The only thing that drew a sustained reaction for Tez in the second was his “they vaulted your life” shyt, and that shyt is cringeworthy in the extreme. The fukk kinda person makes fun of someone for getting locked in this culture? It was weird when Arsonal did it to Geechi, but at least he correlated the shyt to battle rap and his simplicity as a battle rapper (you can’t think outside a box), Tez basically just made fun of the nikka for doing a bid.
He also had a bar insinuating that Ace got life for armed robbery and when Ace said “I got ten years” he repeated that 10 years is life (which is obviously nonsense). I thought Tez’s material top to bottom in that second was terrible (it was an underwhelming Tez from the jump actually and a giant step away from what he had in that Official battle), and I think that’s a primary factor in people giving the battle to Ace (in addition to him having some legitimate haymakers).
Again though, delivery and performance is a large part of what makes a battler good/great and Ace is severely lacking in that area way too often. caps was accurate, Ace put himself in a position to be denied that money based on that alone.