Comic Cup VII: The Weakest Strip -- Pedantic League

I’ll summarize the rules here so you don’t have to go looking in the sign-up thread for them.

• This Cup is a mix of the rules Weakest Link and Survivor, where in each round all the participants create a strip and vote off the creator of the worst strip.
  
• The person voted off creates the rule for the next round. Revenge is sweet. I will be creating the rule for the first round.
  
• Unlike the game shows upon which this Cup is based, after you are voted off you still get to vote people off in the subsequent rounds… So don’t disappear after you get voted off. We still love you.
  
• In the final round, you will be voting for the winner, not for the person you want voted off.
  
• If you miss submitting a strip for a round, you’re ejected from the Cup. This seems harsh, but I can’t exactly let someone who doesn’t submit a strip get a free pass to the next round. If you think you will have a scheduling conflict at some point in the game, please let me know and I will do my best (within reason) to accommodate you.
  
• Once the rule for a round is posted, you have up to 36 hours to complete and post your comic. Rounds that run into the weekend will last longer. Once all the strips are in (or the deadline is past) I will give a signal to begin voting. (If all of the strips for the round are obviously in, just go ahead and start voting). The voting period will last up to 24 hours. Remember, except for the final round, you are voting for who to eject.
  
• In the event of a tie, the person voted off will be the one who has the most votes accumulated against them from previous rounds.
  
• Because so many people signed up for this Cup, I have split it into two concurrent league competitions – The Tobor League and the Pedantic League. Each League has 9 members. When each League is down to 4 members they will merge. I’ll create a new thread for that.
  

The Pedantic League is:

• Big Evil Dan
  
• Bogart
  
• DexX
  
• flickguy
  
• kaufman
  
• kramer_vs_kramer
  
• ladyjdotnet
  
• lara7
  
• TheElPaso

On a personal note, please remember that this is about who makes the best (or worst) comic strips. It’s not about alliances or voting blocs or any strategy like that. Just make the funniest strips you can and see how far it takes you. Consistent goodness will be rewarded. Consistent badness won’t last long. Inconsistent goodness… well, just hope someone else does something worse on your bad days.

I’ll post the rule for the first round shortly.

Round 1

I’ll start the Cup with a simple rule to get you warmed up. Create a strip using the following words (in no particular order):

• leech
  
• redundant
  
• secrete
  
• telekinesis
  
• pajamas
  

simply question, perhaps i am lamer, newbie, or both

were do i sign up?

scratch that

46936

47001

Please forgive my UK spelling of "pyjamas". This strip is a good example of how contest rules can occasionally stifle a good joke. I thought this strip was much better when it ended on "shot my fucking leg off too", but I still had two words left to include.

Oh well...

I'm not going to be a rule Nazi during this whole thing. It's up to the voters to decide if others have followed the rule or not, and if stretching or missing a rule warrants a vote out.

But personally, I think "pyjamas" is fine.

47020

47021

Can us Tobor Leaguers vote in the Pedantic competition?

Ah, should have clarified that. No. And vice-versa.

But after the merge, everybody from both leagues votes.

47053

As the moderator I'm probably supposed to remain impartial, but damn that was good.

Even though I'm from the rival league, I agree and look forward to meeting Kramer in the final!

47071
Not so much funny as pathetic.

47139

47145

I'm eager to see The El Paso voted off in the first round.

Question for the moderator:

with three hours before deadline, 1 contestant has not posted. If he doesn't post it in time, does he get kicked out AND the creator of the strip voted worst ALSO gets kicked out?

Also, if possible, depending on when you're online, a "deadline's up, time to vote" reminder might be nice, since we have way more strips to keep track of than we do in a usual Comic Cup.

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Question for the moderator:

with three hours before deadline, 1 contestant has not posted. If he doesn't post it in time, does he get kicked out AND the creator of the strip voted worst ALSO gets kicked out?

Also, if possible, depending on when you're online, a "deadline's up, time to vote" reminder might be nice, since we have way more strips to keep track of than we do in a usual Comic Cup.

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Time to Vote!

You have 24 hours for your puny voice to be heard. Remember, you are voting for the worst strip.

Flickguy, unfortunately you did not submit a strip by the deadline and are out of the game. That's the way it goes.

Who will be the first deemed redundant in the contest? Who secretes badness in their strip? Who has leeched onto this contest, only to be ousted in the first round? Who has made The Weakest Strip?

Bogart

TheElPaso

Hey, you guys have forgotten to include the bewildering justification for your vote...

TheElPaso, because the magical hippopotamus who lives under my bed told me to.

Don't they just give the names first, then Anne asks someone to elaborate on their choice?

TheElPaso, because cheezfood vestibule hairy yield fornicate.

Bogart, because them rotor turbines ain't gonna generate gravitons by themselves!

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Don't they just give the names first, then Anne asks someone to elaborate on their choice?

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Oh, I remember her! She had the blind butler type guy, and one episode she moved all the furniture around without telling him, for a bit of a cheap laugh.

Bogart because his name is Tragob spelled backwards.

TheElPaso because he is not Bogart.

Bogart and ElPaso, your fates hinge on lara7's vote...

Be ascared, be very ascared.

Vote for the El Paso

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Bogart and ElPaso, your fates hinge on lara7's vote...

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Thank you, yes. I like to believe that is some of my worst work. I actually went back and edited some of it, then hit save and realized it no longer made sense in some areas.

And the sun was in my eyes.

And the keyboard took a bad hop.

TheElPaso, You have made the weakest strip! Goodbye!

But before you go, you have to send a rule for the next round to me at chris@condon.net. Remember, you get to vote for the rest of the rounds, so keep tuning in.

For the rest of you, I will try to keep this status page updated after each round.

Is that sagging dominatrix getting anyone else hot, or is it just me?

God I love running around in cyber-drag!

Round 2
It seems that TheElPaso has gone AWOL. If he still cares to submit a rule I may use it at a later time.

I think it will speed things up if everyone e-mails me a rule now (chris@condon.net) so that I have it on file if you get voted off. Please put your stripcreator nickname in the subject line so I can find your rule when the time comes. Thanks!

Meanwhile, it’s time that we got Round 2 started! Since TheElPaso hasn’t submitted a rule, I’ll make one up myself:

• Customer service sucks these days. Create a strip about really bad customer service. This can be true, fanciful, or somewhere in between.
  
• Include a made-up Latin phrase.
  

47634

47637

quote:

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Latin All the Way to the Bank

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47790

47810

47887

47955

Time to vote!

Well, we've waited long enough for Bogart's strip, so I guess he is out. It is time to vote once again!

You have 24 hours to vote for The Weakest Strip!

Big Evil Dan because bayerhund das oder die flipperweld gersput!

lara7 because someone left a cake out in the rain.

lara7, and if you don't know why, I'm not going to tell you.