Voting / Tournament / LP's / etc Update
To see the final official announcement page or whatever with rankings and jibjab, http://buzz.culturalcare.com/post/833695076/cultural-care-au-pair-video-contest-winners#disqus_thread is the page. If you're curious as to the final vote totals: http://contest.culturalcare.com/entries/57230 is the same place to go. On the scroll bar at the mid-right of the page, click it and click "Top Rated"
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Tournament BS: Most of it I cover pretty decently. Just lemme know what your opinions are on the points raised.
I'm thinking a Di-type doubles with No STAB, Items, SR (Spikes/TSpikes allowed).
However: A BST total tournament and/or a Height/Weight tournament would be pretty cool too IMO.
I expect to do a "World Cup" style of round robin bracket such that everybody is guaranteed to play a handful of games. None of this "one and done" stuff. I DID run a double-elimination tournament in the past but it confused everyone and was just a bit too long.
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If you want to make an Intro/BG, I won't give you any tips/advice/information on what would fly. Leave it to your own creativity.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EcHoFiiVe is the dude who made my current BG.
Turn on annotations when you watch my vids. Not so much THIS one, but the rest of them I use pretty significantly.
And uhh........thats pretty much the summary. Any other updates/comments will be answered after this paragraph, or in a reply to a comment/PM, or with annotations.