Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 72/@comment-37830233-20190121221736/@comment-3401602-20190122000924

I like royale battles but I think five is a good nice round number. More could totally work but I think what they demonstrated in Ivan the Terrible vs Alexander the Great by immediately eliminating Pompey instead of going into his own verse is that the battle would have been too long or too repetitive with the "What about ___?" introductions. Frederick did his and it was amazing but with Pompey's introduction it was pretty much copying the one prior. Instead, they executed him immediately in order to introduce Catherine the Great, a fair match for Ivan.

Although, that's speaking theory for a gauntlet-structured battle where one person battles multiple ones, unlike a royale which is a normal 1-on-1 interrupted by multiple parties. Again, I feel like it depends on how the battle is already put together and if adding more and more characters is a good idea and not just doing the same thing over and over again and not introducting anything new. Twelve different parties in one royale sounds like it'd be fun on paper, but not something that is so rewatchable because the battle itself would be like 10 minutes long and hard to keep your attention the longer it gets.