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Welcome to the very special BOARD 8 RUMBLE!

NORMAL RULES
-Normal rules apply (specifically, no rallying or editing posts at all)
-Two users will start in the ring, and one will be added every TWENTY MINUTES (NEW RULE THIS YEAR, THE ENTRY PERIOD IS NOW TWENTY MINUTES). This will be done as close to :00, :20 and :40 as possible)
-Users are eliminated at 0HP, unless they skin the cat (see below).
-You may hurt one person in the ring per entry period. (NB: That's per entrant, not "wait 20 minutes." If the next entrant enters at 4:00, you can hurt at 3:59 and then again at 4:01.)
-You may not hurt the same user in consecutive periods, unless one of them is an extra hurt (see below). You must either hurt somebody else or wait for a period.
-Once all users have entered, you must wait 20m from your previous vote before voting again, and 40 minutes before hurting the same person. Extra hurts still bypass both of these rules.
-If for some reason an entry is more than 5 minutes late, consider the Rumble "paused" until further notice.
-The last entrant standing will receive a SPECIAL PRIZE!

EXTRA HP BASED ON ENTRY NUMBER
Entrants 1-2 will start on 14HP
Entrants 3-10 will start on 13HP
Entrants 11-15 will start on 12HP
Entrants 16-25 will start on 11HP
Entrants 26-35 will start on 10HP

All previous rules still apply.

EXTRA RULES FOR PARTICIPANTS
-All participants start with one "extra hurt" that may only be used while that participant is in the ring. You may use it at any time, and it counts towards neither how often you can vote or how often you can vote the same person. (So in period one, I could hurt Tom. In 2, I could hurt Football and use my EXTRA hurt on Tom. In 3, it's been two periods, so I can regular hurt Tom again. The extra hurt is unaffected by rule 4.)
-If you are in the ring and your vote is the one to eliminate a contestant, you get +1 HP AND AN EXTRA DOUBLE HURT. You may go above your starting HP in this fashion, and you may accumulate more than one double hurt.
-If you have more than one double hurt, you can still use them at any time and on ALMOST any user (see below). So a user who has eliminated two competitors while in the ring could hurt a user three times in one post - their normal hurt, their standard extra hurt, and an extra hurt they have gained for eliminating a user.
-You cannot reduce a user's HP by more than 3HP in a single voting period. So you will not be allowed to eliminate two users to gain two extra hurts, then reduce a different user from 4HP to 0 with a single post. Three HP is the maximum reduction allowed in a single 20m period.

SKINNING THE CAT

-Entrants have the ability to "skin the cat", ie, hold on to the proverbial ropes to prevent elimination.
-If eliminated, you have 5 minutes to post on xx:xx:00. However, you will have only ONE attempt at this, so time your attempt carefully. You must make it clear in your post that you are skinning the cat (saying "STC" will accomplish this. This also prevents somebody from missing their STC chance by posting accidentally or not seeing the post that eliminated them).
-If you successfully skin the cat you will return to the Rumble with 2HP.
-If you are at 1hp and somebody uses their hurt and an extra hurt on you, you are eliminated automatically and rendered unable to skin the cat. Likewise, if you are on 2HP and someone uses their regular hurt and two extra hurts on you, you are eliminated automatically and rendered unable to skin the cat.
-If you eliminate someone while in the Rumble, you don't get the bonus point and extra hurt until either the 5-minute "skin the cat" period passes or they fail in their skin-the-cat attempt.
-You may only skin the cat ONCE.

SCOREBOARD EXPLAINED

Later in the Rumble, the scoring can get somewhat complicated, so here's a handy guide to explain.

KEY
+ - One of these for every extra point and extra hurt the superstar has earned via eliminations
STC - Indicates the superstar has already Skinned the Cat
X - that superstar has used their extra hurt
XX - that superstar has used two extra hurts (and so on)

So let's take this hypothetical example, looking only at three entrants.

X28 +TImeCop1- 2 (Tom, Stifled, eaed, Tom, eddv, Stifled, GTM, DP, david, ExTha, Sultan) - STC
#29 ++WotRMerchLawyer - 9 (XIII, Apollo, david)
#30 UCA_Hype_Guy - 10
XX31 +UCABearInterp - 11

TimeCop1 has used his extra hurt; the "#" symbol has turned into an "X". He has scored one elimination, as you can see by the "+", which would give him an extra hurt. But he has been hurt 11 times, as seen by the names in brackets, putting him on 0 points. This would normally mean elimination. However, he has skinned the cat, as you can see by the "STC". So he has re-entered the Rumble with two points.
WotRMerchLawyer has eliminated two people, so he has two "+" symbols. However, he has been hurt three times. He started on 10, gets a bonus point each for his two eliminations, and was then hurt three times, putting him on 9HP.
UCA_Hype_Guy has entered at #30. He has no hurts and is starting with 10HP, has not used his extra hurt, has not eliminated anybody, and has not skinned the cat.
UCABearInterp entered at #31. He scored an elimination quickly to earn a "+" symbol. He then used two extra hurts - the one he started with AND the one he got for his elimination.

Hopefully this little guide helps to explain how the scoreboard will be formatted.

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You should receive an @ mention on GameFAQs when you enter the Rumble. If you're in the Discord server, you'll hopefully receive one there also.

IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE BOARD 8 RUMBLE MATCH!
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