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wirthling
June 5, 2002 9:52 PM

Is there any interest in reviving the Comic Cup? If so, start signing up here.

I also wanted to offer up an idea (ok, a gimmick) for this cup and have you all ridicule it. I was thinking that instead of having rules for each round, instead I would post a comic for each round that just has backgrounds and characters and no dialogue. (There's also the possibility of doing the same thing using existing comics as templates rather than making up blank comics of my own.) Then, each participant would have to use the given graphics (with no alterations, except for the use of a height prop where no character is included) and add in dialogue and/or narration. The first round would start off with a fairly easy set of characters, but I would throw in a more incoherent set of characters/backgrounds as the rounds progress.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Insults?

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dcomposed June 5, 2002 9:57 PM	Because i'm the best on all of stripcreator, I would win it.
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DexX June 5, 2002 10:47 PM	I'm in. Sounds fun.
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wirthling
June 5, 2002 11:12 PM

I'll code up the brackets (I just got Visual Studio.NET and I've been trying to come up with an excuse to code something in VB.NET) after we have 16 people sign up. Please don't sign up under multiple aliases.

I'm thinking about letting any non-participant vote, too, but I'll only count non-particpant votes as a half-vote each. I haven't decided about that, because I'm not sure what names here are aliases for regulars and I wouldn't want to permit the kind of cheating that seems to be popping up in some of the contests. Maybe I'll only let participants vote. I dunno.

Add your name to this list if you want to participate:

1. dcomposed
2. DexX

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lara7 June 5, 2002 11:26 PM	quote: Add your name to this list if you want to participate: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3.lara7
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Namgubed June 5, 2002 11:52 PM	quote: Add your name to this list if you want to participate: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed Sure ... why not?
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Scyess June 6, 2002 12:06 AM	Add your name to this list if you want to participate: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess I'll give it a shot, but this is my first "Cup" so someone will have to tell me when I'm supposed to be doing something, or something...
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ObiJo June 6, 2002 12:23 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo So what kind of cup does the winner get? Athletic? Drinking? The combination of the two invented by those wacky Incans?
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kramer_vs_kramer June 6, 2002 1:17 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc Sounds like a good idea.
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Bazilla June 6, 2002 1:28 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. Bazilla I like this sort of thing, well I might do...
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KajunFirefly June 6, 2002 4:40 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly
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Ranma_X. June 6, 2002 5:03 AM	There any room left for this excercise in comedy?
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fuzzyman June 6, 2002 5:28 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman
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kaufman June 6, 2002 6:30 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman
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TheBlairZip June 6, 2002 6:51 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip
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BigEvilDan June 6, 2002 7:11 AM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan
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kaufman June 6, 2002 7:50 AM	Since he expressed interest: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X.
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fuzzyman June 6, 2002 8:12 AM	quote: instead I would post a comic for each round that just has backgrounds and characters and no dialogue. Then, each participant would have to use the given graphics and add in dialogue and/or narration. This idea is exceedingly excellent. It would also streamline things by not waiting for participants to send in ridiculous rules.
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pita June 6, 2002 8:51 AM	quote: Since he expressed interest: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita
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DexX June 6, 2002 9:20 AM	quote: It would also streamline things by not waiting for participants to send in ridiculous rules. I didn't find that this slowed my cup down at all... I was asking people for rules as soon as they lost their match, and it all ran quite smoothly. I hope the grand final in this one has to me made with a set of totally random characters, one each suggested by the previous defeated oppinents. :)
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andydougan June 6, 2002 11:09 AM	quote: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Ronaldo" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita 16. andydougan I'll enter provisionally, but I'm happy to let any newbie who wants to compete take my place. Former Cup winners are probably not high priority.
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Kevin_Keegans_Perm June 6, 2002 11:30 AM	quote: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Can Eat an Apple Through a Tennis Racket" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita 16. andydougan 17. Kevin Keegans Perm
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wirthling
June 6, 2002 11:58 AM

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1. dcomposed
2. DexX
3. lara7
4. Namgubed
5. Scyess
6. ObiJo
7. Kramer_vs_Etc
8. That Welsh Gimp
9. Kajun "Can Eat an Apple Through a Tennis Racket" Firefly
10. Fuzzyman
11. kaufman
12. TheBlairZip
13. Big Evil Dan
14. Ranma X.
15. pita
16. andydougan
17. Kevin Keegans Perm

Hmmm. Unless we can get 32 to sign up so we can have 5 full rounds, I'll either have to cut KKP out or come up with some way to have a preliminary round to cut it down to 16. (That shouldn't be too difficult.) I'll leave the sign-up open for another 24 hours or so to see just how many folks want to sign up for this thing.

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fuck June 6, 2002 12:44 PM	quote: 1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Can Eat an Apple Through a Tennis Racket" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita 16. andydougan 17. Kevin Keegans Perm 18. ok bitch's im back!!
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TheElPaso June 6, 2002 2:00 PM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Can Eat an Apple Through a Tennis Racket" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita 16. andydougan 17. Kevin Keegans Perm 18. ok bitch's im back!! 19. TheElPaso
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ObiJo
June 6, 2002 2:27 PM

quote:
Hmmm. Unless we can get 32 to sign up so we can have 5 full rounds, I'll either have to cut KKP out or come up with some way to have a preliminary round to cut it down to 16. (That shouldn't be too difficult.) I'll leave the sign-up open for another 24 hours or so to see just how many folks want to sign up for this thing.

Another option is to randomly draw for a By each round. (And if someone was the By last round, they aren't in the drawing this round.) Or draw for a 3-person battle each round.

Well, for 17, that would work anyway. For 19 (or more) you'd need either multiple By's or a couple of 3-person battles each round, or some combination.

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I'll code up the brackets (I just got Visual Studio.NET and I've been trying to come up with an excuse to code something in VB.NET) after we have 16 people sign up.

That's damn cool. What are you having the code do? Randomly select contestants? Or does VB.NET actually let the prog post to the site?

I took VB for the first time last semester and now enjoy programming so much, I realize I should have been a computer engineering major instead of an aerospace one.

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wirthling
June 6, 2002 4:40 PM

Actually, VB.NET can blow me. I spent a couple hours last night trying to work with it, and there are so many changes between VB6 and VB.NET that it was pretty much an exercise in futility. I'm going to need to do some research before I can figure out how to tie in to databases or read/write from/to text files using VB.NET.

For now, I decided to slap this bitch up in VB6. I only have a "Learning Edition" of VB6, which means I can't compile the code into an executable, but I can still run the code from within the development environment. That'll do for now. (Of course, coding anything is not necessary for this cup, but I'm a big, fat dork and I greatly enjoy programming in VB now.)

The program I'm writing takes all the participants and randomizes their order. (Once I have the final list and randomize it, I'll get rid of the randomizing subroutine.) Then, the names get fed into the bracket. I'm using text files to save the seedings and match results. I'll post screenshots of the program.

The way I decided to handle the overflow of participants is to have an extra "qualifying" round at the beginning. If x = the total number of participants, then 16 - ((x - 16) * 2) people will get byes. Whether you get a bye or have to participate in the qualifying round is determined by your position in the randomized seeding.

Ha, ha!

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DexX June 6, 2002 8:57 PM	If we can get twenty-four, we can have each first-round match a three way battle, leaving eight for the second round. Hmmm?
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crabby June 6, 2002 9:27 PM	1. dcomposed 2. DexX 3. lara7 4. Namgubed 5. Scyess 6. ObiJo 7. Kramer_vs_Etc 8. That Welsh Gimp 9. Kajun "Can Eat an Apple Through a Tennis Racket" Firefly 10. Fuzzyman 11. kaufman 12. TheBlairZip 13. Big Evil Dan 14. Ranma X. 15. pita 16. andydougan 17. Kevin Keegans Perm 18. ok bitch's im back!! 19. TheElPaso 20. crabby
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Bazilla June 7, 2002 12:28 AM	With twenty we could have 4 groups of 5, making it last a lot longer, a lot more rules, and everyone gets to make at least 4 comics, then the top of each group can go into the semi finals.
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wirthling June 7, 2002 12:45 AM	I've already sunk some time into coding this thing, so unless we get 32, I'm going with the qualifier round idea. Suffer.
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ObiJo
June 7, 2002 3:58 AM

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For now, I decided to slap this bitch up in VB6. I only have a "Learning Edition" of VB6, which means I can't compile the code into an executable, but I can still run the code from within the development environment.

That makes it doubly bad our times didn't work out for your trip to Arizona. I just got the enterprise edition from a friend. I could have burned it for you.

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I'll post screenshots of the program.

Thanks.

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16 - ((x - 16) * 2)

Shouldn't that be x - ((x-16)*2)? Or maybe just ((x-16) * 2), or shit, I don't know. I just know that if x = 30 players, you'd be giving out -12 byes.

Maybe you can get away with that kind of shit in Maryland, pal, but you try to give me a negative bye, I'll punch you right in the kisser!

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Kevin_Keegans_Perm June 7, 2002 7:28 AM	If we have 20 , im all for having 4 groups of five , and having each person play the other people in their group once. And the 4 group winners (who will be the most consistently funny strippers) will then meet in 2 semi finals and a final.
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andydougan June 7, 2002 7:44 AM	quote: If we have 20 , im all for having 4 groups of five , and having each person play the other people in their group once. That would take forever, and people with short concentration spans would get bored with the big gaps between their matches. My vote, if I had one, would go to the qualification round idea.
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wirthling
June 7, 2002 8:56 AM

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16 - ((x - 16) * 2)
Shouldn't that be x - ((x-16)*2)? Or maybe just ((x-16) * 2), or shit, I don't know. I just know that if x = 30 players, you'd be giving out -12 byes.

Maybe you can get away with that kind of shit in Maryland, pal, but you try to give me a negative bye, I'll punch you right in the kisser!

Um, yeah, shoulda said x - ((x - 16) * 2). I blame the media.

Anyway, it looks like we have 20, which means that 12 people get byes while the other 8 people compete for the other 4 spots in the round of 16.

I was intending to go with the original one-on-one format for this cup--i.e. the qualifier round with 8 participants consists of 4 matches, the round of 16 has 8 matches, the round of 8 has 4 matches, and so on. Or will ya'll get too bored waiting for your matches that way? I was trying to avoid the survivor-style melee of the last couple cups, but I suppose I can try to do it that way if that's what the unwashed masses want.

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wirthling June 7, 2002 9:02 AM	By the way, where's JiminyCricketNate? He must've gotten grounded for surfing pagan web sites or something.
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wirthling June 7, 2002 9:08 AM	quote: I just got the enterprise edition from a friend. I could have burned it for you. Thanks, but I think I'm going to try to fight my way through VB.NET since it's the new thing and we'll all be expected to use it in the coming years, thanks to Herr Gates. sigh VB6 seems so intuitive. VB.NET is quite the opposite.
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wirthling June 7, 2002 9:17 AM	Here's what the brackets look like now: If more people sign up, I'll rerandomize and rework the brackets. Also, if the popular demand is for multiple-participant matches intead of one-on-one, I'll rework the brackets accordingly.
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kaufman June 7, 2002 9:27 AM	Uh, why is Scyess in two places?
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wirthling June 7, 2002 9:34 AM	Shut up, you. Oy. I must have had Scyess listed twice in the text file I'm reading from. Looks like fuzzyman was the unfortunate victim. I'll fix that and rerandomize.
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wirthling June 7, 2002 9:36 AM	Hmmm. Scyess was in there only once. There appears to be a bug in my code. I'll work on it.
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DexX June 7, 2002 9:44 AM	Pure talent.
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Kevin_Keegans_Perm June 7, 2002 10:02 AM	Excellent work And may i say that Crabby v Fuck is one of those "Dream matches" in the same way as "Tyson v Ali" or "Tiger Woods v Jack Nicklaus"
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DexX June 7, 2002 10:15 AM	Pauly Shore vs Carrot Top?
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Scyess June 7, 2002 10:31 AM	Damn it, I was looking forward to competing with myself in the final round. Oh, well.
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fuzzyman June 7, 2002 10:41 AM	I appear to be missing.
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fuzzyman June 7, 2002 10:42 AM	Ah, never mind. I see where wirthling caught it.
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KajunFirefly June 7, 2002 10:52 AM	Fuck sake, by the looks of things I'll actually beat my own record and go out BEFORE Round 1. :-(
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wirthling June 7, 2002 11:03 AM	Thanks to kaufman and his big, fat, stupid mouth, I need to rework things and I'll have to randomize the seedings again, so ignore the brackets I posted earlier. (I was excited about the crabby vs. fuck match, too.)
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DexX June 7, 2002 11:09 AM	I was excited about having a bye, then facing Bazilla. sigh
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