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Alias Topical Tourney

Moderators: Adonis, King Ra.


Basic Competition Rules


Alias: New accounts only, or accounts with no previous verses posted in any aspect of competition including Open Mic, battling, topicals.


Deadlines:

• Verses will be due Friday at 11:59 p.m. Western / 2:59 Am Eastern / 7:59AM UK . There are no Extensions. No Exceptions.
• Verses must be a minimum of 10 Lines and maximum of 48 Lines or 650 words unless agreed upon by both competitors.
• Votes will be due Sundays at 11:59 p.m. Western / 2:59 Am Eastern / 7:59AM UK .
• Shutout battles will be closed when voting reaches 6-0, or at 5-0 on Sunday, under moderators discretion
• In the event of a tie at the voting deadline, battles will be left open in a “win by two votes” format. The battle will not be open beyond 24 hours past deadline, in which case the battle will go to sudden death voting. The next round will still be opened with topics given as to not hold the tournament up.

Voting:

• Each competitor must vote on at least three battles in the opening rounds. In the event there are less than three battles a competitor can vote on, the competitor MUST vote on all open battles.
• Anyone who wins but does not meet three vote criteria will be docked the same amount of votes going into the following round.
• Votes Must be explained with common competitor courtesy. If a competitor flags a vote and MOD agrees, the vote must be expanded in more depth or it will not count, both towards said battle and competitors voting requirements.

Disqualifications:

• Direct plagiarism or, using another authors words is an immediate loss and possible site ban.
• Recycling, use of previous works will not be allowed.
• Editing verse, after deadline or after the first vote = a loss.
• Swaying, in excess will not be tolerated. You will be warned once, if you continue to sway you will be disqualified immediately.
• Exceeding line length, (unless competitors agree). If the agreement is not public the thread will be closed until the competitors are contacted by the MODs.

Please do not let other competitors know who you are. First 16, or god willing, 32 sign ups will be included. Battles to be posted in or around 3 weeks, that means end of July or early August ish.

Sign ins


1. Richard Schwartz (sign in via pm)
2. Wolf Dick
3. The Real Captain Obvious
4. template
5. windu tuako
6. Moe jetts
7. siu mi
8. helix (sign in via pm)
9. bar barian
10. ed poe
11. Antimatter
12. Alfred Kipling
13. Jack Shephard
14. Princess Fact
15. Seymour Butts
16. Jhene Aiko
17. Gaseous Snake
18. Tigerspitz
19. Piiz (Via PM)
20. Biggiantscorpion
21. Balance
22. Lord sephiroth
23. I am not Pancake
24. Detours Bike
25. Mac Tonight
26. Needle
27. SlutMachine
28.

So it's like, an alias battle tourney or an alias you give us a topic and we write a story about it tourney?

@Frank @Mike Wrecka @Zenland @El Pancake @Totoro @Vulgar @IamBenT @dead man @Pent uP @Vividlyvague @Innovator @patrown @Soulstice @Certain @Veritas @King Ra. @oats @ZeeDee @Diode @Nigma @Objective @Split-Eight @TYSON @Mr. J @Just Write @breathless @YDK @Cereal_Killa @Rawn Mcdon @Fig @Atheist @Aesthetic @Lars @Pinot Grij @Angkor @timeless @Johnathan Mercy @millz @Agathocles the GOOD @Bags @Witty



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Topicals are usually stories, or narratives, or they can just be about anything in general. Basically any form of writing that is not battling, and yes, topics will be given.

Oh, okay. Cool.

THERE LIKE 46 tourneys ATM

Why didn't you @ me?

sign me up

Oh bc it's topicals

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@Adonis do you want this thread stuck?

I'm in.

Why sharpie, I would love for you to blow your wondrous sticky powers all over myself

This will be epic. Starts after AOWL is completed.

Sign me up.

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How will topics work?

Will the writer have a choice or will they be chosen like in the league?

Topicals are man poems, yah? I guess I can give this a try. This will no longer be a man's world. Cheers :)

Good question. Most likely they will be given unless enough people would prefer to select there own through a topics list

No thanks.

Assigned topics is the worst shit ever. Stupid.

You mean it's more difficult to think of a decent concept from a given topic than being able to pick from a page worth?

Oh, then yes

Lol @ leaving because its hard

It's not because it's hard. It's because I write things I enjoy to write and read about.

It has nothin to do with hard and everything to do with my interest in actually showing up.


Not to mention that it doesn't help improve the quality of writing or show who actually is the better writer.


You don't ask Micheal Bay to make a Terrance Malick film or vice versa.

I'm a firm believer in having a topic list and let a writer write whatever he or she wants and choose to use those topics as inspiration or not use them at all. It promotes writing the best piece possible. Then let the voters decide which they like more.

Actually makes a valid point. Again though, I'm down for either option. So if more participants would rather select there own topics I would have no issue with that

Yea I have no issue with either really. I'm only interested in doing it how I mentioned. But I'm only 1 person.


I was curious because it's not fair to y'all for me to commit to something that someone is gonna spend time running only to lose interest and not show up and make things more difficult for the people who are trying to do something good.

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Thank u based bias

WHO IS MOE JETTS LOL NO IDEA

Sign me up cuz.

Only voicing my opinion. If you don't like it that's not my problem.

@millz, when I assign topics, I try to consider the writers' strengths and weaknesses and come up with a topic that works for both styles. That's obviously only possible when familiar with writers and would be impossible in an alias tournament. But phrase topics generally are vague enough to work across the board.

Oh. It's nothing personal. I understand some people like things that way and that's totally fine. This isn't the only site run that way. So it's not uncommon. I was just asking to gauge my own personal interest.

There was a time where I didn't care about it.

After doing it for the last decade I've found my desire to write to other peoples tune just isn't in my list of things to do anymore.


That's all

And to be truthful I really don't even care about votes or the outcome as votes.

I had a period where I would win just about all my matches because I would write to obtain votes. Maybe win 70-75% of the time.

But since then I've begun writing things that I want the way I want to the detriment of my own record.

The funny thing is the quality of writing I push out now is 100x better than anything I ever won with but it isn't in a form to win "votes". As a result I've probably lost my last 10 matchups.

"deloseional"

i wouldn't expect you to understand...

I will partake.

Signing in.