Do you want a Battle of the Members XIV?

[Burgey]

In fairness Christmas in summer is obscene

You wouldn’t know what a summer is, dickhead.

 

[fredfertang]

Data Protection

Bollocks

 

[GIMH]

You wouldn’t know what a summer is, dickhead.

We had one here this year tbf. And it’s quickly segued into an early and miserable autumn

 

[sledger]

In fairness Christmas in summer is obscene

This is the truest of all true things tbh.

 

[Athlai]

What's more Christmas than lighting up the barbie, heading down to the beach and having a chilly bin full of beers.

 

[sledger]

What's more Christmas than lighting up the barbie, heading down to the beach and having a chilly bin full of beers.

Literally everything

 

[Daemon]

Would you celebrate Christmas in July?

Happy New Year GIMH!

 

[Flem274*]

why would you want to celebrate christmas when it's freezing? christmas in summer is the way god intended it to be.

midwinter christmas in the southern hemisphere is basically an excuse for an office piss up in my experience. don't knock it.

 

[sledger]

why would you want to celebrate christmas when it's freezing? christmas in summer is the way god intended it to be.

midwinter christmas in the southern hemisphere is basically an excuse for an office piss up in my experience. don't knock it.

That's what it is everywhere

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Christmas is nothing more than a drawn out and tedious lead up to the Boxing Day Test

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

That's what it is everywhere

Except that it would be a second one every year?

 

[Bijed]

Just a couple of ideas (really nothing radical) I've got, so that people can talk me out of them and/or suggest improvements ahead of whenever this ends up happening:

- No automatic qualification for the top 64 or whatever posters - nominations only. I felt last time, and a few others commented, that a lot of names came up and they couldn't remember when they last posted, or just didn't recognise the name at all. I don't think it's something that can be totally avoided, but this should help keep it to a minimum.

- The progression last time went: 128 (16 groups of 8, top 3 advance) -> 48 (6 groups of 8, top 2 advance) -> 16 (8 1-on-1 knockouts) and then went into further knockouts from there. I thought it was a well designed format and handled the large amount of contestants as well as realistically possible. However, because there were a lot of contestants, it did inevitably take quite a while. I'd like to have only 1 group stage and go straight to knockouts, maybe starting from 32 depending on numbers. Also, we went through the knockouts at the rate of 2 one-on-ones per day, I'd probably go for 4 per day instead (with semi-finals and the final being given their own day(s))

 

[Prince EWS]

Just a couple of ideas (really nothing radical) I've got, so that people can talk me out of them and/or suggest improvements ahead of whenever this ends up happening:

- No automatic qualification for the top 64 or whatever posters - nominations only. I felt last time, and a few others commented, that a lot of names came up and they couldn't remember when they last posted, or just didn't recognise the name at all. I don't think it's something that can be totally avoided, but this should help keep it to a minimum.

Sounds like the nomination process could be tedious without it though. Maybe keep auto-qualifications but base them on something other than postcount -- finishing position in the last tournament, perhaps?

Ideally you'd use posts made since the last BOTM I guess, but it's hard to get that information without SQL database access, and it doesn't seem like something worth bothering James over.

 

[cnerd123]

I say just let the organiser compile a list by himself, and let people nominate anyone they feel is overlooked. Kinda like what Mr Mister did for his voting in CC.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah what ***** says could be easily done. Just choose some of the most popular recent threads across the subbies, copy paste the users in the post count list into excel and remove cells with duplicates, blanks, numbers.

Do a quick scan, add anyone you think missed out, trim the spambots etc. Post that list, give the people a few days to nominate the missing posters and you're good to go.

Here's a quick one of Asia Cup + Australian Domestic Thread. I think you'll get a good list if you combine this with a couple of the off topic threads (not the really old ones like what are you thinking/makes your day ruins your day etc) and politics threads.

*****
smalishah84
trundler
Black_Warrior
AndyZaltzHair
Agricultural
Prince EWS
Daemon
weldone
Borges
harsh.ag
vcs
Howe_zat
ankitj
TheJediBrah
Burner
Tec15
srbhkshk
SillyCowCorner1
Starfighter
slippy888
randycricfreak
andmark
jimmy101
artvandalay
fredfertang
S.Kennedy
Singh767
CricAddict
Cruxdude
nightprowler10
OverratedSanity
marc71178
Niall
BSM
SeamUp
YorksLanka
Bijed
Shri
Burgey
stephen
Mike5181
Maximas
GoodAreasShane
Migara
flibbertyjibber
hendrix
mr_mister
Arachnodouche
the big bambino
Gnske
rparikh14
brockley
NUFAN
morgieb
Top_Cat
ajdude
GotSpin
Spikey
Dan
social
Midwinter
NotMcKenzie
James90
Spark

 

[Mike5181]

Just list the half a dozen blokes that always win it and vote on them.

 

[Adders]

Here's a quick one of Asia Cup + Australian Domestic Thread.

WTF?? Way to disclude a whole heap of this forum you ****

 

[sledger]

Just list the half a dozen blokes that always win it and vote on them.

This is why previous winners should be barred imo. The entire thing is basically a formality.

 

[fredfertang]

This is why previous winners should be barred imo. The entire thing is basically a formality.

In all seriousness this is an excellent idea - seconded

 

[Athlai]

BOTM becomes CW Hall of fame