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Discoinferno | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 11:32 pm     Voting for Survivor: Marquesas Opens Monday! Yep, we're back (see post below for longer, more dramatic version of this announcement). Voting for Episode 1 of Survivor: Marquesas opens Monday. This week only, Standard and Unspoiled players can vote until East Coast showtime on Thursday night. (Next week, Unspoiled voting reverts to the Monday night deadline.) Woo woo! [ 2/24/2002 11:44:59 PM ] Survivor Deadpool: A Drama in One Act (and Nine Beers) The three upstanding gentlemen behind the Deadpool (you knew there were three of us, right?) enjoyed beers this weekend at Grace, a bar in downtown Manhattan where we know the bartender. It's a good bar and he's a good bartender. The topic of discussion: should we run the Deadpool again for Survivor: Marquesas? Now, let it be known that we love Survivor and we love our little website. But there are times when the demands of running a site cause... issues. Like remember during Survivor: Africa when the site sometimes, uh, didn't work on Thursday afternoon? On days like that we'd get hundreds of emails from users with their votes. Subsequently, we would spend Many Hours inputting those votes by hand. Our bad, to be sure, but still not much fun... Initial sentiment seemed negative for another run with the Deadpool. We realized we hadn't even looked in our email inbox since the end of Survivor: Africa. (We just checked it now. 252 unread messages. Oops, and we still owe prizes to the S3 Deadpool winners. Don't worry, that will happen. And we'll read these emails.)... We ordered another round of beers and started talking about the upcoming season. Surely, Mark Burnett won't pack the show with losers again, will he? No way! Nutjobs-a-plenty, we reasoned. Plus, rumors of romance! And then we realized how sad we'd be if we didn't have the Deadpool to make our own Survivor obsession somehow meaningful... The third round was on the house (thanks, JJ). And somewhere deep in those glasses, we made the fateful decision to ramp this baby up for another joyride around the neighborhood. Lock up the kids, put away the dogs. We are ready to rumble. Damn the consequences! New for Survivor: Marquesas: Tough Love To preserve what remains of our fragile sanity, we've upgraded the Deadpool servers again. We hope they work this time. (If you are reading this: so far, so good.) Frankly, we can't afford to upgrade them again, so if they go down occasionally, that's just going to be life. Because of this, we're taking a you-snooze-you-lose attitude this time around. Please don't email us your picks this season. Login and vote sometime before the last possible second and you'll be fine. If you think this sounds unfair, remember, it is only a game and we are only human. Otherwise, the Deadpool should run pretty much as it did last season. Some of you might have missed that Alliance owners are now allowed to expel players from their Alliances at their discretion. That replaces the "auto-boot" rule for unvoting players that never quite worked right. Meantime, we're working right now to open the voting by Monday. Standard and Unspoiled Game Types If you played Standard or Unspoiled during the Africa tournament and want to switch your game type, drop us an email. Changes can be made up until the voting deadline this Thursday. If you're happy with your game type, you don't need to do anything new to play this time around other than logging in and voting. Thanks for Your Support Finally, we would be dangerously remiss not to express our extreme gratitude for the generosity of the hundreds of you that donated to the Deadpool Fundrasing Drive in January. Truth be told, it played a large part in our decision to do this again. It's gonna be fun. Come along for the ride. |
Muse | Sunday, February 24, 2002 - 11:58 pm     Thanks for the heads up, Discoinferno. |
Twiggyish | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 05:53 am     woooohoooo!!! Now I have to start agonizing my vote! |
Jenhavins | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 05:55 am     WooHoo! I am ready and willing to go down in flames! |
Spygirl | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 06:02 am     GAME ON!!!!  |
Fflur | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 01:34 pm     Is it just me or does this group look harder to handicap?  |
Discoinferno | Monday, February 25, 2002 - 03:46 pm     THANK YOU Fflur! I'm only going with Peter because of that first boot rumor story.... |
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