This made me go back and read some of the POTY stuff. Man, Demko. It then made me long for louismad and louismad2.

Looks like the masses have spoken. I'll get a signup thread going.

'Tis, indeed.

I'm not really up for a dead pool draft, because I kind of like the way it's run now (and no, not just because I'm running it) where you could have people on multiple cards.

BUT if folks wanna do it that way we can. Or we can do both a draft and a regular pool. I could run it or creepy could. As long as it's in the month of December.

Not limiting it to "heroes" means I don't have to get into arguments about who is and isn't eligible based on how heroic or villainous they are. Draft whoever you want (within the wide scope of the rules), and let the voters decide during the showdowns.

The point of this draft is to create teams of super heroes, so you should be drafting within the spirit of that idea.

Essentially, if you think you can make the case that Dr. Doom is a super hero, feel free, but don't expect to win.

Still leaving this open. There seem to be a lot who would just want to do one or the other, and I'm willing to do them concurrently if there are no major objections from those also wanting to do both.

I'll start a running list of interested people in the first post of the HFWA thread (as well as updating some of the rules).


MTA: And this has now been done.

I lost my showdown, and Lucky wanted to vote twice against me... And I'm no whore, I'm an attention gigolo!

Man, I'm shocked nobody's voting against showdowns, even just to be a dick.

You probably already know this, but I FREAKIN' love Showdowns. I love trying to sway people over to my side, win or lose. You know the old Wide World of Sport saying, "the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat." It gets the adrenaline going either way.

I haven't been participating all that much lately because tag teams and comedians just aren't subjects I feel that strongly about. But once we get to something I have a real passion about again, I'll be back.

Even though I've done it occasionally, I agree that vote-trading is gay. But it's one of those things that is pointless to outlaw. If someone feels that strongly that their guy deserves to advance, they're going to do what they can to make it happen. DQing vote trades just means that people would arrange them via PM or IM instead of on the board.

Stu: I've seen those movies, I just didn't like them that much. I sought out Woo's legendary HK movies because I enjoyed Broken Arrow that much. They're just too melodramatic and stylized for me. I think in Broken Arrow he was encouraged (by Raimi?) to tone some of that down and Americanize his style with some High-Noon good vs. evil. By the time he made FaceOff I think he was back to his old self, and Broken Arrow is still my favorite of his movies. And yes, I realize that makes me an incredible philistine. What can you do?

The Masses have spoken!

And I'm an idiot for not being able to read the damn poll question right.

The people who voted voted to have the showdown start after the draft. And the draft should be done in a couple of weeks if it keeps up this pace...

THANK YA JAY-SUS!

I hear the main MU Thor has dropped the "thee"s and "thou"s now, too. About time, I say.

I also find the whole "Wings on hats is teh ghey, let's get rid of them," a really off-putting aspect of Ultimates. Never really able to get into that book.

Plan Nine is inferior to Plan Nine