Alright, the moment of truth. Before I say anything, I do want to personally thank both of you for participating in our first ever tournament here on The Sage Continues! This was a milestone achievement and we certainly could not have done it without either of you. With that being said, let's begin.

Oftentimes, the most difficult words to put on the page are the first. In similar fashion, in battle, the most difficult step to take is usually the initial. No other summary is as fitting for a unique duel in the first round of this tournament: a clash of two duelists who are very much alike, both waiting for the opponent to take action so that they could capitalize by countering! Unfortunately, we did not get to see the duel develop to a point where that strategy would pay off for one of the players over the other, but such is life from time to time.

We wish to applaud both combatants in their composition of a truly thought-provoking match. And, especially in the early stages of the fight, the contest of wills is seldom as overt in GBA fights as it was here. You should both be proud of the effort and personal investment that you have put on display here.
No judgment would be complete, however, without some constructive criticism to take with you into the next match.
One thing that both Ron and myself regretted was the stall in posting rate. While we understand that real life priorities must take precedence over RP priorities, it was nonetheless disappointing that, after an initial back-and-forth consisting of five(!) replies written in a single night, by the end, there were 4-5 day spans between a few of the responses.
Another item that deserves mention, for both duelists, is to maintain great care when it comes to insulting your opponent. A character taunting another character verbally is one thing, but when derogatory comments begin to slip into the narration, that's where additional language is a good idea to help clarify that this is the character's opinion, not the author's. When the author begins taunting the other author, we've gotten into a situation where we're not treating each other with due decency. In the later posts of the match, we felt that it was worth bringing up here.

Something we would specifically like to address to Calum is having used a high degree of proficiency with Force Sense without listing it as a mastered power in your profile. There is a difference between generically sensing danger from an imminent attack, and pinpointing the knife in your opponent's hand with your eyes shut while getting ready to use Telekinesis. There's no compelling reason the knife would be more specifically brought to your attention by Force Sense than the brass knuckles she was wearing, for instance.
And something we'd like to address with Jolene is the amount of Force usage performed in your final post. We can certainly say that you had taken a lot of time to perform preparations to use the Force; however, the extent of the usage in the last post is excessive, even in light of that (Combustion + Force Sense + Force Wave). When also considering the small amount of time in which you had to perform (because of Calum's use of Force Speed), there is most likely only time to perform one technique, and most likely (because of the modest proficiency you claim for these powers in your profile) only enough mental acuity to perform one technique. The length of preparation to use a Force technique should generally increase the potency of that technique, except in rare circumstances.

This fight comes down to two parts: the daring each other to move, and then the actual movement. Jolene began the fight by baiting Calum to attack, to which he asserted that he would only engage on his terms. Calum then became the first to give in and perform an attack. He used Telekinesis to attack using a docked TIE/D. In the battle of wills started by Jolene's opening with Dun Moch, though initially ineffective, the clear victor of that element was Jolene. She took some superficial damage from her dodge of the fighter, and then retaliated with a knife throw to the foot (which was dodged with no damage taken). Calum's next attack came with a charge via Force Speed, leading into a Trakata-assisted stab, to which Jolene responded with her flurry of Force techniques.

What the judgment mainly considers is the answer to the question of who maintained advantage and how. As stated above, the clear winner of the Dun Moch challenge was Jolene; who, after her opponent agreed to this approach, caused her opponent to mentally cave and attack first. Unfortunately, and in spite of having won this facet, this also proves to be where Jolene lost the advantage. When Calum took her bait and attacked, her retaliation was an easily-dodged knife throw, which may have proven to be a useful opening for actually beginning an attack. Alas, her follow-up to this was to revert back to Dun Moch instead of engaging with tangible attacks to press her advantage even further. Calum then seized the advantage and used Force Speed, which was inadequately countered. The reversal from his initial blunder and recovery into a formidable offensive move caused a response which comes across as panicked on Jolene's part and testifies to the efficacy. However, this is also where we fail to see the full resolution. If the duelists had been able to make a post or two more, the victor in this exchange would have been much more clear. Due to a request for judge ruling on the first iteration of Jolene's last post, and subsequent revision, 4 days were lost from the time available to the duelists. This number, however, amounts to less than half the time unavailable to duelists while waiting the combined 9 days Calum took to write the two posts preceding Jolene's questionable post.

On the basis of advantage in the duel's opening stages, and largely self-caused incompleteness obscuring the fullness of her opponent's reversal, we the judges find Jolene Carter to be the winner of this match.