T4R1M24 Quality Delibs

Bojack Horseman:
To start off, allow me to say I was not impressed with either strategy this match. Allow me to reiterate the loss conditions:
"As Andromeda said, killing any of the horses or hurting your competitor will result in an immediate loss."
Professor Bernal pretty explicitly sends quite a few different animals to personally attack M.I.A. in a way that fairly directly breaks the loss condition. The rest of the strat, while not inherently awful, was not enough to bring this up from a 1/10. M.I.A. meanwhile, has comparatively more plausible deniability on the loss condition I feel she violates: lethal damage on the horses. But really, everything she does to interfere with the horses is either pretty lethal (race horses are fragile yo) or fairly ineffective, with very little in between: lacerations, pot holes, alcohol. Not a fan. For the variety, careful means of harmlessly interfering with Bernal, and my willingness to give the benefit of the doubt that these horses are likely to survive the race before needing to be put down, I'm willing to give M.I.A. a 4/10.
We were too lenient with Michelle, and this will not happen again.

PotOOOOOOOO:
Professor Bernal:

Hm. Well, I don't want to trivialize the strategies involved here, and I do appreciate the work that you put in, but you kind of like, trip the instant loss condition that we made pretty explicitly clear super short into your strategy and I can't really give you anything higher than a 1/10 for that; there's no ambiguity or question about it as you literally sic several animals on MIA for a direct and violent attack. I'd like to assess the rest of the strategy but, really, when you trip it that early in, there's not much of a point.

M.I.A.:

I thought you had a fairly good strategy here; but again you fall into the same trap of playing it pretty fast and loose with regards to the loss condition. I'm not going to say you outright tripped it but you get pretty close at times, too close for comfort. You're very reckless with the safety of the horses, a lot of the stuff you do is really going to hurt them and that's... not good. Notably, like a fellow judge has pointed out, the alcohol won't actually do much, but I do think that the holes are likely to not only break one of the horses legs with how fast they're going, but also that you're just going to straight up fling the jockey off and possibly injure him pretty badly.  I do like a lot of the strategies you have at play here, more on that in my jojolity delib,  and you clearly didn't play as dangerous as Bernal did with the loss condition but please don't push it that far in a match with a loss condition like this again. 3/10.

Both these delibs are rather short but I think both strategies really just pushed the limits we set too hard and because of that I don't really think I can say much on them other than you really shouldn't have done that.

Seabiscuit:

Bernal: You attacked your opponent on turn one. 1/10. There was some interesting things in this, but you attacked your opponent. That's not going to fly.
MIA:

Unlike my fellows I won't be harping too much on the loss condition and will be mostly ignoring it for purposes of the strategy. However, this is because I saw systematic issues with the rest of the strategy.

Your two main ways of slowing horses were the mint juleps and the holes. I'll get to the holes later, but. Horses are big. Much bigger than people. Unless a massive amount of alcohol is used, the BAC of the horses is going to be too small to matter in the long run. Besides that, horses have extremely efficient livers that can break down alcohol easily. I mention this because for how strongly you rely on it, you seem to have ignored that horses are not humans, with human biology. This is a major, major research oversight.

With the holes, I'm going to give you benefit of the doubt that a horse isn't going to break a leg (And be required to be put down), but it's extremely reckless. And with 4 AGI and 3 Running, combined with the ineffectiveness of the booze strats, if I'm assuming none of them break a leg I can't imagine that they will be altogether too inconvenienced to the point of guaranteeing victory.

Put simply, I doubt you could actually complete the objective.

If I were to give a diagnoses, I would say you got lost in the sauce of cool things you could do, without doing quite enough research or putting quite enough thought into if you should.

Some suggestions I would have done. To integrate booze strats, inject it as a blood thinner and make lacerations, nonlethal of course and relatively minor, but enough to cause enough blood loss as to knock them out as a serious contender but be far from anything fatal. Or you could have had AT and the Wings use their C Pow to not only raise up your own horse, but pick up others, absolutely knocking them out as a contendor. Or teleporting newspapers in front of jockeys to slow them down while they're forced to bat them off.

I want to emphasize these aren't too well thought out, but that you should have considered other options in tackling this besides the 2 you did.

Overall, with the relative ineffectiveness of the strategies used, I'll have to agree with my fellows and give you a 4/10.