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ULTIMATE DEATHMATCH 4 Writing carnage

#1 User is offline   drinksinbars 

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 02:29 PM

Rules :-

You must write an intro for your character of less than 1000 words detailing the character traits and abilities you wish to highlight. Characters can be anything you like though if you make them immortal stone giants five miles tall with boots like cities your opponent might just have access to WMD's :) The purpose of any writing contest such as this will be to have fun and to enjoy ourselves.

competition rules

Players will be marked by players. if there are an odd number of entrants the player with the highest score receives a bye.

Once every player has made an intro the players will be randomly drawn against one another.

The player with the highest intro score goes first, or if both agree at the players discretion.

Each entry can be no longer than 1000 words.

Both contestants are given two posts in which to impress.

Scoring will be based on how well the pieces are written and how entertaining they are. Exceptional grammar and linguistic skills are not essential, thrills and excitement are.

Killing off another players character or deliberately hampering the position of the story for your own gain will result in possible rewrites being requested by the judges or expulsion from the competition.

Intros should be completed by the Tenth of February.

Read previous death matches for guidance or pm myself or other judges if and when any sign up tobe judges.

PLEASE INDICATE ON THIS THREAD YOUR INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE. ALL WELCOME!!!


13 COMPLETED ENTRIES

Morgoth
temp
drinksinbars
alt146
Jump Around
Mentalist
Yellow * withdrawn*
Tapper
Shinrei no Shintai
Mezla PigDog
Bauchelain the Evil
D'rek
Grief
illy
cause
sir thursday

ROUND 1 FIGHT

fight one

illy Vs Mezla

fight 2

dibs Vs Cause

fight 3

Grief vs temp

fight 4

tapper Vs JA

fight 5

morgoth Vs Bauchelin the Evil

fight 6

sir thursday Vs drek

fight 7

Alt146 Vs Shinera no shin


Quarter Finals draw.

1 dibs Vs Shin

2 ST Vs Ment

3 Illy Vs Grief

4 JA Vs Morgoth


TIME LIMIT ON QUARTER FINAL ENTRIES 14th MAY (or ther abouts)

This post has been edited by drinksinbars: 31 March 2009 - 02:19 PM

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#2 User is offline   Shinrei 

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:10 PM

You know I have no choice but to bring my A game.

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:27 PM

excellent :) spread the word
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Posted 15 January 2009 - 03:58 PM

Well, it was sort of my fault the last one di- WAIT A MINUTE, I POSTED THE LAST BIT IT'S THE OTHER GUYS FAULT

YES OF COURSE HIS FAULT NOT MINE AT ALL HAHAHAHAHA

But yes, I would be up for another go. I'd just have to think of a cool character that isn't Sword Swordson, the Swordingest Man in the Swordingest Land. Damn Dassword Swordtor thread.
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Posted 15 January 2009 - 04:00 PM

and then there were four, morgoth is auto entered :) who is still about from before?
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Posted 15 January 2009 - 08:58 PM

I was in on the last one, or maybe the one before, can't remember. If I recall correctly, I think my fat guy got carved up pretty bad. I'll join again
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Posted 15 January 2009 - 09:45 PM

I'll give it a go, but I may have to pull out, cause school is asking for lots of pieces and stuff atm...

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Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful


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Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).
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Posted 15 January 2009 - 11:34 PM

I'm in, as always .. I'll try not to make my character a god before the game ends :p
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 02:17 AM

Sounds fun, I'll do it. Question: does our character have to be humanoid, or can they be, say... a talking magical tapeworm?

Edit: (I don't mean literally humanoid, but you know what I mean)

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View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 03:46 AM

I'll give this one a go!
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 09:38 AM

sweet :p thats a good start. Dont worry about time grief,theres usually a good period between each round. I think this year to combat what went wrong last time each figt will run consecutively. players indicate in the subject when posting just whos fighting who and which post of the fight they are making. so if i was fighting morgo and going last my sibject would be


morgoth Vs Drinksinbars scene 4.

or something gay(50s gay btw) like that :)

Character can be anything as long as it can be writen about by another person within reason. It also helps to provide some form of motivation, they dont have to be imaginative though it helps. I think this time we may work on a better scoring system, possibly 3 categories

writing style - how easy was it to read, many spelling/ grammar mistakes. use of language.
entertainment - funny, dramatic, tense, witty??
creativity - holy shit moments, different takes, way out there or original ideas.

The word limit will be enforced because in the past players have won simply by writing more, we want it short and sweet :p
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 09:44 AM

Seems I have been drafted. :p

I read the intro post but I'm sure what this is.
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 10:02 AM

have a quick read of the stickied ultimate deathmatch 3 it should let you know what your in for :p
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 10:37 AM

I'll give it a go.
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:06 AM

I'll give it a go as well.
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:11 AM

excellent
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:35 AM

Im always keen. I still have to win one. If I can make a suggestion. Perhaps the players can PM their submissions to eachother and than whoever goes last can post it all at once. With a different colour for the different posters. Would be highly annoying to have to jump through more than a page of posts to find the story.

So no theme at all. Too much Canvas! I must think on this

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:43 AM

sweet :p welcome all.

thats a pretty good idea cause, would need to have an indicator in to show which sections where which but that sounds doable.

as for a theme, does anyone have a suggestion? also we need a few players to act as overall judges or arbitrators, obviously you cant judge your own matches but it might be an idea to have two players seperate from voting in each round to review the fight and see that it adheres to the rules or if the voting splits to make a final decision.
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 02:33 PM

I'll be a judge. In for a penny, in for a pound on this one (and I'm already judgemental anyway :p )
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 02:39 PM

excellent :p we probably need a third, that way theres always goign to be at least one person not participating to make judgement calls.

Shin, you want to be judge?

Morgo will sticky a thread for us, when he gets time where people can post their entries. Changes are allowed up until the deadline upon which time people can rate them. for the intros we will probably just rate them give 1 to the one you thought best etc. lowest score wins? or something equally difficult to manage :)
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