You're stuck here.

So, a notice to you all:

For the next 5 days, I shall be killing myself. For some reason, I decided to take on 10 hours of voluntary overtime this week, which means that I shall have a 50 hour work week. I shall be working from 7:30 to 6 this week. 5 straight 10-hour days.

Yes, I'm nuts. And I know that by the time Friday comes, I will probably sleep for the entire 3-day weekend (as MLK Jr. day is a paid day off for me).

Why am I doing this, you ask?

Because after I get paid for said overtime, I shall have the funds to purchase a Wii as soon as they come back in stock at the various gaming/retail stores near me. I have $210 now, and the overtime will put me somewhere near $350.

Because of the sleep deprivation, I will probably not be on any IM program at all, or if I am, it'll be very brief. The VGH contest will continue as scheduled, however. I'll probably end up coming home, update the contest, then crash.

Reminder: contest begins at 7:30 PM tomorrow night. Good luck to you all.

Right now, though, it's 9:15, and if I wanna get up at 6:30 AM, I'm gonna need plenty of sex to tire me out, which is my next objective.

Nighty night, all.

VGH Pre-Contest Post

You know, I should really know better by now. This is the 6th contest I've done, and I should already have ingrained in my head the fact that no matter how much time I give you, I will always receive a majority of entries in the final 3 days before the deadline. ALWAYS HAPPENS. I always worry that I won't have enough, and then you all enter in the final days. Call it blind optimism if you may. Ah, well. Regardless, thanks for entering. We have 21 entries, making it the second largest entry pool ever. If I were to add myself into the contest, we'd have a tie for 22. However, as the deadline has passed, you can no longer make any changes to your entry.

The contest begins tomorrow night (January 8) at 7:30 PM ET. How it will work is this (and this is primarily for you newbies, since this has been the same format for the last couple of contests):

I will post two polls of the same battle: one here on my LJ, and one at Fantasy World Forum (http://tiduskingdom.suddenlaunch.com). This means you have the ability to vote twice; once in each location. To vote on Fantasy World, however, you must be a registered member. Voting on my LJ simply requires that you can access it. Two battles get posted per day.

In order, the divisions are: Nibelhelm, Time, Mutant, and Shadow Moses. We begin tomorrow with the first two battles of the Nibelhelm Division, Round 1:

Battle 1 consists of (1) Cloud Strife from the PS game, Final Fantasy 7 vs. (32) Prince Myer from the NES game, Deadly Towers.
Battle 2 consists of (17) Ryudo from the Dreamcast game, Grandia 2 vs. (16) Serge from the PS game, Chrono Cross.

Round 1 will have the following point system: 25 points for each correct prediction, 0 if you're wrong.

The battles and leaderboard will be updated nightly, unless mentioned otherwise. To check the current stats out, check out Fantasy World or the header of my LiveJournal. It is also at this time that I URGE YOU TO PRINT OUT OR SAVE A COPY OF YOUR CONTEST DIVISIONS. After tonight, I get rid of them from the Bracket Maker web site as to prevent possible cheating. If you can't print, then save each division as a file.

And now, your 21 entrants who will be vying for the grand prize:

EyesOfATragedy (champion of my first contest, Final Fantasy)
Saya (champion of the 4th contest, Female Gamer)
Mort
Kinie (champion of the previous contest, Colosso)
Kat (first contest!)
DaUnknown (first contest!)
Sputin
Crystalguardian (first contest!)
MusicalRicardo (first contest!)
ShadowNaddan (first contest!)
C&T (champion of my 2nd contest, Video Game Villains)
Zack
Magus
Alyssa
Halflingspy
TetsuoTrunks
Brie
Zephyrus
Zergplex
Jesse
Diamond

I, who will be keeping an unofficial tally of my own points, won the 3rd contest, Super Smash Melee.

A note for all you FW members: any points you earn during this contest will become your gil.

Remember, if you have any questions, please ask. Or, refer to the Contest FAQ: http://www.fantasyworldnet.com/vghcontest.htm

Good luck to you all.