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April Madness 2016



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Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:56 am
Willard says...



I'm going to join.

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Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:01 am
Rook says...



Yas. Sign me uuuuup.
Instead, he said, Brother! I know your hunger.
To this, the Wolf answered, Lo!

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Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:25 am
Rydia says...



Iggy wrote:Judges can participate, right? Cause I would love to do both, but if I have to pick, I'll be a judge. :)


Yes, judges can participate @Iggy. It means you'll be judging every round except the ones you're in. Which means I can let my friend off the hook now as I was gonna bug her to judge rounds I was in xD

I'll send you some info and a link to the judging pad this weekend!

@Stranger and @fortis welcome to the tournament. Best of luck!
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Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:09 pm
Sarah12 says...



I'd love to partake!

Just one question: where are we posting them? Are we like actually publishing them, or are we posting them in a thread, or PMing, or how does that work? Thanks :D

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Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:27 pm
Morrigan says...



sails in on the north wind

Sign me up! Also, if you need another judge I'm interested in that, as well.

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Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:26 am
Meshugenah says...



Meeeeeeeee!

(though, if you need judging help, I'll do that, too. I think. Alternate judge? I'll text you, since my life basically is hanging by a thread from HR right now...)
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Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:39 pm
Rydia says...



@Sarah12 Posting them here is fine so I'll add you to the list!

@Morrigan and @Meshugenah I've signed you both up for participation and judging! Having a few extra judges is always good, then if someone's too busy to judge one round, there will still be a couple of opinions to go off :)

One place left! Though there's often someone who has to drop so don't be put off signing up after that. There's also still time for us to get 22-24 participants, in which case I'll add another heat.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:44 pm
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Lightsong says...



This spot's definitely mine. :3
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The subject is a catalyst, a character, but our responsibility is, has to be, to the work."

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Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:59 pm
Rydia says...



Perfect! I'll draw pairings tonight and post them in this thread :)

Anyone joining after this point will go down as a replacement poet - that means you should post a poem for the first round and then if one of the contestants fails to post their first entry, you'll be judged in their place.
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:48 pm
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Rydia says...



The pairings are in! For Round 1 the poets will be competing in the following order...

ROUND ONE


@Meshugenah vs @Steggy vs @Morrigan
@Sarah12 vs @Pompadour vs @Rydia
@Strange vs @Audy vs @fortis
@Aley vs @Pretzelstick vs @niteowl
@TheSilverFox vs @Iggy vs @PenguinAttack
@Lightsong vs @Lumi vs @Lareine


I'll put the visual up tomorrow but you are welcome to start writing your first poem any time after 12:00pm GMT today. If you enter it at 12:01 I will not believe that you wrote it on the 1st April though ;)

You have until 3rd April 10:00pm GMT and if you're late submitting but post it before I go to sleep, there will be no penalty. I'll be sleeping by midnight so that gives you a few hours leeway.

Best of luck everyone!
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:49 pm
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@Lumi (it didn't tag you properly because there was no space between vs and your name and I thought for five seconds you'd changed it again!)
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:02 pm
Sarah12 says...



@Rydia It said we could write it no more than 2 days beforehand, so it's all right if I start working on it now, right?

Oh, and, I just want to make sure 1. 12:00 is midnight, not noon, and 2. In Central Standard Time that would be 7:00 PM right? I want to make sure my math is right. Okay! Thanks!
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:18 pm
Rydia says...



@Sarah12 Yes, that's fine, though if you do start the poem early and are also participating in NaPoWriMo, it won't count as a NaPo poem.

But for the purposes of this tournament, you can submit a poem written on the 31st March :)
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:22 pm
Sarah12 says...



Okay, thanks! @Rydia
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j35k-6numyci5v64r1eYxz0ozmw9Bve7xLSDCE7cGBk/edit?usp=sharing
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