[Switchblade]

So here's a thing I thought might be fun. Inspired partially by some old character tournament threads at TFW and partially by being up way too late, I've decided to throw together a fight to see which of Kamen Rider's many evil forces bent on world conquest truly reigns supreme. To do this, I've set up a randomized bracket of 31 of the most terrible forces ever to threaten our Rider buddies during the last 41 years and I'm letting you guys vote on each match-up.

The rules are pretty simple, this is a single elimination tournament where popular vote determines the winner of each round. I'm going to have each round run for approximately 48 hours, then start the next. I'll post the bracket here for your perusal, but I won't accept any votes for any match-ups but the current one. To help you guys decide, I will also give each contestant a quick write-up, explaining who they are and highlighting some strengths and weaknesses. Feel encouraged to discuss your choices and to try to persuade others to side with you - that will make this a lot more fun.

This is a pretty big contest so I'm not going to post individual polls for each match - it would create a ton of threads and likely get me scolded. I may start a new thread for each major round (semis, quarters, finals, etc. if it seems this one grows too big), but this one thread should suffice for the whole shebang. Please keep all discussion and voting in this thread. I will also be cross-posting this at HJU because it will widen the voting pool and, what the hell, I'm signed up at both sites so why not?

For now, I'm going to post a link to the official bracket so you can get a glimpse of how things will be going: http://challonge.com/switchbladeriderbattle

I'm going to do a quick write-up of the first two competitors and then we'll get this ball rolling.