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staffell aka mputaoin!! is a 25.79 year old boy, has been a member since August 15, 2005, has scored 33665 submissions, giving an average score of 1.28.

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Apr 30 '09 by staffell

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The Word Cup: STAGE ONE OVER, SUDDEN DEATH ROUND, TOURNAMENT TABLE COMING SOON

Staffell's Word Cup Tournament!

24 people in a tournament, which means - if you didn't get involved this time around, apologies - but don't worry! it'll be back.

1st prize = tshirt of your choice

THEMES ARE AT THE TOP OF EACH GROUPING

RULES

1:

- Each sloganeer will be pitted against each of the other members in their group and each pairing will be given a different subject matter to make slogans about.

- Pairs will be able to submit 3 slogans in each themed face-off and must do so to threadless. Each sloganeer plays each member of their group once, so that there are 3 games in each group.

- After 45 votes, the percentages of the two highest scoring slogans of each person (out of 3) are compared, and whoever's slogan is ahead by 5% wins 2 points and the loser sloganeer get's 0 points. If both slogans are within 5% of each other, then it's considered a draw and both sloganeers get 1 point. When your slogan reaches 45, please record the percentage and let me know by posting in this blog. PS: be honest.

- After the games are all played, the top 2 sloganeers are then entered into the slogan tournament table. First round is played, then it goes into quarter finals, semi finals and finally the final. Prizes and stuff have yet to be decided.

So the table will look like this essentially.

Things to note:

- Each new round will have a different theme!

- Each sloganeer gets to submit 3 slogans per individual game.

- If there is a draw at any point past the qualifiers, then there will be a sudden death round where sloganeers will only have the chance to submit 1 slogan! So it better be a good one!!

- This will be a great way of giving people inspiration, as well making sure the great slogans are noticed by everyone!

- IMPORTANT: TO STOP ANYONE CHEATING (not that you guys would do that), ONCE YOU'VE SUBMITTED YOUR SLOGANS TO TYPETEES, POST THEM HERE. This way, it will stop people deleting poor scoring slogans and resubmitting replacements. This is all a bit of fun!

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DRAWINGS

Group A:

mgill52
TimScribble
altair4444

Group B:

Spam69
JefAndLaurenRockHarderThanMost
pochettejuliano

Group C:

MuteJoe
rossmat8
evan3

Group D:

PuppetMeat
SnakeMan
NGee

Group E:

SuperRyan
Sparky the Wonderboy
lunchboxbrain

Group F:

staffell
dbrv11
tsc0809

Group G:

martiandrivein
toopersent
bygrinstow

Group H:

rbthatcher
courtney pie
FRICKINAWESOME

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QUALIFIERS

Each person will have two themes in the qualifiers, so check to see which themes you are in.
To recap - you may submit up to 3 slogans for each theme. After 45 votes, percentage is recorded and pitted against your opponent. Then we go from there. Submit slogans both to TypeTees and post them in this blog. Good luck!

THEME 1: SWEET THINGS

A: mgill52 70% VS TimScribble 38%

B: Spam69 67% VS ~~JefAndLaurenRockHarderThanMost~~

C: ~~MuteJoe~~ VS rossmat8 69%

D:PuppetMeat 61% VS ~~SnakeMan~~

E: SuperRyan 64% VS ~~Sparky the Wonderboy~~

F: staffell 60% VS dbrv11 62%

G: ~~martiandrivein VS toopersent~~

H: rbthatcher 80% VS courtney pie 78%

THEME 2: HOLIDAYS

A: mgill52 42% VS altair4444 36%

B: Spam69 53% VS ~~pochettejuliano~~

C: ~~MuteJoe~~ VS evan3 47%

D: PuppetMeat 51% VS NGee 69%

E: SuperRyan 56% VS lunchboxbrain

F: staffell 75% VS tsc0809 60%

G: ~~martiandrivein~~ VS bygrinstow

H: rbthatcher 73% VS FRICKINAWESOME 76%

THEME 3: ELECTRONICS

A: TimScribble 76% VS altair4444 61%

B: ~~JefAndLaurenRockHarderThanMost VS pochettejuliano~~

C: rossmat8 66% VS evan3 44%

D: ~~SnakeMan~~ VS NGee 64%

E: ~~Sparky the Wonderboy VS lunchboxbrain~~

F: dbrv11 51% VS ~~tsc0809~~

G:~~toopersent~~ VS bygrinstow 67%

H: courtney pie 71% VS FRICKINAWESOME 76%

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tsc0809 on Apr 30 '09 at 9:09am

I'm in!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 9:11am

ace

martiandrivein on Apr 30 '09 at 9:12am

I might as well try it.

SuperRyan on Apr 30 '09 at 9:13am

in!

TimScribble on Apr 30 '09 at 9:15am

Why not.

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 9:20am

I can't promise any amazing prizes from this, but i'll see what I can do!

lunchboxbrain on Apr 30 '09 at 9:21am

count me in

NGee on Apr 30 '09 at 9:41am

Count me in Staffell!

rbthatcher on Apr 30 '09 at 9:44am

I'll try it out!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 9:52am

alright!

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 9:53am

I think I'd like to give it a whirl!

I do hope there won't be any penalty shoot-outs though!

NGee on Apr 30 '09 at 10:06am

One suggestion...call it The Word Cup!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 10:09am

haha, omg I tried so hard to think of something clever, thanks Ngee!

toopersent on Apr 30 '09 at 10:13am

I'm def. in, however might it be a better idea to have the other contenders to vote on each round instead of submitting them to threadless?

I feel like the contestant votes are the only ones that should matter. That does mean more work for you, or you could delegate it to someone else.

pochettejuliano on Apr 30 '09 at 10:56am

I'd like to give it a try.

rossmat8 on Apr 30 '09 at 10:57am

I'm down like a clown Charlie Brrr down like a clown Charlie Brrro down like a clown Charlie Brown

Sparky the Wonderboy on Apr 30 '09 at 11:06am

I want in. Lemme play.

If all the slogans in a round have to make it to 40 votes in might take a while. Nevermind, only the top two would. I can read.

evan3 on Apr 30 '09 at 11:12am

add my name to the list!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 11:39am

@ toopersent - I had thought about this before posting the blog. I think that's a good way of doing it, but firstly it does involves way more effort on my part secondly, it will be the same for everyone, so it won't be unbalanced. Besides, I think sometimes the votard's vote does matter!

@ sparky - I figured that if there are 30 people in the contest, that's over half way there, then you have the votes from casual voters (making up around 10-15 votes in the short time after submitting), and a bunch more from bloggers and sloganeers outside the contest

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 11:40am

taking into account the casual voter's vote also adds to part of the challenge too!

SnakeMan on Apr 30 '09 at 11:41am

i'll do it.

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 12:02pm

awww... still not in :-(

yet :o) ?

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 12:03pm

oops, missed you there!

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 12:13pm

lol, np, cheers staffell!

Sparky the Wonderboy on Apr 30 '09 at 12:25pm

#12 !!! Thanks.
Votards vote!

courtney pie on Apr 30 '09 at 12:27pm

me me me!!!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 1:12pm

good stuff, over half way there!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 3:51pm

bump! come on guys, lets get signed up!

FRICKINAWESOME on Apr 30 '09 at 3:54pm

Duh, I'm all about this!

haha@nintechno suggesting this idea like a year ago but we never finalized how to make a slogan contest like this, nice job Staffie!

I think it's gonna be hard to judge based on slogan percentages since people will be majorly voting down other's while voting theirs up, but it's all about fun and games and slogan awesome so i'll do it no matter if i wind up below last place.

FRICKINAWESOME on Apr 30 '09 at 3:55pm

i'll also add this to the OSC news of the week on Monday...

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 3:58pm

i'm not judging frick! it's the percentages that will decide who wins :)

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 3:58pm

Oooh, how will the themes be chosen?

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 3:59pm

I like the fact that going by percentages will take into account the casual voters opinion too I guess. Just makes this contest a little different from yours I guess.

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 4:01pm

@mutejoe - i haven't decided that yet, I thought that once we reached the tournament table itself, the loser of the round would decide the next theme.

as for the inital grouping, I'll find a way :)

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 4:01pm

I guess I guess I guess

FRICKINAWESOME on Apr 30 '09 at 4:03pm

No, i know you're not judging, i meant people VOTING on the slogans that are part of the tournament, I'd hope we are all slogan professionals here and not just going to down-vote the other side, but when it's all about 5 percent wins things might get a bit heated and some might have their votes change from yes to no. It's all good, we'll see how it works and it should be fun times indeed.

juliejeremiah on Apr 30 '09 at 4:06pm

I'd say yes, but I'm not going to be around much for about the next 2 months. :(

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 4:06pm

I'd hope that people were gentleman/gentleladies about it! I'll make sure the prize is crap so that there isn't much incentive to be unprofessional about it :P

NGee on Apr 30 '09 at 4:17pm

Suggestion for the crap prize - a postcard of the Jules Rimet cup with 'Staffell's 2009 Word Cup' blatantly written across it.

Man I'm excited to be a part of this.

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 4:52pm

maybe I'll change it to 3%, so that one vote won't be enough to swing it either way?

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 5:01pm

I think within 5% would give a good chance of some drawn matches, without there been too many.

I suppose it can always be adjusted mid-tournament if too many draws are occurring?

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 5:07pm

there is another problem though, what if slogan A has 52% at 45 votes and slogan B has 46%.

Then, they both get 10 more votes and Slogan A goes to 44% and B goes to 53%.

technically, slogan A wins because of the contest guidelines, but if noone's around to see the percentages at 45, then B will win ....

PuppetMeat on Apr 30 '09 at 5:09pm

I'll give it a try. I'll probably be knocked out in round 1, but it sounds fun. :)

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 5:18pm

Well, this is where it gets decided that either 1) It gets scored by some other method, or 2) someone records the scores at a pre-determined time, and any subsequent changes are disregarded.

This may be the point where we realise how much manual intervention may be required to run such a competition, and whe the previous incarnations never quite left the ground.

Suppose we all submitted the slogans on this blog, and they all got submitted to the votards under one mock account? That might work, then all votes would be on the strength of the slogan rather than the reputation of the sloganeer? Not sure about the possibility of mock accounts though.

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 5:21pm

I don't think there's much point in going into it that deeply - I doubt the percentages would change as drastically as I suggested anyway.

This is after all just for a fun and a way of inspiring people to write slogans :)

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 5:26pm

I agree. As long as everyone knows what the percentages were when the scoring was done, that'd be fine.

dbrv11 on Apr 30 '09 at 5:31pm

Sounds great! I'm in!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 5:33pm

yeah i'm sure people will keep an eagle eye on their slogans anyway ;)

MuteJoe on Apr 30 '09 at 5:40pm

Strangely, I always forget to check mine, so this will be good practice for me to pay more attention!
I'm climbing Snowdon at the weekend so I'm hoping we don't kick off until Monday evening, lol!

staffell on Apr 30 '09 at 5:44pm

we'll see. nevermind though, there's plenty of time

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