I was thinking how we could organise this. Since we have four judges (Chicka the boss judge, then me, KKP and Skagg), how about each judge submits the rules for one of the four first round matches. Then in the second round, the beaten teams submit the rules, and so on.

If I get a majority to agree to that, I'm willing to do it. The problem is getting everyone to submit their rules on time. DexX had a problem with that last time, if you remember, me being one of the problem children.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

It might be too late, but I have a suggestion...

Maybe the first round could be one-on-one, but then round two could be one-on-one-on-one - three teams battling it out with the same rules. This would allow us twelve teams.

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[quote]It might be too late, but I have a suggestion...

Maybe the first round could be one-on-one, but then round two could be one-on-one-on-one - three teams battling it out with the same rules. This would allow us twelve teams.[/quote]Or, if you'd like to draw things out more, in a 12-way, round 1 could be three-ways in which two teams survive.

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I considered that possibility, but I decided not to because it would give an unfair advantage. Being one on one, you know you either win or lose. Being a triple count, You win, lose, or fall in the middle. Then you kick yourself because you ALMOST won. I think if skagg goes along as well as KKP did with what I've set up, it should be fun for everyone and there won't be any hurt feelings. KKP seems actually excited to be a judge.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

Close enough to this:

Which I already ruled out, but if you guys want it to be quick and painful, I'm all up. I'm just trying to make this fair, fun, and all about you guys.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

Is it because you couldn't come up with a suitably atrocious pun for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Listen to NSync? You *do* want her to kill herself, don't you?

Assassin!

How can anyone not love NSync? They have a big fat guy who apparently serves NO PURPOSE AT ALL. If you met him in the street, and he said he was in a boyband, nobody would believe him.

Plus he is friends with a seriously scary 9 year old bodybuilder:

What gender is that kid?

Are you talking about the one on the left or the one on the right?

[i]
Murderous Tendencies
Don't anger me more,
my temper's already gone.
You've tried my patience,
you've tried your luck.
Both have run out
and now you must pay.
Pathetic little woman,
underestimating my mind.
Cutting myself is not enough.
I need to see your blood too.
Killing myself is not enough.
I need to know that you won't hurt anyone else.
Then I will join you.[/i]

Coincidence?

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Ok well, I guess we'll go with the teams already made and the official judges idea. Also, we'll go with the submit a rule suggestion. I'll give the rule (one rule for the first round) to start things off, judges, I'm going to need rules from you first. Email them to joegina_510@hotmail.com please. ASAP. Thanks guys :D

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Mediocrity at its most average.

I'm so confused! Could you start this in a new thread in the competitions forum and explain what you want from me (rules etc...)?

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I second that emotion.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

Wait until after the Tag Team Cup, though. We can't have Drexle and lara7 going into the final round unopposed.

Too bad. I quit. I'm not gonna put up with this crap any more. I'm outta here. Good riddance.

~alison

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I'm back.

[quote]Too bad. I quit. I'm not gonna put up with this crap any more. I'm outta here. Good riddance.

~alison[/quote]

I see the "don't take every little thing like a horrible personal insult" phrase managed not to penetrate the anti-common-sense/good-advice forcefield you live in. Why am I not surprised? Oh well, maybe you don't need us to insult you... you do a fine enough job of it yourself, why would you need any help? I just hope you soon learn that being an irritating brat is not a requirement to having a dark and cynical personality and stop contributing to the typical goth stereotype.

You're bluffing, by the way. I can't count the number of times people have said they're leaving and then come back within a day or two.

Allison,
I haven't chirped up in this at all because it's all too real for me. I've been dealing with depression and pretty much self-hate for a long time. I never went to the extent of carving stuff into me, but I had my own things. I know how those kind of feelings can affect someone for years. I still deal with it today, at nearly 24. If some of the people here are kind of harsh on you, it's because people that are constantly shitting on themselves (not literally, of course :) are no fun to be around, and then taking it up a notch when people notice makes that person less fun to be around.

I know how hard it is to deal with feelings like that. It's not as simple as just "changing". I had so many friends that said "you just need to be happier" and I hated that as much as I'm sure you hate hearing it. But oddly enough, it's true. No one is saying "ohhh just be a happy person all the time". But you have to realize that hating yourself will just lead you into a cycle of more and more hate until it's almost too much to get out of. I was lucky. I had a friend years ago that was there for me at my lowest point, and it's been a slow journy up every since. I hope you have someone there for you that can help you.

It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to look for help. You're not a bad person for having these feelings, but I hope you get better.

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"Fascist Clay was my most favorite totalitarian boxer!" - Indie Rock Pete from Diesel Sweeties

And even as harsh as I was just now, I was there once. I know quite a bit about self-loathing, and I know enough to see when someone is being self destructive... and it's very hard to watch. It brings back too many memories.

Learn to take compliments gracefuly, and you'll find that people will love to give them. Don't beg for them, and don't deny them when they're given or you'll find that you get just the opposite. Try to find something worthwhile in yourself to give yourself at least a little happiness first, it's a very good start.

Is it because you couldn't come up with a suitably atrocious pun for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"?[/quote]No, of course not. I could in my sleep write up a five page tale about the operating system that had a terrible and elusive bug, and about how all the world's great computer scientists tried to fix it but failed, when finally one day this unshaven ceramicist was high off some good Colombian weed, when suddenly the image flashed into his head about how to fix his PC and all the others, so he starts typing just two lines of C code, and darned if it doesn't fix everything and make the machines run twice as fast in the process, and so the headlines in the next day's newspaper read HAIRY POTTER ENDS THE SOURCE ERROR STONED.

And I could do it with or without just making a run-on sentence out of it.

Now "HP and the Philosopher's Stone" is a wee bit harder, but luckily, that's a problem for people outside the US to deal with.

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Is it because you couldn't come up with a suitably atrocious pun for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"?[/quote]No, of course not. I could in my sleep write up a five page tale about the operating system that had a terrible and elusive bug, and about how all the world's great computer scientists tried to fix it but failed, when finally one day this unshaven ceramicist was high off some good Colombian weed, when suddenly the image flashed into his head about how to fix his PC and all the others, so he starts typing just two lines of C code, and darned if it doesn't fix everything and make the machines run twice as fast in the process, and so the headlines in the next day's newspaper read HAIRY POTTER ENDS THE SOURCE ERROR STONED.

And I could do it with or without just making a run-on sentence out of it.

Now "HP and the Philosopher's Stone" is a wee bit harder, but luckily, that's a problem for people outside the US to deal with.[/quote]

Now I'm depressed.

By the way, does anyone know where I can buy nematodes?

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

I don't have a god damned partner now! What the hell am I supposed to do? Anyone out there that wanted to be in the cup that isn't wanna step up and take Allisons place?

Ill partner you Crabby.

Since 3 judges is a better idea than 4 , since you cant have a tie then.

And besides. I havent written anything TRULY crap in ages , and you always give me the inspiration to write terrible comics.

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"Life Sucks, Then you Die. The bit inbetween isnt very funny either"