Who would win this fight?

[bwm]

www.newturfers.com/mwf/attach/38/355838/BBCNEWSWorldLionMutilates42MidgetsinCambodianRing-Fight.htm
lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/
As you can read on these articles, a lion is able to take down 40 midgets...

now, let's pair the lion against 50 midgets, who do you think would win in the fight...

Use the poll

Note, the rules:
* Fight takes place between 1 full-grown, male African lion and 50 midgets
* The midgets are unarmed (no guns, baseball bats, tasers, etc.)
* The fight takes place in a closed arena (a racquetball court for example)
* Fight is over when either a) the lion is dead, or b) all 50 midgets are dead or unable to fight back (severely wounded)
* Lion is highly agitated, midgets know there's no way out until the lion is dead (they have to fight)
* The midgets are not specially trained to fight (not like the Cambodian fighting ones in the article) but are in average physical and mental health
* The midgets are given 5 minutes before the fight to prepare/strategize

Also, discuss the best strategy for either side...

[psycho]

Fwa! 4 Midgets would already win. Even so, when 3 Midgets face 1 lion, 1 Midget will survive. The proof is right here:

www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/doods.htm

[Angrod Culnámo]

Strategic midgets would win fairly well, corner the lion and kick him to death.....

[kafir]

I guess a lion would become very very tired when slaying 49 midgets and it will probably die of an heart-attack before it's able to kill the 50th one. And come on, I once saw a badger chasing away such a lion on National Geographic. Lions are not as fierce as they look like.

[bwm]

I don't see it... It's only 50 midgets and it's a hungry and fierce roaring lion...

I mean, the first ten midgets have already died before they all know what's happening...

Than they start talking about what to do (25 left)

Than they start kicking the beast, but well, he'll take down another 5 before they're at him...

And seriously, a lion could take down 20 of them...

[Panax]

Perhaps not, but do you really think midgets are that fierce? And besides that, the lion can't run, it's a closed arena. Even if they can corner him, which I kinda doubt, he can easily jump over them, and since he is faster then they are, he has time to turn and face them when they are coming after him, or perhaps he could even attack them in their back. It'll take a lot of kicks before the lion will probably even notice it, since he'll be full of adrenaline and the midgets don't have any weapons. If they're bear-fooded, it'll even be easier. Probably about a half of the midgets is female. And those midgets are like normal human beings, some'll panic and/or feint, forget their tactics, cry for their mommy's and try to escape the arena, even if they know they can't.
I'm tired of making up reasons, perhaps later I'll do some more

Viva la lion (as long as the tomatoo doesn't splash on him and blinds him, he'll be fine and having a great meal)

[kafir]

I voted for the midgets thinking it probably will be fighting midgets just as in the fake news article. When the midgets are untrained, the lion will have a better chance.

[Panax]

dude, read the rules =P It said it were normal, untraind but in an average shape midgets. So repost this thing already
(yes, this is reason to smijt ;D)

[bwm]

d**n, read the friggin rules, did I copy-paste them for nothing?

[bwm]

So, the lion wins, right?

[kafir]

Just one question left. Are there also midget-children, midget-seniors and midget-babies or are they at least all adult midgets? That would make a large difference I think.

[bwm]

Average Adult Midgets... From a normal population...


That means, if we would take 1000 midgets, 30 of them would be homosexual and 180 of them would be chinese

[Panax]

Hmm, I'm not sure about that, isn't the Chinese-rate for midgets different, since in a way, all Chines are midgets?
And what's the percentage facifists? O=)
But hey, if there are babies and old woman... the lion could do it even when his claws were trimmed

[psycho]

But then you must assume that the lion can be a senior lion as well!

[Panax]

neh, the senior is already eaten by the young ones... life's tough

[Aliandor]

but a small part of the population is a trained martial artist, so there's a small chance that you have one midget that can beat the lion all by itself.

I'd also go for the midgets because they'd be smart enough to contain the lion in the net of the raquetball field, and thereby trap him. following that, they'd use the racquetball training ball-gun to range the lion, and rip out the net posts and use them as clubs.

and finally: have you heard about David and Goliath?
then imagine 50 Davids and Goliath, what are the odds now?

[Panax]

DOH... I hate you!
Can't you take anything serious!?
They have nothing, just imagin a large dwarven arena, without the puddle. And well... David was a sissy, he had a sling and didn't dare to come close to goliath. All the midgets have are some tennisshoes, that doesn't kill a lion without getting close. And close means: they're dead

[Aliandor]

You'd be surprised how easily one can fabricate a sling from tennis shoes
just use some random pebbles from the floor as ammo (and take a -1 penalty for not using special sling stones, but getting a +1 for being halfli.. eh midgets who have a racial bonus to thrown weapons)

there is a reason slings don't have a listed cost, even a piece of cloth ripped from your T-shirt would do...

[Panax]

yeah, like midgets have much clothes... they couldn't even produce half a sling, and even then... what are those people going to throw? Sand? At least it has to be something small to. And don't forget making slings costs time, and the lion will have attacked lots of midgets before they are totally ready
So my opinion still is: Viva la lion

[psycho]

Midgets can be used as Sling-ammo...