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J The Ripper

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Walter and I were setting things up, still working on it, it just seemed pointless to have our hype go back and forth here after we both were knocked out. That's all for our part as far as I know.
 

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I actually went a touch past that in my explanation. I'm not interested in berating a handler who by all accounts seems like a decent guy anymore, I feel kind of scummy doing it. But it did aesthetically remind me of the end days of the NWC, people not writing about wrestling, spinning melodrama that really had nothing to do with anything going forward.

And similarly, I feel a push to re-involve myself back in projects that work within the scope of what I enjoy. Mid-Card Colt Cabana/Chikara styled chicanery. Which doesn't involve a tournament.

The brunt of what I said was that I don't think it's realistic to expect to win this tournament. Though I came in with the idea of putting out that kind of effort. Now, because of several things, I've previously outlined. Not happening.

More or less, if Chad is cool with it, I'd like to give my spot to someone from one of the close matches in the second round. I figure it'd be better for Hopper, and the tournament as a whole that someone engaged roleplays, as opposed to me posting several chapters out of The Pale King or Nabakov as protest roleplays.
 

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To be fair, at least two of the no-shows for Bracket 3 were due to events that couldn't be helped. Both Ramey and Alias could have gave a great showing if not for those. Jesse's already stated what happened with him, and it is up to Russel if he does or not. I' m not sure if anybody else has explained their no-shows.
 

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Everyone knows my thoughts on Zero/Blaine, so I won't go into that...

But as far as losing to "name characters", it depends on who the judges are. Look at the entire first round: Troy Windham, Eli Flair, Kevin Powers, Kin Hiroshi, Sean Stevens...all incredibly respected, long-time characters on this circuit either lost or won by the skin of their teeth. Castor's been advancing on no-shows. There have been some issues with Ultratitle thus far, but FWC favoritism isn't one of them. If anything, I wish this this shindig was MORE FWC-centric.

Speaking strictly for myself, a lot of the personal hype I felt, deflated when Zero won. It's sort of continued with my two victories(Although, I would like to thank Voss for his outstanding judges notes).

I'm going to rail on this for a moment here. Zero should never have won. His hype rp's and what he's putting together for the tournament are completely interchangeable. He kills the feel, and honestly letting him continue to put out his poorly written vague lifetime styled melodrama is doing more harm than good.

It's not a matter of narrative .v promo, the promo should be the narrative, we were given a fine fine example of this between Jeff Andrews and The Vossman. What Zero's handler is doing is nothing related to anything, he can't even provide a decent context for why anyone should give a **** about his writing. I feel like his and Eastwood roleplay battles between their respective foes are again interchangeable.

Can you tell me the honest difference between what is being written for the Zero character and what Jack Eastwood did?

The difference is Eastwood used a racial slur in his roleplay. Which frankly showed a lot more balls than a tepid, bland character piece by a middle tier story teller. Boogie Smalls, and Blaine Hollywood both took a very old school approach, and they both succeeded where their bloated counterparts failed.

If ANYONE else had posted the Zero material with a different name and no mildly prominent fedding background, he's out first round, no one cares. You actually got to see this when Jack Eastwood was rightfully bounced for writing an atrocious drug deal story that resonated emptily with the judges, Slap Zero's name on it, and he moves on, slap the Eastwood character in the Zero' roleplays and the situation is reversed.

The fact that this one horrendously bad writer is more or less moving on, on name value alone(and a no-show now) makes this tournament feel booked. Which if this were the case, I would be 100% fine with. But I was under the impression this was a make it on your own steam styled thing.

I'm just starting to feel non-plussed on the whole thing, this started it. and Now honestly, I'm feeling more and more like I'm filling a slot until I come against a big name.

It's been made pretty clear, I'm going to lose to Orphan(and baring him no-showing), I'll go down to Strife. Of course this is assuming that I get past Hopper(who I do like, and have gabbed about food with on AIM several times.). Now again, these guys have rightfully earned their spots. I respect the cache that comes with being solid/goood for a number of years consistently. But lets be honest. even if I wrote the best work of my life against those three dudes, and they wrote the consistent good work they have done for as long as I've been reading. I'm getting 5-5 maybe 4-6 in their favor.

I don't feel like this tournament is winnable, unless one of the big remaining names makes some stupid stupid mistake. The podcasts more or less have backed this up. the judging has supported this. There are a lot of handlers in this I would love to work with past/present/future. Maybe I get lucky and these three pull a Dan Ryan type thing(again <3 to Dan, I also had Cobra-la pegged for a single rp) But I don't see it.

Personally, I'm playing a middle card character, I enjoy it, it gives me the kind of juice I enjoy, and the freedom to post wacky roleplays. I just wished I hadn't blown four pretty solid ones on this instead.
 

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Oh God, we're still on the Zero thing. How sad.

Calling Andy a bad writer is laughable. Whether what he's doing (or others) should win is a credible point. I got a little off center with Melton last round and realized I could have easily left the tournament.

This is really the first time since the Tournament started where there's been a lull. No rp, or results to stir discussion. Outside of the "Zero stole my reason for living" insanity, the UT has been a shot of life into the community. The Zero win got people talking which is great. Since then I think we've seen a dialed down Billy which is a shame. I don't always agree but its fun to see him giving his pulse on the tournament.

We just saw probably the greatest rp battle of the tournament IMO in Anarky/Silver.

Some of the no shows hurt, but by and large I've been impressed with the turnout.

I guess I don't understand the "I probably can't win this tournament so I'm gonna take the piss out of it and move on" line of thinking. Who gives a ****. If you're still in have some fun and try to crank out some of your best writing. If you lose, you lose. Part of the fun is introducing your characters to handlers who may not know your work. I wouldn't dare bet on who is gonna win this tournament. But hopefully as this goes on we'll see some great threads.
 

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The Zero win got people talking which is great. Since then I think we've seen a dialed down Billy which is a shame. I don't always agree but its fun to see him giving his pulse on the tournament.

Between Spike's wall of text and Justin going all Lebron on Chad, I have plenty of new podcast material. :)
 

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Oh God, we're still on the Zero thing. How sad.

Calling Andy a bad writer is laughable. Whether what he's doing (or others) should win is a credible point. I got a little off center with Melton last round and realized I could have easily left the tournament.

This is really the first time since the Tournament started where there's been a lull. No rp, or results to stir discussion. Outside of the "Zero stole my reason for living" insanity, the UT has been a shot of life into the community. The Zero win got people talking which is great. Since then I think we've seen a dialed down Billy which is a shame. I don't always agree but its fun to see him giving his pulse on the tournament.

We just saw probably the greatest rp battle of the tournament IMO in Anarky/Silver.

Some of the no shows hurt, but by and large I've been impressed with the turnout.

I guess I don't understand the "I probably can't win this tournament so I'm gonna take the piss out of it and move on" line of thinking. Who gives a ****. If you're still in have some fun and try to crank out some of your best writing. If you lose, you lose. Part of the fun is introducing your characters to handlers who may not know your work. I wouldn't dare bet on who is gonna win this tournament. But hopefully as this goes on we'll see some great threads.

Well, I'm not gonna just bail on the tournament, I will be putting someone over. whether it's with my toon in the ring against hopper, or before hand, or some such thing. I do not take my ball and go home.

I think Chad has put together a fine tournament, and if I was booking it, I'd have gone out in the first round to a roll up while my character was flirting with gideon's sister. The fact I've gotten this far is more or less unexpected, but not even remotely inspiring.

I get more out of writing segments for Defiance that don't even have any merit on my main character. This will likely be the case ad naseum. It was more or less my mistake for signing up for something that doesn't really work with the spirit of my character in the first place. It was more of a twinkling of when I cared about handling an elite character who wore full pants in the ring. The moment has passed. The aesthetics no longer suit me.

The fact that other characters moving forward and some judging decisions and some of the stuff I've heard on the podcasts has contributed to it, is more ancillary than I made it sound like for sure. But it's a part of it. I could continue to beat the dead horse. But lets be honest here, if a certain set of roleplays were bound as a book, and treated the way he seemingly is writing them, they'd rightfully get trashed. Proper grammar does not make good writing. If you want a better explanation. I'd be more than happy to give it, I'm on AIM, or PM. I'd even do it on a podcast.

Mostly, I'm trying way too hard to psyche myself up to do this. And it's just not there. I spend the coin to really push myself elsewhere, and currently Ultratitle isn't even rating against my other light e-wrestling obligations.

Anyways. My Money is still on Dane/Strife. That'd even be the smart booking to be honest. Glad to see Justin has regained his sense and decided to continue, likewise, I've come to mine and decided to go back to dicking around in the mid card of my favorite fed.

Everyone is better off.
 

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I'm curious, as I'm one of the regular runners of the podcast. I've made mention of grammar errors before but it was never a deciding factor between one character moving on and another going down in defeat. When I say I decided on someone's "prose" being better, I mean their choice of words and their message, not necessarily whether it was grammatically accurate.

When I mention something on the radio as a grammar issue, it's more of a reminder for us to check our own work. Yet pot-kettle-black on me with that one I'm sure. I only mention grammar to help people become better technical writers. That way their creative side can truly shine through without the reader stopping mid-stream and going, "What? Oh, that's what he means."

I would gladly have you on a podcast. Private message me if you'd like. We'll set something up.

That ultimately goes out to just about anyone who has a strong opinion. I've always considered Efed Guerilla's open season for participation until you piss me(or another co-host) off. And it takes a nuclear bomb to piss me off.
 

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I'm curious, as I'm one of the regular runners of the podcast. I've made mention of grammar errors before but it was never a deciding factor between one character moving on and another going down in defeat. When I say I decided on someone's "prose" being better, I mean their choice of words and their message, not necessarily whether it was grammatically accurate.

When I mention something on the radio as a grammar issue, it's more of a reminder for us to check our own work. Yet pot-kettle-black on me with that one I'm sure. I only mention grammar to help people become better technical writers. That way their creative side can truly shine through without the reader stopping mid-stream and going, "What? Oh, that's what he means."

I would gladly have you on a podcast. Private message me if you'd like. We'll set something up.

That ultimately goes out to just about anyone who has a strong opinion. I've always considered Efed Guerilla's open season for participation until you piss me(or another co-host) off. And it takes a nuclear bomb to piss me off.

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OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
 

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I, too, find it unreasonable that Chad refuses to personally make everyone's wishes come true. The fact that he doesn't approach each and every person in the Ultratitle Tournament with the question of, "Enough of kissing my ass, how do you prefer to have yours kissed?" makes me wish I had packed more Zoloft or, at the very least, a little bit more lube. And I'm not even in this thing, so I can only imagine how the rest of you can manage to get out of bed every morning knowing that life is this ******* unfair.

My heart goes out to you guys. What's left of it anyway, since this tournament has shattered it to a million tiny pieces that may never fit back together again. In closing, Zero's winning has completely wreaked havoc on my menstrual cycle ... it's been a heavy flow for a while now.
 

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I, too, find it unreasonable that Chad refuses to personally make everyone's wishes come true. The fact that he doesn't approach each and every person in the Ultratitle Tournament with the question of, "Enough of kissing my ass, how do you prefer to have yours kissed?" makes me wish I had packed more Zoloft or, at the very least, a little bit more lube. And I'm not even in this thing, so I can only imagine how the rest of you can manage to get out of bed every morning knowing that life is this ******* unfair.

My heart goes out to you guys. What's left of it anyway, since this tournament has shattered it to a million tiny pieces that may never fit back together again. In closing, Zero's winning has completely wreaked havoc on my menstrual cycle ... it's been a heavy flow for a while now.

+ 500 XP
 

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I, too, find it unreasonable that Chad refuses to personally make everyone's wishes come true. The fact that he doesn't approach each and every person in the Ultratitle Tournament with the question of, "Enough of kissing my ass, how do you prefer to have yours kissed?" makes me wish I had packed more Zoloft or, at the very least, a little bit more lube. And I'm not even in this thing, so I can only imagine how the rest of you can manage to get out of bed every morning knowing that life is this ******* unfair.

My heart goes out to you guys. What's left of it anyway, since this tournament has shattered it to a million tiny pieces that may never fit back together again. In closing, Zero's winning has completely wreaked havoc on my menstrual cycle ... it's been a heavy flow for a while now.

Wow.

Apparently, our mensies have synchronized.

SISTER FRIEND!
 

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You're a *****! I hate you!

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean that. *sobs*

Quit hogging the Midol or I'll claw your eyes out!

I want an ice cream sundae with pickels.
 
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I, too, find it unreasonable that Chad refuses to personally make everyone's wishes come true. The fact that he doesn't approach each and every person in the Ultratitle Tournament with the question of, "Enough of kissing my ass, how do you prefer to have yours kissed?" makes me wish I had packed more Zoloft or, at the very least, a little bit more lube. And I'm not even in this thing, so I can only imagine how the rest of you can manage to get out of bed every morning knowing that life is this ******* unfair.

My heart goes out to you guys. What's left of it anyway, since this tournament has shattered it to a million tiny pieces that may never fit back together again. In closing, Zero's winning has completely wreaked havoc on my menstrual cycle ... it's been a heavy flow for a while now.

My response can only be summed up by picture.

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