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VARNTAE VS STAR CO

Battle Result

LOTA Result

Clash Summary

VARNTAE and STAR CO met in a Champions League audio release from Croydon Boxpark. STAR CO won the coin toss and sent VARNTAE first. The in-building vote remained open all night because of high traffic, and the upload ends without an official tally.

VARNTAE's first was built almost entirely around STAR CO's gender identity, appearance and family. He moved through fire and acid imagery, a large family/stepfather section and a long attack on STAR CO's transition. The material was highly direct and clearly researched, but much of it relied on transphobia rather than a neutral competitive angle. Within that framework, VARNTAE showed strong room control and the greater volume of tailored material in the opening round. The archive gives him the first on directness while documenting the nature of the content rather than endorsing it.

STAR CO answered with a military concept that matched VARNTAE's Soldier branding. He used missions, mines, ambushes, enemy lines and cadets before moving into Deadpool regeneration, Tourette's, dreads and scene experience. The closing claim—that STAR CO had been active for less than a year but had already gone clear—gave the round a clear status argument. The scheme was more cohesive than VARNTAE's but had fewer opponent-specific moments, leaving the first narrowly with VARNTAE.

VARNTAE's second continued the same gender and family attacks, adding E45 and Doublebase skin cream, absent-father material, Lisa Simpson, a Mexican wave and Family Guy references. The round produced strong crowd reaction and an interruption around a six-men-in-a-four-door story, but the core angle had not developed far beyond the first. Repetition made the writing feel less progressive despite several clean references.

STAR CO's second was the battle's turning point. He extended the military setting through fragmentation bombs, shrapnel, soldiers, Call of Duty, switching sides, code names and rank. He then shifted into allegations about VARNTAE's behaviour around women and supported the angle with a video clip shown to the room. The playback appeared to show VARNTAE calling a cousin attractive while holding the person's neck, giving STAR CO a piece of evidence rather than a purely asserted personal. The combination of connected writing, specificity and the visual receipt gave STAR CO the round clearly.

VARNTAE used the clip as the basis of his third. He attacked STAR CO as a Sims 4 character with a red hygiene bar, then built an astronomy sequence around shooting star, Polaris, the North Star and white dwarf. Walking Dead/Whisperer imagery continued the skin attack before Moses and the Red Sea, OnlyFans and family history closed the verse. The star and biblical sections were among VARNTAE's cleanest technical writing, but the round again depended heavily on identity and family degradation.

STAR CO closed with his most layered round. He answered the star theme through Babylon's blade, Jar Jar, the Force and Yoda, then used Tommy Egan and Power before landing an odd/even sequence. Soldier, napalm and PTSD kept the military identity active. The final section moved into seamen/sea men, fishing, sardines, tsunami, island, thunder, trident, shore and anchor imagery. STAR CO ended by contrasting VARNTAE's five-plus years in battle rap with his own age of nineteen. The connected construction and status closer gave him the third.

No official result is preserved in the source. LOTA scores STAR CO 2-1: VARNTAE takes round one; STAR CO takes rounds two and three through stronger scheme development, the evidence-backed personal and the more complete final.

Performance Analysis

STAR CO

STAR CO wins the LOTA review 2-1 by improving across the battle. His military framework gives all three rounds a stable identity, the video evidence makes his second the decisive round, and the Star Wars/Power/odd-even/sea construction gives him the strongest close.

Lyrical Themes: Military missions, mines and enemy lines; Deadpool and Call of Duty; rank and soldiers; allegations supported by video; Star Wars and the Force; Tommy Egan and Power; odd/even; PTSD; sea, fishing, trident and age-versus-experience.

VARNTAE

VARNTAE takes round one through research, directness and crowd control. His strongest technical work comes later through astronomy, Walking Dead and Moses/Red Sea imagery. The weakness is angle repetition: all three rounds return to STAR CO's gender identity and family, often through explicitly transphobic material, so the attack stops developing after the opener.

Lyrical Themes: STAR CO's transition and gender identity; family and absent fathers; appearance and skin; fire and acid; E45 and Doublebase; Lisa Simpson and Family Guy; Sims 4; Polaris, white dwarf and shooting stars; Walking Dead; Moses and the Red Sea.

Key Technical Highlights

STAR CO

Sustained military identity

STAR CO keeps mission, rank, soldiers, battlefield and weapon language active across the full clash instead of treating it as a one-round gimmick.

Evidence-backed second

The personal angle is paired with an actual clip played in the room, giving the accusation more battle impact than an unsupported claim.

Layered final round

Star Wars, Power, mathematics and sea imagery each form a connected passage before the nineteen-versus-five-years closer.

VARNTAE

Direct opening research

VARNTAE arrives with names, family references and identity-specific material that makes the first feel prepared for STAR CO rather than transferable.

Astronomy sequence

Shooting star, cycle, Polaris, north and white dwarf give his third a technically connected name scheme.

Room control

He handles interruptions, requests reloads and repeatedly gets the crowd involved, particularly during the first two rounds.

Indexed Bars & Breakdown

VARNTAE

Round 1 — Fire Brigade

"I'm sharing a stage with a burn victim — call out the fire brigade."

A direct appearance attack that introduces the fire imagery used through the surrounding passage.

Round 1 — Genghis

"Your mum chops more brothers than Genghis, and I know she don't use protection."

Genghis Khan's enormous number of descendants becomes a deliberately disrespectful claim about STAR CO's mother.

Round 1 — Yeast

"Your dad don't rise, no bread — your mum left him with a yeast infection."

Rise, bread and yeast form a baking scheme while the absent-father attack remains underneath it.

Round 2 — Skin Treatment

"You need to buy some E45 and Doublebase cream for your skin cracks."

Two real emollient brands are used to make STAR CO's skin and appearance the setup.

Round 2 — Instagram Father

"He wants a dad so much, whoever mum sleeps with, he follows on Insta."

The absent-father angle is updated through social media: every new partner becomes a possible father figure to follow.

Round 2 — Set Men Straight

"This uppercut can set men straight."

The phrase means both correcting someone and, in the round's transphobic context, forcing a heterosexual identity.

Round 2 — Mexican Wave

"Zero-one-two-one steps on the stage and we all lift arms — Mexican wave."

The stage entrance and raised arms become the coordinated movement of a stadium Mexican wave.

Round 2 — Family Guy

"Seth MacFarlane, I'll draw for the Smith. You look a fake cosplay, dressed just like Roger."

Seth MacFarlane, Stan Smith and Roger connect through American Dad, turning the animation references into an appearance attack.

Round 3 — Sims 4

"You look like a Sims 4 character creation — I know your hygiene bar is red."

The Sims displays needs as coloured bars; a red hygiene meter means the character urgently needs cleaning.

Round 3 — Polaris

"Star is the end of your cycle, of course, 'cause when I air it, it's like Polaris — I aim up north at this white dwarf."

Star, Polaris, north and white dwarf create an astronomy scheme tied directly to STAR CO's name.

Round 3 — Walking Dead

"I'm in a war with this Walking Dead — this Whisperer stepped on stage with all this decay in his pores and flesh."

The Whisperers wear decaying walker skin in The Walking Dead, making the reference an extended appearance attack.

Round 3 — Red Sea

"You can get attacked on the block like Moses — I'll turn your road to the Red Sea."

Moses parting the Red Sea becomes a violent image of splitting the road and leaving it red.

STAR CO

Round 1 — Mine and Ambush

"Me, I control the map. You step, get splat — I planted a mine. An ambush attack leaves a chip on his back, soldiers behind enemy lines."

Map, mine, ambush, soldiers and enemy lines establish STAR CO's military setting immediately.

Round 1 — Deadpool

"I can try and revive a million times until he becomes one with death — then I'll burn my hair, burn my flesh, peel my skin and do it again. Cue the Deadpool."

Deadpool's regeneration explains repeated injury and recovery, while also answering VARNTAE's appearance attacks.

Round 1 — Scene Experience

"I've been in the scene for less than a year and man gone clear — the man is a puppy."

STAR CO contrasts rapid progress with VARNTAE's longer career, reducing the veteran to a young dog.

Round 2 — Fragmentation

"I'm explosive, I'm detonating. This fragmentation bomb can get man caught in that wave — shrapnel flying, soldiers dying."

Detonation, fragmentation, shrapnel and soldiers keep the battlefield scheme internally consistent.

Round 2 — Call of Duty

"If hell lets loose on this battlefield, his Call of Duty would flinch. A soldier switch sides, his mission denied — code name PASSIVE."

Call of Duty, switching sides, mission denial and a code name turn PASSIVE into both an MC reference and military identity.

Round 2 — Rank

"Sergeant in command — he can't be a general, he's not Napoleon."

Military ranks rise from sergeant to general before Napoleon supplies the famous commander comparison.

Round 2 — Video Evidence

"These allegations had your teammates slipping, so when I found this out — laugh out loud, STAR CO caught you tripping."

The line introduces the clip shown to the room, moving the personal from an allegation into visible battle evidence.

Round 3 — Star Wars

"He says he's a soldier, I'll take his soul with Babylon's blade. I make Jar Jar no star — I'm a force, that's Yoda."

Jar Jar, star, the Force and Yoda create a Star Wars chain while Babylon's blade keeps the weapon image active.

Round 3 — Power

"My power could warp a boss like Tommy Egan."

Tommy Egan is a central Power character, so power works as both ability and the television title.

Round 3 — Odd and Even

"This guy is odd, his mind is lost. We stepped outside, he's talking fine — that's odd in itself. Battling these odds, you can assume I'd make it even."

Odd is repeated as behaviour and probability before even resolves the mathematical contrast.

Round 3 — PTSD

"I slap him to napalm, he's fleeing and screaming — PTSD catches man when he's sleeping."

Napalm and fleeing preserve the war context, while PTSD carries the battlefield damage into sleep.

Round 3 — Sea Men

"See these three men like taking trips to the sea where no one can see them — like seamen."

Sea men/seamen turns a group disappearing to the coast into a nautical wordplay sequence.

Round 3 — Trident

"A tsunami could sweep soldiers to an island. Go to the sea, I bring thunder and lightning — I reap my man with a trident."

Tsunami, island, sea and trident keep the closing inside an ocean-and-mythology setting.

Round 3 — Age and Experience

"Only a man can rap five years plus and I'm nineteen, showing my diamonds."

The closer contrasts VARNTAE's long experience with STAR CO's young age and faster competitive rise.

Clash Highlights

  • VARNTAE's Polaris/north/white-dwarf sequence is his cleanest name-based technical passage.
  • STAR CO sustains the Soldier identity through missions, mines, ranks, Call of Duty, napalm and PTSD across all three rounds.
  • The video playback gives STAR CO's second an evidence-backed angle rather than a purely asserted personal.
  • STAR CO closes with a long sea, fishing, tsunami, island, trident and anchor sequence before the nineteen-versus-five-years comparison.
  • VARNTAE's first and second rounds rely heavily on attacks against STAR CO's gender identity. The archive records this as transphobic battle material rather than neutral factual description.
  • The room interrupts the six-men-in-a-four-door story so VARNTAE can explain that nobody was sitting on his lap.
  • Between rounds two and three, STAR CO plays a video clip to support allegations about VARNTAE calling a cousin attractive while holding the person by the neck.
  • The host explicitly says PenGame does not condone the behaviour shown in the clip.
  • This was released as audio, but the transcript preserves the room's reaction to a visual clip that listeners cannot independently inspect here.
  • The newer transcript stops at the introduction to STAR CO's third and resumes at the time call; the indexed third-round material is retained from the earlier preserved transcript rather than reconstructed from this incomplete copy.
  • Voting remains open all night because of high traffic, and no tally is announced in the upload.

Post-Battle Context

The in-building ballot experienced high traffic and remained open all night. The upload ends without a tally, and the original archive entry listed the winner as unknown.

Judgement Summary

LOTA Result: STAR CO wins 2-1

LOTA round split: VARNTAE takes round one through direct research, room control and the greater volume of tailored material. STAR CO takes round two with the stronger military construction and the evidence-backed video personal. STAR CO takes round three through the cleaner Star Wars, Power, odd/even, PTSD and sea/trident schemes, plus the age-versus-experience closer. No official tally is preserved, so this is explicitly a LOTA result rather than an official PenGame decision.

Battle Stats

Date20-04-2026
Views51K
LeagueSeason Champions League