Dome Lethal Lottery King of Trios Tournament

[TheRaySays]

I want in, and I've ne-eh-eh-ever no-showed a Dome comp. I'd rather give up a kidney than give up and bow out.

[DMN in the House]

So I guess the fact that I offered to judge in the Vault means nothing? K, then.

[TheTruth]

I'm in.

[Hailtothechimp]

I'll toss my hat into the ring as well.

[Vendetta]

So I guess the fact that I offered to judge in the Vault means nothing? K, then.

They were probably worried about that whole commitment thing...

[TKz]

I'll toss my hat into the ring as well.

Actually I'll think you'll find that this is The Dome!

[Essa]

Please don't team me with Vendetta.

[DMN in the House]

Which would be why I offered to judge, and not to compete, dumbass.

[Vendetta]

I know that..I was trying to be funny but once again failed miserably. One day I will complete my conquest to tell a funny joke...

[IDOL]

I know that..I was trying to be funny but once again failed miserably. One day I will complete my conquest to tell a funny joke...

I think you were looking for quest there.

[Legend_Killer33]

A conquest can be defined as "success in mastering something difficult" so I think he was right to use it in that sense

[IDOL]

But a conquest is a completion of something. A Quest is setting out to do something that you wish to complete.

[Legend_Killer33]

Touche, magic hallway.

[En Dub]

I'll toss my name in. And, in my own personal recommendation, I was one of two people to actually complete the King of the Dome tourney.

[The Brian J]

As a pretty unknown author here hoping to get my name out there, I'd like to throw my name into the tourney as well.

[Hajjhowe]

I'll take part.

[SwantonEdge]

As a pretty unknown author here hoping to get my name out there, I'd like to throw my name into the tourney as well.

Ditto

[Legend_Killer33]

Put me and SwantonEdge together. We can either be jobbed out of the competition or succeed as the "Underdog Aoteroa Express"

[JStarr]

Okay, might be safe to close this mother now.

By my count, we have about 34 people throwing in. We may expand into King of Trios territory and add an alternate to each team, if we stick with 8 teams.

I'll consult with the other judges and we'll see who gets invited. Thanks for the interest, fellas, now we'll see who makes the cut.

Word to come hopefully no later than Friday.

[JStarr]

Never mind, word to come no later than tonight.

First off, with all apologies due, those who have been cut:

CFDunk

Romero

jayden

IJS

efwa4life

LegendKiller33

SwantonEdge

kiss 2 kill

Evil Chase K

Haloheadfire

Pepsi Twist

TheRossWalker

Szumi (offered to pull out)

Now, the drawing for team captains. I used the Sequence Generator at random.org to give each captain a number between 1 and 8.

Captain #1: Inner D Monz

Captain #2: NBT

Captain #3: Bigal

Captain #4: Sousa

Captain #5: FD

Captain #6: Hajjhowe

Captain #7: Essa

Captain #8: TheRaySays

And, likewise with the other 16 competitors, I went right down the list and gave everyone a 1-8 number to see whose team they fell on. And here's how they finished.

9 to 5--7

Be--2

BuddyAwesome--7

EddieG--4

El Presidente--5

TKz--1

Downward Spiral--2

SRN--4

Split Second--8

Meacon--1

Krone--8

TheTruth--3

Hailtothechimp--6

En Dub--3

The Brian J--5

Vendetta--6

So, we're left with:

Team #1:

Inner D Monz

TKz

Meacon

Team #2:

NBT

Be

Downward Spiral

Team #3:

Bigal

TheTruth

En Dub

Team #4:

Sousa

EddieG

SRN

Team #5:

FD

El Presidente

The Brian J

Team #6:

Hajjhowe

Hailtothechimp

Vendetta

Team #7:

Essa

9 to 5

Buddy Awesome

Team #8:

TheRaySays

Split Second

Krone

These numbers in no way reflect your first-round pairings, which have also been randomly determined and which no one will know about except me. This is to prevent voting on "name value" rather than quality of entry.

Captains will be receiving their rule sets the next couple of days, and it will be their responsibility to PM said rules to their team members. Why? Because it's easier for me to look up 8 always-changing display names than 24, and I'm a lazy bastard. Sue me. It will also be the captain's responsibility to decide who writes what. We will go ahead and make it a King of Trios arrangement, so all three team members must contribute. Each team member's work should come to me separately, and the captain MUST note to me the order in which these segments should be posted. If not, I'll post them in the order received, and your entry will look quite stupid. Anyone who does not contribute goes on The List.

Anyone who has rule set suggestions, put them in the thread on the other end of this link.

First-round entries will be due Friday, May 22, with judging to take place the following week and the semifinals beginning approximately this time next month. Lather, rinse, repeat for the finals.

Good luck to all entrants.