Survivor XVI
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Survivor XVI: Kingdom Come was a main tournament held from April 10, 2005, to April 20, 2005 at the TaikaiWiki forums. Survivor XVI was the first tournament to be hosted by three people, with Tenshi Kain acting as the main host and Alexander Krizak and Soujiro Seta providing system and writing support respectively. The tournament chronicled as its overstory the saga of King Vire Agraumar, the "Void-King" who, from the heart of Carpasia, the City of Dreams, mounted what he desired to be the Void's final campaign of victory against the Eternal Kingdom. Forming a "Rogues' Gallery" with his seconds, the former Knight Arcana Ceriseth and the former Muse Biollante, Vire gathered together a host of chosen from pre-2003 RPGs, fighting games, and strategy games whose prowess and regrets intrigued him, and who he desired to spare when, at the end, he wiped clean the present slate of existence and created a new one in its stead. Over the course of five worlds, he both studied their actions and used them to help him obtain the last components of his monstrous army. His efforts were discovered by Krizak the Dragon God and Fabian the Beta- the former of whom shocked the latter in joining the Rogues' Gallery. After Fabian was "killed" in a duel with Ceriseth in the fifth round, Vire brought his chosen in triumph with him to Arcadia, home of the Eternals, for the final battle, giving them the choice to side with him as Krizak had, or fight as Fabian chose. A hellacious battle ensued as Vire brought hundreds of thousands of pilfered monsters and soldiers against the Eternals' home world, but the battle turned sour when a shaken Ceriseth was injured in combat with Sephiroth. Vire chose to retreat with his wounded second to Carpasia, where he and Biollante made their final stand and enacted a fail-safe plan to annihilate the Multiverse by absorbing its dreams through the Sea of Zurvan in the very depths of the city. Eventually, Vire and Biollante were calmly defeated by the efforts of Ari Nameless, Albel Nox, and the victor, Dizzy, who with the awakened Grim, Prince of Carpasia, brought a peaceful end to his campaign of annihilation. The final round ended in a series of strange revelations, the largest of which was that Vire, in his attempt to absorb Zurvan, had created a "second" Multiverse, or, perhaps more accurately, recovered something that already lay hidden from its own existence...
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Rounds
Round One: Cicatrix Mundorum - The Planet's Scar (The Northern Crater, Final Fantasy VII)
Round Two: Cor Imperii - Heart of the Empire (Coruscant, Star Wars)
Round Three: Somnium Nigrum - Black Dream (The Black Omen, Chrono Trigger)
Omake Round: Bibbity Bobbity Boo - The Happiest Place on Earth (Walt Disney World)
Round Four: Caeli Flagrantiae - The Burning Skies (Yafutoma, Skies of Arcadia)
Round Five: Aula Transgressionis - Palace of Transgression (Riovanes Castle, Final Fantasy Tactics)
Round Six: Kingdom at Hand (The Eternal City)
Final Round: Aristeia (Carpasia, City of Dreams)
Afterparty: Let's All Go Into the Afterparty! (The Lodge at the Edge of Forever, original location)
Other Important Threads
Trailer
Drafting Thread
Character Description Thread
Introduction Thread
Tailgate Party by AsylumXKP
Continuity
To be filled in...
Battle System
Survivor XVI used the SHINRA System, a direct decendant of the SHIN System used in Survivor XII. Sponsors chose from five SHINRA Types, each one playing in a entirely different manner: Standard Type, with a relatively straightforward and simple set of abilities; Harbinger Type, with trickier abilities that manipulated people and punished healing; Impulse Type, which had only A-Votes and R-Votes and a limited set of abilities, but could attack or heal other sponsors twice in a round; Newtypes, which had a large pool of AP and access to more abilities than any other type; and Radical, which specialized in counter-attacking people who attacked them, but lacked healing abilities. Sidekicks and Fallen were automatically assigned the Assist Type, which specialized in abilities that helped or hindered sponsors rather than directly hurting or healing them.
Awards
The Neverending Dream Award for Best Overall Story: Thirdtwin as Dizzy
The Fabula Award for Best Dramatic Performance: Moogle as Magus
Ribbons and Candy for Best Comedic Performance: BlackMage as Flonne
The Multiverse's Last Hope Award for Best Chivalric Performance: Wayne as Torin the Chosen
Vire's Evil Monologue Award for Best Villainous Performance: Lucent as Pesmerga
The Harried Bartender Award for Best Performance by a Sidekick: CarlyCheeese as Schala Zeal
Ludius Maximus Award for Best Dramatic Scene: "The Uniter Returns," written by Moogle in Round 6
"I am Dracula!" Award for Best Comedic Scene: "World Wrestling Entertainment presents OBLIVION!" written by Wayne in round 7
The -Burning Passion- Award for Best Heroic Scene: "Torin Confronts The Rogues' Gallery," written by Tenshi Kain and Wayne in round 5
Grim's Darkest Nightmare Award for Most Twisted Scene: "The Death of Maria Renard," written by NeoSeifer and JSG in round 6
Ceriseth's White Sword Accolade for Best One-On-One Duel: "Sol Badguy vs. Void-King Vire," written by Exeter and Tenshi Kain in round 3
The Knights Arcana Medal of Commendation for Best Melee Duel: "The Battle of the Ark," written by Alexander Krizak, Dry, Exeter, LordLocke and Magus in round 7
Krizak's Rage of the Dragon Award for Most Frequent Duelist: Albel Nox, written by Seril
Flonne's Eternal Power of LOVE~ Award for Best Romance: Ari Nameless and Dizzy, written by LordLocke and Thirdtwin
The Void's Antithesis Award for Best Rivalry: Albel Nox versus Sol Badguy, written by Seril and Exeter
Biollante's Eternal Bloom Award for Best Alliance or Friendship: Kirby and Wolverine, written by Cyntalan Maelstrom and Rain
The Rogue's Award for Best Interaction with Overstory Characters: Eddie, written by Dareon
George Lucas' Ever-Changing Vision Award for the Most Original Interpretation of an Existing Character: Tie: Albel Nox by Seril and Richter Belmont by NeoSeifer
The One Man Army Award for the Sponsor Who Overcame All Odds: The Delphinus*
The JENOVA Award for Mastering the SHINRA System: Tie: LordLocke and Procyon
The Call of the Void Award for Best Introduction: Ari Nameless by LordLocke
The Kaze Daizaemon Memorial Award for Best Personal Assist: Thursday, the Multi-purpose Robot by BlackMage
Juan Fernando de Fernandez's Dancing Flamenco Spirit Award for the Best Omake: "The Hornet and Jedah Dohma Take On Walt Disney," written by LordLocke
The Artist's Flair Award for Best Signature: Kirby's Ever-Updating Banner by Cyntalan
*In round 4, a special round stipulation placed groups of three sponsors into teams, or "ships;" each ship counted as a single entity as far as eliminations and votes. The members of the Delphinus were Luna, Onyx and Kyo.
Roster
Survivor XVI allowed participants to sponsor defined characters from any RPG, strategy game or fighting game released in 2003 or earlier, so long as those characters did not break the Divinity Ban. Retirement was abolished just prior to Survivor XVI, allowing formerly retired characters to be sponsored once again. Personal assists were allowed.
| Final Round | Sponsor | Character | P. Assist | SHINRA Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Thirdtwin | Dizzy (Guilty Gear X2) | --- | Newtype |
| Final Round Second Phase | Seril | Albel Nox (Star Ocean: 'Till the End of Time) | --- | Harbinger |
| Final Round First Phase | LordLocke | Ari Nameless (Okage: Shadow King) | Evil King Stan | Harbinger |
| Round Six | Procyon | Fox McCloud (Super Smash Bros. Melee) | --- | Standard |
| Round Six | JSG | Arioch (Drakengard) | Undine and Salamander | Impulse |
| Round Six | BlackMage | Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) | Thursday | Newtype |
| Round Six | Cyntalan Maelstrom | Kirby (Super Smash Bros. Melee) | --- | Impulse |
| Round Six | Onyx | Yuri Volte Hyuga (Shadow Hearts) | --- | Radical |
| Round Six | Luna | Alice Elliot (Shadow Hearts) | --- | Impulse |
| Round Six | Kyo | Sieg Warheit (Chaos Legion) | --- | Newtype |
| Round Six | Moogle | Magus (Chrono Trigger) | --- | Harbinger |
| Round Six | Wayne | Torin the Chosen One (Master of Magic) | --- | Standard |
| Round Five | Exeter | Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear X2) | --- | Standard |
| Round Five | NeoSeifer | Richter Belmont (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) | Maria Renard | Standard |
| Round Five | Lucent | Pesmerga (Suikoden series) | --- | Radical |
| Round Four* | Helmar | Aoko Aozaki (Melty Blood) | White Ren | Newtype |
| Round Four* | Switchblade | Juhani (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) | --- | Standard |
| Round Four* | Dry | Testament (Guilty Gear X2) | Zio | Harbinger |
| Round Four* | San Draco | Maderas (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) | Harem of Catgirls and Succubi | Harbinger |
| Round Four* | AsylumXKP | Ultros (Final Fantasy VI) | --- | Radical |
| Round Four* | Rain | Wolverine (Marvel vs. Capcom) | --- | Impulse |
| Round Three | Peptuck | Slayer (Guilty Gear X2) | Sharon | Harbinger |
| Round Three | Darkken | Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) | --- | Newtype |
| Round Three | Dareon | Eddie (Guilty Gear X2) | Zato-1 | Radical |
| Round Two | Daigohji | Master Asia (Gundam Battle Assault 2) | Fuun Saiki | Impulse |
| Round Two | Bowling Pin | Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE Smackdown vs. Raw) | Jim Ross | Newtype |
| Round Two | FnordFromAbove | Popo (Super Smash Bros. Melee) | Nana | Standard |
| Round Two | Crusader | Laguna Loire (Final Fantasy VIII) | Gatey | Radical |
| Round One | SouthernComfort | Jimmy Raynor (StarCraft) | --- | Standard |
| Round One | Watarigarasu | Rinoa Heartilly (Final Fantasy VIII) | --- | Standard |
| Round One | Kellios | Eiko Carol (Final Fantasy IX) | Mog | Newtype |
| Sidekick | Curley W | Cinder (Killer Instinct) | Glacius | Assist |
| Sidekick | Baka | Dante (Shin Megumi Tensei: Nocturne) | --- | Assist |
| Sidekick | Magus Perde | Johnny (Guilty Gear X2) | --- | Assist |
| Sidekick | Slipstream | Jolee Bindo (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) | --- | Assist |
| Sidekick | CarlyCheeese | Schala Zeal (Chrono Trigger) | --- | Assist |
| Sidekick | Coin | The Rock (WWE Smackdown vs. Raw) | --- | Assist |
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Survivor XVI has yet to be fully revealed.
