Last Man Standing was birthed shortly after a drunken night neither conceptart.org or strych9ine could particularly recall, but judging from the amount of full-sized polyester animal costumes and empty bottles of KY discarded about the room it had to be one hell of a good time. So now we were left to care for a brand new baby thunderdome art competition, consisting of 144 contenders from the conceptart.org forum, 6 rounds, completely random pairings of bracketed battles, and only one winner. After enduring nearly 10 months of pressure and completing 6 amazing pieces of art, Jason Chan walked away as the very first Last Man Standing.

Out of pure masochistic pleasure and a loathing for spending my free time wisely, we're doing it again.

Bigger. Sweatier. Stinkier. Nastier.

271 contenders over 4 rounds. 396 new pieces of artwork. 1 winner. And not one 1-on-1 battle. The round breakdown:

Round One: 271 initial contenders in 3 (and one 4) man battles
Round Two: 90 contenders in 3 man battles
Round Three: 30 contenders in 6 man battles
Final Round Four: 5 contenders, one winner.

So who's it going to be? *cue epic music* Against astounding odds, who is going to prove themselves and become the Last Man Standing? 2? Shit, that could have been delivered so much better.

On to Round One