07-14-2010, 05:36 PM
I think I might have been overly facetious with the Burger King vs R. Mcdonald, and possibly gave the wrong impression to those who haven't seen the show.
Keeping to the show's ground rules (no matter how silly and ridicilous it gets, it does have some rules so far) I probably should've wrote a better match up like, BP vs Enron.
The basic rules to date at least AFAIK are :
- Individuals are no longer living, and have at the very least a strong basis in history. Al Capone is eligible (and already done), Charles Manson would not until he drops dead.
- Fictional characters are out. Composite characters...depends really. Santa Claus as depicted in Coke commercials, probably no. Saint Nicholas..maybe. They usually play it by ear on this one.
If used to represent a real group, usually yes. The stronger the basis in history to support their existence, the better their chances of qualifying. Anything involving a direct religious figure ie *Jesus, I'm gonna say probably not. Buddhist Warrior Monks yes, but Buddha, no.
*I'm not interested in a 'debate' on whether or not Jeebus existed, that's for another show called 'Deadliest Debater'. If someone want to badly cheer for a Christian based warrior group however, the Crusaders would qualify. (And I think already done.)
- Organization\group\squads, don't need to follow the 'no longer living\operational' rule. The big divider is usually whether or not gunpowder devices is in play. So no US Marines armed with modern machine guns vs English longbow archers.
So Mugabe no, Idi Amin, yes.
Keeping to the show's ground rules (no matter how silly and ridicilous it gets, it does have some rules so far) I probably should've wrote a better match up like, BP vs Enron.
The basic rules to date at least AFAIK are :
- Individuals are no longer living, and have at the very least a strong basis in history. Al Capone is eligible (and already done), Charles Manson would not until he drops dead.
- Fictional characters are out. Composite characters...depends really. Santa Claus as depicted in Coke commercials, probably no. Saint Nicholas..maybe. They usually play it by ear on this one.
If used to represent a real group, usually yes. The stronger the basis in history to support their existence, the better their chances of qualifying. Anything involving a direct religious figure ie *Jesus, I'm gonna say probably not. Buddhist Warrior Monks yes, but Buddha, no.
*I'm not interested in a 'debate' on whether or not Jeebus existed, that's for another show called 'Deadliest Debater'. If someone want to badly cheer for a Christian based warrior group however, the Crusaders would qualify. (And I think already done.)
- Organization\group\squads, don't need to follow the 'no longer living\operational' rule. The big divider is usually whether or not gunpowder devices is in play. So no US Marines armed with modern machine guns vs English longbow archers.
So Mugabe no, Idi Amin, yes.