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- Craig and Jime,
you guys got to do three scoops of ice cream.
I better be able to taste these damn things
when you're done, all right? Are you ready?
- Ready. - Are you ready?
- Ready. - Let's tattoo.
- Rock and roll.
- This is the ultimate new school showdown.
Craig and Jime are new school titans.
Craig called out three-scoop sundae.
I better see great drawings, super awesome tattooing,
bright, bold, new school to the max.
This is gonna be epic.
- Ready?
[heavy rock music]
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- Oh, dude, now this is what I want to see from you.
- Between me and Jime, we could fill up a snack store
with the amount of snacks that we have tattooed on people.
- Four little faces, huh?
Each one more adorable than the next.
- This one is just like, "Oh, no!"
The cool thing about new school tattooing:
there's no rules to it. Like, that's why we do it.
But at the same time, you got to make it interesting.
It's just all about creativity,
and I think that's what the whole point is.
- Are you even using a color reference,
or you just know in your mind what it's supposed to be?
- Eh, just have eaten lots of ice cream.
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- I know that I've pushed myself to the limits.
I've exaggerated every element that I possibly can,
you know, with faces and fun and textures
and little bitty element designs
that I know that Craig is definitely gonna bring.
It's gonna be the true battle to the end.
- Do you think that you should
have not handed the win yesterday, or what?
- No, not at all, man.
I wanted to be here so I can push myself.
- You called him out
and then beat him at his own game, I guess.
- Yeah, but at least it's his game now.
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- Jime has this dynamic way
of interpreting things, which I totally admire.
Now I'm the one that's gonna be stepping
into the deep water trying to keep up with Jime's designs.
[dramatic music]
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- All right, guys. Sirvone, you ready?
- Yeah. All day.
- Tito?
- Let's give him his own medicine.
- Your six-hour grudge match tattoo
starts right now.
- Let's take home the win, baby.
- Sirvone called out American traditional tattoos.
- I'm ready for it.
- You can cut the tension with a knife in here.
These guys aren't only battling it out
in their tattoos today; they are throwing daggers.
- Are you ready, bro?
- Yes, sir.
[dramatic music]
[tattoo machines buzzing]
- I don't do American traditional in my daily basis,
but when I started tattooing,
I work in a traditional shop, so I can pull out this style.
Shark and anchors was one of the first design
that was made back in the day,
and I decided something simple and bold.
Every line is very critical.
- Can we get a bucket over here with a sponge?
Going super old school.
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- I'm doing a traditional American lady head.
I just think she looks really pretty.
The artwork alone is gonna carry me.
- That is definitely American traditional.
- Tito don't like following rules,
and there's too many of them for him in traditional.
He has no clue what to do, and he's [bleep] scared.
[dramatic music]
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- We are at the halfway point.
You guys have three hours left.
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- Tito is pissed, man.
See, I can talk all the shit I want.
If you want to shake my hand and just end it, we can do it.
It's like, in that same respect,
it's like, let the machines do the talking.
- Yeah, totally. This whole thing started with tattooing.
You should end it with tattooing.
You know what I mean? - Mm-hmm.
[heavy rock music]
[tattoo machine buzzing]
- I got a surprise for you.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- What kind of surprise?
- I'll do another one.
- Yeah? Get out of here.
- Right now. - All right. Let's do it.
- I'm a fast tattooer, so I'm gonna show what I can do.
Traditional all day.
2 hours and 15 minute.
- Let's do it.
Back in the day when you work American traditional
was one after another one.
- Ah, perfect.
- When you finish one, you want another one,
and you can afford it, just keep going.
[tattoo machine buzzing]
- Oh, looks like they're going with another one over there.
- Leaving hisself a window of opportunity for more mistakes.
- Let's go.
[dramatic music]
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- All right. - It looks awesome.
- Thank you. Thank you. - Looks really awesome.
- Want another one? - Hell yeah, man.
- If you want to double up, man,
I'll quadruple up with you.
We already won, though,
but I'm gonna kick his [bleep] ass today.
My second design is a traditional boxer lady.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bitch.
I'm all in.
[tattoo machine buzzing]
- Oh, my God. This guy's a copycat.
I can't [bleep] believe it.
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- I'm doing mine better, 'cause I'm doing gelato.
This is that fancy ice cream.
- There's only two hours left on the clock.
Two hours left.
[dramatic music]
- Something is reacting to the canvas' skin.
I'm laying in this rich brown
that I wanted for the chocolate part
of the ice cream,
and it's taken it from looking like an ice cream cone
to a burnt meatball.
I'm definitely gonna have to adjust my color palette
to match what's going on in the skin.
- How you doing on time over there?
- Cutting it close, but I'll be all right.
How about yourself?
- I'm gonna make it.
- I mean if you want to come over here and help me color in,
I ain't gonna say no.
- [laughs]
- What are you guys thinking?
- I do love Jime's design,
but I'm just nervous because of technical stuff.
- I'm not too sold on the brown.
- Yeah. - As far as Craig's goes,
it's clean, but it's just not solid.
Like the cup, you can see through the blue still.
But I never taste the pie before it's out of the oven.
[heavy rock music]
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- Five, four, three,
two, one. Turn 'em off.
Turn 'em off.
- All right, man. That's it. All done.
- They all have their own little personality.
- All right, man. You have been snack-tooed.
- It looks good.
- So, Craig, what's the scoop?
- Scoop of ice cream.
- Not just a scoop--three.
- Man, I definitely didn't think
that I was gonna come in here
and have any kind of cakewalk. It was...
- And I was like, "I want you to trip."
Just not, like, fall down,
but just to stumble a little bit.
- It was really good to be back in here.
Instead of "Ink Master: Grudge Match,"
it's "Ink Master: Bromance."
That's what it is. It's gonna be the next season.
- Yeah. - "Ink Master: Bromance."
- Right? - Yeah.
- I appreciate it. - Dude, thank you so much.
- I mean, this is a battle of the titans right here.