Max (Sam & Max)

Max
"Visiting this Cambodian frog-breeding forum seems to be the lowest point of someone's life!"
Gender	Male
Series	Sam & Max
Tournament Berths	3 (2019, 2021, 2022)
Highest Seed	78th (2019)
Best Result	Quarter-finals / 7th (2022) Tag-Team Tournament: Champion (with Sam) (2019)
Next Eligible For	Mr. /co/lympus 2024

Max is one of the two titular characters of the Sam & Max franchise created by Steve Purcell. Having originally appared in a 1987 comic book series, the character has since been the subject of a graphic adventure video game developed by LucasArts, a television series, and a series of episodic adventure games developed by Telltale Games.

Max is an anthropomorphic "hyperkinetic, three-foot rabbity thing". His appearance is generally cute and cuddly, but contrasted by a reckless, impulsive, indulgent and destructive personality, being the source of much of the franchise's humor. Max enjoys extreme violence, and prefers to solve problems aggressively in contrast to his partner and friend Sam, enacting random violence while making sarcastic remarks. In other words, he is a menace to society and a war criminal. He's lucky he's cute.

Max earned his first /co/mpetition victory in the inaugural 2019 Tag-Team tournament.

Tournament History

Due to the franchise's relative obscurity and lower presence status on the board, Max in earlier years could have been described as a classic example of "tournament fodder", being popular enough to qualify and even warrant some campaigning, but never enough to go past the first round. His first two bouts were in 2019 and 2021, where he was unlucky enough to be paired against an Elite Eight member in the first round both times.

Max would return once more for Mr. /co/lympus 2022. Despite the usual expectations for him, he outperformed expectations and finally escaped the first round curse. While his first two rounds were not seen as too remarkable, he gained considerably more attention after easily taking down Dr. Livesey afterwards. He sustained an even more spectacular victory against Spear from Primal even with the show's finale having only aired weeks before the tournament. These victories led some to label Max as the "FotM (Flavor of the Month) Killer". His victory against Spear led him to finally make the Elite Eight for the first time, where he would finally lose to finalist Carl Brutananadilewski.

Outside of the Mr. /co/lympus tournaments, Max is notable for having won the inaugural 2019 Tag-Team contest alongside Sam. forming the Freelance Police duo. Ironically enough, the two of them have never made it into the bracket in the same year.

Results

Mr. /co/lympus

2019 - seed 78
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(51) Batman	DC	318 - 607	34.4%

2021 - seed 112
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(17) Grim	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	176 - 446	28.3%

2022 - seed 104
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(77) Zoidberg	Futurama	269 - 237	53.2%
Round 2	(76) Bill Cipher	Gravity Falls	317 - 251	55.8%
Round 3	(128) Dr. Livesey	Treasure Island	317 - 247	56.2%
Round 4	(4) Spear	Primal	309 - 267	53.6%
Quarter-finals	(12) Carl Brutananadilewski	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	202 - 258	43.9%
5th - 8th	(36) Squidward (3) Grim (115) Xavier	SpongeBob SquarePants The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Xavier: Renegade Angel	290 (points)	7th place

Tag-Team

2019: Freelance Police - Sam / Max
Round	Opponent	Members	Series	Pct. For
Round 1	Parental Supervision	Father / Wicked Stepmother	Codename: Kids Next Door / Cinderella	%
Round 2	The Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour	Timmy Turner / Jimmy Neutron	Fairly-Odd Parents / Jimmy Neutron	%
Round 3	Calvin and Hobbes	Calvin / Hobbes	Calvin and Hobbes	%
Round 4	Cracking Cheese Lovers	Wallace / Gromit	Wallace and Gromit	%
Semi-finals	Samurai and Sunglasses	Samurai Jack / Johnny Bravo	Samurai Jack / Johnny Bravo	%
Finals	Duck Dinasty	Donald Duck / Daffy Duck	Disney / Looney Tunes	%