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Eli Goes to PAX, and Lives to Tell the Tale
This past weekend, I attended the Penny Arcade Expo. It was absolutely incredible. There were PC, console, and tabletop game tournaments, panel discussions, an exhibitor room (think E3 lite), concerts, freeplay, prizes, and the OMEGATHON II.
I went to see how truly large game tournaments are run, specifically to get some ideas on how to handle our recent influx of new players, and to do a little of what adults call 'networking'. Also, to play some games. Read on for complete details.
Friday, I arrived in Seattle, checked in, and joined the stream of geeks flowing up the street toward the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue. The doors were supposed to open to preregistrants at 3:00, and it was about 2:50. There was a line stretching down the street and around the block, past a Dairy Queen that must have thought it died and went to heaven. A guy next to me waiting to cross the street looked at the line and said, "I'm glad I preregistered," thinking it meant he got to skip the line. He figured out soon enough that the line was only for people who had preregistered, and hiked back to the end of the line somewhere around Vancouver.
While waiting for the doors to open, I made my first PAX discovery: the Nintendo DS becomes something truly awesome in a DS-rich environment. There were pictochat rooms going all the time, no matter where you were... in the line, in the theater, at lunch, even during the concerts. Pictochat became a sort of live commentary track for the whole event, with people getting downloadable games together on the fly (Meteos was most common). You could just put your DS into download mode and see 2 or 3 games people were offering for wireless play. I played Meteos, Bomberman DS, Advance Wars, and something in Japanese I later figured out was Puyo Puyo Fever. You could also see many people 'petting' or making baby talk to their newly-acquired Nintendogs.
I registered for the Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart Double Dash tournaments... by writing my name on a piece of paper. It was so quaint and refreshing... given the way we IT geeks do things, I can honestly say it never before occurred to me. However, they have some approaches at PAX that we really can't take at AADL-GT Tournaments, for example, they close registration completely up to an hour before the event begins to give them time to do the data entry. If you miss the registration deadline, that's that. Also, most tournaments are pool-based, single-elimination, reducing greatly the need for the kind of record-keeping we do during a tournament.
For example, for Super Smash Brothers, each of the 24 stations was assigned a 16-person pool. After filling the empty pool spots with standby players, they made brackets for each pool and players played a 1v1, best 2 out of 3, 4-stock, 6-minute time limit match, with items set to low, some banned items, and some banned stages. Only the winner of the pool advanced to the next round. I got eliminated in my first match against a master Ness player. I was DK first, then Link, and both times I had him down to his last life when I lost.
Friday Night's concert, after a showing of the 1989 Fred Savage and Super Mario Bros. 3 Vehicle The Wizard, included The Videogame Pianist, Transformers-obsessed hiphop band Optimus Rhyme, and the The NESkimos. Lovecraftian Rock Band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets canceled at the last minute.
Saturday morning, the exhibit room opened, and we stumbled in to find a real, genuine, E3-style Nintendo Booth, with 10 DS stations, 4 GBA stations, 6 small gamecube stations and 2 Huge ones. All sorts of unreleased games were playable, including Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess! It was the E3 demo, and while I love the Wind Waker style, the new realistic Zelda look will undoubtedly be less reviled by the legions of 'mature' rabid gamers with poor taste who think that bright colors are only acceptable for children. Regardless, the game is naturally amazing. Also playable were Super Mario Baseball and Super Mario Strikers (Soccer), both of which are an absolute blast and are outstanding additions to the Mario Sports lineup. Advance Wars: Under Fire for Gamecube is cool, 3rd person squad-based cartoony warfare, and looks fun, but very very different from the Advance Wars formula. If you like Advance Wars, Fire Emblem (the game Marth and Roy are from) for Gamecube is on the way; it's fantasy turn-based tactics battles, very in-depth, but a bit dry. Mario Kart DS was playable and is absolutely great, featuring great new tracks and best-of-breed weapons; rotating shells, the banana train, and jumping are all back, and the graphics look great on the DS's top screen. The lower screen shows you a zoomed-in overhead view that you can use to dodge shells! You can play 8-player wireless, and rumors persist that you'll be able to play over the internet via Wifi. One guy even said there would be Halo-style stat tracking and ladders, but I think he just made that up. We'll see.
In contrast to Nintendo's booth, Sony had 4 toys-r-us-style kiosks and a couple of card tables, and Microsoft had two tables and a single big TV. Ubisoft actually had a better XBOX booth than Microsoft, showing off some new combat games, a King Kong game that was fun but with a maddening fixed camera, and appearances by the Fragdolls.
Also exhibiting were NCSoft, best known for City of Heros, and Turbine, whose Dungeons and Dragons Online was a fan favorite, especially with all the tabletop gamers in attendance. The Army was there pushing America's Army, complete with Humvee, and Flying Lab Software was exhibiting their new MMORPG, Pirates of the Burning Sea.
On Saturday, we got to watch Gabe and Tycho make Monday's strip after a 'pitch your game idea' panel with several industry veterans. The best idea to come out of that session was probably "France France Revolution". Saturday was also the Mario Kart Double Dash team tournament. They had the 24 stations broken up into 6 4-station Lans, splitscreen, so they had the capacity for 96 simultaneous players driving 48 carts in 6 races, plus 2 extra pools that went after the first round for a total of 64 teams, 128 players. They had planned to have each pool of 8 teams play a 4-race cup, and the top two places from each pool would advance. However, as we know so well, the game does not keep track of any scores in LAN mode. I talked to Zig21, the head of the console tourney room about it, and was able to help them get a quick paper-based scoring system so they could record the scores of 4 races. It was great to have the opportunity to share our Kart tournament expertise, and help out a truly large event, and I think the event went very well, other than the fact that my randomly-assigned partner (because I didn't bring one) and I got knocked out in the first round. The competition was very intense. I actually did play-by-play on the mic for the finals, a set of 8 races, and last year's winning team, Sparkimus Prime, won again. Prizes for all the tournaments at PAX were different numbers of 'tickets' for the prize booth, Chuck-E-Cheese style, only with cool stuff like PSP accessories, games, toys, t-shirts, etc. I saw a brand-new set of Foster's toys that I REALLY WANTED. Oh well.
Saturday night's concert was absolutely amazing. First, Nintendo, on the ball as ever, had handed out little blue flashlights that project the nintendo logo, so the entire theater was filled with dancing Nintendo logos projected onto the walls by the audience. That was the best money they ever spent. The concert started off with Round 4 of the OMEGATHON. The OMEGATHON is an intense tournament for 32 randomly-selected players through all types of games, including tabletop, PC shooters, doubledash, Katamari Damacy, etc. Each round a few people are eliminated. Round 4 was Karaoke Revolution, which is like DDR, only you sing. In front of 2000 people. It was hilarious. The audience cheered the most for the players who sung the worst, and I can sense a surprize round game here.... just kidding, I wouldn't do that to you. However, I do want to try it at a DDR tournament and see if anyone would be interested in a Karaoke Revolution tournament.
After the OMEGATHON sing-off, Pianist Conney Lin played several beautiful, but dull, arrangements of music from Final Fantasy. Then, taking the stage by storm, came the world's 579th greatest rapper, MC Frontalot, inventor and proponent of Nerdcore hiphop, with his band, and personal hype machine, Gelatinous Cube. Front launched his new album at PAX and performed several new tracks, including 'Click Close' about pop up windows, and 'Got Message #419', about Nigerian email scams. MC Frontalot was simply awesome, high energy and suitably geeky in his short sleeve dress shirt, tie, and thick glasses. Next came a rapper who I don't think I can directly mention in this forum. I'll just say that he's the voice of Hesh from Sealab 2021 and MC PeePants from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He was great, and led the crowd in a rousing chant of 'Nerd Power'. Also notable was his DJ, who pressed one key on his Mac at the start of each song and stood there while it played. Awesome.
However, the best band and the highlight of the evening was the all-powerful Minibosses, whose straightforward power-guitar arrangements of classic NES music stole the show. They closed with Metroid, which was just incredible. These guys are extremely talented players and they know the repertoire well, picking out lesser-known gems like Goonies II for their treatment.
Sunday began with a 'beat the pros' event, where Soul Calibur II Master Zig21 took challengers from the audience. If they could beat him in a single round, they got a $50 gift card. His main character was Astaroth, but after a few wins, he upped the ante and would beat players with their own best characters. He did get beaten a few times, but I think his final record was something like 28-17, and the whole event was just a blast. They then moved onto Halo 2 Team, and challenger teams could attempt to beat some high-ranking Halo players.
The end of Sunday, and of PAX 2005, was the OMEGATHON final round. The Omega Collection was the prize, a $10,000 collection of essentially every NES game, system, and accessory ever produced. Even the obscure and rare ones. It was kept on display in the exhibit room, locked in two enormous cages. Last year, the final round of the OMEGATHON was pong, and as we filed into the theater for the final match, there was lots of buzz, especially in pictochat, about what the game would be. Tycho and Gabe took the stage and revealed this year's final game.... it was COMBAT, for the Atari 2600, first to 2 wins. The match between omeganaughts Coreside and LeRoy was extremely intense, especially with such an amazing prize on the line. In the first match, the older Coreside showed his roots, skunking LeRoy 15-0. The next match, LeRoy got the hang of it and stormed back to tie 8-8. Then LeRoy won a match, setting the stage for an insane finale. The final match started off with Coreside taking a 6 or 7 point lead, but LeRoy came back with several shots in a row to tie it at 10 just as the scores started blinking, which in the old days, meant that your match was almost over. Finally, with the crowd going crazy, Coreside scored a final hit, and won the match, the OMEGATHON, and the entire Omega Collection. WOW.
So, what did I learn? I learned that there isn't a much better way to do Mario Kart tournaments than what were already doing, other than to have more stations or to turn people away. I also learned that if a videogame tournament smells bad, that just means you're doing it right. I learned that if you use Pictochat on your birthday, your DS announces your birthday to every chatroom you enter. I also learned that only Nintendo appreciates how powerful the hardcore can be. I saw Twilight Princess, a Game Boy Micro, AADL-GT DDR master Aaron S, Adult Kart tournament regular Omokusaki's name on the list, Mountains, Nerf capture-the-flag played across the entire hotel, and cases and cases of BAWLZ overcaffeinated soda (it's nasty). I gave AADL-GT Season 1 Grand Championship DVDs to Gabe and Tycho, Zig21, a team from 1UP magazine, the winners of the PAX doubledash tournament, and a few other random people. It was a total blast, and I'm already looking forward to PAX 2006.
HEY! You found SOMETHING HIDDEN! And here it is: OMEGATHONFTW
yep and scarecrow insult
Duck, I added the points up and your clan should have 1330 points instead.
"Chunks does the Truffle Shuffle"
Shhh Eli don't know that.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
Current Clan Leaderboard
(Updated Live)
Place Clan Name Members Total Points
1 Turtle Clan TurtlePerson2
Bad driver
anti snowman
Padouk 3130
2 Skillz dat killZ Earnist Da Chicken
J's Coolio
Doomblaze 3080
3 Trouble Monkey Clan Joe S
Derek 2730
4 Black Shark Black Shark
Nilofar 1340
5 Vaccinated Monks Duck
super sunflower
Evil Bus Driver
Figwit 1340
6 Turtle clan 2(T Unit Stravoli
Darth Marth
Tru dog 600
This is mostly wrong 4 the points
My clan score is normal w/o bp's, so its fine. But...................................................................
TP2 Clan should have 3765 points
SDKZ Clan should have 4000 points
TM Clan should have 3665 points
BS Clan should have 1340 points
VM Clan should have 1330 points
and TC2 Clan should have 310 points
There u go, Sravan y r u insulting my clan like that? We're pretty good. U just wait.
"Chunks does the Truffle Shuffle"
Sravan My clan didn't lose with bonus points we are a head of black shark's clan. The real loser is you because you lost 1000+ points.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
Ahem, my current rank is higher then Black sharks so I didn't lose to him.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
shut up everyone!!!!!!!!!!!1
where r u eli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
wouldn't it be easier to use the caps lock rather than the shift button,
oh by the way tp2
TIL SKILPADDEN DRAR DET øDELEGGER
okay, i think i got it right this time, but the program only supplies a one way translation in norwegian, so i am not sure...........
PLEASE COUNT ME AMONGST THE CONFUSED, WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO THE LEADER BOARD?, how are the score calculated, how is the turtle clan in first? i am so confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Okay folks, something is a little tripped up in the leaderboards right now. I will be looking at it in earnest tomorrow. Rest assured that the points will be calculated correctly and that none of the results have been lost.
Okay, the Clan affiliations for the Championship round needed to be reset and things are looking a little better. If there's any tweaking that still needs to happen, we'll take care of it before the next tourney.
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But I liked the new scores can't we keep it that way?
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
BCL the caps lock doesnt work for numbers and u cant hold it all the way either but niether can i sometimes. duck look at it this way ur clan didn't lose to noah's clan. BTW omid and nick and nilofar u guys should make a mutiny and change the name cuz he black shark clan is well u get my point.
Jump Superstars (only for Nintendo DS) looks like a SSB game with anime characters. The only bad thing is you have to Import it stupid license laws and the high prices associated with them. Look here if interested Jump Superstars. To bad no Inuyasha.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
Whats the MLA Cup?
First post on new page!
So would anyone be interested in a podcast of AADL-GT stuff? Anyone at all?
I would like a podcast so I can relive the moments of victory over the trouble monkeys.
Oh yeah can someone please remove the Vaccinated Monk subs off the primaries list. That is everyone but me.
A podcast is an MP3 file that is basically a pre-recorded radio show. The type of things I am thinking of would be a recap of the most recent tournament, round by round, interviews with people (I have a nifty way to make people's voices sound like they're on the telephone :-D). I would also have a strategy section, a preview of things coming up, etc.
It's nothing incredibly special, but I think it would be kind of a cool thing, and it would help people keep up with whats going on in other ways than just the message boards.
...And it's free. Which is always a plus. :-D
I wounder what is taking up all their timw so that they can't respond to anything except the big stuff.
5 bucks says eli avoiding us.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
Jump SuperStar looks awesome, but it is only in Japanese rite now. I would like 2 fight as Goku or Monkey D. Luffy. The leaderboard is still messed up. My clan shouldn't be behind Duck's clan! Duck's clan should have 1330 points. How would they get 1360 points. It still doesn't make any sense. Eli, please speak 2 us! R U still ALIVE!
"Chunks does the Truffle Shuffle"
noah is in love with DBZ its not that good of a show thats y they moved it ot saturdays a while ago. the podcast sounds cool but it wont be nessecary (i spelled that wrong)for the grand champs cuz we get a dvd. im not sure if i want 1 yet. noah is right the leaderboard is messed up we used to have 3850 but we now have 3840! yes where is eli?
Tom while, a Podcast is an interesting idea I don't see why someone would want to listen to someone play a video game. It would be like listening to a movie instead of watching it. The strategy idea is interesting, but overall I think that it just isn't worth it.
Eli at the last tournament not everyone used their name during the melee matches. A player who doesn't have one is at an advantage. I think that there either has to be a rule requiring players to put the name above their head or to just get rid of them and save time.
If you remembered Sravan Eli said the DVD was going to mainly be highlights of season.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
Duck you might be right, but I thought he said they would have season high lights as part of the grands DVD. Not the grands being part of the season DVD.
If you noticed they had trouble fitting 4 hours on I don't think they are going to be able to fit 5 hours plus the clan cup and the season highlights. So I pretty sure they are going to cut some of the grand out.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
y would they cut the grands out. maybe they should show a little bit from each tournament including the grands like the final round. i didn't use my name cuz i couldnt find it and the people were impatient. how are they at an advantage u should be able to see someone when they have the cloaking devise if u have good eyes. BTW i dont think there should be a suprise round for the december tournament cuz when u are playing for gift certificates its ok but when u are competing for a prize much more valuable then u dont want to play a game that u dont know. practice makes perfect. also with the clan cup finals we should do a mix of melee and mario kart events.
Can you read Sravan I said SOME of the grand's out maybe not show the wildcard or some of the qualification round. Oh so you don't want to notice that the OMEGATHON II had 10gs of prizes and that was built around Surprise games to determine who was the best Overall gamer.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
OMG, just fix the leaderboard! My clan is suppose 2 be in 4th place. All of u guys should go 2 the aadlgt site and add up all the players' from each clans' scores. U will all agree with me.
"Chunks does the Truffle Shuffle"
Steven, the podcast wouldn't be listening to people play video games. It would be a recap of the most recent tournament. Something along the lines of "In the first round, such-and-such won three out of the four battles to come in first, while other-person finsished second all four times to end up getting third place" or something like that. You're probably right, it still wouldn't be worth it, but who knows. I might do it anyways.
And yes, everyone should be forced to have a name, or not have one. It's not fair to have half and half.
noah galen just won the suprise round we are the 2 key players. maybe the next time it will be a game that he has never heard of. noah even though the BS clan(lmao BS!) has 10 more points then the vaccinated monks they will beat u by recruitment bonuses. u only got 2 players he got 4 plus muffincat if she counts for his clan cuz mini blin's clan isnt on the leaderboard.
wow eli that was very impressive. last year in december we had the 4 races to gather points and get into the top 16, will those be suprise games too ro will they be mario kart and melee cuz i really think they should be mario kart and melee. if we do it that way then it will be like the other tournaments where u play mario kart and melee first then the best ppl of those play a suprise game.
we are still going to be using the space behind the big screen and the other room where the commentators and people who arent playing stay right? eli we should get actual songs to play at the tournament(sensored of course). like we can play sandstorm and other techno songs or we can play the songs on the top of the charts. if we do that dont u have to mention them in the credits for copyright reasons. so the DDR tournament on the 25th will not have the gamecubes?
if i am going to use pr0 i might as well change my axis name to it as well.
OMG, eli has spoken, now please be a dear and talk 2 eric about the leaderboard, And also, do u get recruitment bonuses just 4 bringing a new player even if he isn't subbing 4 u? http://www.aadl.org/aadlgt Yea! it works.
"Chunks does the Truffle Shuffle"
Hi Eli. I've registered now so you may make me a Vaccinated Monk.
Everything sounds good. We'll set up our fourth Monk as well.
"There is no spoon." -Neo
Hi, I'm the 4th Vaccinated Monk. Add me and Leinad to the clan, and set the other two to subs. Thanks a bunch :-)
Yay! Eli's not dead!!
Ok, I can start planning the first podcast.
Sravan, the podcasts will be put up here (I'm assuming), and you can download them. I bet if I ask reealy nicely, I'll bet I can convince Eli to put them all on a CD and mass-produce them for distribution at the end of the season.
Sorry Eli, I was the "popular demand" that warranted Duck's flame of Flare, which he has admitted, was one of his lesser flames (but I still think it was pretty good).
That's all for now.
Oh, Eli, what exactly should I do to start making the podcast?
The entire Vaccinated Monk clan is together at bubblnigbeebles house right now along with some other people, and they have told me to post that we unanimously disagree with Black Shark's boombox idea. Allow me to reiterate that these are the opinions of Leinad, Tom, Duck and beebles.
"There is no spoon." -Neo
Sravan, u need 2 post more. I dare ya 2 post at least one within each hour(except bed times of course), if u have plans, then post it, and u can cancel my dare, come on Sravan, do it, and then do the truffle shuffle.
"Irony makes me Lethargic"
And after school of course 2
"Irony makes me Lethargic"
Here is a quiz about me, your average Black Shark. It is a quiz that certain people(pr0, c0n) can't answer.
Quiz #1
How big is my TV(the one I practice MKDD and SSBM on).
I have a Vending Machine.
Give me your answers, and then do the truffle shuffle.
"Irony makes me Lethargic"
i didnt see u
I saw him, it was like, rite at the beginning. How could u not see that bushy hair and goatee. OMG. I realized the beginning music of the video, it was from megaman. I'm surprised they didn't have DBZ as one their events, o well. can u try 2 get PAX into Ann Arbor, Michigan, that would be so great.
"Irony makes me Lethargic"
He's like 26 seconds in for half a second on the right.
Oh yeah black shark you do relize that the Vaccinated Monk clan was completely composed of subs so that "key player" overview doesn't really give you any clue if I'm the best in my clan.
Eli for Figwit and only Figwit can you just give us the points for her she just moved to Cal. so she can't really show-up for the next tournament.
"Why am I sticky and naked, did I miss something fun?"-Fry
eli what do u think about changing the single melee scores to
if we change it to this then there will be a lot more ties.
Whoa i was reading one of the bungie fourms and some guy named snowman used the same quote as duck. gentlemen u cant fight here this is a war room.
Duck it's just like a football game. Only 1/3 of the time is actually playing. Take out the wild card and the ads and you'll have a dvd that is about one and a half hours long. I know this from experience.
By the way does anyone know the html for creating a download.
pr0 - you said that the change will make more ties. how is that a good thing?
"There is no spoon." -Neo
"Duck it's just like a football game. Only 1/3 of the time is actually playing. Take out the wild card and the ads and you'll have a dvd that is about one and a half hours long. I know this from experience."
Okay, because, you know, it's really fair to cut out the wild card tournament to those who competed in it. Just because they didn't compete in the whole tournament process doesn't mean they shouldn't get airtime too. And yes, Sravan, more ties would be a bad thing to have.
Yay for Eli for getting into the PAX video, that's amazing. :-D
"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"
um, TP2 do you mean you want people do download something from your site?
just point the link to the location of the file,though you'll have to give people access to that location, so this is not a good thing to do to your personal computer (sorry i meant you Mac). AS for the actual syntax i can show you sometime later.......
TP2 nosotros necesitamos hablar en español
1 stones is equal to 224 ounces
how many pico bytes are in an exabyte?
1.0 × 10^30
what is the abreviation for nano?
and by the way: for those who say you can use the enlish system better then metric cough, tp2, cough
furlong = 10 chains = 220 yards = 660 feet = 201.168 m
1 chain = 4 poles = 22 yards = 66 feet = 20.1168 m
1 rod, pole or perch = 5½ yards = 16½ feet = 5.0292 m
1 league = 3 miles = 5280 yards = 15840 feet = 4.828 032 km
did you have these conversions memorized tp2 no?
how about these
1 hogshead (of beer) = 3 kilderkin = 6 firkin = 54 gal. = 245.488 86 L
1 fluid dram or fluidram = 3 fluid scruples = 60 minims = 3.551 632 812 5 mL
and of course stones!
1 quarter = 2 stones = 28 pounds = 12.700 586 36 kg
by the way, i think that the scoring system is fine, too many ties are a pain, so leave the scoring system as is
李 治 學 logging out
Auf Wiedersehen-
Ah, OK. Yeah, we're working on a logo. We had an idea last night, and it was a really good one, but we couldn't quite pull it off with the equipment we had.
By the way, Sravan, would you want to be one of the first interviewees for the podcast?
And Beebles' name shall remain masked in confusion until such time as he sees fit to reveal it to you.
"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"
sure i will be one of the interviewees for the podcast. the old one was 100,60,30,10 and i heard many people complaining that their 2 2nd places didnt beat or tie with 1 1st and 1 3rd. the best way to decide the scoring system is for someone to give an estimate of how many people we will be expecting at the tournament eli? BTW i didnt see the ad in quality 16 yet. o yea last time i heard 25% of the people didnt bring their release forms so it wasent televised. hasent everyone on the blog won a prize of something in all of axis(noah got 3rd in a madden tournament and i got 2nd last year in august against joe and tom) i remember that tom was in 1st place on the home strech in baby park and a master shell hits him and he drops to 3rd meanwhile i am behind joe when i get a mushroom and i boost right beside him and we are pushing eachother but he was closer the the finish line.
Yes, I remember that too.
It made me cry on the inside.
"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"
I sorry how can you say it's like football? A football game is designed to be 1 hour of play yet runs for 3 hours while our system is designed for about 4 hours 20 mins of play and runs 6 hours. Football games have 300% inflation while our tournament only has about 140% inflation.
I'm pretty sure the reason it wasn't televised was because they hadn't set-up it up with CTN to broadcast it.
"You may need to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. By 'devil' I mean robot devil and by 'metaphorically' I mean get your coat."
Go Lions, by the way. Let's see if we can't actually win more that 5 games or so this season...
"Caboose: Look what I found!
Donut: Hey, I found it!!
Caboose: Look what I took credit for finding!"
Do we need new release forms this year if we turned one in last year?
"There is no spoon." -Neo
No if you were in the Grands last year you do not need a new one.
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
When I said it was like football I didn't mean that the only difference between the grands and the superbowl is that Eli doesn't wear stripes. What I meant is that a lot of the grands can be cut.
By the way Tom I fully support cutting the wild card out of the DVD. It took too long plus I personally haven't met any wild cards who watched the wild card portion. The wild card portion doesn't have any helpful strategy tid bits.
I think you are biased on this issue Tom. I'm sure you can figure out why.
BCL don't discuss the web site on the blog. Just so TC members know it will be online soon. I only have one download so far however, by the end of today I should have the second.
Yes, Steven, I know that you support cutting the wildcard tournament portion of the DVD. Just because Your Highness wants shorter coverage of the tournament doesn't mean it should be cut from the DVD. I'm not just saying that because I want to hear myself commentate; I, unlike some people on this message board, do not have my ego wrapped up in something as trivial as that, and I am insulted that you think so. If I wanted to hear myself talk, I could just watch the finals round after I got knocked out, I commentated then, too. (I even commentated on the final match, when Duck took a dive because he wanted the DS more than the iPod.)
Furthermore, if you were to listen, the Wild Card tournament is where Daniel and I commented about the various strategies that the wildcard competitors should have been using. Obviously, this contained no informational value to you whatsoever. The only problem in this case is that I could give a rip whether you think it's informational or not. It may not be to you, but then again, you're the one who came in here and knocked Smolarski off of his pedestal (an act for which I am still greatful to you for, don't get me wrong).
This may seem really evil and nasty, but it's not really directed towards you as a person. I'm still angry about other people's posts in other places, so don't take any of this as an insult. That being said, do take it at face value. I mean everything I say, just not necessarily the way I say it.
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Eli Basically said that It would be 2 DVD set. And I didn't say "season highlights w/ a little grands" I said they were going to cut some of the grands out. It just might happen that the wildcard and season highlights are on one DVD while the Grands and clan cup on the other but does it really matter we have no say in how the DVD is made because they have to work on it and figure out what works and what doesn't work. It more of a technical thing then a opinion thing.
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Jennifer Lynn Rogers Ousley, 30, of McDowell, died Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at Hazard ARH.
She was born Feb. 14, 1982, to Phillip Rogers, of Harold, and Beatrice Meade, of Mcdowell. She was the wife of Thomas Dale Ousley, of McDowell.
She was preceded in death by her grandfather, George Meade.
She is survived by a brother, Michael Lee Rogers and his wife, Beckie, of McDowell; grandparents, John and Inez Rogers, of Harold, and Vern Edith Ratliff, of Stanville; nephews, Tristen Rogers, Clayton Rogers and Dalton Rogers; as well as a host of aunts, uncles, family and friends.
Funeral services will take place at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22, at Nelson Frazier Funeral Home, in Martin, with Ronnie Samons and Church of Christ ministers officiating. Burial will follow the service in the Jeff Hunter Cemetery, at Printer.
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I can remember the first computer I ever used. I'm dating myself here, but I'm pretty sure it was an Apple IIe — a putty-colored machine with a thing called a "turtle" that moved around on a black screen. I don't actually remember much about what we did when we took turns using the school's […] [Read More]
Teach for America training a concern
San Antonio Independent School District trustees are expected to vote tonight on an agreement to bring nearly 300 Teach for America educators to the district over three years, starting next fall. You can read more about this program in a story that ran in Sunday's Express-News. Teach for America is similar to the Peace Corps, […] [Read More]
SAISD considering marketing contract
Want your kids to go to college? Then enroll them in the San Antonio Independent School District, where education options are steadily expanding. Among the latest are the Young Women's Leadership Academy — the city's only all-girls public school — and the co-ed Travis Early College High School, a fast-track to higher education. That, basically, […] [Read More]
SAISD eating away at cafeteria deficit
The San Antonio Independent School District expects to get its ailing cafeteria program nearly out of the red this year. The district's chief financial officer, Steven Bassett, sent a letter to the School Nutrition staff today saying he expects the deficit to shrink from more than $3 million each of the past two years to […] [Read More]
Video on SAISD consolidation plan
Here's more information about the San Antonio Independent School District's plans to close and conslidate schools. Here's an approximately five-minute video featuring Superintendent Robert Durón. [Read More]
Durón: SAISD could go broke by 2012 without closures
If SAISD doesn't close schools in the near future, the district won't be able to make payroll by December 2012. That's the news that Superintendent Robert Durón shared with the Express-News editorial board this morning, when he sat down to outline why the district must close schools. The recommendations about which schools to close are […] [Read More]
SAISD trustees could have gone to event with education focus
Here's today's story about San Antonio Independent School District trustees' trip to Washington, D.C., partially on the district's dime. Five of the seven trustees are there, officially, for a policy summit today hosted by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo. You can read more about that event in Ken Rodriguez's column today. Trustees Doug Sellers and […] [Read More]
SAISD competitor to open in back yard
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) - Oracle says it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week.
Late Thursday, the federal agency recommended that Internet users disable Java software in Web browsers to avoid potential hacking attacks.
Java allows programs to run within websites and powers some advertising networks. Users who disable Java may not be able to see portions of websites that display real-time data such as stock tickers, news, weather updates and ads.
Oracle says the patch was released Sunday. The company recommends that users update Java immediately. The patch sets Java's default security level to "high" so it prompts users and gives them a chance to decline malicious software before it loads onto their computers.
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The scores are in, and in Bryan, the School District showed gains in the new T-E-A accountability ratings system. Bryan ISD Spokesperson Brandon Webb says, "They're basically trying to see how we prepare students academically and for life after high school. "
The Texas Education Agency gives each district and school a rating: Met Standard, Met Alternative Standard or Improvement Required. Those ratings are based student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps, and post-secondary readiness.
Last year these five Bryan campuses and the district itself were designated as ones that "required improvement." This year, three of those five schools made the grade. Only Crockett Elementary and Milam Elementary narrowly missed the mark. Webb says the district will work with teachers and parents to help students do better.
Good news across town in College Station where all 15 campuses in their district met standard for the second year in a row. Superintendent Clark Ealy says "We're excited about our kids and the performance they had and our teachers and the reflection that these scores have on the work that happened. It's not the whole sum of what we do for students here in CSISD, but it is a reflection.. We want to make sure for 177 days of instruction we're providing the very best we can for our students."
Three college station schools earned some of the most distinctions possible: College Station High, A&M Consolidated Middle School and A&M Consolidated High School. A trio of Bryan schools earned major distinctions as well. Those were Bryan Collegiate High, Bryan High, and Neal Elementary.
There were a handful of districts that the TEA noted needed improvement.
In Brazos County, Arrow Academy was off in student achievement and closing performance gaps, and Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity missed in the post-secondary readiness category.
In Burleson County, Snook was a fraction away from meeting standards on closing performance gaps, and Somerville was a fraction away in the post-secondary readiness category.
Over in Grimes County, Navasota barely did not meet standards on closing performance gaps.
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Laura Rediehs has a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Earlham College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. She is interested in the history of philosophy of science, scientific realism (e.g., how is theoretical knowledge in science possible?), and comparing scientific and religious knowledge. Her research interests also include the problem of incommensurability of paradigms, both as a problem studied within the philosophy of science, and as a problem addressed by theories of non-violent conflict resolution. She teaches a wide range of philosophy courses, including Philosophy of Science, Modern Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Reasoning, and Symbolic Logic, and also courses in Peace Studies.
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Presentations, Exhibitions, Performances and Published Work:
- Rediehs, Laura, "Candlestick Mysteries," Quaker Studies, 18:2, March 2014, pp. 151-169.
- "From Dehumanization to Rehumanization," Carnegie Ethics Online, February 14, 2014.
- Dudiak, Jeffrey and Laura Rediehs, "Quakers, Philosophy, and Truth," Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, edited by Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen Angell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 507-19.
- "Economics Has Replaced Ethics," one of the winning essays for an essay contest sponsored by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 2012.
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Updated: 03/19/2013 1:54 PM KSTP.com By: Katherine Johnson
When you work as a paramedic for decades, like Wayne Schneider, you're bound to have some good stories. But the call of Schneider's career isn't about "Wayne the Paramedic." Wayne Schneider was the patient.
"I walked past my partner, went and sat in the front seat of the ambulance, closed the door and that's where they found me," he said. "That is the last thing I remember."
It didn't take long for paramedic Greg Booth to figure out his partner of more than 20 years was in cardiac arrest. For 68 long minutes, Wayne didn't have a pulse.
"By the definition, yes. He was dead at that time. For 68 minutes," said paramedic Jordan Wardell.
Wardell, Booth and another Hennepin County Paramedic worked tirelessly until, finally, a steady heartbeat.
"If he would have been at home, walking into the grocery store, it wouldn't have had a good outcome," said Booth.
"There would be nobody else I would choose to take care of me," said Schneider.
Schneider's life is now filled with visits from his grandchildren, time with his wife and struggling to follow orders at physical therapy appointments. After all, in his heart, Wayne's not a patient. He's a paramedic.
Those who survive a cardiac arrest usually suffer severe neurological trauma and are never the same. Schneider hopes to one day to return to the job.


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The community is coming together to support a four-year-old they refer to as their super hero.
Several tumors have invaded the tiny body of Joshua Gabriel "Gabe" Lyall, the son of Josh and Erina Lyall.
There are tumors on Gabe's heart, liver and he has a mass in his chest. A biopsy on his liver confirmed the tumor as being stage four cancer.
Gabe is a patient at Ruby Memorial Hospital at Morgantown, where he is currently undergoing chemotherapy, which his parents say he is tolerating pretty well so far.
The family has a long way to go on a difficult path for Gabe and the family has expressed its sincere appreciation for the support they have received from family and friends, especially the prayers.
The community is coming together to have a "Super Silent Auction" to be held Friday, April 5, at Man Middle School. Item viewing and bidding starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 7:45 p.m., and winning bidders will be announced shorting after.
Winning bidders must be present to pay and take the item, but may come in to look at the items and bid, then leave and come back after bidding ends to learn who the winners are.
The listing of items to be included in the auction includes "31" purses and totes, Mary Kay products, Origami Owl, Primitives, gift certificates for photos, tart and candle gift baskets, custom made hair bows, fishing tackle and many others.
For more information or answers to questions, please contact Jennifer Cline at 304-687-5051, Denise Booth at 304-688-1405, B. J. Beaty at 304-687-4328 or Amy Compton at 304-583-5509.
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Wentworth and Jones voting records: "virtually indistinguishable"
They're also "in the center (with a modest leftward tilt) of the Texas House Republicans." [Read More]
Straus wins pro-life endorsements
So much for painting House Speaker Joe Straus as an enemy of life before birth, as opponent Matt Beebe and his supporters have been doing. Straus, considered a moderate Republican, was endorsed by both the Texas Alliance for Life and the Texans for Life Coalition Friday. Beebe, the first-time candidate running a long shot race […] [Read More]
DA Reed: "This woman is voting for 'that woman'"
The Elizabeth Ames Jones campaign has enlisted heavyweight Republican District Attorney Susan Reed as her proxy to slam state Sen. Jeff Wentworth for his attacks on Jones. [Read More]
Wentworth TV ad slams Jones
Former Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones has released two television ads thus far, pleasant little spots touting her ability to create jobs, balance the budget and fight the Obama Administration. Her opponent's name is never spoken. State Sen. Jeff Wentworth, on the other hand, has taken a different tack: His first ad goes straight for […] [Read More]
Beebe skewers Straus "grassroots campaigning"
Long shot political candidate Matt Beebe, who's hoping to unseat Joe Straus, took aim at the well-connected House Speaker in a new YouTube video Monday. [Read More]
Wentworth: liberal Repub or middle of the pack?
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility have launched a new website attacking state Sen. Jeff Wentworth as "the most liberal Republican Senator in Austin."
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FreedomWorks endorses Beebe — updated
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is endorsing Matt Beebe for State Representative in the Texas House District 121 race against current Speaker Joe Straus. [Read More]
Jones on the air
Elizabeth Ames Jones' first commercial has hit the airwaves in Austin and San Antonio, with the former Railroad Commissioner vowing to create jobs and fight "Obama bureaucrats." The 30-spot ran during college basketball games last weekend, reports the San Marcos Mercury and the Texas Tribune, and is now in broader rotation. See the ad here. […] [Read More]
Straus: No more divisive politics
House Speaker Joe Straus kicked off his re-election campaign Tuesday night with a fundraiser at the iconic Barn Door Restaurant in San Antonio. Several hundred supporters came out to nosh and hand over checks; the place was a veritable who's who of the local Republican Party. Both state Sen. Jeff Wentworth and his primary opponent, […] [Read More]
Wentworth touts rising support in poll
The poll, released Monday by the Wentworth campaign, shows the seven-term senator with 59 percent support among likely Republican primary voters, up from 50 percent in November. [Read More]
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R-S Central wrestling falls at Mitchell
The R-S Central High School wrestling team dropped a 70-12 dual decision at Mitchell.
The Hilltoppers did pick up a pair of wins in the varsity dual.
Kaleb Hines pinned Mitchell's Thomas Parker at the 220-pound class in 49 seconds and Hunter Edwards earned a pin over Mitchell's Devlin White 10 seconds into the match at 285 pounds.
R-S Central will be in action on Saturday with a wrestling tournament at Chase High School. Start time of the tournament is to be announced.
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GWU women ranked nationally in defense
BOILING SPRINGS — The Gardner-Webb women's basketball team will open up the 2013 calendar year on a high note, as the Runnin' Bulldogs continued to climb up the national rankings in a number of NCAA defensive statistical categories as the month of December wound down.
Through games going through Dec. 30, head coach Rick Reeves has his squad ranked 10th overall in the nation in field goal percentage defense, as the Runnin' Bulldogs are holding its opponents to a 31.9 shooting percentage on the season.
GWU is also ranked 40th in the nation in both scoring defense, allowing only 53.8 points per game, and in blocked shots per game with 4.8 per contest.
On top of those numbers, Gardner-Webb is 21st overall in three-point field goal percentage, as its opponents are shooting only 36.4 percent from behind the arc on the season, and is ranked 43rd in the nation in rebound margin by averaging 7.3 more rebounds per contest than its foes.


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Work schedules are very hectic and each one is racing against time to meet deadlines. Over time, this stress takes a toll on your mental and physical health and you want to get away from all this routine humdrum to relax, unwind and take your mind off work. If you cite the reason for leave as need to relax, you are sure to be shown the door.
Apart from coping with work stress, you might have to miss work for various other compelling reasons like taking care of your sick kid, caring for an ailing relative, going along with your spouse to a dentist or any other unforeseen emergency. Look for an authentic looking fake doctors note in online websites to use it as proof. In such circumstances you have to feign illness, make use of a fake doctors note to miss work without any questions asked.
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There are a good number of websites that dole out quality and customized doctors note in exchange for a few dollars. It is easy to pass of these notes as original. Their option to allow customization ensures that each note looks as though it is made for a specific individual. Search for one of the websites offering a range of doctors notes to meet your needs.
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Employees have no choice but to make use of doctors note to skip work when they have to fulfill their personal and social obligations. Most employers are aware of the usage but do not fuss over it if it is used once in a while. The use of these notes is rampant. However, in some states using such fake doctors note amounts to an offence.
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Employees are stressed out and do need a respite from the grueling work schedules. To prevent a burn out, it is very essential that they take break from work so that they can return back to work refreshed and rejuvenated. Doctors notes come handy in such situations.


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Research brings better care. The PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute's ongoing commitment to research is key to our excellent outcomes, as we continue to expand our knowledge and skills.
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At any time, the PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute is involved in more than 50 clinical trials for cardiac care and nearly 20 for vascular disease. These studies examine new treatments, devices and medications for a variety of heart and vascular conditions.
PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute was responsible for bringing carotid stent procedures to PinnacleHealth Harrisburg Hospital, which has become one of the country's premier carotid and peripheral vascular interventional centers. The first carotid stent was placed in July 2001 and since then, through various clinical study protocols, hundreds of these life-saving procedures have been performed.
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