Fall '03 Iron DM Tournament -- Wulf Ratbane is Iron DM!

[Pielorinho]

Mythago vs. Cool Hand Luke

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24 Hours, no editing, good luck, blah blah blah
Daniel

It's now been 24 hours, with no-show from Cool Hand Luke. That's an automatic forfeiture.

There's several ways we can proceed, and I'll leave it up to Mythago how he (?) wants to handle it. If he wants to win in a contest, then I'll draw up a new set of ingredients for him versus the first alternate that comes in. Or, if he's comfortable with it, I'll draw up a set for just the alternate, and judge two entries that use different sets of ingredients (so that Mythago doesn't have to write two entries).

If Mythago wants to accept the winning-by-forfeiture, that's perfectly fine as well. Let me know: you can pretty much do what you want with this round.

Cool Hand, if you're out there, what happened?
Daniel

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Stepping up i9f an alt is needed.

 

[Feathercircle]

I've got a comment to make about at least one aspect of this entry that really stood out to me, but I'm going to refrain from posting it until either Mythago accepts the forfeiture, or Cool Hand Luke shows up and Pielorinho posts his judgement. That one detail seems to me to really need commentary, but I don't want to bias the judging... So, I join the bevy of people waiting for Luke to return.

 

[el-remmen]

I think if you can trust an alt who says he has not yet read Mythago's entry - just use the same ingredients - I think it'd be unfair and too difficult to judge using different ingredients for both competitors.

But personally, I think Mythago should just take the bye.

 

[mythago]

I'm not the judge, but I'm willing to give Cool Hand Luke some leeway if there was some heinous real-world issue here.

Otherwise, I'm totally cool with your allowing an alternate 24 hours to submit another entry. Either use the same ingredients (I'm willing to take their word that they haven't slogged through my entry) or, if you prefer, set up a new one.

Just don't make me come up with a whole new entry in the next 24 hours, please.

 

[Pielorinho]

Wulf, have you read Mythago's entry?

At this point, my thoughts are that I'll go ahead and start Wulf on an entry -- either using the current ingredients (if he's not read Mythago's) or a new set of ingredients (if he has read Mythago's). If CHL had a bad set of events in his life, I'm sorry; however, I think the tournament has to move on, one way or another.

Daniel

 

[el-remmen]

Sorry to keep harping on this - but I don't think this game can be even remotely fair with opponents using different ingredients - especially considering how it is typically judged, not to mention that some sets of ingredients are inherently more difficult than others even when chosen to be of equal difficulty of other match-ups of the same round.

 

[Wicht]

Sorry to keep harping on this - but I don't think this game can be even remotely fair with opponents using different ingredients - especially considering how it is typically judged, not to mention that some sets of ingredients are inherently more difficult than others even when chosen to be of equal difficulty of other match-ups of the same round.

I gotta agree. If its not in the rules it oughta be. Same ingredients or none at all.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wulf, have you read Mythago's entry?

I can honestly say I have not; and sheepishly admit the only one I've read so far in the whole tourney was Rune's.

(And I didn't even like it.)

I do admit, I think I saw a dragon turtle mentioned near the end of Mythago's post. So presumably I know at least one ingredient.

I left my little typo in my post above, so hurried was I to get in this time. And as soon as I hit post, my piece o' crap Mac here at work bombed on me. I was relieved to see the post actually made it...

FYI-- I'll defer to Luke if he shows up with a reasonable excuse, though I am very eager to pass what's turning out to be an otherwise slow work day...

Wulf

 

[Pielorinho]

All right then. If CHL shows up and offers a rationale for his absence, the Wulf and Mythago may jointly agree to allow him to enter in this round. If either of them declines, then Wulf's entry will stand against Mythago. (And if Wulf doesn't make it in by his deadline, then Mythago gets the bye, will he or nil he.)

Mythago vs. Wulf
Ingredients
Unstable Platform
Crippled Aboleth
Dragon Turtle
Magic Mouth
Forgotten Tongue
Destiny

Wulf has 24 hours from this timestamp to get his entry in.

Daniel