Board 8 > So, when will we get another MPFC kind of contest?

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Those are most probably the best user-made contests on this board, we need a new one I say!

Maybe different though, like Most Powerful Animal (or teams of animals to make it fair) or most powerful generic video game character (or team of).

I don't know, I'm just craving for a contest like that.

And no I can't run one, nobody would participate because you know, my name has a stigma now.

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<p>From: Ayuyu | #001
Those are most probably the best user-made contests on this board, we need a new one I say!

Maybe different though, like Most Powerful Animal (or teams of animals to make it fair) or most powerful generic video game character (or team of).

I don't know, I'm just craving for a contest like that.

And no I can't run one, nobody would participate because you know, my name has a stigma now.</p>
Four-five months, probably. So don't hold your breath.

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burnout's a good chunk of why the hijacked one didn't work and it's way too soon again.
the internet's full of those kind of matches anyway.

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<p>From: Wanglicious | #003
burnout's a good chunk of why the hijacked one didn't work and it's way too soon again.
the internet's full of those kind of matches anyway.</p>
Burnout and amazing host arrogance. Doesn't take a nuclear physicist to realize you can't run a contest right after another full contest finishes and expect it to work, but hey, I'm not Chris.

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I'm just sad I've never been able to get Kiriyama from Battle Royale into any of these things

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it didn't help that the full contest was an absolute atrocity

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<p>From: th3l3fty | #006
it didn't help that the full contest was an absolute atrocity</p>
Taught me a couple things, yes. I know better than to think than Board 8 has more self-control than a little kid in a candy store now, so hey.

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Hopefully the next MPFC won't have an idiot in charge of it.

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<p>From: GANON1025 | #008
Hopefully the next MPFC won't have an idiot in charge of it.</p>
Yeah. Maybe two instead. Double the 'fun' and such.

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Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn
Tell us the lesson that absolves me of any blame whatsoever

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At least you keep decent company. Ed Bellis, Sir Chris, You. Decent people, but when it came to MPFC none of you could control it.

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I enjoyed the MPFC contests I ran, but people disliked my write-ups and I was awful at identifying alt voters, so eh.

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Write-ups probably wouldn't be a problem with a Real animal power contest, I mean you just have to state the facts.

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<p>From: Kenri | #010
Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn
Tell us the lesson that absolves me of any blame whatsoever</p>
Oh no, I was certainly to blame for things like messy writeups and letting people decide what they want when they obviously don't know what that is. But I was expecting better from B8 and didn't get it. If I were to run things again, I'd do them very differently now that I know Board 8 has no sense of self-control. Much more strict rules for one.

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You know who else has never been in these things but should be? Duke Togo. The man has shot people *while watching them on TV*. He makes Last Days Ocelot cry like a baby

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<p>From: DeathChicken | #015
You know who else has never been in these things but should be? Duke Togo. The man has shot people *while watching them on TV*. He makes Last Days Ocelot cry like a baby</p>
Could always nom him once a new MPFC goes up. After Ocelot gave Urza trouble I'm pretty sure the DC Seal of Approval will be enough to garner some support.

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<flashback to GANON VS Majin Buu>

heheheh

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Hopefully never

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i honestly think they're all played out

by 2010, i've pretty much gotten tired of them

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It more had to do with the fact that I picked a very bad time in my life to try to do anything with any regularity. Holidays + plans to move + family drama = Chris can't muster any care.

But no one else did either so it was okay.

Plus it is true I am very arrogant, it is one of my better qualities.

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Hey let's start up mercenaries again instead of mpfc

LOL

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Chris wouldn't have ran it well no matter what other time of his life he picks anyway, there'd always be something more important than MPFC to him anyway.

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Write-ups are a pain...

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ToukaOone posted...

Chris wouldn't have ran it well no matter what other time of his life he picks anyway, there'd always be something more important than MPFC to him anyway.

Probably true.

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We could do a most powerful Pokemon contest. They all have access to questionably valid Pokedex entries and cherrypicking manga/game/anime canon so no one can complain about them.

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Knowing board 8, Luvdisc would probably win

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Why would it?

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Anyway, the reason MPFC failed most likely has to do with a sort of Gresham's law of argument quality. If I had to say a point where it started happening, The Mask's run in the Movie Contest would qualify, although I don't know enough about that contest nor about the general rate of argument degeneration to say for sure.

A "good" MPFC will never happen again with the current group of users.

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The last MPFCs failed because of the hosts, not the voters. When the contest is a joke, people treat it like one.

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GANON1025 posted...

The last MPFCs failed because of the hosts, not the voters. When the contest is a joke, people treat it like one.

Yes, assuming people have self control was on me, admittedly. It's easy to see why Ed Bellis got tired of them - he became utterly disillusioned with the sorry ways of the voters. I haven't, but I can clearly see the things that made him quit. There's ways to fix things, thankfully.

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ToukaOone posted...

Anyway, the reason MPFC failed most likely has to do with a sort of Gresham's law of argument quality. If I had to say a point where it started happening, The Mask's run in the Movie Contest would qualify, although I don't know enough about that contest nor about the general rate of argument degeneration to say for sure.

A "good" MPFC will never happen again with the current group of users.

looking back, the movie contest was hilarious because of that!

i don't know how anyone can still seriously take these kinds of contests anyway

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TVontheRadio posted...

ToukaOone posted...

Anyway, the reason MPFC failed most likely has to do with a sort of Gresham's law of argument quality. If I had to say a point where it started happening, The Mask's run in the Movie Contest would qualify, although I don't know enough about that contest nor about the general rate of argument degeneration to say for sure.

A "good" MPFC will never happen again with the current group of users.

looking back, the movie contest was hilarious because of that!

i don't know how anyone can still seriously take these kinds of contests anyway

Define taking them seriously. Do you mean enjoying them? If so it's quite easy to understand why. If you mean thinking they're educated intellectual debates, the truth is that nobody does that and you're either thinking too highly of yourself for being better than all those plebes or too lowly of your fellow B8ers. It's just fun to talk about who'd beat who in a fight.

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Natwaf_akidna posted...

Why would it?

Because that's how these things go. Pick some "weird" entrant, make up a flimsy explanation for how they're actually more powerful than omnipotence squared, have people vote for them and yell at anyone who doesn't.

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i don't know how anyone can still seriously take these kinds of contests anyway

Most people are disastrously poor at thinking and nowhere is this more apparent when it's about something they vaguely care about. See: Politics and taste.

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KanzarisKelshen posted...

TVontheRadio posted...

ToukaOone posted...

Anyway, the reason MPFC failed most likely has to do with a sort of Gresham's law of argument quality. If I had to say a point where it started happening, The Mask's run in the Movie Contest would qualify, although I don't know enough about that contest nor about the general rate of argument degeneration to say for sure.

A "good" MPFC will never happen again with the current group of users.

looking back, the movie contest was hilarious because of that!

i don't know how anyone can still seriously take these kinds of contests anyway

Define taking them seriously. Do you mean enjoying them? If so it's quite easy to understand why. If you mean thinking they're educated intellectual debates, the truth is that nobody does that and you're either thinking too highly of yourself for being better than all those plebes or too lowly of your fellow B8ers. It's just fun to talk about who'd beat who in a fight.

i meant people actually getting riled up and throwing insults at each other because of these contests

and don't tell me that i think too highly of myself when i clearly stated how i found the movie contest hilarious! hell, i was there for the first contest back in 06 (the most powerful fictional hero) till the Anagram run contests!

then i just got bored of following them especially after seeing most of the same characters and the same arguments show up

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From: KanzarisKelshen | #030
Yes, assuming people have self control was on me, admittedly.
"Yes, me not realizing that people don't know how to vote properly" is a funny way of taking responsibility.

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LeonhartFour posted...

From: KanzarisKelshen | #030
Yes, assuming people have self control was on me, admittedly.
"Yes, me not realizing that people don't know how to vote properly" is a funny way of taking responsibility.

It wasn't about voting properly, Leon, It was about not knowing when to stop running a joke into the ground.

EDIT: And about realizing what they actually wanted and not going out of the way to get the thing that would deny them that into the contest.

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I would just like to say that Kanz's MPFC was like the greatest thing ever and anyone who didn't enjoy it hates fun.

I remember the MPFC where Darsh was the champion.

anumbers and Anagram's MPFCs were good. Ed/Kanzaris/Chris' were all bad, for a multitude of different reasons. Kanzaris' contest was not fun, mainly due to his attitude and his including of me and his own character which were the catalysts for the entire thing's demise. Users, like ToukaOone, would have you believe that we are all knuckle-dragging imbeciles that can't put two words together. The fact is, if a MPFC is good and deserves respect it will get it. It's just that, the last like 5 haven't so it might appear like there's some sort of decline in intelligence? I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, really.

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I'd be for an Anagram ran MPFC personally.

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I still want to see how that Broly VS Ipkiss match was (like the actual match / topic etc) that match sounded glorious

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I use to really enjoy MPFC contests, but letting a board 8 created character in was the worst idea possible and ruined most of the contest.

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The Utility Man posted...

I use to really enjoy MPFC contests, but letting a board 8 created character in was the worst idea possible and ruined most of the contest.

I wasn't there for that, but user-created characters seem like a dumb idea. Well, it'd have to be a tournament specifically for created characters for something like that to function well, but still.

That and The Host with his vaguely defined metaplot bull****

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The Utility Man posted...

I use to really enjoy MPFC contests, but letting a board 8 created character in was the worst idea possible and ruined most of the contest.

It happened?

Huh, that sounds like a terrible idea that can only end with a Mary Sue character.

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Yeah letting, uh, GANON1025, and The Host in were terrible ideas from the get-go. I didn't even know Kanzaris made The Host until his match came up.

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I mean, even if they weren't created within/by board8, they had terrible powers for this kind of contest.

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I loved the part where Kanz blamed board 8 for Host's continued presence in the contest

Literally wanted us to vote AGAINST the more powerful character when Host being there was his fault in the first place >_>

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