monopoly...

there is a clear monopoly for monopoly - when will V roll the dice and come pull the plug on this slaughter??!?!??

As much as Monopoly is the classic, but I've got to give some love to Sonic 2 - I can't even begin to describe the hours of my childhood that were lost to that game. (Am I the only one that made a point of killing/losing Tails though?)

Nostalgia factor for the win.

Haha, no! I used to do that, too. The best levels for killing Tails were Chemical Plant Zone and Casino Night Zone.

You weren't alone, my friend.

Despite a spirited fight by Sonic 2, Monopoly emerges as the winner of this Showdown!!


Monopoly - +1!!
Sonic 2 - -1
Counter Strike - -1


For this category, ManchestrMorgue, Fortunato and Hammerfan cannot be challenged again.

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Someone please come forward and choose a category from the above Grid.

In case of "Mixed Bag", you may offer your choice as - R1, R2, C2, C3, or D1.


After that, you may choose two (or three) opponents from the list below :-

Anonymous - 2, 5, 6, 9
Alkytrio666 - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Angra - 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9
Bwind22 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chronogrl - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Crabapple - 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
Dante'sInferno - 2, 5, 7, 8
Despare - 1, 2, 3, 4, 9
Disease - 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Ferretchucker - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
Fortunato - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Freak - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
Gorephobia - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
Hammerfan - 2, 4, 7, 8, 9
Haunted - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
ManchestrMorgue - 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
Massacre man - 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
Milktoaste - 1, 3, 4, 6, 8
MissMacabre - 2, 3, 4, 8
Neverending - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Newb - 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9
Papillon Noir - 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Roderick Usher - 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
Roshiq - 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Scouse Mac - 2, 4, 6, 7, 9
The Return - 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
Zero - 2, 6, 7, 8, 9

(Numbers beside participants' names indicate the category codes they have been challenged in and so CANNOT be challenged in those category codes again)

Also, you may choose three opponents to challenge each other without getting involved in the match yourself.

MissMacabre, Zero, and anonymous

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ROUND 1 SHOWDOWN #52


Category - 1 (Fav Horror Movie)


MissMacabre, Zero and Anonymous have been thrown into the arena!!



CORNER 1

The Evil Dead

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CORNER 2

Profondo Rosso aka Deep Red

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CORNER 3

Dawn of the Dead

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Choose, HDC.

The gladiator which runs to 5 first, wins.

Tough one! I like them all a lot.

DAWN OF THE DEAD

Dawn of the Dead

dawn of the dead

Evil Dead!

The Evil Dead

Evil Dead........

Dawn of the Dead

hmmm....Going with Evil Dead.

The Evil Dead pulls off a fighting comeback and wins this Showdown!!

The Evil Dead - +1!!
Dawn of the Dead - -1
Profondo Rosso aka Deep Red - -1


For this category, Zero, Anonymous and MissMacabre cannot be challenged again.

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Someone please come forward and choose a category from the above Grid.

In case of "Mixed Bag", you may offer your choice as - R1, R2, C2, C3, or D1.


After that, you may choose two (or three) opponents from the list below :-

Anonymous - 1, 2, 5, 6, 9
Alkytrio666 - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Angra - 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9
Bwind22 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chronogrl - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Crabapple - 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
Dante'sInferno - 2, 5, 7, 8
Despare - 1, 2, 3, 4, 9
Disease - 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Ferretchucker - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
Fortunato - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Freak - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
Gorephobia - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
Hammerfan - 2, 4, 7, 8, 9
Haunted - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
ManchestrMorgue - 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
Massacre man - 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
Milktoaste - 1, 3, 4, 6, 8
MissMacabre - 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
Neverending - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Newb - 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9
Papillon Noir - 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Roderick Usher - 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
Roshiq - 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Scouse Mac - 2, 4, 6, 7, 9
The Return - 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
Zero - 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9

(Numbers beside participants' names indicate the category codes they have been challenged in and so CANNOT be challenged in those category codes again)

Also, you may choose three opponents to challenge each other without getting involved in the match yourself.

I'll take Scouse and Return for 3.

ROUND 1 SHOWDOWN #53


Category - 3 (Fav Book)


Papillon Noir has challenged Scouse Mac and The Return!!



CORNER 1

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

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CORNER 2

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

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CORNER 3

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

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Choose, HDC.

The gladiator which runs to 5 first, wins.

No doubt in my mind.....The Lord of the Rings

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Lord of the Rings is a series of books, not one book , even though it was written as one. If there are three different titles and three different covers then they cannot count! I DEMAND THEY BE STRICKEN FROM THE LIST!


Lord of the Rings.

what shenanigans are these??

dawn of the dead has won every single film tournament ever and now it loses.

i think this is anti-simian conspiracy!!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - a striking, violent criticism of modern society and one of the most powerful novels ever written.

Versus Lord of the Rings, a convoluted mess of plotlines and high-fantasy nonsense that were made into an equally convoluted (though far more entertaining) series of films.

I think you know my vote.

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Lord of the Rings.

Truly magical. Return- you have no soul.

Sorry to vote against home town boy though. Had the distinct pleasure to meet Kesey a few times.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Vote House of Leaves!

Darker, scarier, and more complex than those other two books (one of which is not really a book, but a series, so that shouldn't even count! :p ). House of Leaves is your own claustrophobic journey!

For those of you unfamiliar with the story and concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

i loved HofL but then heard an interview with the author and he sounded like a pompous git - (besides LOTR is just so epic)

still - much love to papillon long-stockings!

authors are lame (except for you, Doc ;) ), glad to hear there are other HofL readers.

ROFL Papillon Long-Stockings! :D

did you read his follow-up? i meant to buy it but just realized i never did - i think it was called Revolutions and you had to actually rotate the book to read it or something like that

One flew over the cukoo's nest

Yeah, I didn't care for it. It was an interesting concept where there are two main characters and you get each perspective depending on the direction you are reading, front to back or back to front. It was written more in a flowing poetry form and I'm not a poetry person. It also was kind of this hippy road journey that I could care less about. It felt kind of thrown together and not as intense as HofL. It's kind of hard to top a book that you spent 10 years writing for a book that only took a year.

I just cannot get in to Tokien's writing...the only word I can think of to properly descriobe him is convoluted. I'll admit that I haven't read the series in full - only read about 3/4 of Fellowship - but it was so messily written I just couldn't be bothered.

That was a couple years back though...I may give it another try someday.

That's how I feel about Tolkien too. I just couldn't get into it. I remember reading like 20 pages on different kinds of hobbit grass or something. Good thing they came out with the movie. :p

Good grief- the man has managed to remain in print & popular for over 60 years and you can summarize his work as "messily written?" The fault lies not in the author but in the reader, metrhinks.

Lord of the rings

Peter Jackson's best selling novels. :D :p


Seriously, those movies totally ruined the sales of the Tolkien books. I don't believe anyone has asked for any of the books in like 4 years now. Sad..

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