QFT. He may be fat, but he kicks ass. lol

i voted for bo rai cho. i was never a big fan of shang tsung but i do play as him from time to time. bo rai cho is cool because he has the drunken fighting style. he needs to be quicker if he returns something along the lines of bob from tekken mixed with doa gen fu playstyle.

Bo'Rai Cho (never though that I'd say that actually).

Shang Tsung is a cool bad guy, but he was used too often and was beaten too much. In the last game he was downgraded to the level of an almost joke character while all the spotlight as a sorccerer was given to the Quan Chi. He is qucikly loosing his edge and awesomeness, despite being interesting in terms of gameplay.

Bo'Rai Cho, however, while being a fart joke character has an awesome storyline and quite interesting and tragic character. I liked his storyline in MKDA and MKD, and he was even involved in MK9 as a sideline character. I really hope that NRS will bring him back in the future, but will tone down his level of disgustingness.

Shang Tsung hands down. I've never cared for Bo as I detest toilet humor. His backstory is pretty cool though. I remember how feared Shang Tsung was back in the arcade days of MKI and have always thought his morphing ability was cool. He had some of the best fatalities in MK2 and his bed of nails fatality in MK3 was one of the only decent ones.

Shang Tsung my fave!

I voted for fatass.

So did I.

I was tempted to vote for Bo but nostalgia won over and I voted for Shang.
Bo is a great character though.

Bo' Rai Cho because he's classic.

Shang Tsung is also a favourite but he's been lacking in the last two games.

bo rai cho rules

Anybody else noticing a pattern with the kombatant pics?

The greyed ones are all together. Haha.

Just thought I'd point it out. Thought it was kinda funny. :P

Went Shang Tsung....I got teh haet fur Bo

it would seem that almost all the new characters/unpopular ones were purposely put against the older/more popular characters.

Bo Rai Cho, yo.

Yup, this competition is rigged.

Bo Rai Cho

It's set up pretty logically and the outcomes are entirely dependent on the poll results. If a character is less popular, they're less popular and won't advance. That's just how it works. There's nothing but votes keeping Bo' Rai Cho from beating Shang Tsung.

Logically? Just look at the four first fights. How are those characters put against eachother set up logically in any way? Sub-Zero and Daegon? Taven and Frost? Why is it logical that THEY fight?

There are LOTS of more logical ways to put the characters up against with, such as Subbie and Scorpion, Kitana and Mileena, Hotaru and Havik, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, Raiden and Fujin...

So far it is as people have said, all the popular characters have been set up against not-so-popular characters, with only a very few exceptions. But hey, you can tell me whatever, because neither of us can prove the other one wrong. I just call it how I see it.

Yeah, but honestly Jaded, what do people wait for in a main event? They wait for the more popular characters to face off, while the less popular character get put out first.

The whole second round is filled with matchups which people have been waiting to see forever. Honestly, if this whole thing ended up coming down to Taven and Daegon I would have been less interested.

Just saying, I wouldn't have put all of the more popular characters up against each other in the first round either. I mean if Mileena and Kitana faced off in the first round and one of them were eliminated while someone like Kira or something got to advance that would just suck.

There are so much wrong in that post of yours that it hurts.
What you are basically saying is that it is alright to treat people unequally, because the popular ones are better than the unpopular ones. What, are you a high school cheerleader in a bad teenage flick?

Don't you think the fans of the less popular ones would at least want to see their favourite characters get a chance of getting up a few rounds instead of just getting wiped out from the start? But no, instead they get it thrown in the face that because they like unpopular characters, they aren't worth getting a fair shot in this competition.
It will only be 100% fair if the fights were picked randomly, like picking names up from a hat and put them together two and two. But looking at how the fights are put together, I really doubt that's the case. If it was the case, then NM's comment about the fights being "logically" set up is again disproven.

How are the fights rigged? The only thing stopping the newer fighters from making it to round 2 is the voting. People vote for who they like. It's That simple.

Saying "It's rigged" would imply that the voting is influenced, it's not. I have voted for less popular characters like Meat and Mokap. This is a fair contest.

Let's pretend this is football/soccer/whatever sport.
There are characters who are considered to be in a lower league than others. Kira, Daegon, Dairou - characters like these are considered to be in the lower league while characters like Sub-Zero, Scorpion and Kitana are considered to be in the higher league.

I might not be much of a sports-fan, but I do know that the lower leagues are put up against eachother while the higher leagues are put up against eachother likewise. This way, the lower league characters get a chance to prove their worth and get the opportunity to fight their way up to the higher league.

In sports you don't put a higher league team up against a lower league team from the get-go, because it is considered unfair. To make sure something like this happens though is considered "rigging the game". That's what I mean with this competition being rigged. It might not be, but when looking at how the matches are put up, it indeed looks like it is made so the less popular characters are gotten rid off in their first rounds.

I am aware that the winner will be the most popular character (which my guess is Scorpion, but I hope I am proven wrong) in the end, but that still doesn't make it a fair game.

I would also let people know that this is just how I see it. This is just my opinion and it is alright if you guys disagree with it and thinks it looks completely fair. That's up to you to decide. I am simply calling it how I see it.

This is not a league competition. This is a single bracket elimination tournament. The best example in sport you can find to make a comparison is tennis.

Roland Garros, one of the biggest tennis tournaments, just started in Paris and guess what? The two top players in the world are seeded no.1 (Novak Djokovic) and no.2 (Rafael Nadal) and they are placed on the opposite sides of the draw. It's like that in any tennis tournament, two top seeds are always on the opposite sides of the draw and all the seeded (higher ranked) players play unseeded (lower ranked) players in the early rounds. The two top players cannot play each other before the final match of the tournament. Think of Scorpion and Sub-Zero as Djokovic and Nadal.

Even in football/soccer World Cup there are seeded teams. You don't see Brazil, Argentina, Spain, England, Netherlands, Germany and Italy play each other early on. They're seeded and play "weaker" teams early on in groups. It's the same in the UEFA Champions League for clubs.

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I must have misunderstood the concept then, but I did say I'm not much of a sportsfan. Is it really normal for "the best" to fight "the worst" in the first rounds in sports like that? Because I would hardly call that fair.