Honestly, all the negativity and sniping at @Thee Idiotic Minivan K has really soured me on this whole thing. I checked out even before the voting started, and I don't know that I'll want to participate again next year. Too much pettiness.
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Was it more than just Midnight?
Hmmmmm, looking back thru the threads, it was mostly @The Midnight. A little bit of @Elizah Huge doing it, too, but mostly Midnight.
@Thee Idiotic Minivan K did a job.
But to be able to run this thing properly you need more than that.
By my count, he had:
- refused to listen to anyone’s suggestions on anything (it’s his way or the highway) i.e., he completely ignored the playoff format @SoberasHotRod suggested
- refused to make the draft ordering transparent, i.e., let a non participant do the draw or video tape it like @Keefe used to do
- messed up the voting format, i.e, someone had to step in and do the formatting for him
- refused to let Eliza run the tourney because - by his words - “I’m too proud to give it up”.
Thee is a good dude i’m not doubting that.
But there comes a point where you either have to do a better job, or change your way of doing things or if you dont want to do neither then just step aside and let someone else do it.
At the end of the day all i want is transparency and fairness not just for me but for everyone involved.
This isn't a Congressional hearing, there is no need to follow parliamentary procedure. It's not even a formal tournament, it's just a few people screwing around during the offseason.
I'm not defending Thee, although some of your complaints are trivial and some of them are just the nature of the beast. What I'm saying is that your actions and stridentness are driving me to not want to participate again. You called him out, multiple times, to text people when it was their turn, even if only a minute or 2 had gone by since the previous person picked. You are now complaining that he didn't take some people's suggestion, while not even acknowledging that he did take OTHER suggestions. He explained over and over why he had problems with formatting, and while I admit it's less than ideal that he has those limitations, none of this should have been a shock to you, given that it came up in the last draft less than a month ago.
Again, I'm not defnding him. I find some of the same things annoying, too. But what's worse to me is you nagging him about stuff that doesn't matter anyway.
I don't have anyone on ignore, but I have lots of posters on mental ignore, or in other words I just skim past their comments about a specific topic. The only problem is when they change their avatar and it messes me up for awhile.
Listen, nobody is FORCING him to do the tourney.
Nobody’s holding a gun to his head.
Eliza had offered to take over - all he had to do is take the offer.
Instead he insisted on continuing because of his “pride” despite all the issues I’ve outlined.
Why not think about the greater good for once?
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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I only felt negativity from the midnight
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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Felt like most everyone came to bat for me, and really I’m not all that bothered by the midnight. It’s his evil genius ways.
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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I worked tirelessly on this texting tagging and not once did anyone request for me to update picks. I ran the draft the way I felt comfortable doing it. Were there mistakes, yes, but I’m human and imperfect. This isn’t a life or death competition it’s a way to have fun and make the off-season less tedious. @The Midnight you need to learn to relax and enjoy yourself. There’s more important things to life than just a bunch of people having fun, you act like this is life or death.
As for formatting I’m not the most organized person in the world. If that bugs you then do what another poster did and help out.
I forget who helped me with the formatting and I apologize for that, but I was grateful for it so thank you.
As for @Elizah Huge at the time I thought he was trying to take the draft away from me when he posted something like if I do the draft would Log join. Whether it was an insult or not, I took it that way if it wasn’t I apologize. Had Elizah pm’ed me asking to do it I would’ve happily let him. I may have misread that situation if I did I’m sorry.
Personally I hate the whole voting part of this activity, and feel we need to find another way, maybe @Tony Jones and some of his reporter buddies would enjoy critiquing the teams next year I don’t know.
@gandalfe ive always enjoyed you’re involvement in this exercise. Sorry you didn’t enjoy it this year and I understand, but hope you’ll rethink your position for next year cause I enjoy you in this competition and have enjoyed your teams over the years.
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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By the way, third round matches will go up sometime today, if anyone wants to do a write up, I will give you a few hours, but expect the matchups to be up today