User blog:Savage Samurai/How to Buy Death Battle Trivia


 * Sam is writing the next three episodes of death battle.
 * The reason Tekken hasn't been used before now is because Ben wanted to make sure that ScrewAttack got it right when they did use it. Because of the format of Tekken, he believes it is only acceptable if they appear in a 3D fight.
 * The animation for Ryu VS Jin is finished.
 * How do you combat bias (9:07)? Sam's answer is that its really easy when he doesn't care about anything. He's more worried about making the episode entertaining. Ben agrees and adds that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who wins. Neither character has an actual stake in death battle. Death battle is also a team project meaning there are multiple voices in the research process.
 * At minimum there are at least two big discussions when discussing the winner. one at the research point and at the bare minimum this discussion will have 5 people. The next discussion will be essentially proof-reading.
 * Ben discusses that if Strange won his episode, that episode would probably be doing a bit better in viewership because Strange is more well known and popular.
 * Chad's favourite conspiracy in regards to death battle is "You made X character win because Y company gave you a bunch of money" (15:00).
 * Ben's is the "secret poll that no one knows about".
 * Chad says that SA has lost sponsership deals because of this. They nearly had a sponsership from Capcom but the first thing they say out the gate is that they need to have full creative control and that one of the characters will die meaning either your character will be shown killing someone or they will die and they don't have control over which happens.
 * Sam says that at one point they had the opportunity to have a sponsership from Sour Patch Kids. It didn't get past square one because the idea was garbage.
 * Chad says that one sponsership would've caused SA to do an episode with the matchup being "Pepperoni VS Sausage" (18:30). It would've allowed SA to make more than $20,000. Unfortunately the discussion spiraled out of control and SA has said that they will do Peppeoni VS Sausage if paid the right amount of money and having full creative control (which, I mean, how could they not).
 * Chad finds himself compromising and saying getting freelancers to do it so that they it would not take away from the progress of the show, allowing them to drop a normal episode of death battle on the same week they drop this episode.
 * Sam's alternative matchup is Jeff Boy RD VS Gordan Ramsay.
 * Sam says that an average episode of death battle takes about 1,000 man hours (23:00).