03-02-2023, 12:51 PM | #1 |
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LARS’ OFFICIAL “WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE” LEAGUE SIGN-UP’S THREAD
The text battle community is stronger together than it is divided. We know this. The difficulty is that there’s always been a divide between our text battlers and topical heads.
The idea of a format where both sets of guys can take part isn’t particularly new; we’ve had Swag And Flow battles which was almost a hybrid format falling somewhere between the two. We had the Lyric Olympics battle format where it’s champ could dictate which format was used. It was cool, if a little flawed, as the champion could then simply play to their strong suit each week. I hope to try and remedy that with this idea of the “Wheel of Misfortune”. This is a league intended for both text battlers, and topical heads, to sign-up and take part. Each battle there will be a randomiser used to effectively “spin the wheel” on your individual battles, and that will be what decides whether your match-up will be a text battle or topical that week. Neither participant will know until threads go up. It will mean you have an even 50/50 chance each week of the battle being to your strong suit. Now, to help even the playing field somewhat, I intend for the line limits to stay strictly between 10-16 lines min/max. This will mean it’s not all that dissimilar a format to the one current text battle leagues follow. It’s relatively easily to accommodate the text battlers, and the shorter verses will hopefully help maintain their interest (No one wants to read through 96 lines per battle, sorry topical guys). My initial thoughts early on are that the topic choices should be more fun also - less reliant on the long storytelling format currently used, and more just fun in general - something that throws the storytellers for a loop and gets them out of this depressive, dark, doom and gloom with a murderous twist at the end type of writing. Lol. When it’s wrote down like that, you can start to see why it wouldn’t interest everyone. Let’s try something more like “ Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or a horse sized duck?”. I think bringing in that more light hearted entertainment element could also convince more battlers to actively participate, as they don’t have to necessarily write a “story”. It doesn’t have to be long winded, it’s a short verse format. Quick, easy, and familiar to all involved. The topic is what it is and left open-ended as to doing what you want with it. The topical heads are challenged to write something outside of their comfort zone, the verses are shorter so will take up less of their time writing, there’s a complete shift away from the darker topics that have become the norm and everyone gets a chance at a decent record as they’re playing to their strong suit 50% of the time. The two worlds meet on the most even footing yet. The wheel of misfortune decides everyones fate. Dare to take a spin?
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03-02-2023, 01:03 PM | #2 |
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Sounds decent, I like the lowered line limits. When would you intend to run this and would you want help?
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03-02-2023, 01:21 PM | #3 |
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Sign ups are in here, once we hit 16 people this begins ASAP.
If @Adverse wants to help I have no problem with that. 1) Symetrik 2) Cereal 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16)
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03-02-2023, 04:13 PM | #4 |
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im in..
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03-02-2023, 04:33 PM | #5 |
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now do you really need a sign up thread in a forced labor era.
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03-02-2023, 05:58 PM | #6 |
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Sorry to be a pessimist Lars,
but just not much activity these days...not a lot of active bodies... Count me in if your list starts filling, but for now I'll just WAIT for Frank, where we're lucky to get 3 complete topical battles (6, plus 4 no-shows is 10 writers last week...less of which vote). Good luck with the set-up and recruits...in: if this has any chance of happening |
03-03-2023, 07:17 PM | #7 |
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Sure.
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03-03-2023, 07:37 PM | #8 |
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Lmao u spin the wheel and have to live in England
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03-08-2023, 08:18 AM | #9 |
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Damn, this place really dead.
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03-08-2023, 01:31 PM | #10 |
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03-10-2023, 08:41 AM | #12 |
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100 duck sized horses all day. I'll kick the fuck out of them.
A horse sized duck would be terrifying.
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03-10-2023, 10:05 AM | #14 |
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Thank you my friend.
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03-15-2023, 06:39 AM | #15 |
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This is a dope idea. I dont write anymore tho. Sry giys
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Was that Un-beautiful Life the last thing you wrote?
Nearly 2 years ago... Or have you written any random things since? Currently I still have a few bars leaking out...on a little bit of a creative binge...keep saying I should stop I've got enough here....BUT,,,it's not something I can "choose" you know?? I feel like the binge is almost over, but I'm still leaking... a little. As it's somethign that's not "chosen", I will try to quit talking about hiatus/retirement and just post the leaks until it ends... Then(very soon) try n STFU... I don't know if the website "user stats" are accurate, but when it's like a couple hundred "guests" online and 1 or 2 logged in...lol ppl just leering and no one can fix your name?? I thought you were OM mod Geno, doesn't that afford you those privileges? Well, guess not, if you're asking. Must be an extra layer of admin... anyways, Stay up Tolerate me for just a lil' longer Or enjoy? I donno. I kinda try now. Peace |
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I think the 100+ “users” viewing are just spambots tbh
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Start up the league. Cereal, Halo and myself will battle each other into eternity if we have to.
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