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EDIT: I've decided on a game: Street Fighter Alpha 3. The last time we did this game, it was a lot of fun, and I figure this is a great one to start with...however, the rules are going to be a little different, in order to make up for inequities in the last set of rules. To register, please list your AIM screen name in this thread - and contact another player to start playing. The League Phase is a round-robin - everyone who wishes to join the tournament will be included, but in order for your matches to count (for yourself or your opponents) you must play at least 3 opponents. During the League Phase, winning a match is everything, but the first tiebreaker is MOST losses - you will always be rewarded in some way for winning a match. The League Phase AND Registration will end on Sunday, October 5th @ 11:59 pm EDT. You may join the tournament on October 5th @ 11:00 pm, and if you play three matches in one hour then your games count. The Bracket Phase will consist of all players who won a certain given number of matches - at least 3 wins must be achieved, and you must be ranked better than at least half of your opponents...aside from that, I may limit the round more due to tournament size. The Winner Picks the Next Game (please refrain from a fighting game, but since this is the first time we're redoing this then maybe it's not a big issue). Match Format: All matches will have the same general format: Normal Speed 5 Rounds Slow Timer Low Damage Play until one player has won THREE fights - if there happens to be a tie, replay the fight (but two double K.O.'s in a battle are particularly unlikely). DO NOT USE ONE CHARACTER MORE THAN TWICE. If there is an issue regarding a player choosing a character in round 1, then the player hosting must choose first. USE KAWAKS 1.59 If you have problems finding the rom or getting hooked up, send me an AIM (metzgerism).

Why are so many of you going to weird, out-of-the-way, technical colleges? It seems like over half of the people I meet online are going to Some Institute of Something that I've never heard of. GO TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL PEOPLE. Lol. I'm joking btw, but seriously I'm puzzled by it - I went to a big high school, and my main requirement for college was that it was big...so I'd have a LOT of different opportunities. I guess I did some - I played rugby, was in marching band, and had my own radio show(s) for several years.

I just graduated from a state school with a BA, relatively cheap and my mother was able to pay for everything I needed. That said, I have seen enough from the rest of the world to know that you really need to watch out... If your grades are not-so-good then you'll want to consider JCs and CCs...also your SAT scores (although it's over half a decade since I've worried about these things) are going to have some impact on where you get accepted, as well as the size of your graduating class in state and nation. Basically, I have no gauge as to how good you need to be - I got a 1400 on my SAT (pre-essay) and walked in with a 3.7 GPA, and in suburban California that doesn't get you into the school of your choice, but I wasn't fighting through remedial classes - which are another issue. Basically, I have three pieces of real advice for you: 1) If your goal is a university (not a 4-year vocational), I suggest you go there NOW. Schools on quarters will stress you out but get you out in 4 years if you're on-the-ball. Going to a JC first, or a semester school, will probably doom you to the five-year plan. It took me 5 years to get out, and I was at SJSU the entire time. If I had gone to a JC I would probably still be taking classes. 2) If you don't know what you want to do, go with a throwaway major - in a field that you have good grades in. It helps on the application to appear to know what you want to do. Once you get to school (depending on the school), you can change your major when you get there. If you're not going to be serious about it from the get-go, then you need to change it immediately (and of course make sure that they will LET you change it). I know too many people who wasted time either not knowing what they wanted to do or changing majors in the middle of their college career. 2a) I have a degree in broadcasting. That's really not getting me anywhere - the objective was the B.A., and I also have a minor in political science, which I am planning to turn into a double-major through night classes. Moral of the story: don't change your major in your junior year if you can help it...although I had an easy major...slog it out, get the B.A., and then get a second major if that's what you really want. 3) MONEY. Applications, SATs, AP tests, everything costs money. However, everything that you are doing in your junior and senior years of high-school are one-time fees, and not the real kicker. The real kicker is LOANS. Loans are a difficult beast for college students, just like they are after college. Most loans have little nuances that make them different from others, but they (should) follow the same basic formula: a) Every loan has an interest rate. That's how they get their money. The "interest due" each month is 1/12th of the APR times the remaining balance. This means that if you have a 20k loan at 12% APR, you will owe the loaner $200 in month one, plus the $20,000 over the life of the loan. If you don't pay this $200, then you will owe $20,200...and then for interest you will owe $202 in month 2. And the vicious cycle continues. Some loans calculate differently, so be aware. c) Some college loans will "defer payment" until after you graduate, or 6 months after - or at least they say that. I don't really know. If I was a loaner, I would be stacking up interest on you while you're still in school. It's immoral, it's wrong, and it's capitalism. But it's pretty much legal - read the hidden text and don't let a loaner do ANYTHING for you - do it all yourself. d) "Co-signing" and "my parents signed for the loan too so I can get more money" means that if you don't pay your loan back when you graduate, they take your parents house. No joke. So you won't even have a place to go back to when you fuck up. There are some loans that are alright, I'm assuming, but financial aid is some tricky business, and I wouldn't trust anyone except for the people that work at your school - and only after you've asked a nauseating number of questions to fully understand the situation. Keep asking - it's their job to tell you, and if they don't know then they're not doing their job right. But if you don't extract the necessary information from them, then the joke's on you. WATCH OUT COLLEGE IS CRAZY. So for the neg neg attitude out of this one, college is a lot of fun, especially if you engage in recreational drug use, alcoholism, and promiscuity! Find some friends, have some fun, and ditch that high school shit, cause they're not going to know if you're a freshman or a junior transfer.

Here's a bit of a clarification: 1964 - Metal Gear Solid 3 (Go with Subsistence version) 1970? - Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops 1995 - Metal Gear (MSX2) 1999 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2...although, I'm not sure if this one takes place before or after MGS1) 2005 - Metal Gear Solid (Go with Twin Snakes version) 2007/2009 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 2014 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots And personally, I would go for the PSX version - I never played Twin Snakes because I didn't own a Cube, but I dumped hours onto MGS and it remains the ultimate classic. There's a reason why the Shadow Moses section of MGS4 has a very Super-Metroidy feel to it...it's the one we all started on, for the most part, a revival of a poetically dead series that got revived in major style.

This would have been more funny if the spambot revived Rueben, instead of a thread about Rueben.

O well. Tournament closed.

sure u can play next time or something i don't really know this thing is so hard to get people excited 4. omg wai.

btw you have until May 4th now

Four. It's easier to read in all caps - check the standings. Should I extend the first round and registration one more week?

http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=3095&gid=1&sid=22728&code=PANAVO130 estevao 1-0 dPaladin Won on time He had me totally pinned after a bad endgame move where I lost a rook to a fork. Not the way I want to win a game, that's for sure, but I'll take the full point when I can get it

ОЧРШЛ одно три четыре три четыре нул! Welcome to the OverClocked Remix Chess League "134340" Tournament. The format will be identical to the last tournament. To register, make a new post in this thread, including your AOL Instant Messenger screen name. Games will be played on iGoogle Game Center. POST EVERY RESULT IN THE THREAD, including the LINK to it. Here are your (tentative) deadlines: ---Sunday, April 20th, 2008--- Registration Ends ---Sunday, April 27th, 2008--- Open Phase Ends ---Friday, May 9th, 2008--- Closed Phase Ends ---Sunday, May 11th, 2008--- Final Phase Ends The tournament will consist of three phases: The OPEN PHASE is a single-round-robin with everyone else in the tournament.All colors are ASSIGNED. Check the standings (at the end of the thread) and cross-reference your opponent with your color. The CLOSED PHASE is also a single-round-robin, but with fewer people (2(√½(number of first round players)). Colors will be switched from what you had in the first round. The FINAL PHASE is a one-game, winner-take-all final, with the higher finisher choosing color. Use AIM to set up a game. Use 30/0 clocks. iGoogle Game Center is the official OCRCL chess server. Scoring is as follows in all tournament rounds: win = 1 point draw = ½ point loss = ¼ point Хорошее везение, имеет потеху, одно три четыре три четыре нул!

pwnt. 10char

GJ peeps 134340 would be proud - we actually made a finish lolz. Any suggestions on new tournament?

FINAL liviuo vs. dPaladin liviuo has choice of color (switch color if game 1 is a draw). First to WIN one game WINS tournament.

Hardly a compliment.ok. BTW the enemy's gate is down.

sorry for not posting second round standings yet, but it's dPaladin at 1, and myself at 0.25. That's 1/15 games played so far, and one week left. March 28th is the deadline for this stage here.

Thompson is an asshat and doesn't deserve the media scrutiny. Hopefully this will put him away for good. Or rather, PWNED. Until DISBARRED.

dPaladin 1-0 estevao, in a game I should have won. http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=3095&gid=1&sid=20252&code=GUDACO520

134340

Hey hey final round one standings.