
22. Ramsay/Child - 15.09
23. Jobs/Gates - 14.71
24. Artists/TMNT - 13.84
25. Dracula/Vlad - 13.73
26. Ash/Darwin - 13.07
27. Bond/Powers - 11.20
28. Napoleon/Napoleon - 11.10
29. Vader/Hitler - 10.00
30. Zulu/Caesar - 7.91
31. Russians - 3.68
32. Ruth/Armstrong - 3.27

There are three first-round exits in the top ten (two in the top six!), and they seem to mainly there because they lost to one of the only two battles to play King/Poe anywhere close: Philosophers and Ivan vs. The Greats. (Jack the ripper barely lost to Thanos/Oppenheimer, but it lost to Ivan vs. The Greats and didn't get blown out). In general there weren't a lot of close matches, with the exception being the second quartile of the bracket which had a ton of them. So while it's hard to say this represents any kind of true ranking, I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

King vs. Poe

DP vs. Fett

King vs Poe

DP vs. Fett

It kind of blows my mind that it's still on the table for Roosevelt/Churchill to end up the tournament's Ultimate Loser. That is... definitely not something I saw coming before the tournament started.

Given the general chatter from people, it seems pretty likely that whatever makes it out of the bottom half of the bracket is going to win the whole thing. So I'm assuming that it comes down to whether or not Deadpool/Boba Fett beats The Philosophers (which I'd guess isn't likely, but clearly my ability to predict this tournament is quite poor lol)

Spielberg vs. Hitchcock
Alexander vs. Ivan

East vs. West
Deadpool vs. Fett

I'm not incredibly high on Gates/Jobs by any means, but it's really good in some parts, bad in others. The Mac/PC banter on its own is enough to outweigh Hal and Gates' ending, which still leaves me feeling positive about it overall.

But I've never liked the Artists/TMNT battle. The first Artist verse is good, though I like Rhett and Link more than Smosh (they sound like they're borderline yelling, especially Ian). But the Turtles (aside from the New York Pride line) and the Artists' second verse were just really flat. Not horrible or actively bad, just really unremarkable. Maybe if I had a bigger attachment to TMNT I'd feel differently, but as-is I'd rather vote for the uneven battle that I still felt generally positive about than the one where I felt nothing at all.

Zeus vs. Thor
Alexander vs. Ivan

Spielberg vs. Hitchcock
Jobs vs. Gates

Deadpool vs. Fett
Harry vs. Luke

Einstein vs. Hawking
East vs. West

v_charon posted...

But everyone's favorite one sided battle is Beethoven vs. Bieber right?

Mine is probably Jefferson vs. Douglass. Arguably less one-sided than Beethoven/Bieber, but both of them feel one-sided by design to me, so it doesn't hurt the battle as much as it does to Thanos/Oppenheimer and the like.

I'm in a weird spot with Thanos vs. Oppenheimer. Two things that always hurt my opinion of a battle are when it's really one-sided and when it feels like a character or battle concept was wasted potential, and Thanos perfectly encapsulates that. While Oppenheimer is fantastic and his first verse is possibly the best in all of ERB, Thanos is just... Bad. Both in the way he's portrayed and how weak his verses are. So the way that Oppenheimer just annihilates him makes me enjoy the battle less than it feels like I should have.

Jack vs. Hannibal
Alexander vs. Ivan