1st battle of 2004.. Yami vs Sear!

Hey y'all...
New signature battles, for 2004! Soon the tournament shall start... so here's a new slice of the action... Me verses SearanoX!
You guys know the drill! But if you don't.... here 2 images are posted. One for each contender (or if there is a special battle, then whatever), and a poll. You (as in the reader) shall vote for the winner! First person to hit a certain amount of votes, or the most by the deadline wins!
So here are the entrys...

Rules of this battle: Free 4 all, 400 x 80, friendship battle (battle between friends)

Yami:

Washu red theme

SearanoX:

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Deep Dive theme...

Vote!
Poll goes for 2/3 (I forgot :S) days
Note: If this is in the wrong section, move it please.

Aye, good luck to you, Yami. May the best man win.

.....GRRR

is so hard to choose.. both are exelent and i can't even spell that...

there should be a theme... that way we can pick who's most represents that theme, just a thought.

GO SEAR! I have a *grudge* against Yami. so...SEAR! anyway...I like Sear's better being non-biast.

I have to give the tip to Sear. Although I like both- I give Sear the tip because of the words/symbols and the color scheme which I found that I like alot.

Good luck both of you!

I must say I love the red smoke/wave thing in Yami's sig..
But Sear has some very cool pictures..
*sets himself in trance*
Bwargh!
Okey, I'll go for Yami..

Oooh, Deep Dive. I'm gonna have to go with SearanoX.

I go for SearanoX. His siggies are great!

I would vote for Sear, but I think that may only be because I'm a big fan of Kingdom Hearts, so I won't vote.

I'll give my vote to Sear. I really like the theme he's used, which fits the chosen pictures well.

:::tips hat off to sea:::

dang, i love the washu one, but it seems the pictures are swamped out... while the same thing happens in sea's if you look at it too much, it's a LOT less significant, and would be gotten rid of quite easily by just toning down the streak effect on the frame/lettering layer a bit... ^^

andi, I tried reducing it. I couldn't find many high-quality pictures, especially ones without text on them (from the trailer). I think the .jpg format also might have made it a bit more apparent.

I don't notice such a problem on Yami's, though...

I vote for Yami...I like his work on this one...Sear's is good too, just, I find Yami's better

Well.. it's over. I guess, it was a sorta good battle. With Sear coming out the winner by 8 votes. Nice battle.
Well, this can be locked unless some people want some closing comments e.g Sear. Well anyway, hope this has got some attention for the upcoming battles, which should have more of an impact... Expect it by the 20th!

Hey, good battle, Yami. I know I won, but really, yours is just as good as mine, if not better. It certainly is skill-wise, anyway. I still have a long way to go.

Hopefully we'll have a rematch in the upcoming tournament.

Well, it's who against who one on the 20th?

Don't know. I shall make a signing up thread on the 20th.