User blog comment:Martialmaniac/Major Battles section/@comment-31525652-20180408231222

TIL I'm a philosopher lmao

Just to be clear I'm not approving of method 1. It was just practical to include everything at first then decide which to omit. The poll is kinda black and white so I will just give my opinion on each of these situations.

I agree that sneak attacks should be omitted, unless the target had a chance to defend himself (even if that chance was a few seconds). In Dalzollene's case, it would be mean to classify it as a battle since he thought the attackers were his buddies. As for Kurapika's sneak attack on Chrollo... Unless Kurapika attacked at the same moment the lights turned off, Chrollo had his chance to defend against chain jail (with his En?) Of course, it's not entirely fair given the short time span. But fights in HxH are hardly fair seeing most of them had advantageous settings for certain characters. This is just my 2 cents. We should only omit the 100% sneak attacks, and not disadvantageous situations resulting from careful planning. On this premise, the Bombers attack feels right (for me) to be included, as the victims knew beforehand and couldn't do anything against Little Flower. It was disadvantageous but not hopeless. So all the victims should be counted as deaths against an (unfair) battle with the 3 bombers.

I was not going to include the board games. Now that I think about it, maybe the term "Major Battles" is the main source of our problems. I included the ball game with Netero and the coin game with Gotoh because they were iconic in their respective arcs and not just some random occurrence. The dodgeball as well should get the same treatment. Maybe instead of "Major Battles", we opt for something more general, I'm not an English guru like Martial but for example "Events", "Trials" or "Confrontations".. perhaps just separate "Battles" from "Competitions/Games/Contests or any better word." In the latter case, might as well include Komugi vs Meruem (Gungi)

Stealing cards shouldn't definitely be included since 1) it's a pretty mundane occurrence given the context of the GI game 2) would clatter the page with unnecessary information

Now that I think about it, we should not include "fights" like Phinks vs Nobunaga (interrupted by Shizuku), Hisoka vs Nobunaga (interrupted by Chrollo) since they never clashed together and just had a disagreement. People chasing after one another is hardly a fight as well. So we should omit things like Nobu vs Gon and Killua / Tzesguerra group and the bombers chase.

For Leorio vs Bodoro (interrupted by Killua) Leorio should be a winner since the fight was based on a trial, and was not some kind of a death match.. So Leorio had indeed "won" the fight.

I was wary of including things like Franklin vs Auction guests and Uvogin vs Mafia (the guys with the bazooka) since they're all unnamed characters but it was still pretty major and took a big portion of the chapter. Hisoka vs phase 2 applicants lasted one whole chapter, so I think we should include it as well.