[Courtney]

Ok, here's the complete, new and shiny rules:

We draft. Examples of how to draft certain bands is a couple of posts down. We have an 8 hour clock which started at 12 Noon EST today (4/8/09). We go 15 rounds and then we move on to the showdown.

After we draft, I'll reach into my lovely little hat again and separate us into four groups of four. You guys will make up schedules in which you can put any act at any timeslot. Don't care. Send it to me via PM. I won't look at them until I make the polls.

I'm still gonna do the "each vote is a point" accumulation thing because it seems the best way not to have a tie, kinda like the movie draft. At the end of all polls (16 per group), the winners from each pool will face off in the finals. You winners will make up a new schedule (if you want or you can just keep the old one) and send it to me. The points will be wiped clean from the prelims and we'll start anew. We'll run that and the person with the most accumulated points is THE WINNER!!!!!!!!!!

[The Canadian Content]

Confirmed.

[Tommy]

I'll be in the next group of 4 if it gets there. If not, no biggie.

[Lou]

Sounds like something I might want to do.

[Demko]

Oh, alright. I'll be in WAY over my head, but that's what the Internet is for, right? Well, besides gay midget porn. Because that's what the Internet is REALLY for.

I'm in.

[Courtney]

Ok, I'm gonna keep this open til tomorrow morning and then I'll lay down the rules and we'll get any foreseeable problems worked out. We're at 15 which after we draft can be broken down into showdowns of 3 or 5. One more person will be awesome but if not, then whatevs.

[Deadly]

Yeah, I'm still in.

[punk/core]

Dead, your Fallout av/sig fucking rules. I love it.

[Habs]

the week of the 20th I'm in training from 7h30Am until 10pm with no cell and not computer, so I will have to sit this out if the draft goes on during that time.

[punk/core]

Just leave a list of picks with someone every morning.

[Courtney]

Damn, there's probably no way we'd be done by then.

ETA: Ah, damn you Punker! Getting in my way. But yeah...would you be ok doing that, Habs?

[Habs]

I could, but I'm not a big list guy, I usually change my mind 20 times during the time I pick. But if yu need me to make it a nice and easy and even number, I'll do it. But if not, you cna leave me out with no hard feelings.

[Courtney]

Well 15 would be nice, yes, but it's ok. I'll figure something out.

[punk/core]

Well if Habs isn't in it we need two more. Come on, everyone likes music.

[Byrntrigan]

I'm in. Sounds like fun.

[ALL CAPS]

Confirmed. This could be fun, but after the third round I'll be totally lost.

[Jack Quinn]

How many rounds deep would this go?

[Byrntrigan]

Your typical all day festival has anywhere from 8 - 20 bands.

If it's open to discussion I'd say at least 2 stages with 16 bands. I'd want to do 20 bands with 3 stages ala OzzFest or Lollapalooza, but that's me

[Eric O'Mac]

I like music, but my tastes are REALLY different from everyone else here. I'm passing on the draft, but I'll be around for the vote.

[Courtney]

Alright, ya know what, I'm bored and don't wanna wait til tomorrow. Here's what I got. Any problems, speak up! Ok, here goes:

We draft 15 acts. Afterwards, I'll separate us into four groups of four. You guys will send me a schedule of 10 acts (just like a festival: 1-2, 2-3, etc.) I'll run 10 polls/group and we'll accumulate points based on votes for each act. The winners of each group will face off in the finals where they will run their final five acts against each other (headliners, if you will) in the final polls and whoever wins that will be our festival champion!

Now, about what qualifies as an act, as long as the artist released one complete studio album, they qualify. And because it's confusing for me to type out, I'm just gonna state the following in an example:

EX: Van Halen

You can draft VH but you get their entire catalogue. You get David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar as one act.

EX: Slash

You can draft GnR and Velvet Revolver, but that will be two separate acts. Like I said, you just get their entire catalogues. So if you want your festival to be all Eric Clapton, then go ahead. Draft Cream, Derek & the Dominoes, Solo stuff.

Anyways, that's about it. Here's the draft order:

1) Lou
2) Demko
3) Gator
4) Creepy
5) Dev
6) Tommy
7) Courtney
GB
9) Psycho
10) Angst
11) Dead
12) Punker
13) Solly
14) Moose
15) Thai
16) Byrne

Alright, I'm cutting it off at 16. We'll talk in the morning and the draft will start at 12Noon EST.

[Jack Quinn]

damn if you need one more, I will do it so you get 16, if not, I can live with that

[Courtney]

Moose, you're more than welcome. 16 would actually be better.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

*COUGH* re-do the order

[Courtney]

Well now that Moose is in, I'll get to it.

[BTR]

Poor DevSop. At the end again.

Have fun. This one don't interest me much. Let me know when y'all want a book draft for the pun's house library!