(Other) a cereal murder that shoots people with cheerios - task 5 (trial 4, Night 8)

Bass · Mar 29th, 2012, 6:49:32 PM

First of all, I would like to thank everyone again who signed up. All of you showed good courage, and that is one of the major things that these sign ups were here to test.

How so? If you read my post carefully enough, you would realize the true implications for signing up. Unless you followed the directions for signing up correctly, you wouldn't get in the game. But on top of that, I mentioned that your sign up post was the preliminary task of this competition, and that being eliminated at the end of a task would result in a punishment. Thus, the few individuals who signed up incorrectly will be punished. I am sure you are all wondering not only who failed, but also what punishment they will receive.

Before I reveal the casualties of what I will refer to henceforth as task 0, let me explain what a correct sign up post entails. The first instruction, which was written at the end of my post, was to write a paragraph explaining why you thought you could win. This was nothing too serious, it was just a fun way to express your intention of signing up and getting a little friendly smack talk in. The second, and more important requirement though was that your post had to contain EXACTLY ONE of the following words:

abide
dissociate
crush
mighty
compete
mash
dismantle
purpose
big
chicken

In other words, any post that at least met either of the above conditions was treated as a sign up post. The only users who did not do so were Raikage and Mekkah, so they will not be playing in my competition nor get punished.

Since the first condition was really ambiguous, you merely needed to meet the second condition, which was including one, and ONLY ONE of the above words. I originally intended to count the usage of the above words even if they were not in their original form. For example, I would count "mashed" as one use of "mash". However, some other users deliberately included words in this form in hopes that they would not count to confuse other people with prospects of signing up. After remembering that the original purpose of task 0 was to simply make sure that that the players who signed up were serious about winning (that is, actually reading everything carefully), I decided to not count such instances as the one I mentioned earlier as a usage of that particular word.

Thus, the only way to actually fail was either to write a statement of why you thought you would win without using any of the above words at all, or using more than one of the above words in their original form. Therefore, I am pleased to announce our final playerlist:

1. shade
2. billymills
3. TalkingLion
4. SkullCandy
5. Mastadi
6. Fatecrashers
7. Leethoof
8. kingofkongs
9. zorbees
10. forks
11. EARTHWORM
12. ssbbm
13. DaLetterEl
14. coolking49
15. LightWolf
16. Crux
17. Ace Emerald
18. Ditto
19. Fishin
20. Gmax
21. Pidge
22. porygon3
23. StevenSnype
24. Quagsires
25. Galladiator

So the losers of the preliminary task were Walrein, Metal Bagons, ButteredToast, Rodan, and HD. For not reading my opening post carefully enough as I had instructed you to, your punishment will be as follows. You are to have the following line in your signature for one week:

My reading comprehension is so bad that I lost the game before it even started!

In addition to this, you might notice that some users made more than one sign up post. These are undeleted posts, actually. I did not originally make a note about deleting your posts in the rules, but I only intended on counting your first sign up post regardless. I made a reminder in the thread when I noticed that people were doing it, for their own good. The two users in question were Fishin and Walrein. Fishin's first post met the required conditions anyway, so it doesn't matter to him. However, what Walrein did was unforgivable. Trying to delete your first post after finding out that it failed, and making another post in its place. Such cowardice! For not only failing on your first sign up post but trying to cover it up as well, you will be subject to an additional punishment: You must don this as your avatar:

Walrein's Special Punishment

Until the end of the competition. I made it myself by the way. Have fun with that!

I would like to congratulate the users who made the cut once more! And just like the last time, I would like to say fuck you to the cowards who were too afraid to sign up. But that is not important now. I would like you to note that this first punishment was relatively minor. I am going to make one thing clear here that I didn't mention before: As the competition goes on, the punishments for the eliminated players will get progressively worse. Be sure not to do anything as cowardly as what Walrein has done though, or you too will suffer a similar fate. Thankfully though, since the rest of you had the courage to sign up, I am sure that all of this won't deter you one bit!

Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, let us get to the exciting part. It is now time for you guys to complete your first task!

Your first task will be a quiz. It will be 10 questions long, and I will eliminate a certain number of players based on their score.

Hey, wait a minute. Doesn't this sound familiar? It should, because this task will be very similar, at least on paper, to the first task in the previous competition. But to keep things fresh and more interesting, the requirements to succeed will also be much different. The specific rules for this task are outlined below:

First, the quiz will be 10 questions long, and there is only one correct answer for each of them.
Your score will be equal to the number of questions you answer correctly. A blank or incorrect answer gives you no points.
You can only make one submission, and it will only count if you send it to me via PM.
Once I have your submission, you may find out your score by posting "Look at me, I am a huge over achiever" in this thread. I will then post your score in this thread for everyone here to see. Otherwise, I will not reveal your score until the end of the task.
Now the important part. For my previous iteration of this task, I eliminated the middle scorers. For this task, I will be doing the opposite. This time, I will eliminate the top 4 and bottom 4 scorers. In the event of any ties in each of these groups, I will eliminate the 4 users in each group that submitted their answers to me the latest.
Anyone who fails to submit their answers before the deadline will be eliminated instantly, and they will receive a much harsher punishment than the players who fall in the top or bottom 4.
The median scorer(s) will be awarded a unique advantage in the next task.
Feel free to collaborate. Given that you obey the above rules, I encourage it!
The deadline to submit your answers is 72 hours (3 days) from now. Good luck!

Now, the quiz!

THE QUIZ

Good luck, and have fun!

***Mekkah***** · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:08:51 PM

PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS

Fishin · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:24 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

**Ditto** · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:27 PM

"Look at me, I am a huge over achiever"

**billymills** · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:29 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever

Da Letter El · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:35 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever

**LightWolf** · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:54:37 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever

Bass · Mar 29th, 2012, 7:57:28 PM

I have graded four quizzes!

First, we have Fishin. He got a 4/10. Splendid work.

Next up is Ditto. He also got a 4/10. Quite an improvement from last time.

Now we have billymills. A 4/10 as well. What a genius.

Then, there is DaLetterEl. He scored a 4/10 too. Hmm... He definitely didn't try to cheat.

And finally, we have LightWolf. He only got a 3/10. The lone wolf indeed.

forks · Mar 29th, 2012, 8:00:17 PM

look at me:forks, i (forks) am a huge over achiever

**Fatecrashers** · Mar 29th, 2012, 8:07:50 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

Bass · Mar 29th, 2012, 8:51:22 PM

I have just finished grading two more quizzes!

Our first one was submitted by forks. He got a 4/10. Pretty average score, if I say so myself.

The next submission was from Fatecrashers. He got a 3/10. LightWolf is alone no more.

ssbbm · Mar 29th, 2012, 9:00:42 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

Ace Emerald · Mar 29th, 2012, 9:08:08 PM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever

Bass · Mar 29th, 2012, 9:18:01 PM

Some more over achievers finished their quizzes.

The first one was ssbbm. He got a 4/10. So easy.

The second one was from Ace Emerald. He also got a 4/10.

***jumpluff**** · Mar 29th, 2012, 10:17:27 PM

Punishments have been dealt.

HD · Mar 29th, 2012, 11:04:52 PM

i am an incompetent user who has little to no reading comprehension

i apologize for blighting the sign-up thread with my post of pure stupidity

Metal Bagon · Mar 29th, 2012, 11:31:30 PM

At least I'm not Walrein.

Walrein · Mar 30th, 2012, 12:17:17 AM

My poor sig ;_;

o and the avvy sux too i guess

Crux · Mar 30th, 2012, 6:48:43 AM

Whilst it is true that advancement in this game is important I could not stomach the idea of hiding in the crowd in order to fulfil my own goals. To me, this is the ultimate cowardly act. You people, who have been deliberately scoring 4/10 in order to hide in the crowd should be utterly ashamed of yourselves.

With that said and done, I have decided to be the only real man in this entire thread and try my absolute hardest.

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

Galladiator · Mar 30th, 2012, 7:30:43 AM

Good luck with that, Crux.

And since I won't get my results without saying this:

"Look at me. I am a huge overachiever."

SkullCandy · Mar 30th, 2012, 9:51:40 AM

Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

Bass · Mar 30th, 2012, 10:13:54 AM

We finally have some more graded quzzes!

Our first submission was from Crux. He got a 7/10. Congratulations to the overachiever!

Galladiator got a 1/10. Congratulations to the underachiever!

And then, there was SkullCandy, who got a 4/10. Not bad.

zorbees · Mar 30th, 2012, 3:54:15 PM

Look at me, I am a huge overachiever

Quagsires · Mar 30th, 2012, 4:45:35 PM

Look at me, I am a huge underachiever!

Bass · Mar 30th, 2012, 5:09:46 PM

zorbees valiantly turned in his quiz, being the over achiever he is.

His score? A 4/10. Valiance does not equal honesty.

Quagsires claims to be an underachiever. I don't reveal scores early to his kind.

Mar 29th, 2012, 6:49:32 PM	#1
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	a cereal murder that shoots people with cheerios - task 5 (trial 4, Night 8) First of all, I would like to thank everyone again who signed up. All of you showed good courage, and that is one of the major things that these sign ups were here to test. How so? If you read my post carefully enough, you would realize the true implications for signing up. Unless you followed the directions for signing up correctly, you wouldn't get in the game. But on top of that, I mentioned that your sign up post was the preliminary task of this competition, and that being eliminated at the end of a task would result in a punishment. Thus, the few individuals who signed up incorrectly will be punished. I am sure you are all wondering not only who failed, but also what punishment they will receive. Before I reveal the casualties of what I will refer to henceforth as task 0, let me explain what a correct sign up post entails. The first instruction, which was written at the end of my post, was to write a paragraph explaining why you thought you could win. This was nothing too serious, it was just a fun way to express your intention of signing up and getting a little friendly smack talk in. The second, and more important requirement though was that your post had to contain EXACTLY ONE of the following words: abide dissociate crush mighty compete mash dismantle purpose big chicken In other words, any post that at least met either of the above conditions was treated as a sign up post. The only users who did not do so were Raikage and Mekkah, so they will not be playing in my competition nor get punished. Since the first condition was really ambiguous, you merely needed to meet the second condition, which was including one, and ONLY ONE of the above words. I originally intended to count the usage of the above words even if they were not in their original form. For example, I would count "mashed" as one use of "mash". However, some other users deliberately included words in this form in hopes that they would not count to confuse other people with prospects of signing up. After remembering that the original purpose of task 0 was to simply make sure that that the players who signed up were serious about winning (that is, actually reading everything carefully), I decided to not count such instances as the one I mentioned earlier as a usage of that particular word. Thus, the only way to actually fail was either to write a statement of why you thought you would win without using any of the above words at all, or using more than one of the above words in their original form. Therefore, I am pleased to announce our final playerlist: 1. shade 2. billymills 3. TalkingLion 4. SkullCandy 5. Mastadi 6. Fatecrashers 7. Leethoof 8. kingofkongs 9. zorbees 10. forks 11. EARTHWORM 12. ssbbm 13. DaLetterEl 14. coolking49 15. LightWolf 16. Crux 17. Ace Emerald 18. Ditto 19. Fishin 20. Gmax 21. Pidge 22. porygon3 23. StevenSnype 24. Quagsires 25. Galladiator So the losers of the preliminary task were Walrein, Metal Bagons, ButteredToast, Rodan, and HD. For not reading my opening post carefully enough as I had instructed you to, your punishment will be as follows. You are to have the following line in your signature for one week: My reading comprehension is so bad that I lost the game before it even started! In addition to this, you might notice that some users made more than one sign up post. These are undeleted posts, actually. I did not originally make a note about deleting your posts in the rules, but I only intended on counting your first sign up post regardless. I made a reminder in the thread when I noticed that people were doing it, for their own good. The two users in question were Fishin and Walrein. Fishin's first post met the required conditions anyway, so it doesn't matter to him. However, what Walrein did was unforgivable. Trying to delete your first post after finding out that it failed, and making another post in its place. Such cowardice! For not only failing on your first sign up post but trying to cover it up as well, you will be subject to an additional punishment: You must don this as your avatar: Walrein's Special Punishment Until the end of the competition. I made it myself by the way. Have fun with that! I would like to congratulate the users who made the cut once more! And just like the last time, I would like to say fuck you to the cowards who were too afraid to sign up. But that is not important now. I would like you to note that this first punishment was relatively minor. I am going to make one thing clear here that I didn't mention before: As the competition goes on, the punishments for the eliminated players will get progressively worse. Be sure not to do anything as cowardly as what Walrein has done though, or you too will suffer a similar fate. Thankfully though, since the rest of you had the courage to sign up, I am sure that all of this won't deter you one bit! Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, let us get to the exciting part. It is now time for you guys to complete your first task! Your first task will be a quiz. It will be 10 questions long, and I will eliminate a certain number of players based on their score. Hey, wait a minute. Doesn't this sound familiar? It should, because this task will be very similar, at least on paper, to the first task in the previous competition. But to keep things fresh and more interesting, the requirements to succeed will also be much different. The specific rules for this task are outlined below: First, the quiz will be 10 questions long, and there is only one correct answer for each of them. Your score will be equal to the number of questions you answer correctly. A blank or incorrect answer gives you no points. You can only make one submission, and it will only count if you send it to me via PM. Once I have your submission, you may find out your score by posting "Look at me, I am a huge over achiever" in this thread. I will then post your score in this thread for everyone here to see. Otherwise, I will not reveal your score until the end of the task. Now the important part. For my previous iteration of this task, I eliminated the middle scorers. For this task, I will be doing the opposite. This time, I will eliminate the top 4 and bottom 4 scorers. In the event of any ties in each of these groups, I will eliminate the 4 users in each group that submitted their answers to me the latest. Anyone who fails to submit their answers before the deadline will be eliminated instantly, and they will receive a much harsher punishment than the players who fall in the top or bottom 4. The median scorer(s) will be awarded a unique advantage in the next task. Feel free to collaborate. Given that you obey the above rules, I encourage it! The deadline to submit your answers is 72 hours (3 days) from now. Good luck! Now, the quiz! THE QUIZ 1. What nutrient is primarily responsible for bone formation? 2. How many molecules are there in one mole? 3. True or False: Toilets always flush counter-clockwise in Australia and clockwise in the United States. 4. What is the most powerful single GPU video card on the market as of this post? 5. What smogon user hosted Color Mafia? 6. What is Date Masamune's last engrish line in the anime Sengoku Basara 2? 7. If I flip a coin 10 times, what is the probability of getting heads all 10 times? 8. What type of keyboard is the IBM Model M? 9. What is the hottest chili pepper in the world? 10. What company won the title of "Worst Company in America" in 2010? Good luck, and have fun! Last edited by Bass; Aug 9th, 2012 at 10:37:48 AM.

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:08:51 PM	#2
*Mekkah* pfbwowbfobwobwobfwowbf Administrator** Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,836 Most of them are good	PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS __________________ onions videos cameras models steroids dinoturtlethings

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:24 PM	#3
Fishin Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,618	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever! __________________ ┐(￣ー￣)┌

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:27 PM	#4
Ditto Aegisthus Moderator Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,750	"Look at me, I am a huge over achiever" __________________ Back to WiFi

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:54:37 PM	#7
LightWolf lightwoof Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,631 On the Smogon Forums, if that button down there is green!	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever __________________ "I am an underachiever and proud of it! Put this in your signature too if you agree!"

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:53:35 PM	#6
Da Letter El Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,882	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever

Mar 29th, 2012, 7:57:28 PM	#8
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	I have graded four quizzes! First, we have Fishin. He got a 4/10. Splendid work. Next up is Ditto. He also got a 4/10. Quite an improvement from last time. Now we have billymills. A 4/10 as well. What a genius. Then, there is DaLetterEl. He scored a 4/10 too. Hmm... He definitely didn't try to cheat. And finally, we have LightWolf. He only got a 3/10. The lone wolf indeed.

Mar 29th, 2012, 8:00:17 PM	#9
forks Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 225	look at me:forks, i (forks) am a huge over achiever

Mar 29th, 2012, 8:07:50 PM	#10
Fatecrashers UNH UNH UNH UNH Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 4,915	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever! __________________

Mar 29th, 2012, 8:51:22 PM	#11
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	I have just finished grading two more quizzes! Our first one was submitted by forks. He got a 4/10. Pretty average score, if I say so myself. The next submission was from Fatecrashers. He got a 3/10. LightWolf is alone no more.

Mar 29th, 2012, 9:00:42 PM	#12
ssbbm Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,001 Where you can play Pokemon with Singing Narwhals and Dancing Clouds	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever!

Mar 29th, 2012, 9:08:08 PM	#13
Ace Emerald Back in Emerald Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,238 Lost in thought Mentor	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever __________________ \|UU Hub\|Work\|

Mar 29th, 2012, 9:18:01 PM	#14
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	Some more over achievers finished their quizzes. The first one was ssbbm. He got a 4/10. So easy. The second one was from Ace Emerald. He also got a 4/10.

Mar 29th, 2012, 10:17:27 PM	#15
*jumpluff just came to say hello Super Moderator** Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,380 Location: Australia Mentor	Punishments have been dealt. __________________

Mar 29th, 2012, 11:04:52 PM	#16
HD Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,354	i am an incompetent user who has little to no reading comprehension i apologize for blighting the sign-up thread with my post of pure stupidity __________________ umbreon dan: i like huge dick <%billymills> is HD capt kirby? [16:47] <+Alchemator> imagining a claydol fapping is giving me great mirth [16:48] <+Alchemator> very erotic

Mar 29th, 2012, 11:31:30 PM	#17
Metal Bagon Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 1,669	At least I'm not Walrein.

Mar 30th, 2012, 12:17:17 AM	#18
Walrein Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,503 Texas, y'all	My poor sig ;_; o and the avvy sux too i guess __________________ <%minwu> happy feet, wombo combo, that ain't flacco Mafia players might be interested in this pun battle 2012

Mar 30th, 2012, 6:48:43 AM	#19
Crux Rawrr Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 934	Whilst it is true that advancement in this game is important I could not stomach the idea of hiding in the crowd in order to fulfil my own goals. To me, this is the ultimate cowardly act. You people, who have been deliberately scoring 4/10 in order to hide in the crowd should be utterly ashamed of yourselves. With that said and done, I have decided to be the only real man in this entire thread and try my absolute hardest. Look at me, I am a huge over achiever! __________________ "I am an overachiever and proud of it! Put this in your signature too if you agree!"

Mar 30th, 2012, 7:30:43 AM	#20
Galladiator Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,874 Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away	Good luck with that, Crux. And since I won't get my results without saying this: "Look at me. I am a huge overachiever." __________________ 14:15 Ragnarokalex i do believe its time to hit some children with sticks

Mar 30th, 2012, 9:51:40 AM	#21
SkullCandy She Bangs The Drums Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 558	Look at me, I am a huge over achiever! __________________ C&C The Smog I <3 the Stone Roses

Mar 30th, 2012, 10:13:54 AM	#22
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	We finally have some more graded quzzes! Our first submission was from Crux. He got a 7/10. Congratulations to the overachiever! Galladiator got a 1/10. Congratulations to the underachiever! And then, there was SkullCandy, who got a 4/10. Not bad.

Mar 30th, 2012, 3:54:15 PM	#23
zorbees Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,579	Look at me, I am a huge overachiever __________________ I HAVE WON THE BET

Mar 30th, 2012, 4:45:35 PM	#24
Quagsires Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,127 Somewhere...	Look at me, I am a huge underachiever! __________________ Credit to Bummerfor the avatar.

Mar 30th, 2012, 5:09:46 PM	#25
Bass I'm...feeling...faint... Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,228	zorbees valiantly turned in his quiz, being the over achiever he is. His score? A 4/10. Valiance does not equal honesty. Quagsires claims to be an underachiever. I don't reveal scores early to his kind.