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Grand Championship Details

by eli

The Grand Championships of the 2005 season are barely a week away, and you've got questions about how it's all going to work. Well, you're in the right place for answers. Here's how it's all going to happen.

First, the Clan Cup will start promptly at 12:00 on Saturday, December 17th, so if you're a primary or a sub for one of the top 8 clans, be there on time (or even early), or forfeit your first match. Subs can absolutely be used in the Clan Cup, but at least one primary must be present, and the four players who play for the winning clan at the Clan Cup are the ones who will get the prize, 4 512mb iPod shuffles. Now, your Clan's standing is going to figure heavily in how much opposition stands between you and victory; not only will the higher-ranked clans get byes for the first rounds, but also, any ties will be broken by the clan standings. So, read on for full details.

Round 1:

Clans 5-8 face off in Super Smash Team Battle, 4-stock, 5-minute, Items Medium, Final Destination. 2 clans advance, so if more than one clan has a winning and losing team, the higher-ranked clan moves on. We then have 6 clans.

Round 2:

Clans 3-6 face off in Mario Kart Co-op Race. The two clans with the highest combined total score from a single race move on. Down to 4 clans.

Round 3:

Clan 2 faces Clan 3 in Mario Kart SHINE THIEF! 1 player per kart, the clan with the Shine when time runs out moves on to the final.

Round 4:

Clan 1 faces Clan 4 in Shine Thief, winning clan moves on to the finals.

Round 5:

Clan Cup finals; surprise game... winning clan takes home 4 shuffles!

Wildcard Tournament:

Commentators will be Tom and Leinad for the entire Wildcard Event. The wildcard tournament will have Super Smash Qualifying rounds, our standard 4-player, 2-stock, 2-minute format. Number of matches depends on turnout. We then move on to Mario Kart Elimination, with 4th or better moving on, until we have our final 8 wildcards. They then join the prequalifiers in the Grand Championship Brackets.

Grand Championship

Commentators will be from among Tom, Leinad, Sravan, Joe, Muffincat, Duck, and Figwit. We'll use a similar format to the wildcard; Super Smash, 4-player, 2-stock, 2-minute format, with multiple matches depending on turnout, and then the top players move on to Kart Race elimination rounds. When we get down to the top 8 players, we'll move to the first of two surprise games for the Championships. The first surprise game will take us down to 4 players, each of whom will be winning one of the prizes, it's now just an issue of who gets victory and the first pick of the prizes. We'll have two semifinal matches with the final surprise game to determine who goes to the third place match and who goes to the finals... and then the big event. The winner gets first pick of the prize pool, 2nd gets to pick from what's left, etc. The prize pool contains a Sony PSP value bundle, a 30gb iPod with video, a Nintendo DS Kart Bundle, and a Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP. Plus, everyone who attends should get a sweet new AADL-GT/AXIS t-shirt.

Recruitment bonuses will be posted soon. Let me know if you have questions, and see you Saturday.

Comments

SWEETNESS!!!!!!!!!!
so shine theif hmmmmmm. that means 8 people will be playing at once and 4 from each clan. then the guy who wins at the end takes his clan to victory as well? awsome. eli i request that clans 1,2 and 3 play some melee as well as mario kart. my predictions if the rules don't change is that the vaccinated monks, and the trouble monkeys will be the top 2 clans. then its all chance from there. but we shall be victorious!!!!
will it be the top 32 moving on to mkdd elimination? turnout will be huge trust me.
o yea u said that u would do a leaderboard based grands. is it leaderboard based or did i miss something?

can me and joe commentate for rounds 1-3 in the clan cup cuz we won't be playing?
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Eli give us our recruitment points, please. Do I have to make that list again? It had the whole Foreign Exchange clan, Evil Bus Driver, Ria/Figwit, Bubblingbeebles, Ampshock, I conceded Mouse to the super shrooms, C I A, Gertlex, Connor H., Devin S, Doompants and Vwampage, Scuzzy4242 weren't on the list but my clan did bring them. That should be 1919 points but I feel like I'm forgetting people. Gahh I wanted to avoid this by giving you the list early so I wouldn't have to recall who I dragged to the events. I want those points so my clan can just own people in shine thief and the surprise game and watch the other clans struggle to get to our level.

Yes we have Battle again; even if only for the clan cup (I’m so happy). Free t-shirts Huzza.

Sravan if we get our recruitment points we will pass SDK to become second place. So you'll have to deal with taking turns.

Thanks for allowing Figwit to be a commentator.

<strong>Edit:</strong>
Ok, SithLord and Sith Apprentice are two I missed the first time around. So now that's 2121 points.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
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The Foreign Exchange recruited a guy named phil but i don't think he came. I think the sur-prize game should be arm wrestling. Or bloody knuckles. Or a plain old fight. Or original super smash. I was better at that game than melee. [gtlogo:FX]

You're making the clan semi-finals Shine Thief...?

Doesn't that seem a little too random?

"Faulheit ist eine Tugend"
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CURSES!!!! Why do you have to survive Melee <strong>before</strong> you go on to Kart! Why can't we have it like we did before, where your standings in Melee <strong>and</strong> Kart determine your place!?! WAAAAAAAAAH!
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

4 stock five minute?!?! That's awesome cuz that's how I normally play and the chances of sudden death are smaller and i suck at sudden death. [gtlogo:FX] How long is this whole thing (clan, wildcard, gc) going to take? It will definitely go past 5 for sure.

Wait a second Pickwick when did you change FES out? Nuts that means I didn't get your whole clan as of now. I can't believe this why did you change him out. It's not fair, I had your whole clan and you have to switch in your brother because one of your primary members was unreliable. I had to deal with all 3 of my other clanmates being at Band Camp. Gahh this sucks becuase if we don't get your clan bonus we only inch past SDK.

<strong>Edit:</strong>
Nuts what happened to the clan scores? They changed for some reason. It couldn't have been the recuitment bonuses because it wasn't big enough for my clan.

<em>2nd Edit:</em>
How is Nick G in two clans?

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
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yea what did happen to the clan scores? our recruitments arent that big.
yea i personally don't like shine theif and hope eli changes it to race.
also add some melee for clans 1-3.

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Wait where did the SDK get 3000 points from? They spiked up from 11,000 to 14,000 for no reason I can tell. I noticed other clans jumped too but not as much and as I stated above it couldn't have been from recruits because we only jump 900 when we had 2000 from recruits.

I believe this change in scores calls for a...

WTF MATE?!?!?
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

<em>Wait a second Pickwick when did you change FES out? Nuts that means I didn't get your whole clan as of now. I can't believe this why did you change him out. It's not fair, I had your whole clan and you have to switch in your brother because one of your primary members was unreliable. I had to deal with all 3 of my other clanmates being at Band Camp. Gahh this sucks becuase if we don't get your clan bonus we only inch past SDK.</em>

yeah we switched FES out a while back like two tourney ago. i haven't been paying attention to the clan leaderboard so it looks the same to me in terms of place. [gtlogo:FX]

Places stayed the same but TMC, SDK, VMC and BSC all gained points. all except SDK gained about 1000 while SDK gained about 3000.

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end of ze world is awsome. sdk didn't get any recruitments i think.
<em>Sravan if we get our recruitment points we will pass SDK to become second place. So you'll have to deal with taking turns.</em> whats that supposed to mean?
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It's about commentating on the clan cup. Sorry I forgot to finish the statement.

Also I did the math wrong it's only about 1500-2000 point bonus that the SKD clan received. I didn't know the original scores but noticed the changes so I had to do it indirectly.

OK, I've got your lists of recruitment bonuses and will be entering them this weekend. The change in scores is because we discovered that clan registrations got missed on the round 4 team events. Some teams did quite well, that's where those scores come from. Duck, you will still get a clan referral bonus even though they changes their primary. That's not your fault.

Clans 1-3 playing some Melee in the clan cup? I hadn't thought of that, but I'm not really concerned about it. We can't switch games back and forth too much, as it just takes too much time, and it's too likely to have mega ugly ties with Melee and the clan format. It's highly likely that every clan in a match would have a winning and a losing team, and in that case, with the ranking tiebreakers, why did we even bother? The thing about Co-op race or shine theif is that the likelihood of a tie is low.

I think Shine Thief will be totally awesome; each clan will be on one side of the room so they can coordinate their attacks and defense. Having 1 player holding the shine and 3 to defend him sounds like a pretty sweet dynamic to me. As I said, the winning clan is the one that holds the shine when the timer is up.

As for GC qualification, which I had meant to include in my post, I want to shoot for around 64 players in the GC bracket so that we don't have to skimp on the quals. So, here's what we'll do: We've got the people who've already qualified for the GC by winning an event, and the members of the 8 leading clans, which won't be settled until I get all the bonuses posted. I still need some recruitment data from turtle clan, I think, and if anyone knows if they will be playing in the clan cup, that would be good to know. Anyway, if we take the people who have already qualified (51 players), add the players in the top 8 clans who haven't already qualified (about another 6 or 7), and the 8 wildcard winners, we're pretty close to 64. However, it's safe to assume that not all the GC qualifiers will show up, so I'm going to qualify all players currently ranked 64 or higher for the GC, unless someone can give a compelling reason not to. Last year the wildcard event took far too long. We need it to be short, sweet, and intended as a last chance for marginal optimists or rookie contenders.

What do you think?

Two things: One, yay for putting the clans on the same side of the room, I was thinking about suggesting that but never got around to it. Second, Shine Thief with a timer? Can you do that? Never knew you could.
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

Tom the Shine thief in DD is differnt then the DS version. There is only one shine and it has a min timer that counts down. I'll tell you how it works monday if you don't play it this weekend.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
[gtplayer:139] Knight of the octothorn table
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I really hate the idea of in the GC, u have to win Smash before u do Kart. Eli, y don't u make it regular and even with the events. That just means that people who r good at SSBM and suck at MKDD r gonna get far and it wont be good competition. U should just make it normal like before, SSBM and MKDD and then surprise round for people who qualified in each of those events. I'm sorry I haven't been talking in a long time. I didn't have time because now I have driving school and I had to do some driving. I'm pretty good at it and I imagined it just like MKDD, which I'm pretty good at and now I got my driver's permit. Sweet! Eli, seriously, u got to change some of ur original rules.

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I need to know, r guys like The Loser, Nilofar, adn Leinad stiil in the wildcard? Because aren't the people in the top 8 clans automatically in the GC?

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Well the GC is for the overall best at the tournaments not the person who is the best at one aspect.

I'm sure no one minds you not being here all the time.

Yeah whenever I go driving I carry a 3-pack of turtle shells.

Yeah members of quilified clans are in the GC.

Really? Tom, your bro doesn't have to do wildcard anymore. [gtlogo:FX]
Ian you qualified for MMPC? I took it but we were having a review day in chem so I left during 2nd hour. Since I had like 5 min to do it (started at end of 1st hour) I guessed on everything and left. I got a 11 suprisingly. Well u know what ms. macke said, "You have to get an 8 at least because a monkey can get 8" eli u spelled "thief" wrong

Yeah, I quilifed along with Nick TB., Leinad, jlgelinas, and 60 other pioneer students. I knew like half the kids in the room on wensday but I'm to lazy to list everyone I know.

i presume there will only be 1 shine thief round right? the top 64 thing is alright because not everyone will show. i'm ok with taking turns to commentate with the vaccinated monk clan in the earlier rounds. does the new clan standings affect the results from last tournament cuz the other trouble monkey team made it to the final co-op match and it should give them some inheret points.

also when i said leaderboard based qualification i meant like what u did for the clan cup. like the top 16 people get byes for the first round etc.
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God forbid this should ever happen again, but I actually agree with Black Shark.

*Crowd gasps!!!*

No, seriously. If it's a contest of the best all around gamer, then why does someone have to survive through melee when it's not their best game, and then they might not even make it to Kart, which is their stronger of the two events.

(I am of course talking about myself, in case any of you guys missed that.)
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

In reply to by TheKoolAidGuy

Omid, what r u thinking? U r going to get cream-filled in the Smash tourney, u wont make it, I wont make it, Nilofar wont make, and I don't think Nick11 will make it either. Eli, please just make it even between the two events. MKDD is my best event, and I'm sure some people here r complaining about the same thing I'm complaining about. And I'm glad someone agrees with me(thanx Tom). I agree with the part that Tom is saying. I thought this was best all around gamer gets the prize. With the rules u came up with, Eli, ur just giving the prizes to the best super smash brothers players. Shouldn't Mario Kart Double Dash playing get credit in this? Think about it!

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Actually Noah you stand a pretty good chance at making it. I was looking at the records and you along with Tom, Nick11, and quite a few other people stand a really good shot. Since 32 out of 64ish people will advance from melee on to DD if you make one first place in Melee you should be in the elimination rounds and 2 2nd places will also get you in. It just breaks down that all you people like Tom and Moses that are decent at Melee but better at Kart stand a much better chance then someone good at Melee and bad at kart at winning a prize. Odds are Tom, Leinad, Moses and many other people that aren't amazing at melee will make it into the elimination rounds. Remember 1 in 2 will advance to the elimination rounds and there are about 10 people that a good a melee and horid at Kart so if you make it to kart the competion will be mixed.

Ok I'm leaving it at that redundent blob because I'm tried and not thinking well.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
[gtplayer:139] Knight of the octothorn table
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Really? 32 out of 64 can advance? I just hope I'm at least 32nd best at melee out of the 64.

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yea darksoul will counter his giant punch and then i will shine spike him giving him a 4th place :P. u have to take in account how many matches we will get(most likely 3). so 3 seconds will get u in a tie breaker cuz the maximum points u can get is 300 and the least so 30 and the mean of those is 180(u take the mean cuz 32/64 which is 1/2 of the ppl advance). second place it worth 60 points so u'll get in a tie breaker. i used this when i played double dash last year(and this year) i was like ok get 4th or above and ur in. my advice is just make sure u don't get 4th. if u do u have to cover it up with 2 firsts(this is melee).

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Sravan you will almost certainly not be in a match with Darksoul and Moses. I asumed 2 matches so my math was right for my stituation.

Huh? The GC is about best all-around gamer, so why should you have to be good at both Melee and Double Dash to succeed?

Is that honestly your argument?

This is the format that I first mentioned <a href="http://www.aadl.org/node/773#comment-3445&quot; title="What, you can't read every single solitary comment on the blog?">months ago</a>, to significant agreement. It's probably too late to talk me out of it now. You have to be good -- or lucky -- at both games to take home the big prizes. Single-player race is slow. We've got to thin the herd a bit before we move on to Kart, and if you'll remember, there was only one path to the Grand Championship finals last year. If Melee isn't your strength, I would be thankful that it's only a qualifier and not being used as single match elimination.

Besides, Moses, seeing as how you'll have to place well in several kart races in a row to make it into the surprise round, I would say that double dash 'gets credit'.

*Spits random liquid into computer screen*
WHAT!?!?
Eli, your going to qualify everyone who is 64th place or higher? Awsome, that means a shorther Wildcard match! More time for the gt.
*spits more random liquid*
Cool, I get to have one of those awsome (yet lousy) t-shirts?

Sorry Im like really hyper because I was at the Michagan Hockey game tonight.......(I was the guy working at the consessions) BTW, GO WOLVERINES WE WON!

Duck I read your post about that romance thing. I already knew most of that stuff, I just wanted to ask a random question: "Random Romance Querstion" yet, NOW SHES FOLLOWING ME!!!! She wont leave me alone. I mean she's hot but shes creeping me out.

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i think this is such a tight layout. I am glad that the final thing isn't a race for clan cup cuz then i cant be like "SOB I GOT HIT WITH EVERYTHING AND MY CO-OP PARTNER (GIVES GALEN A DEATH STARE) COULDNT SHOOT ITEMS WELL!!!!" if i lose.
Sravan-shine theif is like "Team Ball" so it should be relatively easy for us since we understand that game type so well.
I also like how everything is seeded so that my clan is rewarded for doing sweet. And i really have trouble beating level nine peach for some reason...i can beat everyone else every time, but she is a pest.
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yea i knew what shine theif was except the guy with the shine can use weapons. in halo he has to use the oddball. i guess u are right we will use our team work to win!

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...Yeah, ok, I can see how running around in space suits shooting people is really the same as driving around on a cookie in fantasy-oriented Karts shooting eachother with the remains of dead turtles fighting over a Star. Yup, I can draw the parallels right here.
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

tom the idea is the same don't be a literalist. eli maybe we could do 2 ppl per tv when we do shine thief so it can be easier to do our stratagy and stuff. o yea and another BIG difference is that when the opposing team gets the ball in oddball their timer starts at 0 but in shine thief it starts like 5 seconds above the time it was before so if someone is 2 seconds left and they get hit by a star its all over.

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It's not a cumulative time, though, It's who has it when the time runs out. Very different strategy there.
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

W/E man. Duck, y do u think I wont play against Darksoul or Sravan? Im just wondering. But it would be nice if I didn't play Sravan or Darksoul. If u guys look at my scores for SSBM single player, from 2nd to 4th round the worst I always got was 2nd place. I practically got 2nd place all the time.

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Well, I agree with Melee qualification and Dash elimination, for completely selfish reasons of course. I think that I have a decent shot at qualifying in Melee, but there's no way I could handle elimination rounds. Kart elimination rounds on the other hand, I have a shot at (if I actually go practice for the first time in months).

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yea tom is right.

noah u got 2nd cuz either u played easy ppl or u stalled till it was 1v1 then u got pwned by the other guy. like when i played u 1v1 in october i PWNED u i had 2 lives remaining and i threw an item off the course to hit u and finish u off. also darksoul i think beat u 2 weeks ago. moral:DK is only good at 4 player FFA.

leind if its selfish reasons u might wanna not say it out loud cuz eli might change it(i doubt he would) but yea.
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Well there are a few things I would like to address.

1. Noah the reason I don't think you, Sravan and Darksoul will be in any one melee match is because statistically it's about as slim a chance as winning the lottery.

2. All the regular people on this blog stand a good chance at qualifying for the elimination rounds because like the regular tournaments it breaks down to about 1/4 exceptionally good melee players 1/4 good melee players and then 1/2 of the people aren't very good at melee.

3. Yes, this situation plays down the importance of being great at melee and emphasizes Kart skills. Since 2/5 of the good melee players stink at Kart it will be weed out all the people that aren't competent at both games.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
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So the top 32 from melee move on?
Will there be any 1v1 macthes?
I'll make if there are no of those.
at least melee is first and the toughest matches will be in mkdd

Congratulations to Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy Winner.

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yea d-rex there arent any 1v1s.
eli whats in store for axis and aadl-gt after the grands? any open plays or ddr tournaments? maybe some other game tournaments?
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Well there will be some open plays on both games I think around Christmas.

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ok people time to guess the GAME OF THE YEAR according to spike tv's awards. if u watched them please don't answer this question i was shocked to find out the truth. also don't google it that takes the fun of guessing away.
the nominees are:
CALL OF DUTY 2
FEAR
GOD OF WAR
RESIDENT EVIL 4
and last but not least....WORLD OF WARCRAFT. guess which one it is. also most addicting game went to WoW. lol the pure pwnage episode 6....World of warcraft is a feeeeeeeeling, who cares about a social life.

World of Warcraft got 4 awards including best RPG and best pc game. King Kong got 3 but they were like best male preformance and best cast and best game based on a movie. resident evil got 2 including best graphics...isn't it on a gamecube?
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Anyone who says that the PSP has better graphics than the Gamecube deserves to be shot out of their sheer stupidity. The PSP is a <strong>HANDHELD</strong>. There's no way it can match up to the graphics of any of the "current-gen" consoles.

Oh, btw Sravan, you made it too easy to guess which of those games won GOTY. You mentioned that Resident Evil 4 (The only <strong>real</strong> deserving game on that list) won two awards, yet you only mentioned one of them. That's a dead giveaway, my friend.

Finally, Spike TV shouldn't be hosting a Video Game Awards show. They have no idea what the heck they're talking about. I saw that too, and they nominated games that have been out for <em>less than a month</em>: Perfect Dark Zero, 50 Cent: Bulletproof (All copies of this game should be gathered and burned, btw), King Kong (which I'm not even sure if it's fully out yet, either). Way to go, Spike TV. You've totally screwed up the Video Game Awards for a <strong>third</strong> in a row.

Oh, in case any of you missed that, <strong> RESIDENT EVIL 4 WON GAME OF THE YEAR!!!!</strong>
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"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-G<strong>R</strong>... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli[gtlogo:VMC]

Yay, the computer is unbroken so I can post something, it's around 11:30 in ann arbor, right? Im in new delhi, and im going to chandegar in about six hours, so my parents r making me go 2 sleep, wich suks. I think this is my last post, but im not sure. who's retiring after this year (anyone good)?
GOOD LUCK SKILLZ DAT KILLZ!!! [gtlogo:SDK]

King Kong is out but Spike is the frat boy game awards they only look at which games looked cool and masculine. For crying out loud World of Warcraft was released last year and won awards then. They are about as informed about video games as all those Parents against video games groups that keep trying to ban games.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
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at least they hosted game awards. no one else wanted to. they think critics like u guys will make them feel bad. this year wasen't that good for gaming though. not many famous games came out but the consules did. and its people's choice so they nominated popular games not any of those games that no one knows about and u guys say that they rule(u said star fox assult rocked and it did though). yea tom i was wondering if that gave it away but i was like o well. i can't belive resident evil 4 won though. world of warcraft or call of duty 2 were my pics. i'm suprised that some games like guild wars and battlefield 2 didn't get any spot light and they were good games and somewhat popular.

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so that the people have a "say" in which games they like and to reward them by brining them celeberites. thats how most awards shows are...viewer choice...

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Video Game Awards are stupid. They really don't affect the world on which video games they buy. I just finished beating the Harry Potter game. I'm going to mail it in and gamefly will send me a new one. It sucks that mail doesn't come on Sunday.

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not all of us buys every single game that comes out ya no
so other ppl opinions do matter
i probably wont buy a game that got a 3 out of 10 :P

Yeah but the games they persent are wildly popular which means as long as your not huddeled under your rock you'll know someone who owns said game. There is nothing you can get out of a veiwer's choice poll that you can't get out of video game reveiws and people you know.

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eli can us clan cup people have like a seperate room where we can chill during the wildcard tournament? or the ones that are allowed to commentate can chill in the commentary booth. is it 2 stock 2 minute or 2 stock 3 minute?

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In reply to by Pickwick the Second

Eli are the t-shirts the regular got books or do they actual have something to do with the GT?

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Nope, they are a brand-new, totally awesome aadl-gt/axis shirt, with the aadl-gt NES controller on the front and the AXIS graffiti logo on the back. Pickwick's reading comprehesion matches his erudition; he is right about the Melee matches.

they should have GT on them. wait noah i thought ur b-day was on the 12th of march? u said u got ur permit on the 9th but i thought u had to be 14 and 9 months so u can only get it tommarow right?

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In response to your earlier comment about game reviews, Duck, I'd like to announce that I live under a rock. Blue granite, I think; it shields me not only from the televised game reviews, but most personal accounts, as well.

The limit, Sravan, is actually 14 and 8 months that u can get ur permit.

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In reply to by California Love

My, you're up late!!
Thanks, Eli!!!
Duck, my mental powers do not stop merely at the basic art of telepathy. However, you are mistaken as to their source; the incident involving yellowcake uranium has given rise instead to a fierce and unaccountable dislike toward kippers.

happy birthday noah. well the first exams of the year are the worst right? i did very well on my spanish one(95-100) but english wasent as good. we had to place a poem in either the 6 catogories of romance or the 3 catagories of tragedy. lots of people said romance but me and this other kid said tragedy =O. but my teacher said as long as u gave a good explanation why it was whatever u said it was u are fine. i did good on all other parts but i really don't like essays. my hand was hurting so bad after it.

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Wow, I don't really think anyone has really stated this on here (except Eli, but he doesn't count) that it's 5 freakin' days until the AADL-GT Season 2 Grand Championships, including the Clan Cup finale, the Wildcard Tournament and the Grand Championships. I just wanted to point that out to everybody.
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Oh come on Sravan we all know you're horrible at surprise games.

Nuts 342 points short.

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How did these clans come about? They both have 2 of the same members.
Smurfers
• Hobobob
• Anime Andy
• bigtummy
• Nick G
the clams
• limabean
• voodoomojoz
• Hobobob
• Nick G

hey all that means is i haven't had my good suprise game yet muahahaha. i was so close to getting in for monkey ball i had 2 stars and i was gonna land on the 500 till someone pushed me. i ended up with a score of 1700 or something. then mario party 4 was close we each had 2 stars but i won 2 different games while the other 2 ppl won the same game twice. then ownerer took the victory but he's a good player. btw jk means just kidding...
duck who cares they aren't in the clan cup anyway.
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Is there registration for the Grand Championships? Or do only wildcard people register.

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I need to know, Eli, for the round 4 results, how come u didn't give me a description like the other 3 players in Mario Kart moving on to the surprise round? It says:
"First stick, then button", newcomer Dale W siezed victory from a talented field, as Moses took second, the mighty pr0 took third, and The Right Honourable Pickwick the Second proved his depth with a fourth place finish, leaving finalists Doomblaze, The Loser, Earnist Da Chicken and John D behind.
You say newcomer Dale W takes 1st, 2nd was Moses(plain), The Mighty pr0, and The Honourable Pickwick. What's up with that? How come I didn't get a "mighty" description. Don't u think I should have deserved one? At least for Round 2, u said "BSC's Nick 11 gets 3rd".
I don't get a description, Eli?!

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Because mighty moses is to alliterative and we don't have anything to call you.(except Mr. BS or something and Eli wouldn't say that on live TV) You haven't really earned a title yet.

LMAO MR.BS. noah, the reason for that is dale w. is a newcomer, i am mighty(#1 on the leaderboard and i haven't won a prize), and pickwick the 2nd is honorable cuz he was melee champ twice(so was i but it doesnt matter) and he (used) to post always with a welcoming and was friendly to everyone. i looked over the pioneer course list and i want to get into algebra 3-4AC if i can. AP analysis would be wonderful. it sucks u have to do 4 credits of english, 3 for social and ONLY 2 for math!!!!?!! if i can't get into those either of those which is doubtful i have to do geometry AC.
will we cross 5000 comments before the grands?
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In reply to by TheKoolAidGuy

Trust me dude, it's advanced enough for you to just start with Geometry AC. No sense in killing yourself your freshman year; save that for Junior year (believe me, just ask Pickwick about it).

Also, I think if we put our minds to it, we'll be able to accrue 70 more between now and Saturday.
That should be our goal, to get 5000 total comments by the end of the Grands on Saturday.
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Just don't go into AP analysis because you will be the compelete outcast. In algebra 3-4AC you will at least have other kids your grade but if you went into AP analysis you will become a Ray and trust me he is not the role model you want. I guess Richard did the same thing but still you risk becoming the next Ray.

Sry i have been gone.
Couple questions
1. will the tourtament be online.
2. I want a t shirt could u give 2 to ethier snowman darkMarth tru dog ar anybody who sayes can i get a t shirt for Bad driver
3.5000 coments that is sad we need lives that is in only 6 months that is like 50 posts a day. Wow that sounds high it must be wrong
4. 1 of u will figure it out.
good luck eveerybody in December
5. TC has a 95% chance of dropping out of the cc but could we choose to give our spot to TC or have them all sub.
6 I want an allstar game really really bad. First off this would give vets an extr tourtament especiually seniors.
It would reward those who did bad in surprize round but good in regular rounds. Also no n00bs aka less people eli can comentate again and that would be awesome. Also if we can have this mayb during mid winter break we should have somebody cater
Posibbily MaCdonalds

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Well the commentators could try to keep you updated if you can't watch it. Since we have access to the computers, some of the posts might say from Eli or Kip though since we don't personally have access to some of the cool stuff we use.

It's about 27-28 post a day Bad Driver. I'm fine with an All Star tournament if Eli can find time. I'm pretty sure the Reds will take the place of you unless one primary shows.

Good Morrow!
Actually, I must differ with both Sir Ducksalot and Major Tom (though, as his rank dwarfs mine, this amounts to insubordination) on the point of taking Analysis AP in your freshman year, Sravan. The best way to go about choosing your classes is to go through the course selection book (not the pamphlets or sheets the counselors hand out, which contain only the classes they expect members of your class to take) and decide what classes you are interested in taking, and at what level; for instance, if you are interested in the study of mathematics, and you are skilled in the craft of manipulating numbers, there is no reason for which you shouldn't test out of Geometry AC. Algebra 3/4 AC is a relatively worthless class for two reasons. First, of the three 3/4 teachers at Pioneer, two of them are, quite frankly, bad. The odds of getting Mrs. Macke are roughly equal to 1 in 3. Also, the class is, essence, a basic preparation for Analysis AP: in Algebra, you will study a variety of concepts, none of them to a great degree of depth, and be told to memorise a list of theorems or properties for each chapter, while Analysis covers the same ground over again, but more thoroughly, and the teachers (or, at least, Mr. Klemmer) demonstrate each of the theorems and how to prove them. An alternate route to testing out of two classes in your ninth grade year might be to test out of Geometry now, take Algebra, and test out of Analysis next year.
The order of academic classes at Pioneer is, quite simply, asinine. The accelerated classes for freshmen are, quite simply, easy, and, unless you test out of one or more classes, it isn't possible to take a difficult course until your junior year, when a wide variety of such courses becomes available. It is not, as I have found, possible to take an unlimited number of harder courses, many of which may be found under the heading 'AP'; thus, by discouraging students from testing out of classes, the teachers and counseling staff are also discouraging students from taking all the courses they might otherwise be interested in.
The process of testing out of a class is <em>meant</em> to discourage use of said system. When you sign up to test out, you are sent a long list of materials you will need to acquire from the book depository; the date and time at which you are to arrive at your testing location; and a list, also lengthy, of assignments you are to complete and bring with you. In theory, one would test out of a class because one knows all or most of the material; this process requires one to complete a portion of the coursework as well, which is highly unfair because the student will not receive credit for any course out of which they successfully test. On the fateful day appointed, you will take a multiple-choice test for each semester of each class you wish to test out of; each test might be hundreds of questions long, but only the one day is provided, regardless of whether or not the student needs more time. This places an unfair and unnecessary limitation on the number of classes one may test out of at once. All this is compounded by the fact that there is a window of two to three weeks in which you may sign up to skip specific courses, but <em>they never announced the deadline</em> this year. If you decide to test out of a class, you will be fighting the administration.
In brief, I recommend that you:
(a) Identify which difficult (AP or otherwise) classes you might wish to take in your high school career, and in which subjects you might wish to go beyond the courses offered at Pioneer--they are required to pay for students to take classes outside Pioneer which are not available there.
(b) Divvy them up between your years, as most people recommend against taking more than three or four AP classes at once. This might involve taking Analysis in your first year.
(c) Find out what classes you'll have to test out of in order to
take the ones you want, and divide those up so that you don't have to test out of more than one or two at once; testing dates occur in August and in January(I think).
(d) Keep in mind that the dates will not be widely publicised, and that you will likely have to dig for them in the Ann Arbor Public Schools Website. An alternative method might be to contact your counselor and send them the list of classes you wish to test out of; they might tell you that your plans aren't feasible, but they can't do anything to stop you, and they will comprise you of the signup dates if asked.
I didn't plan out my four years very well, and I am currently engaged in the painful process of learning from my errors. Let my mistake be a lesson to you: if you want to take Analysis now, GO FOR IT!!!
Oh, and I like the idea of an All-Star Competition, though the idea of McDonalds' catering might make me think twice about attending. Read the stories about chickens' feet and beaks being found in chicken nuggets, then rethink that suggestion. PLEASE!!!
Good Day!
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PS: Duck, I am, indeed, frantically working on my term paper between posts (shows how my priorities are a bit off); the reason I am home, however, is that of illness. Did you make it to the Robotics meeting after school???
PPS: Geometry uses the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine, and tangent to find angle measures, but you don't study them until Analysis AP. There are not, I believe, mentions of chords and the like, until Algebra.
PPPS: Sorry, EBD! Oh, and thanks for the mention of the hat!!!

whoa, did I miss something?
Ok, only me and SPARTAN-014 will make it to the gc. If Ian's Idea is true, does any1 want to be a sub?

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umm okay?
who did you have in mind? scuzzy 4242?

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Well that could work but also Figwit and mouse might want to but Scuzzy 4242 is a good choice since he is Bebbles' brother.

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Hey pickwick why were you absent. Trying to finish that term paper of your's?

theres only one guy from slauson taking geometry ac now and i know him and he's kinda weird. lol i'll be 2 years younger than everyone they might beat me up or something. i might as well settle with algebra 3-4 if not geometry. isn't geometry just writing proofs and stuff? it also has like surface area, volume, and perimiter of shapes? does it do complex stuff like sin and cos and tan? or how about tangents, sectors, chords and 3-d prisims. i hate them all so very much. plain algebra is my type of thing.

lets accomplish the goal of getting 5000 posts by saturday but we can't spam at all(noah and monkeyman).

edit:pickwick and i posted at the same time so i didn't read what he said. in 6th grade my friend took 6th grade math and also took 7th grade math should i take ap analysis and 3-4 algebra or 3-4 algebra and geometry ac(i probably wont be able to do ap analysis and ac geometry) WHAT U DONT GET CREDITS FOR TESTING UR WAY IN THAT SUCKS. well u only do need 2 credits for math and i might as well divide them up through my 4 years. i will only take ap analysis if i can make it i'm not so sure i'm THAT smart. i will probably get into 3-4 algebra and i'm willing to take the risk of skipping geometry ac and having a really bad teacher for 3-4(i think). i hope i can take 11th grade spanish as well cuz i'm like really good(greenhills foregin language is really good). is someone by the name senora sanz-guerro the spanish teacher there cuz she's my friend's mom and she's nice.

thanks for the advice pickwick, i have a math exam tommarow and i didn't even study =O i hope i don't fail. i got A+'s on the 2 last year.

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You can't do Analysis and algebra 3/4AC at the same time. It's like taking 9th and 10th grade english at the same time, but due to some policy turn over they no longer can discourage anyone from taking anything because of some discrimination thing about the achievement gap I think. It was just this year too which really stinks since I wanted to play out my years differently if it wasn't for that rule that stopped me. Well now a kid that was in intro to bio is in AP Chem.

I think I'll have something like 6 math credits when I graduate.

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EBD, do u really have 2 keep that quote for every post? Why don't u get a new one?

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I'd like to point out that despite the name, AP Analysis is not an AP class. There is no AP test and you do not recieve college credit for it.

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1 step closer to 5000
Also Eli PLEASE can we do an all star game because that would be an award for the seniors and for those of us who can"t make it to the grands. Also no sur-prize round game.
3. It is kind of sad that we are nearing 5000 posts considering that very few of us blog.
4. Eli we need to find a way to get more people to blog especially those who don"t win and do well at tourtments so we can get thier opinon
5. Thank u duck for caculating it.
6. We probally will be dropping ot E.B.D. i have to wait for my brother to come home.
Good luck everyone and Elin in case you didn"t read my last post i think Monkeyman will be picking up a shirt for me.
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It still all depends on If one of the clans wont make it. I dont think Bad Driver wont give up his spot easily.
But, if all works well, sure bring Mouse, Scuzzy and Figwit. Dunno who figwit is but ok. If I can manage to get Green Jeans to join the GT by then, there might be a chance that there might be only 1 spot.
Hey, I just noticed something. Duck is the one who came up with badges, and made a big impact on the GT. Pickwick...well.....he wore that cool Uncle Sam duct tape hat. I happened to be the first in the GT to cosplay as something (well there is Mandy, but.....crap!)

Edit: And Sravan also teams up with me if it means owning two guys from the BSC.

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no fair, Pickwick' post booted me off the computer screen as soon as I post. You Meanie!

EDIT: Sravan, even tho you might only need 2 math credits or less than 4 credits for a certain class, I might want to inform you that you are going to have a very bad time getting into college unless you take all academics all 4 years. the req credits is only req for passing high school not getting into college.

EDIT: Wait Ian, did you miss my post? It is right before Pickwick's post.

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First off, Moses, thanks for reminding me to change my sig. Ive actually was trying to remember to change it. I always end up forgetting. Now while were on that topic, maybe you should change yours?
Now with Bad Driver. Thank you so much, my clan would be honered to take your place in the clan cup. (we'll lose) but well be fine.
How do we know when it is 5000 posts?

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when u post a comment if u look at the URL all the way to the right there is a number behind the last slash it ways 4966 for me. when it gets to 5000 it means 5000 posts. so the more credits the better? sounds good.

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I changed my sig, happy? Eli, will the surprise round game be a game we would all know how to play? U haven't been taliking in a while. R u ignoring me, or being "mysterious" again?

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<em>Submitted by Bad driver on Wed, 12/14/2005 - 5:50pm.

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Ebd we probally wont be dropping out detials later
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I knew it. I knew it all along. Neither TP2 nor his brother nor anyone from Turtle Clan will be dropping out of the Grands. I knew it all along, they were just playing us for fools <em>telling</em> they wouldn't be here, then suprising us all at the Library on Saturday. Hah! I'm on to their little scheme...
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We can definitely do it!!! come on guys, that's like, only 7 a day. We can sooooooooo do it!
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"<em>We'll use a similar format to the wildcard; Super Smash, 4-player, 2-stock, 2-minute format, with multiple matches depending on turnout,</em>"

Ummm, wouldn't we pretty much be able to guarantee 3 rounds each? If you think about it, it's 32 people per "round", so it would take 2 "rounds" to go through everybody. We definitely will probably have time for 6 rounds, won't we? I mean, each one only takes about 5 minutes or so, give or take.
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Yeah it would be short but we might need to cut it short because the Wildcard and Clan cup might apply some timelimit pressure but I would guess 3+ melee quilification matches.

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he post 123. 15 posts left before 5k.
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i wonder who will get the 5000th post. yea we should have more than 3 matches to qualify but if not 3 is a good number for me. i just dont want to. i presume the mkdd will be single elimination correct? so when u get 5th ur out for the whole thing.

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Yeah, Pioneer got out like, 20 minutes early today. It sucks though, because it's just really not worth it. And the class that got cut short was the only one in the whole day that was worth going to, and we only got 20 minutes of it. It sucks.

5 more comments...
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1 more...........
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<strong><strong><em><em>5000 COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</em></em></strong></strong>

Wow, guys. This officially means that we have not a whole lot better to do with our time....

<strong><em>CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!!</em></strong>
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Tom you suck.

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In reply to by Pickwick the Second

Tom u caught r scheme good job
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No u actually didn"t me and tp2 well not be there i do not 4 bowser. I think what we r doing if it is legal we will drop paduck out of r clan and put in JFIN and then sub from there.
Tom you cheated
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Heh, I got all of you guys pretty good. w00t for me, I posted the 5000th comment.

Also, Bad Driver, your most recent post wasn't exactly all that coherent, do you think you could try to tidy it up a bit to tell us all exactly what you were trying to say?
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u cheater. I'm just wondering, what would happen if there was like too much snow on Saturday and we couldn't get started cause every1 was coming late?

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In reply to by California Love

So, are like The Loser, Leinad, and Nilofar in the wildcard?

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In reply to by California Love

Too bad for them, they should know better and leave their houses a bit early. That's what I'm going to do.

No, Leinad's not, because he qualified with the VM Clan for the grands. Don't you <strong>ever</strong> pay attention?

w00t again.
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Tom definitely cheated, and spamming the thread is a big no-no in my book....

Bad Driver, I'm not sure about your proposal. If you had thought of it before round 4, I might have allowed the primary change, but two days before the grands? I don't think that's fair. Other clans could want to swap in a primary and I would have to let them.

I changed another Clan's primaries before, but that was before the regular season was over. I know that Jfin has subbed for you guys before, but I'm afraid it's too late at this point. Sorry.

In reply to by TheKoolAidGuy

Spamming is posting mulitple times to annoy people. It wasn't my original intent to annoy you guys, that's your fault.
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