TOP GL'ER! - The Finals. Yeah, I know.

[Suspence]

Do we have an idea of when the judging will be complete?

Also, is there any chance we could have the theme of the next puzzle now? It would help cut down on the overall length of the competition. I can't speak for everyone, but if I start writing a puzzle only to find out I got cut, I won't really mind...I can always save it for later use in VSP.
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[MNOWAX]

I'm still waiting on both judges at this point. we should be done at most in another week.

The next puzzle will be headed by Judge Undercover Monk and will be posting it hopefully shortly.
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[Jack_Ian]

[DF*]

I'm a good way though my judging, will have results as soon as I can

[Undercover Monk]

I can post the puzzle soon also have most of my thoughts finished just need to write them up.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[Undercover Monk]

I thought long and hard about what my puzzle would be. I wanted something different but up my ally enough I could be counted as an expert on the theme. But my interests are varied and pretty eccentric. But when it came down to it there is one place on the web that I spend as much and maybe more time on then the GL. TVtropes .org. so why not use this as a platform to share the most wonderful waste of time I have found in internet land.


Tropes Challenge

So have you ever noticed how the same plots and characters appear over and over again in movies and TV and even literature. Find it interesting that the Lion King is basically a retelling of MacBeth or how every movie Villian makes the same mistakes over and over. Welcom to the fascinating world of Tropes. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

TVtropes is a website I spend countless hours on and be warned I take no responsibility for any competitor who ends up wasting their life on the site. There is even an article on the site about how dangerous it can be. so please read this yahoo article before attempting to research the site. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

http://voices.yahoo.com/tv-tropes-bad-place-will-ruin-life-5901300.html

Anyway on to the challenge. Your task should you choose to accept it i to base your puzzle around a particular trope(s). Note that on the site are pages about media and then lists what tropes they contain. That is not what im looking for. I dont want a puzzle based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail but you could do a puzzle based on the trope Amusing Injuries which is used in the movie (Black Night). If you need more info on what exactly a trope is...well there's a page for that too. happy hunting.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope

Feel free to pm me (Undercover Monk) with any questions.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[Scurra]

It's possible I may never forgive you for this. I went cold-turkey on tv tropes some years ago and vowed never to return. Argh. Isn't The Lion King based on Hamlet?
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[UM*]

Yes I dont know how I got that confused =( Lion King was a retelling of Hamlet. not Macbeth. The sequel more aggrediously takes it plot from Romeo and Juliet.

[groza528]

Is there a deadline for this yet, or not until we get results from the first challenge?

[Suspence]

I was hoping for "one week from the completion of judging Round 1"...
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[groza528]

That's what I was anticipating as well, but I'd rather ask now.

[MNOWAX]

no actual deadline yet, but it will be a week from the finishing of the judging.

Also it is VERY likely ( haven't confirmed with the other judges, but it seems like the right thing to do) anyone who posted a puzzle in the first round will make it to the second round.

We will be trying to figure out what we are going to do with Jbv, Gomez, and Zag.
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[esme]

So, I can't even make a puzzle that uses several tropes?
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[Undercover Monk]

Yes you can. Using multiple tropes is fine as long as it is the tropes themselves as opposed to the media.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[Zag]

[MNOWAX]

still waiting on the other judges, should be done within a couple of days or so.
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[MNOWAX]

72 hours from this post and I'll declare a winner from what we have for judging. from then you will have one week from that post.

The three people that didn't send in a puzzle are eliminated.

Jbvntx, Gomez, and Zag, I'd say clean up your area, but you never made it there. Good luck on your puzzling!
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[Scurra]

Surely you should be demanding the next puzzle right away? After all, we've known what the theme was for two weeks already...
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[Suspence]

I hope not...I've wasted my two weeks. Nothing came to me immediately as an idea, so I'm waiting for the timeline pressure to kick in to inspire me.
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[Undercover Monk]

I think it would be hypocritical to do so with the delay in judging sorry guys Ive looked at every puzzle just have gotten a chance to do the full write-up that I want to do.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[Jack_Ian]

I'm still waiting for the Puzzle Muse to whisper in my ear too.
I'm finding it difficult to think of an interesting yet solvable puzzle that doesn't involve trawling through all possible tropes to find one to fit some criteria.

[esme]

I have the basic puzzle idea for the next puzzle, but I would really, really like the feedback on the first one before proceeding. Almost everyone just ignored my puzzle on the other thread and I have no idea at all how you judge puzzles.
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[DF*]

What UM said - I've looked and formulated thoughts, just got to get it all out in a judge's review.

[Undercover Monk]

posted my choices for winner in judges forum
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[MNOWAX]

[MNOWAX]

also we will be giving 12 hours until we will declare a winner, and doing a quick write up, and setting a deadline for the new puzzle.
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[Jack_Ian]

XKCD trope

[Dented Ford]

DF has hit upon the expediency of stealing some commentary from other judges to pad out his own. But hey! a lot of what was said would otherwise have been said again in a less succinct way. And much later.

Judging up.

[MNOWAX]

After looking, I think we have a winner for the first round.

The Top four puzzles were Scurra, Groza's, esme's and Jack_ians.

Some Quick Comments about The top:

esme -

[Scurra]

I find it quite amusing that of the four puzzles actually singled out here, only one of them was actually solved on the "solving" thread!

(Hopefully people may now head back and have another look there. I am still struggling badly with the two that seem to require identifying tunes!)
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[MNOWAX]

If we had to choose a puzzle to be eliminated from this round, it likel
y would have been Suspence's 100 cryptics. We felt that it really didn't hit the theme as well as the others, and honestly while yes it was a puzzle, it felt like an exercise in solving cryptics quickly then a fun and enjoyable puzzle.
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[Jack_Ian]

[Jack_Ian]

Puzzle sent.
There's every likelihood that I will need to correct it after I try test-solving it, but I thought it best to send what I had in case real life takes over and prevents me from doing that before the deadline.

[Suspence]

I have no musical talent or knowledge whatsoever, so designing a "musical" puzzle was pretty much out of the question. I've been pretty focused on cryptic writing lately, so that is what came out.

Knowing that the judges were solving individually now, I realize that 100 cryptics would have been tedious. The style of puzzle I wrote was much better suited to a group collaborative effort, which we got in the solving thread. I'm hoping that the solvers enjoyed it, at the very least.
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[groza528]

Any chance you can put the deadline in the subject?
I'm mostly done, just doing a little rewording and a fair amount of formatting. Just want to know exactly what time I need to be in.

[Jack_Ian]

I hope I haven't overstepped the mark, but I modified the subject as per groza's suggestion.

[MNOWAX]

thanks, I'm shocked i didn't do that! lol

thank you jack
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[groza528]

/in with a few hours to spare