Preregistration is now open for AADL-GT Round 2, happening this Saturday, September 24th, from Noon - 5 PM in the Basement of the Downtown Library. Doors will open at 11:30 for players in grades 6-12, so be early to get checked in and start warming up. Winners of the Sur-Prize round game will take home $70, $50, and $30 giftcards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. We'll have single-player and team events in both Mario Kart Double Dash and Super Smash Brothers: Melee, and the event will (really this time) be broadcast live on Comcast channel 18 in Ann Arbor, so be sure to bring a signed release form if you haven't turned one in before. We'll be implementing several enhancements this round, including smoother, faster registration & check-in, split-screen single player Kart for more races in less time, checkin and food and tables outside the room, and definitely more pizza. Read on for more.

We'll also be having an All-Ages DDR Tournament, Sunday Sept. 25th, from 1:00-4:00 at the Malletts Creek Branch. Open Gamecube play will be available, and prizes are $40, $30, and $20 giftcards.

One of our new features is a super-easy way to attach your clan logo to all your comments here on the axis blog. Just email me your clan logo at axis@aadl.org, and I'll add it to the server. You can then include your clan logo in your post just by adding:

[mygtclanlogo]

anywhere in your post, including in your signature! You can edit your signature on the 'edit' tab of your My Account page. Once you've added that tag to your signature, you'll never have to think about your clan logo again. Let me know if you run into any trouble or have any questions about this.

Also, it's time to announce the players who will be invited to do live, on-air commentary at this month's tournament. I will be appointing Lead and Relief Commentators for each event, with the Lead commentators doing most of the talking, and the Relief stepping in when the Leads are playing. Be aware that my goal is to produce the most entertaining event possible, so while I want to give several players a chance to do this, I will be making changes and cuts throughout the season. If I don't think you did a very good job, you won't be invited back to the 'press box' next month. So, be forewarned, and don't take it personally. Also, remember that this is an invitation. You don't have to do it if you don't want to. So, here are our commentary teams for Round 2:

Mario Kart Single-Player and Team:
Lead: Major Tom and Leinad
Relief: Muffincat and Duck

Super Smash Brothers Single-Player and Team:
Lead: Sravan and Galen (pr0 and c0n)
Relief: Black Shark and Duck

Surprize Round:
Lead: Muffincat and Black Shark
Relief: Major Tom and Leinad

A few tips for you commentators:

1) Look for the drama and build it with story, not with interjections.

Right: Wow, he's made it all the way to the final lap of the final race, only a master shell can ruin his day now...
Wrong: Oh! oh! wow! Man! Going! Going! Going! Gone!

2) Play off your partner, no matter who they are, use their name extensively, and set them up.

Right: I see she is truly dominant with DK, bob, isn't that one of your best characters?
Wrong: (in reply): Nope.

3) Remember that the audience at home may not know anything about the games.

Right: Wow, there goes Mario's Cape teleportation glitch... that's a bug in the game that's very difficult to execute, but very shocking when performed precisely....
Wrong: Oh man! Charizard!

4) Nothing impresses me more than a dazzling display of Nintendo Knowledge.

Right: You know, bob, the original Donkey Kong was Shigeru Miyamoto's first game for Nintendo, and it was built to be a conversion for thousands of unused Radarscope cabinets, as the US market had responded very poorly to Radarscope, despite it having been a smash hit in Japan.
Wrong: The Revolution is going to suck.

Anyway, enough of that. Get registered for the tournament, get practicing, and if you've got questions, now's the time. See you Saturday!

lol eli i like ur do's and dont's.
everything looks good and i hope to see everyone there!

it didnt work for some reason?

[mygtclanlogo]

Noooooo! Eli! You let Black Shark do something significant! Like commentating!! That is a very, VERY, bad idea!!!!!

"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"

Since I'm done with my work. I'll make a post. I like that you reposted the release from it helps not having to tell people it is half way down the page. I didn't know about the radarscope, that's pretty cool.

cool I'm Relief with Muffincat.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

Didn't Black Shark say that he was quitting, and not going to do anything at all? We'd probably better get another commentator to fill his spot.

"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"

I'll have to get a fake ID that says I'm 16 created quick so I can come and compete against all you youngsters. :-P

that doesen't say much about your integrity or skill picking on a bunch of defenseless little kids like us lol

Or does the fact that I'd like to play you all in Mario Kart indicate that the 18+ crowd is not challenging enough?

Hmmmmm........ :-)

When I was eleven or twelve I was winning tournaments in Street Fighter II, so I know from experience that age and skill do not always go hand in hand.

i know that because when i was 8 i was beating 16 and 17 year olds in ssb64 and mk 64. I meant to say jk not lol

Sounds pretty good. The commentary dos and don'ts made me chuckle. I'm looking forward to it. But I must agree with Tom in voicing my opposition to Black Shark commentary. However, Eli has made his decision and says that those commentators who suck will be removed next round, so I guess I'm fine with it for now and if Black Shark does good then I have no problem with him staying.

"There is no spoon." -Neo

I am confused. The announcements at my school said that there is a mario kart tourney at the neutral zone this week.

Eli is this true?????

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

Neutral Zone Kart Tournament
September 20, 2005, 4:30 pm @
For players in the NeutralZone age group

..............Well that being announced today is bad planning.

Yes I love Edit powers.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.
Sir Ducksalot

There was no tournament today due to low turnout, just open play. Tomorrow, we're planning a Mario Kart at the Neutral Zone from 3-6, and a DDR tournament on Thursday. These were Neutral Zone events, I wasn't involved in the promotion. However, you guys are welcome to come of course. Sorry I didn't mention it sooner. Only 4 stations, splitscreen.

so eli how many people have pre registered yet i just wanna know to see the approximate number of ppl going to the tournament.
the neutral zone thing is high schoolers only right?

yes, Sravan the Neutral Zone only lets High schoolers in.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

does the NZ give out prizes

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

Do these Neutral Zone events have prizes or are they just for fun?

"There is no spoon." -Neo

YOu beat me by one minute Steven!

"There is no spoon." -Neo

I'm going 2 do fine at commentating u guys, I like 2 be funny, so I will try 2 say funny things like with the pop tart thing and Galen. I'm sorry 4 swearing Eli, it's just that well, I don't know what I do when I'm angry, I can't express in any other way but with swearing, so can u forgive me Eli? I just didn't act like myself the other day, I wont swear ever again. I still don't like that u guys treat me like crud and that I will lose it again, but I wont. I wont be retiring, that, I copied from a TV show from the G4 channel. My life is over, all I got is still the commentating privleges. Everybody hates me, Eli hates me, and I don't blame u guys, I acted like a total jackbutt and I was a jerk, a total fudgin' jerk, I hate myself and well, I SUCK AT SUPER SMASH BROS., I'm going 2 get my butt kicked on local television! I just really had a bad day yesterday. I'm going 2 do horribly at the tournament. Flare, Joesmo, Tom, and Duck were all rite, I am a failure and I'm not good at all. I'm surprised I even #34. I should be at #100000000.
I'm that bad and I will never lie again and I will never swear again. Eli, if u want 2, u can delete my account now. U should delete it becausse I'm a failure and I suck and I don't belong on this site anymore.

"I hate myself"

Black shark could you please stop using the word "suck" If you want to express youself you can write poetry, or use figurative language.

"I feel worse than a loser rejected by a reject."

"I am angrier than a laughing hyena in the middle of a river."
that was not a good example of figurative language, becuase it was a laughing hyena, the word "laughing" destroyed the flow.

I do not think that the Neutral zone gives out prizes, not completly sure, but if they don't announce that there are prizes the chances are there are not any prizes.

by the way leanahd (leinad) you spelled tp2's name wrong.....

李 治 學 leaving

Auf Wiedersehen-

Black Shark if we had 100000000 show up to these tournaments I would stand outside and charge a dollar. Just because you won't win much this season doesn't mean your life is over, I mean there is always next season. Hint in a few years most of the season I Vets will be gone.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

Anybody else feel really bad now?

"There is no spoon." -Neo

if we had 100000000 people show up, one, that is more than max capacity by a lot and two, we would need soooooooooooooo much pizza

we dont hate you black shark!!!!!!!111111

Wheeeoooo, Black Shark, spare us the Drama. I don't hate you and you shouldn't beat yourself up about this. Remember that many of these guys hardly know you, and all they have to base their opinions of you on is what you've written here, which, well, doesn't always reflect well on you. I think you wouldn't be in this pickle if you simply didn't post angry. Step away from the keyboard when you think you might post something you'd regret. Don't take everything so seriously.

And as for the rest of youse, I know it's not often that a bunch of geeks like us get the opportunity to gang up on someone wearing a football jersey, but I think that's enough catharsis... time to look for the irony.

There are prizes at the NZ tourney. $20, $15, $10. Show up tomorrow by 4:00.

u high schoolers take everything to litaratily he was exaturating. we are still doing 1v1 elims for single melee right? he next tournament after this is will be on the 22nd of october right and the friday is the ssbm all ages thing do u know the prizes for that eli?

i always miss the swearing

Is that an insult against football players. Me, JFin, and Padouk all played football last year.

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

Well....I don't think you guys know me very well....Do you hate me?
Oh and Tom, How's the whole podcast thing going?

Sweet, I'm commentating with Duck and Muffincat. Hi 5! Anyone?

"I hate White Sharks"

galen i havent heard from u for a while u are gonna come to the tournament right? we cant practiec friday night cuz i have a school dance unless i bring u to that...nobody hates galen though he is pesimistic sometimes. i presume that if the lead commentators and the relief commentators for mario kart are in the same race which will probably only be in team mkdd, me and galen will take over if we arent racing as well.

I can pretend 2 hate Galen, does that count? I don't like that he doesn't do the truffle shuffle. (jk Galen, we cool.)

"I hate White Sharks"

It's not an insult against football players at all, TP2. It's not even an insult against people who wear football jerseys. It's not even an insult. =)

haha black shark u needa job so u can be sweet like me.
o man id be the worst commentator.

"I see what you reds are planning!"
Grif: "All I'm tryin' to do is get L-A-I-D"
(silence)
Grif: "It spells laid."
Tucker: "We know it just wasn't funny"

Anybody else feel really bad now?

No. Not really. No.
And by the way, that fake retirement thing? Funny when Adam Sessler did it on X-Play. Not so much when other people do it.

...*sighs*... I guess I'll give you a high five, Black Shark.
*Gives Black Shark a high five*

As far as the podcast goes, I sent off an email to Eli about a plan for it, but I haven't started actually writing it yet. So far for interviewees I have:

Galen
Sravan
Joe
Steven
Duck

If anyone else wants to be in it, just let me know.

"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"

*High fives Black Shark*

Tom, let me know what's happening with the podcast.

In case anyone cares, I had a really good day today. Not even that that much good happened, just a bunch of little things and generally cheery spirits all day long.

"There is no spoon." -Neo

well leinad i have so much homework today so it wasent that good for me but overall i had a good day. arent u guys gonna interview yourselves for the podcast so u can add tom,daniel, and ian to the list. do u guys know if muffincat is coming cuz if she isnt then we need someone to replace her commentating duties like flare or bumblebee person. joe did u pre register?

how come after i post no one posts for a couple of hours but when i decide to not post the next time i come back i see 10 new posts in 2 hours?

Muffincat is coming.

No one was at the NZ tournament, Only 2 people from clans (including myself) and 12 people total (several left before the end). Since they didn't have a MKDD tournament yesterday they decided to have both a SSBM and MKDD tournaments. I won't you know it I won both for $40 total.

Oh and it turns out these were season events so the Vaccinated Monk Clan is in the Finals.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

what that shouldnt count eli middle schoolers cant go there so its unfair. his whole clan didnt even go there and he didnt have subs etc. u guys will make it anyway without the NZ tournament.

Just Kidding Sravan. They altered a few things so that it didn't count.

whew u had me going there

Is it just me or is the release form page down atm?

looks like it is Down, but I've always had an error with it.

(Yes this is the answer to the life, the universe and everything.)

Well duck, what do I do instead? Me = Relson

You don't need to worry I'll print out a few for the Robot club meeting If they come online.

have any of u guys read george orwell's animal farm? that is such a good book i had to read it for civics class and i liked it even though the sad ending. its not like animals in a farm its a HUGE metaphor of the russian revolution such as the rebellion and the betrayl etc.

maybe u guys dont have an updated version of acrobat reader.

Hey, I need 2 know if any of those stupid noisemakers registered. I still don't get how that Hurricane Katrina blog got on the axis blog? Nobody's commenting anymore. It's useless. If it doesn't involve video games, it's useless. Hey, Eli, can come up with another video game tourney thing with like an AADL-GT SPORTS EDITION, yea I like that, have it be a tournament with nothing but EA Games and stuff. Make it in a format like AADL-GT. Maybe? U did tell me that u were interested and I soooooooooooo want Madden back at the AADL. Also, see if u can hire John Madden and Al Michaels 2 do some commentating as well, I know I will try hard 2 do well.

"I hate White Sharks"

Hurricane Katrina got on here because they wanted to make sure everyone saw it.

Black Shark you know Eli doesn't like sports games that much and come on Getting John Madden and Al Michaels to commentate for CTN. They would never take it because everyone would assume that they were having money troubles, plus it not like you can just talk to them.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.
Edit Powers
Sir Ducksalot

Adobe Acrobat doesn't find pages that don't exist :p

Duck, make sure to bring extras, I'll need two. (IF the form goes online)

sravan-derek and i are registered. and i also have a buttload of homework.

relson-r u mark or eric?

eli-thank you so much for not making the tournament on homecoming weekend.

leinad-i too had a good day.

wake me up when september ends by green day is my song.

omg joe that song rocks but american idiot and boulivard of broken dreams are better. yea black shark where r they gonna get john madden? black shark it seems to me that u think the huricane is usless well see if u think that if u were in new orleans on august 29th? its not usless they have it cuz of teens and they are looking for teens to participate. i have homecoming this weekend though but o well i am going to a party on friday for the huricane like donations and stuff. can u belive our school has a DDR club and i'm in it even though i suck! we are thinking of expanding it to melee and halo2 but the school might not let us do halo2.

The One talking was Eric, but it seem like he is bringing his brother (two Release forms).

Oh yeah New Page.

Edit Powers
Sir Ducksalot

________**********.E.L.I.*********____________

derek can't register for the single player events cuz he can't log in and when he requests his password, it tells him that the username Derek is not recognized...please help our problem.

joe and galen we have to mention our recruitments. ugo cant come this time cuz he has a soccer game but i will ask him to come on the blog later or eli can make it easier by giving us the points for him anyway because he said i recruited him but not balla. galen bring david to the next tournament so we get his points. i will ask rod to come to the next tournament or i will ask him to post that i got him but eli can make that easier again cuz he posted before saying i'm his friend. joe u have to get danny to come on this blog or come to the next tournament so we can get his points. i think thats it if i forgot anyone then tell me guys. o yea ugo decided he is not gonna make a clan instead he will compete individually so he wont need the points for balla so can we have them? that adds to 505.

eli help joe with his problem.

This is indeed Eric Relson... No I'm not bringing my brother. My good friend Joe Crawley is coming instead (I hope). He's better than me, lol. In my case, I don't even own a console, all my SSBM experience is from playing with Crawley... for 2.5 or 3.5 (lost track) years.

and Joesmo is? I swear, not many people know both my brother and I :p

Joesmo a softmore at Pioneer. He is one of the better Kart players from last year.

damn straight

What did we say about swearing Sravan.

Is the thursday NZ tournament DDR or MK. I need to know.

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

There's a NZ tomorrow? Man this could have been planned way better.

Eli, I have a huge problem, Nick11 might have 2 leave at 330 on SAt. because of a soccer game, and Nilofar arrives at 230 what do I do? R U allowed 2 change rosters during the tournamnet? I have Nick11 and I signed up 4 Team Melee, but if leaves and it doesn't rain, then what do I do? Can I use Nilofar or somethin' 2 team up with and it can count 4 clan points because she arrives late? Answer me soon Eli!

"I hate White Sharks"

I'm pretty sure you just take the point hit like me, black shark.

I got the Release Form, but I only got it by using Internet Explorer.

Edit Powers
Sir Ducksalot

Hmm, the release form works for me. You might try saving the file. Does this link work any better?

Black Shark, no registrants yet from Clan Noise Machine. The Hurricane Katrina post was made to the AXIS blog by another staff member. The AXIS blog isn't supposed to only be about AADL-GT. Also, we will have some more sports events during the off-season, including some Madden tournaments the week of the Superbowl, but as you saw this summer, it's hard to get a good crowd.

Joe, Derek needs to create an account before he can register. However, the username 'Derek' is already taken, he'll need to pick another one, 'DerekV' or whatever. Tell him to email me at axis@aadl.org if he needs help.

Sravan, I'll get you your bonus for Ugo.

TP2, I don't know whether the thursday tournament at the Neutral Zone will be Kart or DDR. It may even be Super Smash. Turnout has been low, and if there's not enough people there for a DDR tourney, we'll do Kart or Super Smash instead. These events were done for the Neutral Zone's back-to-school week.

Black Shark, Duck is right again. You can only have 4 players total registered for your clan at any single tournament. You can't sub in the middle of the day. If your team is made up of two of your 4 clan members for that tournament, you'll get clan points. If it isn't, you won't.

1.something days until the tournament.

Also, sports games = bad for a regular season thing. Also, if there are going to be tournaments at the Neutral Zone, there should be more advertisement. Yeah.

I would also just like to point out that Leinad and I did all of the "do's: on that list of Eli's last time we commentatored. I don't know why I would like to point that out, but I would.

"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"

Geese, Eli, u posted very early. This sucks, at at least duck"s team wont get many points either.

"I hate White Sharks"

What are you talking about we don't have subs this time. The last tournament I was just having fun with friends.

duck its 1 word that i have heard in G movies. lol black shark its geez not geese thats the animal that bites u if u go near it how do i know this dont ask. eli 1v1 march madness or FFA? also team melee wont be single elimination this time right. a word of advise for the mario kart commentators u have to keep track of 2 games at once for single and there will be 2 ppl on the screen so u have to know which one is top and bottom. eli who are the relif relif commentators me and galen? u guys been practicing cuz i got so much better i did very hard mode with no continuation. master hand is so hard one of his hits will KO u.

Well that was weird. I just played a match of SSBM and while on the earth bound level with cars we all got killed by one car and all died at the same time but only 2 were in the sudden death.

editing is so fun.
Sir Ducksalot

Eli
I can't get registered with my brother (Darth Marth) for team mariokart

Relson-i dunno how much more obvious my name must be...its Joe Smolarski...DUH...i cant believe joes coming...im goonna have to own him.
Eli-thanks!

hey sravan, we need a sub cuz derek has to go to a party.
eli-please Unpartner me with whoever the derek is that i am currently partnered with.

I won the NZ tournament. The competition was very fierce. I had a race where I only won by a minute or 2. I was very surprised when I got a third place in a race. Why, weren't any of you there???

Back to Phy Sci

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

Sounds like yesterday only without the getting in 3rd. I'm to lazy to go to the NZ 2 days in a row. How many people were there?

So will we being seeing Derek at all this season.

I love to Edit
Sir Ducksalot

I wasn't there because I despise the Neutral Zone. Not so much the place, more the people who inhabit it. They've never really seemed to like me.

Also, continuing in Leinad's footsteps so to speak, I had a very bad day. Thank you.

Oh, Black Shark, the Vaccinated Monks clan will have no subs this time. All four regualr primaries will be there. And we will dominate the clan tournament this time around. And we will qualify for the Grand Championship Clan tournament. And we will win that too. And the iPod Shuffles.

And to top it all off, we finally have a clan Logo.

Boo-yah to the face!

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"Caboose: Sheeeeeeeilaaaaah! Come back to meeee! I made you a muffiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!"

joe how about flare. do u want galen to be on ur team for melee and mario kart or just one of them or none of them? flare will u be our sub? leinad lets see ur logo and dont get too ahead of ur selves joe and derek have been practicing!

Umm... Sravan... That was Me, not Leinad. And I can't put the logo up... I just sent it back to Eli after apporving some changes he made. So if he checks his email sometime tonight, he might put it up. If not, you'll just have to wait.

And we are going to win the Clan Tournament. Overall single-player, maybe not. Clan Tournament: Heck Yes!!
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"Caboose: Sheeeeeeeilaaaaah! Come back to meeee! I made you a muffiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!"

Also, Eli, should the Commentators arrive any earlier than 12 to help setup or practice or something?
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"Caboose: Sheeeeeeeilaaaaah! Come back to meeee! I made you a muffiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!"

oops i guess i am so tired that i didnt read that. lol tom we'll see... have u been practicing in melee that is the key game. with flare as our sub we will rule the melee tournament on saturday but yea joe and derek will show off their godly mkdd powers while galen and i cast our melee rituals. its a good thing the noise makers havent registered yet tom u are so lucky u didnt go last time. eli how many walk-ins are u estimating?

I assume that we'll arrive early again. Even just to arrive early if for nothing else. But I have flag auditions that morning at 10:00. So if those run too long I might not be able to get there early. I'll definately be there by 12 though.

"There is no spoon." -Neo

Yeah, I've been practicing in melee a lot. However, I tend to lose skill if I play a week or so before a tournament (don't ask me why, I just do), so I've been spending my video game time this week blowing things up and running the streets in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I love that game.
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"Caboose: Sheeeeeeeilaaaaah! Come back to meeee! I made you a muffiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!"

actully im not subbing so why dont you have rod sub?

Am i the only person that posts regularly thats not in a clan?

Sravan do you read at all. Joe just said "hey sravan, we need a sub cuz derek has to go to a party." So I don't think he is going to show of his "godly mkdd powers".

I wouldn't say Melee is the key game I would say the single player events are the key to winning since as a clan you could get around 6000 points in single player events (not including surprize round) but only 3000ish points in Team events.

Well That's cool I gained 300 points to jump to 11th place. Oh and Pacman, Skippy and Sean all appeared out of nowhere to take top seats.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

i was just gonna tell sravan that...lets have rod be dereks sub unless i can get derek to go late, but i doubt it

Duck, if u guys have all 4 of ur primaries going, then what did u mean by "I guess u will have 2 take the point hit just like my clan?" Eli? I have Nick11 signed up as my partner 4 SSBM Team Event. He might leave before that, so is it ok if I can find a new partner at the tournament?

"I hate White Sharks"

Last tournament we had a sub leave half way though. That's why the Vaccinated Monk clan score was off.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

Ok That's enough Editing for now
Sir Ducksalot

Good Morrow to all!

May I add my voice to that of the distinguished member who has previously requested knowledge pertaining to the identity of the entity self-entitled "Relson?" If you, Gertlex, are indeed the Eric Relson of The Eric Brothers, PI HI SAMURAI, E-107, Pioneer High School, somewhere on Stadium, then I must extend greetings and salutations! IF, as it turns out, you are NOT the individual identified by the description of every Robotics members' "home away from home" while working on the six-week build, then I must beg that you will ignore this communication.

Good Day, Sir!

---Pickwick the Second
(aka The Robotics Club VP)

PS: If, indeed, you are the entity in question, (and, I suppose, even if you are not,) I must heartily wish you into possession of an abundance of luck during the competition on Saturday, if it be your will to attend!

Good Morrow again!

I would like to advise all to ignore the question in my previous posted message; it was made in ignorance of the existence of a second page, on which said question was answered long ago. Instead, for your reading pleasure, I will post an inspiring quote from our President. (Is this allowed? I have not, of course, read the forum rules about political posting...)
Oh, well.
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Thanks to The Complete Bushisms--Updated Frequently, by Jacob Weisberg.)

Good Day, especially to Eric!!

---Pickwick the Second

PS: Duck, are you, by any chance, a resident of Portable F during sixth hour at Pioneer? A mannerism I seem to recall from a conversation yesterday resembles closely one you utilized on the forum... Again, I must extend my deepest apologies if I am mistaken.

Good Morrow!

Unbelievably, I find myself in the position of having to retract questions posed in BOTH my first two messages; if I had read the piece of paper you handed me, Duck, I would already have known the answer to my question. This is quite embarrassing, as is repeatedly sending messages to an empty forum, so I am of the opinion that this is the last post for me this morning (besides which, I just finished my homework and intend to get some sleep before my alarm goes off.)
Good Morning, if such a modified noun may be said to exist!

---Pickwick the Second---

PS: I've always had a postscript at the end of my messages, and I see no reason to end this time-honoured tradition of several hours.

Wow. Just... Wow. Yay for Thomas White and his early-morning posts.

Just... Wow.
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Oh, Eli said our logo should be up sometime today. So you can all bask in the gloriosity of our amazing, uber-awesome Vaccinated Monks Clan Logo.
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Dear, Pickwick the Second

Have you Preregistered? If so Good if not DO IT. You and your clan my not be able to be walk ins.

PS: You scare me.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

I am not planning on turning anyone away this month. If the turnout is huge again, I'll announce during the tournament how registration will work for october.

p.s. pickwick is awesome.

Sweet. It worked. Bask in the awesome gloriosity of our logo.
And yes that is a monk. It's a ninja monk. Ninja monks pwn you.

OMGWTFROFLBBQ!!!1!111!shift+11one!!!11!!!1!1

Boo-yah to the face!
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Hey, Eli, I can pick a new partner during the tournament, rite? I like that all the logos r on the aadlgt site, I can't believe Skillz Dat Killz doesn't have one. Hey Eli, check out the latest Nintendo Power Magazine, it shows something about PAX. Pages 122-123.

"I hate White Sharks"

Since I told around 30 people to come there might be a big surge.

Eli did you edit the main post it says
"One of our new features is a super-easy way to attach your clan logo to all your comments here on the axis blog. Just email me your clan logo at axis@aadl.org, and I'll add it to the server. You can then include your clan logo in your post just by adding:

anywhere in your post, including in your signature! You can edit your signature on the 'edit' tab of your My Account page. Once you've added that tag to your signature, you'll never have to think about your clan logo again. Let me know if you run into any trouble or have any questions about this."

There isn't anything beyond adding.

shoot, my score got changed back.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

joe i will ask rod but flare if u arent in a clan y wont u sub i thought u were my friend? well i havent been practicing much so u guys might beat me in mario kart but not in melee u can count on that. or wait i got a better idea galen i will bring Meng Jin to the tournament as our sub. we will get 101 points and he is a beast at melee but not so much at mario kart.i will call him now
*calls him*
k i am going to his house i will post another comment in 5

Hi i'm sravan at meng's house and good news joe he can come to the tournament. he is a beast at melee and he can mini turbo at mkdd. joe we have our roster eli me,c0n,joe,and darksoul. the only thing is eli i need to change the teams will i be able to that tommarow morning at check-in. i will be there early but i gotta go to my school's party first. eli the teams are me and and darksoul for melee and mario kart, then galen and joe will be on a team for mkdd and melee. i gotta go back to my house.

galen u are coming to the tournament right? o yea and the VM clan ur logo looks like a ninja...

why would your party be before noon sravan? this sucks so bad that derek isnt coming...we woulda owned..:( i will try to practice tonight.

"I am not planning on turning anyone away this month. If the turnout is huge again, I'll announce during the tournament how registration will work for october.

p.s. pickwick is awesome."

First, I think may have to do something you aren't planning. The tournament seems to have garnered much word of mouth and I wouln't be surprised if we hit fire code <_<.

Second, Pickwick is probably the most awesome person I know >_>

Sravan we explained it was a ninja monk.

why isn't it inthe picture database.

HA HA HA HA HA I got a new page!
who is
Pickwick?

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Sorry about the clan logos on your comments, guys. It isn't working the way I had hoped. I'll have to get a fix in sometime next week.

/*== ejk ==*/

If I'm only playing the SSBM part of this event (starting 2:30), do I still need to sign in by 12? I'm already preregistered of course...

Thanks for bringing my name up. *Sigh*

Tournament starts in 13 hours and 33 minutes

"I hate White Sharks"

If we're only coming for the SSBM part of the tournament, do we have to come at 12 initially to sign up? Don't want to make an unnecessary trip to the library if I don't have to...

joe i meant the party was tonight and i just got back from it. IT WAS AWSOME. i played DDR for a while and i can do B4U on standard yay. there were all the hits,slow dances,a disco ball, and this kid freak dancing which was weird a teacher had to tell him to stop. ok i gotta teach our sub the shortcuts and stuff so it wont be too hard tommarow cuz im gonna go early but he can mini turbo, ironiclly he was the one to tell me about mini turbo lol. omid i am trying to IM u now but sign on ur other sn cuz its not working. heres what i am going to do tommarow. i will bring a pencil and paper(or eli will lend me some) and take every important clan's score while they are playing so if joe gets 1st in a mkdd race and duck gets 2nd then i put 100 in the TMC and 80 in the VMC(that is an example duck dont get worked up about it). o yea who was that guy posting at 4am shouldnt he be sleeping on a school day? noah just IMed me saying 13 1/2 hours till the tournament thanx noah...

ok the "important"clans are-TMC,SDK,TC1,VMC, and maybe BSC(lol BS)
is miniblin coming to the tournament?
ok some words of encourgement before the tournament. stalling is bad for ur health dont do it or u will be called a sissy for the rest of ur life. please dont disturbe other peoples games but i think eli is using the outside as a waiting room or something. is it ok to make a last minute change that i want the final match of team and single melee to be 2/3? i want my friend meng to fight tp2 in melee he uses marth(meng will probably win)he has beaten me a couple of times. eli will the commentary be outside of in the multipurpose room? can commentators request stations to watch cuz we wanna watch our friends(i wanna watch meng dominate melee). if and only if the noise makers come and they start playing i'm gonna take their symbols and shove them in the garbage. they will try to get them back but galen would have eaten them by then (jk galen).

the most important one is good luck and have a kick ass time.

If we're only coming for the SSBM part of the tournament, do we have to come at 12 initially to sign up? Don't want to make an unnecessary trip to the library if I don't have to...

As long as you CHECK-IN before the event starts, you should be fine. But even if you have Pre-Registered... PLEASE CHECK-IN when you arrive.
/*== ejk ==*/

Ah, okay then. See you there. :)

Sravan, it's not fair for you to be able to just watch whatever matches you want. I don't know how it's going to be done, but that shouldn't be it.
And yes, we already explained it. It's a ninja monk. Not that difficult.
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Commentary will still be in the room this time, but we're still planning on moving it out, with 8 little monitors where you can watch all the action. For tomorrow, we'll stick with the formula of me calling the shots, i.e. which station we're following.

well ok. i like the needles in ur logo guys but it looks like a halo2 logo for one of the players on xbox live my friend has a ninja logo but not with needles.

Oh guess you don't know about the other clans that are coming. First off MiniBlin's clan is coming and secondly Pickwick the Second (the guy that posted at 4am) has a clan with some pretty good people. Both these clans should score better then the BlackShark clan (sorry BlackShark but these guys are good). Plus if get half turn out for my promotions the VMC should be getting another 1800 points from new people.

Yes, Sravan. We did blatantly steal the nija head with the flames from the Halo 2 Multiplayer Emblems. But still, it looks awesome, so who really cares about copyright infringement, right? :-)
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good for u duck but u are still 2500 points behind but then u will only be 700. lol tom. well i'm about to leave soon chao.

who won the tournament?

duck got 1st,his new guy got 2nd,joe got 3rd, and piraty critter got 4th. it was better then the august tournament at least. the Vaccinated monks probably won the clan portion.

The scores look a little weird. The VMC won that round easily. I love that we did Super monkey ball 2 my Cousins own it so I had played it a little several months ago.

i wish we did monkey target for the finals...woulda owned it.

I think that tournament was WAYYYYYYYY better than the august one...more fun. The only problem was that someone stole the drumstick...thats not cool, but the peace and quiet was nice...

and one last thing: I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! I'm thirty bucks richer! GIGIDY GIGIDY GIGIDY!

actually duck if those scores are correct then our clan wins. ur clan gets about 9000 points while we get 10000. joe derek isnt coming to any of the tournaments maybe we should replace him with meng but he is ur friend and if u dont want to then i understand.

Your right but wrong as always It looks like with these scores you win with 11358 not 10000 and we have 10219 not 9000. But I seriously think the scores are wrong because since we multiplied everything by 10 you shouldn't be able to get .5 points.

I can't believe im still in 34th place. And y isn't Nick11's name in red yet? What happened 2 Earnist Da Chicken?

"I hate White Sharks"

Earnist Da Chicken along with another SDK member didn't come to the tournament.

I would have to say that SMB2 wasn't the best prize round game. People who owned it had too much of an advantage. I had never played the game before so I only got 2000 points. The people who owned it had over 4000.

Eli, I figured out the prize round games. Monkey Ball was one of my 3 predictions. I think I know the next 2 too. I will do very, very well in one of them.

I think the VM won, but only because, of the prize round. W/O that they didn't do so well.

P.S. Did anyone triple qualify. (I only doubled")

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

I think the surprize round should be academic competition, which would encourage people to study :) academics are entertaining. I hated monkey ball, it is like supersmash, either are good at it, or you are terrible. If we play games for the surprize round, they should be games that are easy to pick up.

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Hey, ejk, when r the clan points going 2 be added in, and when r the new guys who r suppose 2 be red going 2 be red?

"I hate White Sharks"

I just have to say that was one of the most fun things to do with a weekend.

I'll be back October and November (tournies both months, right?)... After that I'm over 18 :(

u know duck my scores were just an estimate. BCL high schoolers would have an advantage in the academic competition cuz well u guys are older then us. galen and joe double qualified. who were the top 4 in team mario kart i know galen and joe got 2nd. tp2 was ur team in melee qualified for the suprise round?

Gertlex you can participate until you go to collage.

Bebbles and I got 3rd in team Kart. I think jlgelinas got 4th in Team Kart.

*Edit:*
I found this tournament much better then last months. It was still a little chaotic but We had good commentating and it worked out well even though it went over the time limit.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

what scores are we talking about estimating?? and sravan read my email...it will be a tough elimination of a strong player but his lazy*** must go if he only makes one tourney. If he gets mad, i will just give him some "xbox" movies...ask galen...he will understand what i mean.

nvm i found them on aadlgt...Wait since i am in second...Hold on i just want everyone to hear this again SECOND...Yeah i DID beat TP2, the guy who wasted me last year!

Anyways, since i am in second overall and double qualified, why am i not in bold and qualified for the grands? Is it just cuz it hasn't been updated?

And going by the scores, TMC wasted everyone cuz we got lots of points...i think

OH and one last thing: nice logo vaccinated monks. reminds me of halo so im gonna go play now pz out

I mean't academic competition such as trivia on a book, that perhapes would be told to us in advance so we could read it..... but good point Sravan.

"The few the proud" is the motto of what USA ARMY?
"the road less traveled" is a qoute from whom?
Who wrote the book "FOUNDATION"?
WHo was the first SCi Fi writer?
who was the first man to the north pole?
How many stars does the texas flag have?

you, know easy stuff like that maybe.

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yeah and one thing to TP2:
super monkey ball is the most simple game i have heard of! ALL YOU DO IS HIT A TO OPEN AND A TO CLOSE! JUST STEER TOWARDS A HIGH NUMBER AND HIT A! AND DUCK DOESNT OWN THE GAME! AND I HAVENT PLAYED THAT GAME IN YEARS! AND IF YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED ANY OF THE SUPER MONKEY BALLS, THEN YOU DONT DESERVE TO GET TO THE PRIZE ROUND CUZ ITS ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER THATS WHY THERES ONE FOR XBOX, PS2, AND GAMECUBE!!!!!!!!

Ohh fun:

1: Marines I think
2: no clue
3: Isaac Asimov
4: Jules Vernes (Journey to the center of the earth, methinks)
5 & 6: no clue.

The next surprize round should be sports

"I hate White Sharks"

yea its like the best party game ever. i played it at galen's house once when his friend brought it over and i played it in 5th grade at my friend's party but we did the race one. i am actually pretty good at the battle one and i am sorta good at the flying target one. o yea duck i estimated the scores for this tournament only not including last tournament so ha. yea joe we won by 1000 points. let me read ur email.

i am also planning a halo2 LAN party on october 8th and u are invited!

joe i think we are already in the clan cup so u dont need to recruit ppl but we are not sure yet so bring them anyway.

Gertlex, i must say i am impressed.
you are right about the marines
2) i think it is robert frost, in one of his poems
4) i don't think it is documented who wrote the first Sci fi, but i still think Isaac Asimov wrote the first Real Sci fi
5)i don't know either..... oops
6)only one, texas is also known as the lone star state

have you read "foudation"

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Check this outhttp://www.mlc.lib.mi.us/workshop/wireless04/

Amy: Professor, I need a new bikini.
Professor: Oh, I think there's just enough left.
Amy: (Spraying sounds) How do I look?
Professor: Like a French Harlet.
Amy: (sighs) French!?

Joe did you notice that people who had played the game before did better than those who hadn't. Obviously you and the other prize round winners had an advantage. I would have to say that it is pretty funny that Duck didn't own (although he said he played it frequently w/ his cousin) and you did and he won.

This tournament was run better than the last one, but there could still be some room for improvement. I still left that tournament with most of my voice lost and a headache.
"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

hey thats a picture of eli! joe, eli said that if derek doesnt come to the next tournament then we can replace him with someone else but dont tell him to come let him come on his own that will show if he is interested or not. thats for u too galen i know ur computer is down though for like 2 weeks. members of the Vaccinated monks clan what colleges are u guys applying to? go MI even though they lost. eli can we orginize a mini prizeless tournament at the DDR thing? joe i might see u there where we can talk about the party.

BCL, I'd say I just got lucky :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_fiction
That supports my guess of Jules Vernes pretty well (1864 for Journey).
I'd say War of the Worlds is pretty modern SciFi too. (1898)
2) Robert Frost ehh?... everyone and their mom, but not me, likes him :P
The Foundation novels were all awesome.

I had only played it once before. Although those two minigames were the ones we played the most. I never beat my cousins in target they always got 6-10 thousand.

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: No, no, I, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.

Myself and ampshock got fourth in team kart. I'd like to say that this tournament was a LOT better and quite a lot of fun, props to the tournament organizers =D. Single kart still takes too long though =P. Maybe only have two qualifying races, or, as people keep talking about the space behind the screen, maybe four more cubes? I had a blast and got pretty significant points from all four events, though I didn't get top four in the surprize round =(.

The surprize round, ehh. The people who had played it before did do better, but that's an inherency in the suprize round setup. The only way to counter that effect would be to use games obscure enough that no one has ever played it (nigh impossible, as bomberman generations showed), or tell everyone what the surprize round games will be ahead of time (effectively eliminating the "surprize" round).

Although, speaking of academic games as a surprize round, which in and of itself is a ridiculous suggestion, eli could post a riddle or something that reveals or at least hints at the surprize round game a few weeks before the competition. This wouldn't eliminate the experience discrepancy as it just gives other people the opportunity to get the experience advantage, but making that advantage somewhat a factor of skill (or at least intellectual prowress) would be a step up from random chance >_>. Not to mention I LOVE riddles <_<.

Hey, I've got an idea so there wont be any delays.
1. If there is only one car on each station, Eli should tell them 2 not touch the controllers and let him switch 2 2 controllers instead, Eli should announce this and if nobody listens and screws it up, Eli should give a point penalty or somethin', and those Noise Makers should get a point penalty every time they play loudly and if they lose a drum stick or have it stolen, well Eli shouldn't waste his time helping them look 4 a drum stick, because it's there fault, they should take those drum sticks and shove it, or how 'bout if they keep beating those drums, I'll "beat" their face in.

2. All of u veterans should watch each station, first we would need 2 know who the players r at that station, then we all can record the scores down 4 the 2 or 4 people playing at that station and then report 2 Eli, first u would have 2 tell us what each place score is though.

Let My People Go!

Eli, What DS games would you suggest? I know I'm going to get Advanced Wars and most likely nintendogs, but do you have any other suggestions?

I still can't belive that Nick11 had 2 leave early, he was getting so many points.

Let My People Go!

who is moses?

moses is Black shark.

Edit:
MiniBlin’s clan is MiniBlin, Vash, Skippy & Hunt3r Kirby.

I just want 2 let u guys know that Black Shark is dead, say hello 2 Moses. I'll keep the clan name the same just because I already nspent so much time finding that clan logo.

Let My People Go!

anyone gonna play DDR?
NEW PAGE!

NO! I am really angry rite now, because Nick11's name should be in red ejk! I really don't want 2 rush u, but please have everything set soon, like the red names and clan points. OK?

Let My People Go!

They're not going to look at it until Monday Moses. Most likely they won't get it sorted out until later in the week. They have all the data they just need to sort though it.

How did people get a single point? I can understand 5s and even .5 make sense but 1, 2 and 3 points just seem obscure.

Edit;
Why is my clan logo in the main post where the AADL-GT Pad Logo is suppose to be. I can see part of the Pad logo but my clan logo is over most of it.

Please don't call me Black Shark, Duck, ok?

Let My People Go!

Leinad's improvement ideas:

1) I'd really like to see more single Melee qualification matches. With only 2, one bad match can realy hurt you. I'd like to see a minimum of three even if we need to cut some time from other events to do this.

2) Single Player Mario Kart took half of our time. I don't know how you can cut it down without eliminating the content, but It does need to be shorter.

3) It was WAY to loud in there. I couldn't hear myself think. There were two reasons for this: The sheer number of people and the noise makers. One particular difficulty of this is that commentators are supposed to interact which is impossible when you can't hear the person sitting next to you. We need a solution to this problem. Here's two ideas:

Ban the drums. There's no point to just adding excess noise. They are so loud that you can't even have fun while they're playing. And the drum stick fiasco is just another reason to ban them (the drums not the players)

Encourage more people to watch from the TV in the other room. Perhaps find a bigger room for that (I don't know if one exists or not though)

4) In general, I'd like more qualification rounds but less qualifiers, like if you could give everyone 4 matches of Kart or Smash but then only take the top 8 for elimination. That would put more emphasis on skill than luck.

"There is no spoon." -Neo

I would agree with banning the drums. I had fun throughout the tournament except for the one match in which John D. was standing next to me playing the drums. It drove me crazy I couldn't hear anything from the T.V. so I made many mistakes and my attention was split between punching him (which I did after the match ended) and playing the game. After that round I felt like crap while every other match Win or Loss I felt great.

Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.

Well, when I speak 4 all us I say that we should ban the drums, can we please ban the drums, please Eli?

Let My People Go!

Duck and Joe don't get so confident about your scores. Duck if those scores are right you scored more than anyone could Possibly Score your clan did well, but only because, of the surprise round. W/O that I think the monkeys took it.

Eli can we put the commentating equipment at the bottom of the stairs? Can we put the food behind the projector?

Duck and Joe don't get so confident about your scores. Duck if those scores are right you scored more than anyone could Possibly Score your clan did well, but only because, of the surprise round. W/O that I think the monkeys took it.

Eli can we put the commentating equipment at the bottom of the stairs? Can we put the food behind the projector?

"TORTURIS EXUVIAS EUNT"

The tourments are very fun but the seaaon tourments need more comentators.

Well the Clan logo glitch is gone.

TP2 I didn't think I could score that high but if you notice Joe also scored 5000 points. The highest I could see is 4000 points but It se