The YWS Cup

Firestarter · 2013-01-01T16:35:53Z

The YWS Cup The Inaugural Critiquing Championship Start: January, 2013 End: To be decided http://i.imgur.com/pF57vl.jpg ENTRY IS NOW CLOSED Open to all. Schedule will be decided based on number of entrants. Knock-out championship. Randomly drawn rounds create a match between two users. Some users may receive byes in the early rounds. A match consists of a week-long reviewing battle. The user with the most reviews at the end of a week wins the match. In the case of a tie, there will be a week-long replay immediately following the end of the match. Because I'm cruel. The later final rounds will consist of month-long battles just to ramp up the tension. The winner receives the adoration of his peers and probably an Amazon voucher of some sort (to be decided) and will be known as the YWS Cup Champion until the next Championship. The runner up will receive a slightly worse prize (to be decided). If nobody enters, I automatically win the YWS Cup. Forever. The picture above is not the finished YWS Cup. Someone with photoshop skills will make it. Please. I am the judge and ultimate arbiter of any disputes about match scores and winners. Further rules and explanations of the schedule will be posted once the number of entrants have been established. 23 Entrants: Rydia Hannah VereenVKS Lauren2010 Elinor Brynn Stella Thomas LouisCypher Audy Griffinkeeper Shadow_Vyper noninjaspresent Alteran Kyllorac Shino Dreamwalker EnchantedPanda ash211 Mush99 PenguinAttack znale1 FermentingFruit zephion guineapiggirl YWS First Round Draw 23 users have entered the cup: Rydia Hannah VereenVKS Lauren2010 Elinor Brynn Stella Thomas LouisCypher Audy Griffinkeeper Shadow_Vyper noninjaspresent Alteran Kyllorac Shino Dreamwalker EnchantedPanda ash211 Mush99 PenguinAttack znale1 FermentingFruit zephion guineapiggirl Due to the uneven numbers, not everybody will have to compete in the First Round. 9 entrants will get a bye to the Second Round. The remaining 14 entrants will enter the First Knockout Round, meaning 7 matches will be drawn. Hence, the 7 victors will join the 9 who received a bye, to comprise the 16 taking part in the Second Round. The draw was randomised using paper and a hat. First Round Byes The lucky nine that sailed through to the Second Round: Shino noninjaspresent Dreamwalker LouisCypher Shadow_Vyper Mush99 Hannah Elinor Brynn VereenVKS Congratulations! You made it through to the Second Round! The First Round Draw Proper Matches 1, 2, 3, and 4 will be played between January 15th, 3 pm, and January 22nd, 3 pm. Matches 5, 6, and 7 will be played between January 22nd, 5 pm, and January 29th, 5 pm. All times are GMT. The winner is the user with the most reviews posted within the time stated. Match 1 StellaThomas versus Kyllorac January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 2 Alteran versus Lauren2010 January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 3 FermentingFruit versus guineapiggirl January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 4 Audy versus ash211 January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 5 zephion versus Griffinkeeper January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm Match 6 EnchantedPanda versus znale1 January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm Match 7 PenguinAttack versus Rydia January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm

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Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:08 pm

Hannah says... · Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:08 pm

I can't wait!
I am so darn excited!

And I think a coin flip is way fair, 'cause we can't do anything like free kicks or free throws or whatever sports do.

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Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:12 pm

zephion says... · Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:12 pm

Or you could find a way to look at the point value of the reviews and find out who did better that way. That would probably be a bit tedious though.

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Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:14 pm

Firestarter says... · Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:14 pm

I thought about that. But I'm too lazy! If they'd like to count up their own words they're very welcome. Also, I think they both tend to get 100 points each time, as they both write long reviews usually, so I'm not sure it would change much!

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Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:34 pm

Rydia says... · Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:34 pm

All of mine were 100 pointers for the record :p

But I'm cool with a coin flip if Pengi is and even if I'm out, I'm going to pretend I'm still in and review right alongside the competition

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Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:00 pm

Firestarter says... · Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:00 pm

Dreamwalker has contacted me to say she can no longer commit to the competition. Therefore, both Rydia and PenguinAttack qualify for the Second Round -- one as the winner of the tie, and one as the highest scoring loser.

I am yet to hear from a couple of other people, but I'll leave it a day to give them time. There's potential for another high-scoring loser to go through, such as guineapiggirl.

Nate wrote:And if YWS ever does become a company, Jack will be the President of European Operations. In fact, I'm just going to call him that anyways.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:44 am

FermentingFruit says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:44 am

Woop woop! So, when do the next rounds start?

Save time... see it my way.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:13 am

PenguinAttack says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:13 am

OMG I was totes willing to do the coin toss deal, at that. This is way more exciting. If I get paired with Rydia again though, I might cry.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:50 am

noninjaes says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:50 am

If I get paired with Hannah, I might cry.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:58 am

Hannah says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:58 am

ㅠㅠ I am a real person...

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:43 pm

PenguinAttack says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:43 pm

I won't cry if I have to go against you Hannah, I'm expecting us to go head to head in the Final, if we don't see each other first.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:52 pm

FermentingFruit says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:52 pm

noninjaspresent wrote:If I get paired with Hannah, I might cry.

I will cry if I'm against Hannah

Save time... see it my way.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:16 pm

Paracosm says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:16 pm

If I go against Hannah, I won't cry.... okay yeah, I probably will cry.

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Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:47 pm

Rydia says... · Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:47 pm

So awesome. Bring on the next round!

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Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:19 am

Firestarter says... · Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:19 am

Okay, I'm going to do the draw in the next twenty minutes.

One more piece of admin: mush99 hasn't logged on for a week and has only ever posted twice anyway! I'm not sure if they're coming so I'm making a judgement and dropping them out of the competition. That means guineapiggirl returns as a high-scoring loser!

Therefore the names in the hat for the second round draw are:

Shino
noninjaspresent
LouisCypher
ShadowVyper
guineapiggirl
Hannah
Elinor Brynn
VeerenVKS
Kyllorac
Lauren2010
FermentingFruit
Audy
zephion
znale1
PenguinAttack
Rydia

Nate wrote:And if YWS ever does become a company, Jack will be the President of European Operations. In fact, I'm just going to call him that anyways.

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Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:43 am

Firestarter says... · Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:43 am

The Second Round Draw

I've decided not to stagger the matches this time, because, hey, YWS needs reviews, and you guys are going to help out!

All matches will be played between February 1st, 1 pm, and February 8th, 1 pm.

All times are GMT.

The winner is the user with the most reviews posted within the time stated.

Match 1

guineapiggirl versus Lauren2010

Match 2

Rydia versus Audy

Match 3

noninjaspresent versus FermentingFruit

Match 4

Hannah versus VeerenVKS

Match 5

Kyllorac versus PenguinAttack

Match 6

Elinor Brynn versus ShadowVyper

Match 7

Shino versus znale1

Match 8

LouisCypher versus zephion

Nate wrote:And if YWS ever does become a company, Jack will be the President of European Operations. In fact, I'm just going to call him that anyways.

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