Murderland Contests

 Murderland Rock Offs!

These contests are a mix of COMBAT and CONTESTS in a display of proving one's worth as a trainer, and how fucking metal' you are.  These matches are written under assumption of noninterferance because of how Pokemon moves work during the contest, but interferance matches would probably operate the same, with a trainer getting an appeal action as an FA as well as their standard action, under the assumption trainer standard actions do not give appeal (unless the trainer KO's a target, in which treat their appeal roll as per normal.)

1. Initative. The First round of combat uses normal intiative rules.  All subsequent rounds are based on total appeal points for combatants.  While a Trainer's Appeal is added to their Pokemone's for the sake of winning conditions, they are considered seperate for the sake of initative.  These rules can make it so Pokemon act before trainers as well.  When a new active Pokemon joins the fight, they inherit the total appeal of the one that came before them for the sake of determining initative.

2. The Trainer's Turn.
Trainers, on their turn as an FA, can 'use' a Move on their active Pokemon's move list as a contest move.  Because of this, Trainers are capable of having contest stats during one of these contests.  These contest stats can come from normal means, or be attatched to the trainer's instrument of choice some how.

3. Pokemon Turns.
During a Pokemon's turn, they act as normal, with two exceptions.
1- When a Pokemon uses a Move in a Murderland Rock Off, it's both a combat move and a contest move.  You roll appeal regardless of if you hit or not.
2- When a target is KO'd by a Move, double the appeal roll for that Move.  If a Pokemon is KO'd from a nondirect source, such as a status effect or weather effect, the opposing side gains a bonus to appeal as if the action triggered max Voltage.

4. Judges!
Typically, in these contests, the judges are the audience themselves. The audience is broken into three seperate crowds.  These crowds act as a normal individual judge would.

5. Victory!
When the last Pokemon on a Trainer's roster is KO'd, the contest concludes. At this point, the appeal points for both sides is tallied, and the one with the most is the victor.