1. I will post a category name and a brief description of the category, if need be. At that pont, I will wait for volunteers to face-off in the category. You can volunteer however, just post in the thread saying "I volunteer" or "I'll do it" or something along those lines. Once the first person volunteers, they will have a half an hour to be challenged by a second volunteer, if after a half hour no one volunteers, that person automatically wins the category and we move on to the next (and most likely will come back to that category later).
2. Once two people have volunteered, the game will start. The game consists of six questions, and the first volunteer will get the first question. If one player does not know the answer to his or her question, the competitor will have a chance to answer and steal the question before the question goes dead. The player with the most points (1 for each Q answered correctly) at the end of the round wins.
3. YOU CAN NOT ANSWER A QUESTION WHEN IT IS NOT BEING ASKED OF YOU, answering out of turn will result in an automatic point for your competitor. Likewise, if you are not currently in a competition and you answer questions that are not yours, you will be disqualified from the whole WSOPC.
4. If scores are tied after six questions, we will go to a tiebreaker. You will be asked a question that has multiple answers, you and your competitor will name them one at a time until an incorrect answer is given or a previous answer is repeated. This is done Spelling Bee style, so if the first player misses, the second player will have to provide a correct answer to win the tiebreaker, otherwise we will be forced into a second tiebreaker. Please wait until I confirm that your competitor's answer is correct before posting one of your own.
5. During each category, you will have one minute from the time I post a question to provide an answer to your question, and similarly with each tiebreaker. If at any point during the competition you need to leave your computer, post "TO" or "Time Out" in the thread, and you will have ten minutes to return to your computer. Please post "TI" or "Time In" once you have returned. If you do not return within ten minutes, the round will continue without you. Players are only allowed one TO per round.
6. At least for the first round, we are playing double-win/double-elimination, so you have to win twice to advance to the next round, and if you lose one round you still have to lose another before being out of the World Series. After the first sixteen players win two games, the first round is over, and regardless of how many games won or lost the rest of the field has, they will be eliminated from the competition.
I think that should be about it for now. No cheating of any form, obviously--that means Google for one thing, but it also means please don't go looking through your CD stacks or DVD collections to find answers--you should be using no aids but that big ol' brain of yours.
Here's the list of the 32 competitors. Scores will be updated here so you can keep tabs on how everyone's doing.
Round One:
Bold = Advanced to second round
Striked = Eliminated from competition
Agrimorfee (2-1)
BobtheSquid (2-0)
Bobzilla (0-1)
El Douche (2-1)
Geoneb (a.k.a. "The Anal Eliminator") (1-1)
Hero (2-1)
Jasmine (a.k.a. "Pokin' Cerebellum")
Little Jess (2-1)
Mad Clown (2-1)
Midnite Vulture (2-0)
MitchellStirling (2-0)
Music Saves (2-0)
Musicgurl (a.k.a. Team "and weebs") (1-1)
Paul
Pavement Ist Rad (1-1)
Ryan (0-1)
Saskadelphia
Scarymuppet (a.k.a Team Unwanted Pregnancy) (2-1)
Slackmo (2-0)
Tom (a.k.a. Team Young Wet Bitches) (2-0)
Tsytu (2-1)
Uncle O'Grimacey (a.k.a. Car Wash Change Thief Action Squad) (2-1)
Westermats (1-1)
If you have any questions, feel free to post them in this thread. If not, best of luck to all of you, as we start the 2006 SOMB World Series of Pop Culture.
Round Two:
Agrimorfee (2-1)
BobtheSquid (2-1)
El Douche (2-1)
Hero (2-0)
Little Jess (2-1)
Midnite Vulture (2-0)
MitchellStirling (0-1)
Music Saves (1-1)
Musicgurl (a.k.a. Team "and weebs") (0-1)
Scarymuppet (a.k.a Team Unwanted Pregnancy) (2-0)
Slackmo (2-1)
Uncle O'Grimacey (a.k.a. Car Wash Change Thief Action Squad)
Round Three (Elite Eight):
El Douche (3-1)
Hero (3-0)
Midnite Vulture (2-1, win by default)
Slackmo (2-2, won tiebreaker)
