On the people getting hit in this round, this would have to be the easiest targets who have made the most damage to Vic's rep. March, Rial and Soye. An argument can be made for Marzgurl since she started all this shit, but she wasn't the one that came forward with a story like Rial and Marchi (and in Marchi's case, she has shown actual malice with her balls tweet). The last target would be either Funimation or RT, so that Vic can get back to work. Funimation has an easier case to be made against them than RT so I guess it would be them.
Disclaimer, Not an actual lawyer but the way Nick and Ty have explained things this is apparently the way things should go on the actual cases.
Vic is suing for defamation hence he needs to only say the statements are untrue under oath (I.e. his evidence) and then everyone who made defamatory statements need to provide evidence as to why they made those defamatory statements (I.e. have proof that he really is guilty of whatever they claimed he was guilty of).
Most likely to settle out of court for a set amount and a retraction of her statements, Possibly a restraining order preventing her from talking about the whole Vic situation as well. As her case is the strongest against her since she shows actual malice against Vic in both her Balls tweet and her leaked DMs.
If she tries to fight the defamation case, she needs to provide proof that he actually did those things to her in Funimation's lobby (camera footage or eyewitness testimony under oath) and then they cross examine statements and evidence as to whether it holds any weight to her claims and whether or not it's actual sexual assault.
Again, unless they actually found something against Vic in that investigation that can tie him to sexually assaulting someone without a shadow of a doubt, they will settle out of court and claim they fired him for unrelated reasons (e.g. pressure from Voice actors) or they acted without sufficient knowledge. The second follow-up message to their message on firing Vic can be written off by mutual agreement as a general statement not pertaining to Vic (all of these need to made as public statements as well).
Why I doubt they actually found anything significant in the investigation is because if they had, they would've involved the police or handed that information over to the police (Again, I'm not a lawyer, but this seems like a basic ethics rule that should be implemented in every company's HR rules).
Also there's more incentive for them to settle out of court than to go to court and have Senpai's Sony and Toei reprimand them for their disorderly conduct and being unable to keep their Voice actors under control.
The only idiots who are going to fight this case. I have no other words regarding this as there is definitely a defamation case to be made for both of them but if they don't have proof to back up their claims, they're going to fall flat on their faces.
For round 2, I see Ty going after a bit more 'challenging' targets in the hopes that they were severely demoralised after Ty wins 4-0 and they'll be only too happy to settle out of court or to drop charges in exchange for info on bigger targets.
My guess for Round 2:
Didn't actually make a defamatory statement unless you count that one employee of theirs, running their mouth. They could always disassociate themselves from that guy and pay a settlement to keep things out of court.
Even though she started all of this, she's a minor target given that she didn't accuse him of sexually assaulting her. However taking her down is still necessary.
Whoever they are, the only reason Ty will be tackling them now is so that they can get to Iago. Igor will have had the most dirty hands in all of this as they did all of Iago's dirty work. The reason why I say this might be challenging is because Ty would want him to go down, but go down giving more concrete proof that Iago was involved. If Igor doesn't squeal, then it was basically pointless. They may have evidence against Iago, but it's going to take some time to take him down and the war chest is limited.
Conventions with contracts that dropped Vic/Major News Outlets who Spread lies about Vic (e.g. ANN) but these are optional in this round, I feel. they're still necessary tho so Vic can get work again in the industry.
Lastly, Round 3. Who knows if we'll even get to this round. Depends on the GFM.
From what I can tell there'll only be one person in this round, unless Ty moves things around. That person is Iago.
Undoubtedly by this point in time, Ty would have his own evidence plus testimony/evidence given from people in the other 2 rounds that would be significant enough to tie whoever Iago is to this whole situation. Iago might also crumble under all of this (especially if Ty, wins every single fight up till this point in time) and may settle out of court for quite a hefty sum just to keep his whole operation under wraps.
As for everyone else, I don't think they will get hit unless the war chest is sufficient or it's actually worth going after them. usually sending this big of a message shuts people down quick in fear of a lawsuit.
If the war chest isn't sufficient, my guess is that restraining orders will be going out to everyone else who made defamatory statements against Vic. Tbh this would be the more viable option as the rest are attention hogs.
Serve people like Shane, Renfamous and Dominique with restraining orders stipulating that they aren't to get involved or speak about this whole situation and they'll fade back into their holes of obscurity and irrelevance.
