friends! My name is Drench, and over the course of the next few measurements of time I'm going to let you choose your favourite
show of the past 30 years!
movie!
game!
fictional character ever! Our field, curated by PopWatch (a reputable source if I ever saw one), is as follows...
“Stephen Colbert”
,
The Colbert Report
Allie and Noah
,
The Notebook
Ally McBeal
,
Ally McBeal
Amanda Woodward
,
Melrose Place
Annie Wilkes
,
Misery
Austin Powers
,
the Austin Powers series
Barney Stinson
,
How I Met Your Mother
Beavis and Butt-Head
,
Beavis and Butt-Head
Bernie Mac
,
The Bernie Mac Show
Borat
,
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Bridget Jones
,
the Bridget Jones series
Buffy
,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cal Stephanides
,
Middlesex
Carrie Bradshaw
,
Sex and the City
Catherine Trammell
,
Basic Instinct
Cher
,
Clueless
Christopher Boone
,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
Clayton Bigsby
,
Chappelle’s Show
Corky St. Clair
,
Waiting for Guffman
Cosmo Kramer
,
Seinfeld
Daniel Plainview
,
There Will Be Blood
David Brent
,
The Office (original version)
Det. Alonzo Harris
,
Training Day
Dexter Morgan
,
Dexter
Don Draper
,
Mad Men
Dr. Gregory House
,
House, M.D.
Edward Cullen
,
the Twilight saga
Edward Scissorhands
,
Edward Scissorhands
Effie White
,
Dreamgirls
Elmo
,
Sesame Street
Elphaba
,
Wicked
Eric Cartman
,
South Park
Felicity Porter
,
Felicity
Forrest Gump
,
Forrest Gump
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
,
The X-Files
Frasier
,
Frasier
Gob Bluth
,
Arrested Development
Gollum
,
The Lord of the Rings
Gorillaz
,
the animated rock band
Hancock
,
Hancock
Hannibal Lecter
,
The Silence of the Lambs and its sequels
Harold and Kumar
,
the Harold & Kumar series
Harry Potter
,
the Harry Potter series
Homer Simpson
,
The Simpsons
Jack Bauer
,
24
Jack Sparrow
,
the Pirates of the Caribbean series
Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski
,
The Big Lebowski
Jen Yu
,
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Jerry Maguire
,
Jerry Maguire
Jimmy Corrigan
,
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
John Locke
,
Lost
Juno
,
Juno
Kara “Starbuck” Thrace
,
Battlestar Galactica
Karen Walker and Jack McFarland
,
Will & Grace
Kavalier and Clay
,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Keyser Söze
,
The Usual Suspects
Kratos
,
God of War
Lara Croft
,
the Tomb Raider franchise
Lisbeth Salander
,
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels
Lorelai and Rory Gilmore
,
Gilmore Girls
Madea
,
several Tyler Perry films and plays
Marge Gunderson
,
Fargo
Mary Jones
,
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphhire
Mary Katherine Gallagher
,
Saturday Night Live
Master Chief
,
the Halo series
Maximus
,
Gladiator
Mimi Marquez
,
Rent
Miranda Priestly
,
The Devil Wears Prada
Morpheus
,
The Matrix series
Napoleon Dynamite
,
Napoleon Dynamite
Nathan Drake
,
the Uncharted series
Niko Bellic
,
Grand Theft Auto IV
Omar Little
,
The Wire
Patty Hewes
,
Damages
Pearl the Landlord
,
FunnyorDie.com
Rachel Green
,
Friends
Red
,
The Shawshank Redemption
Ron Burgundy
,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Roseanne Conner
,
Roseanne
Sarah Connor
,
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Shrek
,
the Shrek series
SpongeBob SquarePants
,
SpongeBob SquarePants
Stewie Griffin
,
Family Guy
Sue Sylvester
,
Glee
Sydney Bristow
,
Alias
The Joker
,
The Dark Knight
Thelma and Louise
,
Thelma & Louise
Tony Soprano
,
The Sopranos
Tony Stark
,
the Iron Man series
Tracy Flick
,
Election
Tracy Jordan
,
30 Rock
Truman
,
The Truman Show
Tyler Durden
,
Fight Club
Vic Mackey
,
The Shield
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield
,
Pulp Fiction
Violet Weston
,
August: Osage County
Vivian Ward
,
Pretty Woman
Wikus van de Merwe
,
District 9
Wilhelmina
,
Ugly Betty
Woody
,
the Toy Story series
Out of these hundred, only one will win! That lucky character will earn its coveted spot in the Hall of Fame, one million dollars, and a headline spot on Logo TV's RuPaul's Drag Race National Tour! What an honour.
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UXYS is a game in which players vote to progressively rank 100 things from worst to best. It's great. I promise.
Playing
You may play at any time. You can vote once and never vote again, or you can wait until the final five and start voting. There is no set player list, so feel free to vote whenever you please.
Each update will appear at approximately 11pm AEDST every 24 hours. In addition, once 24 hours elapses since the last update - in other words, once it is 11pm - the update ends, and all votes are locked in. If there has not been an update for at least
6 hours after the lock
(or, if it is past 5am AEDST), anyone may post "NEW DAY", followed by any special events that need attention, and the game can continue.
Each update, you may vote once, and only once. Your vote may
not
be edited: it is locked in at once. You vote for a character
you want to lose
. Once a character receives votes equal to the Votes to Kill (which starts at five and increases by one for every ten characters eliminated), they are gone, perhaps even for good. There is, however, an exception:
no character can be eliminated with votes from only one person
. At least two people must vote for a character for it to be eligible for elimination. So throw those grudges outside!
Credits
For each vote you place, you will receive
two
credits. Exciting! These credits can be used for a variety of purposes. You can only earn a maximum of two credits each update, since you can only vote once each update. If you vote for a character two updates in a row, you will only receive
one
credit in the second update. If you vote for a character a third time in a row, you will receive
no credits
for the vote. The vote, however, still counts! You will continue to receive no credits until you vote for another character, after which everything will be back to normal.
Utilities
You will, 95% of the time, spend Credits to use Utilities. Utilities come in two flavours: Active Utilities and Ballot Utilities. The distinction is easy: Active Utilities are activated, and Ballot Utilities are used to vote. However, there's a catch:
to use any Utility, you must vote in the same update.
The Utilities are coloured here, but you don't need to use the colours to activate anything.
Active Utilities
Remember, to activate any of these Utilities, you
must
vote. In addition, many of the Utilities come in varying strengths, which is usually expressed as 'XY1', 'XY2', and so on. They will cost different amounts of Credits, expressed in brackets next to the particular Utility.
: Freeze Frames stop a character from receiving any votes for as long as the Freeze Frame is active. FF1, FF2, FF3, and FF4 go into effect for one, two, three and four updates respectively, and cost six, four, six, and eight Credits, respectively. A character may have two Freezes placed on it, no matter the type, and a character may only have one Freeze active at a time. Freezes
do not
take effect until the next update, but a character is
immediately
protected from death from the moment the Freeze is activated by a player.
Breakdowns - BD2 (8), BD3 (6), BD4 (8), BD5 (10)
: Breakdowns are the only Utilities that can remove votes from a character. BD2, BD3, BD4, and BD5 take two, three, four and five votes from a character, respectively, and cost eight, six, eight and ten Credits to use, respectively. Only one Breakdown may ever be played on a particular character.
Sudden Death Nomination (4 + Degree x 2)
: A character nominated for Sudden Death will, next update, be put up for Sudden Death. All players may vote
at least once
(explained below) on either an STAY or GO (or variations thereupon) to the Sudden Death. Depending on the Degree of Sudden Death in play (also explained below), if a threshold of GO votes is reached, the character is immediately eliminated. There is no limit to how many times you may use Sudden Death on a character, although it costs four Credits to nominate a character as well as an additional two Credits with every Sudden Death the character survives.
Ten Spot Nomination (4)
: A character nominated for a Ten Spot will, next update, be put up for a Ten Spot Vote. All players may vote
at least once
(explained below) on either an AYE or NAY (or variations thereupon) to the Ten Spot. Depending on the outcome (also explained below), the character may be granted a Ten Spot, which will immediately require
ten votes
on it for the character to be eliminated. Ten Spot Nominations may only be used on a particular character once, and cost four Credits to enact. Ten Spots are no longer able to be nominated for if either ten characters already have Ten Spots OR if the Votes to Kill reaches ten.
Ballot Utilities
Sudden Death Ballots (FREE + 1 Credit per Additional Vote)
: If a character is up for Sudden Death, each player may vote once on the Sudden Death, to the tune of STAY or GO. If this is the character's first Sudden Death nomination, 1/2 the votes being for GO will eliminate the character. If the character survives, they will be said to have survived the First Degree of Sudden Death. The next Sudden Death Nomination will therefore be Second Degree, and so on for as long as it is nominated. The vote threshold required to kill a character via Sudden Death increases for each Degree: the First Degree requires 1/2 GO votes, the Second Degree requires 2/3 GO votes, the Third Degree requires 3/4 GO votes, and so on. If you wish to place more than one vote on a Sudden Death vote, you may spend one Credit for each additional vote you wish to place. There is no limit to how many ballots you may place via this method.
Ten Spot Ballots (FREE + 1 Credit per Additional Vote)
: If a character is up for a Ten Spot, each player may vote once on the Ten Spot, to the tune of AYE or NAY. If a majority of the votes are for the AYEs, the Ten Spot is granted; if not, the character does not receive a Ten Spot. Like Sudden Death Ballots, you may spend one Credit to receive one additional vote, and may do so as much as you like.
There are also two special Utilities.
Special Utilities
Seek Revenge
: Once you cast fifteen votes, you will receive a Seek Revenge Token. Once you cast thirty votes, you will receive a second Token. You may, at any point, use one Seek Revenge Token to revive one of the five most recent eliminated characters, as long as they have not Sought Revenge previously. Once a character Seeks Revenge, it is back in play, with no votes, and may have two new Freeze Frames played, a new Breakdown, and so on. However, there is a catch: the following update, the character Seeking Revenge will automatically face a Second Degree Sudden Death. If it dies in Sudden Death, you've wasted your Token. If it lives, it is said to have already survived two Degrees: a good place for a character to be in.
Final Two Ballots
: If an action is taken that leaves only two characters alive, a new update immediately begins. Every player immediately spends all their Credits and receives an equal number of Votes in return, to be used in one final showdown between the two characters. You may use these Votes however you please - all on one character, equally between the two, or unevenly distributed between the two - but you will only receive as many Votes as you have Credits. So, if you're too passionate, your power in deciding the Finale will be decidedly slim.
You are not only encouraged to, but are advised to use all Utilities to sabotage each other. FF1 and BD2 cost
more
than their higher counterparts for this reason: they are exceedingly good at ruining the designs of others. Remember, you may change your vote at any time until the next update is posted.
Lastly, in case of conflict: actions are resolved in post order,
except for
Seek Revenges, which are always resolved last. If we're near the Final Two, a check is taken after
each and every vote and action
. If there are, at any stage, only two characters remaining, we immediately transition into the Finale, even if you had a Seek Revenge waiting in the wings.
Have fun.
Spoiler: Final Two Procedure
Once there are only two characters remaining, the current update ends immediately, even if a status post is not immediately forthcoming.
a. Once the update ends, no further Credits may be earned. Therefore, once only two characters remain, Credit totals are locked.
24 hours will be dedicated to any and all arguments for either character left standing. This is the only time players may openly solicit support.
Once 24 hours passes, the thread will be locked. At this point, all Credits are converted to Final Two Ballots, and voting begins, by PMing the Manager of the Finale a vote delegation.
a. Simultaneously, a public poll will be established, the results of which will proportionally allocate any unused Ballots.
b. No players are to communicate with each other, nor with anyone outside the game, about the vote during this time. The only communication permitted is between the Manager and a player, and only for the purposes of prodding and objective information. A breach of this rule will, at the very least, invalidate your Ballots.
Once 72 hours pass (weekends not included), voting closes. The winner will be revealed in a timely fashion, and final results will be made available. Unused Ballots are credited to the two characters in proportion to their share of the public poll vote.
To ensure parity, an Umpire will verify all totals. The Umpire will, upon the commencement of the voting period, immediately receive the Manager's delegation, to ensure an unbiased delegation from the Manager. Players will also be asked to CC the Umpire, although any PMs that do not will be forwarded regardless.
a. The Umpire is Xalxe.
Last edited by Drench on Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:28 pm, edited 7 times in total.
Hey uh, there's a couple of places where it says the wrong category for the round (instead of "character" a couple say "game" and one place still says "show" ). I'd find the examples but I can't currently Ctrl-F...
In post 6, xtopherusD wrote:Hey uh, there's a couple of places where it says the wrong category for the round (instead of "character" a couple say "game" and one place still says "show" ). I'd find the examples but I can't currently Ctrl-F...
I was rewriting the rules from a previous UXYS so that happened a bit.
"I, too, would prefer to know the Xalxe of my demise." - Felissan, 2022
- On this day in history: mundanity, and terror, and food, and love, and trees -
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
"I, too, would prefer to know the Xalxe of my demise." - Felissan, 2022
- On this day in history: mundanity, and terror, and food, and love, and trees -
There's a lot of people on here that I want to kill off early that may be very popular with the rest of you, so I'm going for that first. of course edward cullen and hancock and whoever else is going to die.
Formerly DemonHybrid. I play mafia extremely occasionally. I run the Song Contest. You can find me there. My GTKAS My old account
). I'd find the examples but I can't currently Ctrl-F...
