7:8 - Toph Beifong vs. Jade (Jackie Chan Adventures)

[UMPIRE]

SEASON 7, ROUND 8

Toph Beifong

Slot: The Team's Precocious Child
Season Wins: 2
Season Losses: 1
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Toph Beifong at Wikipedia
Official Site: Nickelodeon

Jade (Jackie Chan Adventures)

Slot: The Team's Precocious Child
Season Wins: 2
Season Losses: 1
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Jade (Jackie Chan Adventures) at Wikipedia
Official Site: Sony Television

Battle Terrain
Precocious Kids: blanket fort contest

[C.T.]

If Toph just earthbended a fort and put blankets over it after, would that count? 

[DSkillz]

Toph and Jade would probably make good fire-forged friends. 

Jade has one important edge here: she has sight. She'd at least be able to see what types of blankets she could built her fort with. With suggestions from her friends and the J-Team, she could built her fort with Oriental stylings (or in the case of Paco and El Toro, also some lucha libre flair).

Another factor here is that while both Jade and Toph are noted tomboys, Jade is a bit more of a fun-loving type. This may be important in both making a good blanket fort and getting others to give good suggestions for it.

[Peypeypeypey]

22 minutes ago, DSkillz said:

Toph and Jade would probably make good fire-forged friends. 

Jade has one important edge here: she has sight. She'd at least be able to see what types of blankets she could built her fort with. With suggestions from her friends and the J-Team, she could built her fort with Oriental stylings (or in the case of Paco and El Toro, also some lucha libre flair).

Another factor here is that while both Jade and Toph are noted tomboys, Jade is a bit more of a fun-loving type. This may be important in both making a good blanket fort and getting others to give good suggestions for it.

Toph is definitely fun-loving. I have no idea what you're talking about there. She might not be able to see the blankets but she could construct one hell of a base for her fort. Way more intricate and detailed than anything Jade could whip up in basically any amount of time. This is easy for Toph

[DSkillz]

2 hours ago, Peypeypeypey said:

She might not be able to see the blankets but she could construct one hell of a base for her fort. Way more intricate and detailed than anything Jade could whip up in basically any amount of time.

Toph's idea of fun tends to be more about combat than anything else. Not that Jade doesn't also have fun in combat, but she tends to find fun in more diverse ways.

2 hours ago, Peypeypeypey said:

Toph is definitely fun-loving. I have no idea what you're talking about there.

If we were talking about making a fort out of earth and metal, you'd be right. The objective here, though, is to make a fort out of blankets, and given that Toph can't see the blankets' designs, that leaves her at a distinct disadvantage.

[Peypeypeypey]

6 minutes ago, DSkillz said:

Toph's idea of fun tends to be more about combat than anything else. Not that Jade doesn't also have fun in combat, but she tends to find fun in more diverse ways.

If we were talking about making a fort out of earth and metal, you'd be right. The objective here, though, is to make a fort out of blankets, and given that Toph can't see the blankets' designs, that leaves her at a distinct disadvantage.

Blankets don't stand up by themselves. Toph can use earth as a skeleton for her fort, like I said. She can also effectively see the outlines of everything so she could hang the blankets just fine. And she's not just motivated by combat. She's motivated by competition. She loved beating those swindlers at their own game in that episode where she fought with Katara. She just loves competition

[DSkillz]

20 hours ago, Peypeypeypey said:

Blankets don't stand up by themselves. Toph can use earth as a skeleton for her fort, like I said. She can also effectively see the outlines of everything so she could hang the blankets just fine.

Thing is, Toph can basically only see the outlines of things. She can't make out finer details such as color, drawing designs, etc., and she can't really picture things the way seeing kids could. Sure, Toph could make a fine frame for a fort, but she couldn't decorate it intricately, and the outer look of a blanket fort is a big part of what gives it character.  

Meanwhile, while Jade probably can't make as secure of a skeleton as Toph, she could definitely give the fort a more detailed outer look with the blankets and other decor with pictures and designs her friends would appreciate.

[Peypeypeypey]

2 hours ago, DSkillz said:

Thing is, Toph can basically only see the outlines of things. She can't make out finer details such as color, drawing designs, etc., and she can't really picture things the way seeing kids could. Sure, Toph could make a fine frame for a fort, but she couldn't decorate it intricately, and the outer look of a blanket fort is a big part of what gives it character.  

Meanwhile, while Jade probably can't make as secure of a skeleton as Toph, she could definitely give the fort a more detailed outer look with the blankets and other decor with pictures and designs her friends would appreciate.

I don't know what kind of blanket fort you've built, but in my experience, coloring and decor are basically non-factors. It's something some kids might be interested in, but the structure, skeleton, and size of the fort are far more important than the elegant little details like color. I looked up "blanket fort" on google images just to check if maybe my experience was the atypical one, but none of them had any kind of color coordination or elegant little details that Toph couldn't create, and the only recurring detail that Toph would struggle with is that a few of them had signs, which is something Toph couldn't do, but it's also a very small detail that is by no means necessary. Again, there are a some kids that might be more swayed by the things you mentioned, but the majority wouldn't really care, and would much prefer a bigger castle-like fort that Toph could build

[SSJRuss]

On 2/7/2021 at 2:18 PM, C.T. said:

If Toph just earthbended a fort and put blankets over it after, would that count? 

I think so. And it would probably be better than what Jade could come up with.

[UMPIRE]

Match Final Results

Toph Beifong: 4
Jade (Jackie Chan Adventures): 4