Comic Vine Gym HQ

Comicvine Gym Leaders

So.

You want to be the very best?

First, you gotta beat the 8 Gym Leaders of Comicvine. Powerful debaters who have mastered their respective typing. Once you have defeated all 8 Gym Leaders and claimed their badges, you have the right to challenge for the title of Comicvine Debating Master.

General Structure of Challenging

• To challenge the gym, sign your name on the Gym Thread (linked below). Tag the Gym Leader and link your victories as proof you can challenge. Your name will then be added to a list that the Gym Leader works their way through.
• New challengers go to the bottom of the list.
• If you start a match with one Gym Leader, you cannot have a match ongoing with another gym leader.
• The Gym leader will always open the battle.
• The Gym leader has a set map that their opponents challenge them on.
• The Debating Master will be the first person to beat all 8 Gym Leaders.
• To challenge the Debating Master, you must beat all 8 gym leaders.
• If you lose to the Debating Master, you go to the bottom of his challenge list and defeat the Elite Four again (when they are chosen.)
• Past Debating Masters will be recorded in a tribute thread and are given the option of becoming Elite Four.
• The Debating Master has no set typing and chooses the typing for each match.
• The signups rule applies to the debating master as well.
• If a new debating master is crowned, they pick up where their predecessor left on the list.

Rules for the Battles

• Participants must have participated in 3 CaVs or tournaments and won at least 1 CaV or tournament round.
• They can also defeat the Gym Leaders Second (if they have one) to challenge a Gym Leader.
• The recommended minimum post count is 3000. Not a rule, just a guideline, as the Gym's will be tough. If you're confident in your abilities then have at it.
• Challenger has the right of selecting the limits (within the tier), and selects who they are using first.
• Gym Leader chooses the set up, whether a solo character or team.
• The Gym Leader is allowed to select a second to fill in for them in case of time constraints.
• If the Challenger wins the debate by votes, they earn the badge. However, if they lose the vote, the Gym Leader can still bestow the badge if he/she so wishes.
• The Challenger can only match one gym at a time.
• The Challenger has 60 hours (2 Days, 12 Hours) to respond to the gym leaders post, before forfeiting.
• The Gym Leader creates the battle in a separate thread.
• The Challenger can contest for taking over the gym if they defeat the Gym Leader 3 consecutive times, or if the Gym Leader has become inactive with permission from the voters and the commissioner (@spector_rand currently).
• Votes are counted by the commissioner, not the Gym Leader.
• The commissioner has the final say in any dispute.
• The Battle is limited to an opener, two rounds and a closer.
• Voting occurs in one of two ways, with the Challenger choosing either:
  1. The first to 10 votes.
  2. The most votes within five days.
• The Gym Leader will always open.
• The map is set as the Gym's terrain.

The Gyms

• Swordsman Gym
  • joewell
• Gaming Gym
  • NeonGameWave
• Awesome (Indie) Gym
  • SirFizzWhizz
• Elemental Gym
  • those_eyes
• Live Action Gym
  • nickzambuto
• Marvel Gym
  • HigorM
• Brick Gym
  • PreCrisisBardock
• Antimatter (DC) Gym
  • TheTrueBarryAllen

The Debating Master

Coming Soon

The Elite Four

Coming Soon

Past Masters

Coming Soon

@jedixman: Is there a chance we could get this added to the table of contents?

*Insert Ron Paul it's happening gif*

@precrisisbardock: I got chu fam.

@jacthripper: I wanna be the very best

like no one ever was.....

COMIC VINE

You will never be the best! You should go home, and leave behind any dreams of success! Wallow in your certain failed future!

@jacthripper: Actually quick question, A lot of the gyms don't say who is Repping them.

Man, looking at all the gyms, the Anti-Matter one looks like one of the hardest to the Restrictions to DC only team were Chemistry matters

@sirfizzwhizz: Say, Wanna make that Buffy vs Composite Taskmaster Match for the Badge?

@jacthripper: How do we challenge gyms?

Someone get me a comic book (pen).

I wanna challenge (make) a gym (wish list) right now!!

Sounds good.

Post in my Gym as first challenger.

@sirfizzwhizz: done,

@agentghostrider: Fixed it so it's a bit simpler.

@supremegeneration: Click on the link and challenge them

@jacthripper: is this going on for a limited time?

@batman3000: Nope, theoretically and potentially unlimited.

Glad to see this is a thing now

@jacthripper: Wooo!

I'd recommend putting the rules for taking a gym in here too.

I hope everyone has fun doing this and would like to publicly thank @jacthripper for all this effort, and the gym leaders for taking this on.

@joewell: It's already in there

@jacthripper: what happens if a contestant sweeps the gym leaders?

@cpt_nice

@boschepg: Then they gain the master badge or something of the sort. I forget exactly.

@nickzambuto: I have neither 3 cav's nor a tournament but would still like to challenge in the gym. :(

@neongamewave: I am a tad confused now. Do you want to have a Bayo vs Dante debate for a gym badge, or?

Definitely but I think you have to first sign-up on my official GYM Leader thread but I`ll make the thread.

@sirfizzwhizz: @higorm looks like I will have to go through some friends to get that Master Badge

@boschepg: Let's do it! :D

The very first battle for a badge is up!

@boschepg: They become the champion

Elite Four? Interesting :)

You guys would start this just as Black Friday comes around -.-

@jacthripper: I still don't quite understand. Are the gym leaders debating for what their namesake suggests? Also, can there be twin Gym Leaders like Liza & Tate?

@xlr87t3: Click on the gym. Each gym has a theme, and generally a set of additional rules. As for twin gym leaders, there were not any who applied, likely due to the difficult nature of tag teaming.

It's time.

@xlr87t3: Every Gym Leader is limited to what our Gym represent. The rules for what the challenger varies Gym to Gym though. My Gym has no restrictions on tier or characters to be used for the challenger, then you have something like DC Gym which you must use DC characters. Or Swordsmen Gym which restricts to street-mid tier blade users.

Each Gym in the OP can be clicked on with the laid out Gym Rules below the Main Rules.

@sirfizzwhizz: @jacthripper: Alright cool! So can anyone challenge the gym leaders, and if so, using what characters? And what are the tier limits for the characters we're debating?

@xlr87t3: That's between you and the Gym Leader.

@jacthripper: I start off my journey with challenging @joewell for the Sword Badge.

PM me Joe if you need who i am using, talking about rules, etc etc. Also Joe tag me in your Gym thread, i cant find it lol.

@haoalchemist: Lol, get in line. I think you're number 5 for joewell's gym.

Damn. Let's try @nickzambuto. Yo nick are you free mane?

@xlr87t3 said:

@jacthripper: I still don't quite understand. Are the gym leaders debating for what their namesake suggests? Also, can there be twin Gym Leaders like Liza & Tate?

DANG THAT GIF THO LMAO. THE blonde was like move over honey!

For what?

@haoalchemist: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@jacthripper: @cpt_nice is battling 2 Gyms at once

The Indie Gym and VG Gym

@flash1812: Oh, I must have overlooked that rule. I apologize.

@cpt_nice: No prob

Bump for this gr8 idea.

Congratulations to @cpt_nice for earning the first gym badge- The Indie Gym Badge

@jacthripper: Thanks (y)

Bump