User blog comment:JoePlay/The Avengers Battle Royale - The Death Match/@comment-4652104-20120425123433/@comment-3217795-20120427000850

Much better, MGP. I'll get you on the debate team yet. You've made a quite valid point. They've never stated here whether a win equals a kill or if its a 10 count or what. If we were looking for kills only, a lot of these fights would be completely different. For instance, if Nova is somehow tricked into believing Hulk is Annihilus or The Magus, the fight could theoretically be over in one blow, with Nova winning. Consider that Nova has been shown capable of unleashing uber-mega-cosmic energy blasts that are capable of dealing damage to virtually any entity below conceptual entities in power. A non-pissed Hulk might not be able to withstand a blast of energy that completely vaporizes his physical form. And by the same token, Storm is capable of producing bolts of energy capable of reducing Wolverine to a smoking adamantium skeleton. Again, this would definitely require a kill equaling a win. Without that caveat, Nova won't use that uber-mega blast to start out with, and once hes lost his opportunity, he won't have another.