Don't tease the octopus, kids!

That's right, it's lovely Feb-rue-airy in the old Eyeson, so it's time to pull together, perform our collective civic duty, and elect a new governing body. Fear not, this body will have no power, will do no governing, and will most likely not even be remembered except by the victors and by Del Murder, who remembers everything about this crazy place.

As your dutiful Election Booth, I shall explain to you the proceedings. Later you may repay my favor by stuffing my body with slips of paper, and in Mik's case, cucumbers.

First of all, here at Eyes on Final Fantasy, we do not believe in the two party system. Why have two parties when you can have six? Yes, this year there will be six parties, unless by some chance the lot of you are able to orgazine seven or eight worthwhile, not-totally-sucky parties and also find eight members for each. I also suppose that if you can only pull together four parties worth voting for, I could handle that too. But I would prefer that we have six.

All members of Eyes on Final Fantasy are allowed to join a party, form a party, make fun of the entire event, or simply pretend none of it exists. Only one member is so sorry and pathetic that he cannot participate. Yes of course I am referring to the "right bloody tosser" known as eestlinc. He won't be taking part, so apparently neither will Bruckner. You may all take a moment to cry now.

Each party will be required to meet the following requirements in order to be included on the official ballot of the elections:

1. One member designated as the party leader. Because Eyes on Final Fantasy believes in the separation of powers, no member of the forums staff (Admins and Cid's Knights) may be a leader of a party.

2. A list of at least seven other members. You may include as many members as you want on your official application, but at least eight members (including the party leader) must be actual living, posting, non-banned members of Eyes on Final Fantasy.

3. One official signature banner. A party may of course have multiple banners, sigs, avatars, facial tattoos, etc. However one must be chosen to be presented as the OFFICIAL banner. Naturally this banner must meet the EoFF signature requirements.

4. Each member of the party included on the official membership list in the application (including the party leader) must specify which ONE forum they wish to lead. Yes, each member may only run for ONE forum. All forums are available for candidacy EXCEPT the Staff Forum, the Garbage Forum, and the World of EoFF (Eizon). If there are any other weird hidden forums that I can't see, you can't run for those forums either. Since this gives you 30 forums open, the more members a party has, the more forums they can possibly represent.

5. The official membership list will appear in the following format, with each member numberes in arabic numerals, the actual screenname of the member, a dash, and the forum for which that member seeks candidacy:

1. Meow - Final Fantasy I-IV
2. Skogs - World Events
3. balambdropout - Final Fantasy VIII

and so on. Be sure to also designate which member is the party leader.

6. One official slogan. It must be ten words or less and written in a language understandable to at least five people. No symbols other than letters are allowed, although letters with diacritical marks are acceptable. ALso, please do not use any words that are filtered out as being "profane".

7. One party mascot. The mascot must be a character (playable, NPC, enemy, whatever) from one of the NUMBERED Final Fantasy games. No tactics, no mystic quest, no fflegends (if they even count), no crystal chronicles. Please include a picture of the mascot in your application. If two or more parties choose the same mascot, however, I will freely reassign unique mascots to those parties. You are warned.

8. Applications for official party status will be accepted through Friday, Feb 18th 2005. I live in the Eastern Time Zone, which is GMT -5, so adjust your deadline accordingly. Once my clock rolls over to 12:01 am on the 19th, no more party applications will be accepted.

You are free to interpret the rules however you wish, but I am free to disagree with your interpretation and disqualify your party.

Please make threads in General Chat (or some other forum if you really want) to announce prospective parties, attract members, and discuss official party platforms. Once the official parties have been announced, I will also announce the mechanics of the campaign and voting. Don't forget to PM Election Booth with your party application by the deadline. I would prefer the party leader did this.

Feel free to discuss the elections, hype your party, or whine about how Peter can't join your party right here in this thread.

Awesome. I take it we can start our party threads now?

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IT IS THE YEAR OF THE GOOMBA
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everyone but me can start party threads now.

:tumble: :rock:

*takes a moment to cry* :(

:<3: Leeza. Also take time to sticky this thread.

Also, following Spiff and my lead, anyone starting a party thread, please have the party name in parenthesis in the title, unless you title the thread "____ Party".

"7. One party mascot. The mascot must be a character (playable, NPC, enemy, whatever) from one of the NUMBERED Final Fantasy games. No tactics, no mystic quest, no fflegends (if they even count), no crystal chronicles. Please include a picture of the mascot in your application. If two or more parties choose the same mascot, however, I will freely reassign unique mascots to those parties. You are warned."


But Final Fantasy SUCKS. We all know this.

I should rethink my mascot....

well, this <i>is</i> a final fantasy message board.

I can't wait till Spiff finds the Final Fantasy character most resembling a Goomba. :cool:

well, this <i>is</i> a final fantasy message board.

Lies. Everyone knows this is Eyes on Free Fish.

There was a Goomba in Final Fantasy 7. I saw it. Right after they revive Aeris, I swear.

2. A list of at least seven other members. You may include as many members as you want on your official application, but at least eight members (including the party leader) must be actual living, posting, non-banned members of Eyes on Final Fantasy.
Do these members have to be willing members? Or could one, let's say, have a Gang-pressed Party?

I got a screenshot for you. Goombas are our mascot.

Yarr. *cough*

Sorry, but memories from last year's Pirate Party are still haunting my dreams.

Even more evidence. This cutie has got an encounter rate of 1/1*10^23
And yes, Mario is actually 4-5 times bigger than Terra.

I've already got the perfect mascot. Now, I've just gotta come up with a Final Fantasy mascot, too.

By an astonishing coincidence, I've managed to miss every single election since arriving here, probably to the delight of everyone involved.

No such luck this time, I'm afraid. :cool:

1. One member designated as the party leader. Because Eyes on Final Fantasy believes in the separation of powers, no member of the forums staff (Admins and Cid's Knights) may be a leader of a party.
So you're forcing me out of not only defending my title but also forcing me out of a race against Psy? :( I think it's pretty unfair that you make a competition that the staff aren't allowed to have fun in, especially after I've been planning this party for quite some time now... I always look forward to running a party in these elections. It's what motivates me after a quiet January. :(

You could always stand down as admin. :D

I'm actually seriously considering doing that for the elections if I have to. I really do love getting involved in these things... I was absoloutely gutted when I read that bit. Considering us staff actually do a lot of work in EoFF, it's nice when we can get involved in the fun, too.

Hooray, it's that time again. :)

So you're forcing me out of not only defending my title but also forcing me out of a race against Psy? :( All my anti-BoB propaganda is going to waste, I guess.

Wasn't going to do it, but the other parties suck. *throws hat into the ring*

chaos: :love:

So you're forcing me out of not only defending my title but also forcing me out of a race against Psy? :( I think it's pretty unfair that you make a competition that the staff aren't allowed to have fun in, especially after I've been planning this party for quite some time now... I always look forward to running a party in these elections. It's what motivates me after a quiet January. :(
You could always start a party and name someone else as your puppet leader. That's the name of the game after all.

I think the requirements opens up some great possibilities, like adminning Psychotic right before the deadline so that the BAotW party is disqualified. Del Murder was also a party leader last year. I'm sure he'll find a way around it.

But I'll consider the rule since it seems to only really serve the purpose of oppressing BoB.

If I choose to be leader. :)

BoB should be able to run ;-;

It's also not necessarily the case that party leaders will face off in a vote. The challenge of party leader is to take more seats. Just not any of these seats:
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But he made the party, it's a continuation of parties he's had other years, and now he has to give it up to someone else because of some silly technicality? That's no good.

BoB should be able to run ;-;
BrB, going for a run.

Elections are all about silly technicalities!

You are free to interpret the rules however you wish, but I am free to disagree with your interpretation and disqualify your party.


I'm also free to agree with your interpretation, so you could just, like, run it anyway and ignore the rule.

I'd rather know for certain if it was allowed or not, so I don't let a lot of faithful #eoff party members down...

whine about how Peter can't join your party right here in this thread.
GreyShadowedFox: How could leave me off the Member list in your BATOW topic? ;_;
Skykotik: Banned members are not allowed to be members :-(
GreyShadowedFox: PREJUDICE
Skykotik: Election Booth even said in the thread something about complaining about you not being allowed to join a party!
Skykotik: He mentioned you specifically!
GreyShadowedFox: Link?
Skykotik: http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=55952
GreyShadowedFox: I feel so loved. ;_;
Skykotik: I'll whine! Using this AIM convo!
Skykotik: AIM convos are always used to whine by professionals :D
GreyShadowedFox: Haha.

I'd rather know for certain if it was allowed or not, so I don't let a lot of faithful #eoff party members down...

You're the one with the real power, edit EB's post to change the rules ^.^

There should be rules against too much "ROLF you party sux we party b33t j00 ass lol". Making jabs about a party's theme is all fine and dandy, and so is a little friendly competition, but some people tend to go just a little too carried away with it come election time.

Those people are called "retards," don't let them get to you

We should also place restrictions on having fun. :rolleyes2

I love this time of year.

We should also place restrictions on having fun. :rolleyes2


:lol:

Said restrictions are already in place, amigo. Just gotta ignore 'em.

Heh, this should be interesting indeed. Now which party to join...

You're the one with the real power, edit EB's post to change the rules ^.^

That's the spirit! Who says elections are about honesty and ethics?

As the leader of the party in power, shouldn't BoB have some sort of control over the election's rules anyway?

Those people are called "retards," don't let them get to you

Aye, and they just climb into one <s>internment camp</s>party, all of their own free will. How delightfully convenient it is to have a list. :)

I think I have the answer!

Aye, and they just climb into one <s>internment camp</s>party, all of their own free will. How delightfully convenient it is to have a list. :)

Your quote is still up in the Bring Back Shlups Buns thread :greenie:

Ansem: Is it just me, or are there no FF mascots anywhere?

Kounetsu: I haven't seen one... meh whatever, I hate government. HAIL ANARCHY! *runs off to grab Trowa's trumpet*

No, Ansem. Talking in multiple personalities isn't how that guy got to be an RM, so it's not going to work for you.

Ansem: Kounetsu doesn't want Trowa's title...

Kounetsu: I want him!

No, Ansem. Talking in multiple personalities isn't how that guy got to be an RM, so it's not going to work for you.

Ansems been like that for ages, and Trumpet got RM for being an overseer for a few months *shakes fist* :p

No, Ansem. Talking in multiple personalities isn't how that guy got to be an RM, so it's not going to work for you.

I think he's just doing it to be unique, actually. Not everyone wants to be an RM.

I think he's just doing it to be unique, actually. Not everyone wants to be an RM.

But look at all the power and adoration we receive!

I think he's just doing it to be unique, actually. Not everyone wants to be an RM.

"Nonconformity is all the rage these days."

I didn't realise that people were still being RM'ed. The BAoTW party will put a stop to this! :cool:

I didn't realise that people were still being RM'ed. The BAoTW party will put a stop to this! :cool:
One of the two members that were RM'ed is a W-Boat. xD

One of the two members that were RM'ed is a W-Boat. xD

And some b*****d Site Staffed me, I will get my revenge *shakes fist*!

Edit: Actually could be worse I could have been modded, now that would be a nightmare

Who else is an RM? It'd be much more convienent if they were on the forum leaders page. >:O

One of the two members that were RM'ed is a W-Boat. xDDidn't you consider the possibility that they might be a spy?

Because you shouldn't. :shifty:

Who else is an RM? It'd be much more convienent if they were on the forum leaders page. >:O
Current RM's: Ashi, Chickencha, Drex, eestlinc, Giga Guess, Nait, Rirse, Shoyku, Skye-chan, Squally Leonharty, TheAbominatrix, Trumpet Thief, Umi_Butterfly. Trumps and Gigs where the latest to be added.

chaos: I love how everyone always complains about my existance. :love:

chaos: I love how everyone always complains about my existance. :love:

I was complaining about BoB's exsistance :cry:

Weren't the baotw and the Newbies the same two top parties from last year?

Uh-huh. But only 33% (8/24) of our current party membership were members last year, so...there you go!

I was a newbie last year :rolleyes2

see, we surely can do better than the same two parties.

It's only BAoTW's second election! Newbies have been there since...forever!

Besides, Fabio Party is just a modified version of Mik's Sex Slave Party which was basically the Bruckner Party without eest.

And the Ace Party aren't exactly brand new either, are they? :p

I re-started BAoTW because last time we were so close, and if Levian had've remembered to vote, things would have been very different. Probably.

If the Fabio party doesn't make it, then I'm not taking part in the elections!

*waves at Fabio*

The Pirate Party had more seats in the last elections than any other party, if I remember correctly.

Then how did you win?

Then how did you win?

Bribes, in what can only be called left, right and center

Ooh, Pirate Party! They were basically just the Thief Party but with more Pillaging and less stealing. And it could just be argued that the Goomba Party = PP but with less HOOTERS and more Spiff.

And plus I could also suggest that Goatsecs = Conservatives = Nazis.

IT'S ALL ENDLESS REPEATS! :whimper:

IT'S ALL ENDLESS REPEATS! :whimper:

Like BBC 1?

Ok. But at least the name and gimmick changes. That's ok though, it's not like I can expect anything to surpass the creative genius of the Elitist Party.

Elitist Party: Because we're better than you.

Geez, we changed the banners, what more do you want? :p

(And technically, the name is also different :D)

And the Ace Party aren't exactly brand new either, are they? :p


The Ace Party was absent last year. :p

So if you take a year out it's suddenly completely original?

To new members, yep. It's the same as with BAoTW. Down with Del!

Yeah! Down with Del!

Up with Fabio! :)

we need the Tentacle Penetration Party

You're fortunate for that rule, otherwise I would take you all down.

Just wondering, do party leaders also have to run for a forum?

Read the rules, pr00t. They shall tell you.

chaos: Psy you modwhore!!!!111 [/Modwhore]

Sorry, I was trying to be just like my idol, Del Murder. After all this is over, I will copy his sig, just so as to be like him :love:

Then how did you win?

Me. xD

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Me. xD

Certainly wasn't because of me, I lost to Xander :cry:

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.I'm a cool boy :)

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Hey, that's pretty good. Mindy would be proud.

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And now I have found an avatar. Oh happy day! :D

EDIT: Hmm...text on sig needs to be bigger. Eh, I'll fix it later :roll:

I used Kay during the gender swap. Good times. You're more of a Fredo, though.

Yeah, but Fredo is like a spoon: There is no Fredo. :(

This sounds like fun. Who came up with this idea?

Are you people sure this needs to go on for 2 weeks? BAoTW already have 28, and Ace and #eoff are on 10 and 14 and it has been just 2 days.

People will probably end up getting fed up. :o

I still need two more people, hold on.

Mabe after two weeks people will start leaving your dumb parties. You have to make it worth the wait.

They'll probably be too apathetic to make a conscious decision to do that.

This sounds like fun. Who came up with this idea?

Mindfart did. A looooong time ago.

When you say people can't stand for the Staff forum, do you also mean the Site Staff forum (The one with the EoFF Map thread in it) too?

Because unless I counted wrong...which I probably did...that leaves just 29 forums.

Exactly how many secret forums are there?
Because there should totally be totally secret forums representing different groups of EoFF ninjas, like the hidden villages in the anime Naruto, cause that show is totally awesome.

Because unless I counted wrong...which I probably did...that leaves just 29 forums.

chaos: Hey, I counted too; And without the Staff Forum, that leaves 29 forums. And the BAoTW does have 29 members :D

I'm sure he means the General Archive. :p

we need the Tentacle Penetration Party

Dear Gods, <i><b>yes</b></i>.

there are 30 open forums, including Site Staff and General Archive.

<i><b>3. One official signature banner. A party may of course have multiple banners, sigs, avatars, facial tattoos, etc. However one must be chosen to be presented as the OFFICIAL banner. Naturally this banner must meet the EoFF signature requirements.</b></i> - Election Booth

Some members are not adhering to the sig limits as I've noticed more than one *cough*Carnage*cough*DJZen*cough* that are far over the filesize limits. Just a heads up before I start removing them, if they're not corrected while I'm still online. :)

Signature limits
A maximum width of 550 pixels.
A maximum height of 250 pixels.
These include any text in the signature outside images.
Total file size of all images combined must not exceed 50 KiB (51,200 bytes).
Any signatures not following these or any signatures with questionable or problematic content will be removed/edited by staff, and you may have your signature editing privileges temporarily disabled if this happens several times.

Isn't your sig outside the width restriction, Leeza, or am I just imagining it? :o

(Fabio is 360 x 208 and Ultros is 200 x 147 so 360 + 200 = 560 = 10 over the sig limit)

It would be for the old style, but the new style has more allowed for the width because of the av on top of post setup, but I'm not sure of the exact limit. It's rare that I remove any sig for the width anymore with the new style because it has a lot more space.

But you are correct and I will remove my spaces because it would be over the limit for the old style and I guess that's what we still have to go by.

So...what's the width limit for the new style?

I don't think that there really is a different limit for the new style. We were discussing it, but because most people still use the old style, the limits still have to be usable in there as well so the old limits are still in place. I just don't remove many(I don't think I've removed any actually) for width if the person is using the new style.

I've resized my Ultros so I'm within the limit. :)

I've struck a blow for the tens of thousands* whose sigs have been corrected by Leeza! :p

*give or take a few.

another election debate topic: new style vs old style

Old style. Hands down.

well duh, but have to save the debating for the actual campaign.

There are currently 12 parties formed. Only 3 have 8 or more members for Official Party Status. Those are identified in the list with *.

#eoff Party, The *
Ace Party, The *
ANT! Party
BAoTW Party *
Fabio Party
Fluffy Pink Party
Goatsecs Party
Goomba Party, The
Liberal Party, The
Party People Party, The
Snow Party
Unne Avatar Party

Some of the cooler parties need more members. BAoTW should have a salary cap.

I agree. Though, there's only thirty forums, so I say 30 members should be the limit.

Everything seems to be going along nicely thus far. Best of luck to everyone involved in this process and may the best party win!

Take care all.

I agree. Though, there's only thirty forums, so I say 30 members should be the limit.
I say for every page their thread goes, they get to have one less member.

I say for every page their thread goes, they get to have one less member.
This would be <i>too</i> excellent. :)

I'm living, I'm posting, I'm not banned.

Clever BoB, too clever!

It was not my idea. It was the idea of a superhero. Or a superhero in disguise.

You mean hooters?

Oh My GAWD

Second account! Cheating!

This is politics, cheating is part of the game.

I thought it was a clever loophole. It really does make me cry, though. No adminship for EP.

Bugger off. That just means my threat worked.

Threat? I thought it was a promise of doom and destruction.

I'm only posting so I don't see another Dr Unne avatar continue on.

Damn you, Proto, you wrecked our chain. >=o

Threat? I thought it was a promise of doom and destruction.

More of a promise of a Christian Friends Network forum where I talked about how much I worship Satan, but close enough.

No Eskimo Deathmatch forum?

Unne Chain (3)

Bonus gained!

Oh wow, more people whining about BAoTW. That's like sooooooooooooooo August.

This could be the start of a beautiful BAoTW chain. :D

Oh wow, more people whining about BAoTW. That's like sooooooooooooooo August.Who cares? We're the group everyone loves to hate. I for one am quite proud of that.

*breaks the chain before it starts* :p Go pink party!

Who cares? We're the group everyone loves to hate. I for one am quite proud of that.Yeah, but if it was Bleys with 30 members, people like Del would be going "OMG YOU HAVE SO MANY MEMBERS AND PAGES THAT'S SO AWESOME I THINK I WILL GIVE YOU A MEDAL!!!!!!!!!11111111111!111!!1!" :rolleyes2

Although we don't have 30 members. Try 31. HA HA. (Baloki, being Baloki, doesn't want to stand. That'll teach you all to vote him for Best Site Staff!)

Everyone hates Jojo. :)

Yeah, but if it was Bleys with 30 members, people like Del would be going "OMG YOU HAVE SO MANY MEMBERS AND PAGES THAT'S SO AWESOME I THINK I WILL GIVE YOU A MEDAL!!!!!!!!!11111111111!111!!1!" :rolleyes2That's the point. No matter what we do we're villains, and let's face it, villains are far, far cooler than heroes could ever be.

Come on, would you rather be Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker? Agent Smith or Neo? Dick Dastardly or Peter Perfect?

Hated people are cooler, more powerful and in our case sexier than anyoone else. Poor us. :D

Everyone hates Jojo. :)

That's not what you said last night ;)

That's not what you said last night ;)That was before I developed the herpes infection.

PS: Insects.

If I had 30 members, believe you me, someone would be whining. I mean, look at the Nazi Party. People were whining and I had three.

Sometimes being former staff means that people look twice as hard for a reason to hate you.

EDIT: By "sometimes," I actually mean "usually." But, hey, at least it's not as bad as the current staffers have it.

EDIT2: And Psy, you're doing it right now. &lt;WhinyVoice&gt;But maaaaa, if Bleys did this it would be ok&lt;/WhinyVoice&gt; The stupidity of how people react to me, be it positive or negative, is not my fault. If people would, for just ten seconds look at me as a who and not a what, nobody would have anything to whine about.

And if I still had my mock "Cid's Knight" title, I'd have it twice as bad.

...whatever happened to that thing, anyway? =o

Probably lost in one of the numerious recent server moves...

Refresh my memory regarding the elections, are there debates?

Take care all.

No debates, just mindless propaganda and lots of lies/deceit.

It's quite a lot of fun, actually.

I think there ought to be debates. Wait, that's where Election Booth asks us questions.

I think there ought to be no cakes.No cakes? ELECTORATE, PROTO IS A CAKE HATER! Do you really want to vote for someone that hates cakes?

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=43080

We didn't have debates last year, per say, but we did have questions to test our credibility.

Better the devil you know than a W-Boat.

OUR Credibility? You weren't a candidate last year, Stri, as your Brett Favre Party collapsed :)

But he's a candidate this year, cos' he's in the best party :love:

I was answerin' the Cap'n's question, thanks.

By "our", I meant everyone involved. You live in England, you should know English!

Yes, you used the first person plural pronouns "we" and "our". Using second person means that not only were you referring to others, but yourself as well. You were stating that you were also asked questions. You were not! You lied!

I am happy to see the parties evolving. Eventually, all the candidates might begin walking on their hind legs too.

Don't count on it.

Woof.

It's gonna be tough for me to follow up on my masterpiece of a poem last year.

I'm willing to consider shortening the party application deadline, but only if a bunch of parties start turning in official applications. Or at least if I see five or six parties with enough members.

Can we still make a party?

there's plenty of time. You should think carefully about what party you make, though. As you can probably tell, the eoff members are a quite discerning bunch when it comes to party affiliations. They won't sign up for just anything.

Just a question, once we turn in our official application, can we still campaign for new members or once we send in our application with our members, that's it?

You can make the official application and then once I get enough and if I decide to cut short the registration period, I'll give everyone a day or two to send one membership/forum update.

I think the Fabio Party is going to need all the time it can get! :)

Well that's odd. The Unne Party is doing fine...

Just goes to show that Dr Unne is so much sexier than Fabio.

I agree. :moomba:

The Elitist Party spits on your membership requirement. Or, we would spit, if we felt you worthy of our saliva.

So would it be safer to turn in the application now just in case you cut off the applications when you think you have enough? Even though there's still members/things to be added/changed?

What's this "we" stuff?

EDIT: in reply to Del's post

I'm sure Del found at least one person he deems worthy.

Under what rock?

Probably Shlup's ass.

How do we submit applications? PM our threads to EB? :P

fill out the official application, which is basically just a list of each of the requirements, and PM to Election Booth. Or ShlupQuack.

I believe he wants us to list our party's memberlist, include thee banner, slogan, mascot, and all the jazz.

You mean yes, basically.

Shlup is in the pink party :P She can change your results! *cackles*

Not that she would care enough to, I suppose =P

She lavished praise on the Unne Party, though.

Under what rock?
http://www.geocities.com/sirokai/sunspot/megaman/Megaman.gif

Not Agent Mega!

Pfft. Del's good, but he's not <i>that</i> good.

Rockman slept with who?

I always figured Rockman would be on top.

*pokes at the octopus multiple times with his poles*
Pssh, I expected something to happen, this octopus is worthless.

SEAFOOD SOUP.

now back to election related discussion.

So far so good with these elections. We've gotten usual fuddy duddys like Yams and Shlup out of the closet. I of course credit myself for this after their participation in last year's Elitist Party. I'm so great.

I think it'd be better for the parties to be given whatever time they feel they need to represent 30 forums. If two or three parties can get 30 members, then it'll be much more interesting as it won't be a simple "reply with anything you like, you're going to win it anyway" ordeal.

there's plenty of time. You should think carefully about what party you make, though. As you can probably tell, the eoff members are a quite discerning bunch when it comes to party affiliations. They won't sign up for just anything.

LIES!!

As you can probably tell, the eoff members are a quite discerning bunch when it comes to party affiliations.

Yes, the members of the BAoTW Party will be able to vouch for that.

As you can probably tell, the eoff members are a quite discerning bunch when it comes to party affiliations.Yes, the members of the BAoTW Party will be able to vouch for that.
When did I post that?

Apologies. I always get you, the head and the bin mixed up.

Out of context, I find that very amusing.

Yes, it is, isn't it?

I posted that, and if you can't pick up on my sarcasm then you MUST be a baotw follower.

As far as parties needing 30 members, that ins't necessarily the case. I would't get too excited about running unopposed for the dirge of cerberus forum.

Well, 3 parties are on 30 anyway, pretty much, so nothing will go uncontested.

AND NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DIRGE OF CEREBUS! I thought that was the one safe seat we had! But oh no, Vincent Valentine thinks he's too good for us so he sells us down the river to Ace! ...yeah.

(Party Leader takes over vacant slots, no?)

Well, 3 parties are on 30 anyway, pretty much, so nothing will go uncontested.

AND NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DIRGE OF CEREBUS! I thought that was the one safe seat we had! But oh no, Vincent Valentine thinks he's too good for us so he sells us down the river to Ace! ...yeah.

(Party Leader takes over vacant slots, no?)
I thought party leaders have to pick a single forum.

That's what I perceived too. EB didn't say Leaders can't run for a forum.

It's also not necessarily the case that party leaders will face off in a vote. The challenge of party leader is to take more seats. Just not any of these seats:
<img src=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002LF8BS.01-A12WUTA4T01HJK.MZZZZZZZ.jpg alt="you've got to be kidding me">It's just what I interpretted this to mean.

Take MORE seats, combined with there being no vacant ones = My theory!

The rules don't say anything about whether or not leaders can/have to run for forum. I guess we'll just have to ask Election Booth.

4. Each member of the party included on the official membership list in the application (including the party leader) must specify which ONE forum they wish to lead.

Shut up or I join The Ace Party. :mad2:

Yep, just as I expected. You lose.

Shut up or I join The Ace Party. :mad2:
:D!

everyone but me can start party threads now.

:tumble: :rock:

This is inaccurate.

...Proto, I didn't say the party leader DIDN'T have to pick a forum. I said that the party leader MAY be assigned additional forums where their party is not putting up a candidate. :p

WOO ACE PARTY!

We have 15 members and rising now ^_^;

No, Party Leader's don't take leftover forums. You get one just like everyone else. I have other plans.

I like leftovers. :greenie: I need to remember to make my party.

Or you could join my party. Not that you have to. I have plenty of available forums for you to feast on.

But I don't play cards...

You can join the pink party, we love you :love:

But I don't play cards...

:D

speaking of which, shouldn't Cid join the Ace Party?

:D

speaking of which, shouldn't Cid join the Ace Party?

He totally should! :D

Nuh uh...he should join Unne!

Nuh uh...he should join Unne!

And make you guys invincible? That doesn't sound good...

Why can't we have this election the same as last years, when you had parties with only 10 candidates with each running for several forums? It's better than looking for 30 candidates to fill the entire forums. :(

The main problem is that so many more people would miss out, and the elections should provide fun for all. I love the elections, and I love the new system.

Then, what about the parties that can't get more than 10 members? Do you even care about them?

Parties only need 8 members to stand, instead of last year's 10. Under the new rules, a party with eight could stand, but if we reverted back to the old rules which you want to, they could not.

Therefore, these are fairer at giving more people an opportunity to take part.

Heaven forbid, I think I agree with Psy on this one. :p This is only good for involvement.

Therefore, these are fairer at giving more people an opportunity to take part.

Quite right, even though most of this year's parties never got off the ground.

Shame.

But the Fluffy Pink one did and that's all that matters ;)

I think last year's rules were more about providing a balanced final voting stage, and this one more about wider participation (Which is why Proto wants to revert back because he feels the fact that his party currently has less members than #eoff and BAoTW will be a hinderance - he should know that EB has something planned to balance that out :p)

From what I've seen around the threads, I think this is the current state-of-play, for anyone interested.

<b>General Chat</b>
Spritz (W-Boat)
fire_of_avalon (#eoff)
Agent Proto (Ace) - LEADER
Leeza (Fabio)
clouded sky (Pink)

<b>Eyes on Each Other</b>
Rusty (W-Boat)
Jebus (#eoff)
Behold the Void (Unne Avatar)
Giga Guess (Ace)
Giggles (Fabio)

<b>World Events</b>
DMKA (W-Boat)
Chickencha (#eoff)
Meow (Fabio)
Kalen (Pink)

<b>The Lounge</b>
Rye (W-Boat)
Kirobaito (#eoff)
gokufusionss1 (Ace)
Not At All Reno (Pink)

<b>General Gaming Discussion</b>
Maxico (W-Boat)
Endless (#eoff)
Joel (Ace)
Raven (Fabio)

<b>Arts and Writing</b>
Jellisaurus (W-Boat)
black orb (#eoff)
Lucky Charms (Ace)
Miriel (Pink)
Calliope (Fabio)

<b>Site Staff</b>
Rainecloud (W-Boat)
Loony BoB (#eoff) - LEADER

<b>Help Forum</b>
kikimm (W-Boat)
Samuraid (#eoff)
o_O (Ace)
ShlupQuack (Pink)

<b>Feedback Forum</b>
Denmark (W-Boat)
RSL (#eoff)
Raistlin (Unne Avatar)

<b>General Archive</b>
Psychotic (W-Boat) - LEADER
Lord Krang (#eoff)
Super Christ (Ace)
Lady Fidela of Confide (Pink)

<b>FF I-IV</b>
Ultima Shadow (W-Boat)
TheAbominatrix (#eoff)
Dr Unne (Unne Avatar)
DJZen (Ace)

<b>FF V</b>
Faris (W-Boat)
frunk (#eoff)
DocFrance (Unne Avatar)
ShivaBlizzard8 (Ace)
Blackmageboi (Pink)

<b>FF VI</b>
Doomsday (W-Boat)
Flying Mullet (#eoff)
Doomgaze (Unne Avatar)
Strider (Pink)
Mythus (Ace)

<b>FF VII</b>
Dr. K (W-Boat)
Mindflare (#eoff)
Jojo (Pink)
SePhO_zO (Ace)

<b>FF VII:<i></i>DoC</b>
Fuzakeru (W-Boat)
DoomAntenna (#eoff)
Streetspirit (Pink)

<b>FF VII:AC</b>
amratis (W-Boat)
Cloud_Strider (#eoff)
Destai (Ace)

<b>FF VIII</b>
Trumpet Thief (W-Boat)
Squally Leonharty (#eoff)
Yamaneko (Unne Avatar)
louby_4eva (Pink)
Silmaril (Ace)

<b>FF IX</b>
Phil (W-Boat)
Meghan (#eoff)
Genius Lynx (Unne Avatar) - LEADER
boris no no (Pink) - LEADER
Leene (Ace)

<b>FF X</b>
Czech. Republic (W-Boat)
SonicYouth (#eoff)
The Man (Unne Avatar)
Little Miss Awesome (Pink)
SeeDRankLou (Ace)

<b>FF X-2</b>
Xander (W-Boat)
Dragon Ash (#eoff)
dark_angel (Ace)
Resha (Pink)

<b>FF XI</b>
Hardwood Hank (W-Boat)
Bert (#eoff)
Citizen Bleys (Unne Avatar)
demonsdragon (Ace)
Mikztsu (Fabio) - LEADER

<b>FF XII</b>
Jack (W-Boat)
Mirage (#eoff)
Mokona (Pink)
Sephiroth1999AD (Ace)

<b>FF Tactics</b>
Misfit (W-Boat)
enano (#eoff)
New Black Mage (Ace)
Skye-chan (Unne Avatar)
mschmidtFF (Pink)

<b>FF Tactics Advance</b>
Azar (W-Boat)
Heath (#eoff)

<b>FF CC</b>
Stupid Moomba 88 (W-Boat)
Chris (#eoff)

<b>General FF</b>
Pure Strife (W-Boat)
Ichimonji (#eoff)
Flamethrower (Ace)
PearlRose (Pink)
BlackCape (Fabio)

<b>VGM/The Spirits Within</b>
Sweet_Angel (W-Boat)
Chibi Youkai (#eoff)
Dark_Paladin_Cecil (Ace)

<b>Chrono Trigger/ Chrono Cross</b>
Takara (W-Boat)
MecaKane (#eoff)
strawberryman222 (Ace)

<b>Kingdom Hearts</b>
Ansem (W-Boat)
WarZidane (#eoff)
Starlight Angel (Ace)
The Summoner of Leviathan (Pink)
chionos (Fabio)

<b>General Square Enix</b>
Ouch! (W-Boat)
Del Snizz (#eoff)
Maxx Power (Ace)

Miriel (Arts & Writing)


There's an Arts & Writing Party?

Oops. xD

Bah! pink's missing out on a lot of good forums xD We just claimed like all the FF ones, haha.... *considers changing* ...but FF7 is great too. :|

Also JellisaurUs and Hardwood Hank (shame on you for not remembering that, BoB!) kthx :) Also you forgot Ouch! and he will be upset that you did.

Fixed. I expect Lynx to put his name down for GC, but I won't jump to conclusions.

EDIT: And psh, I copy/pasted a list from your thread (http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?p=981334&highlight=Levian#post981334) when I started this thing, and the name "Levian" was listed. Don't go barking up my tree!

Was it MY post? No! :p

Thanks for the <s>useless</s> excellent facts as always, BoB.

:)

:love: I LOVE YOU PSY :love:

Yeah, most people do. :cool:

Final Fantasy VI looks like it'll be a real struggle.

<b>Site Staff</b>
Loony BoB (#eoff) - LEADER

I think you missed one, oh and for heavens sake sort out your coding, its poor, you should never, NEVER mix tag types!

<b><i>Why?</b></i>

<b><i>Why?</b></i>

If you were running for site staff you'd understand :rolleyes2

You can do it Strider! Adam and Mullet and them gots nothin' on ya ;) Besides, Adam is SHORT and Mullet STINKS. :)

good, good.

Eesty are you closing applications soon or do do we still have time to procrastinate til we send it in? :)

technically you have another week. I'll let you know if that changes.

ok this is really random ..but i'm sure most of u know what FMV and CG stand for so can u plz tell me!!!!

Fenrir's Molotov Valkyries and Creative Gestahl. They're both parties in this year's election. Go check out their threads in General Chat. :|

Looks like we have our six parties, now that the Fabio Party reached 8 members.

So the list looks like the following, according to the number of members..

1. BAoTW Party
2. the #eoff Party
3. The Ace Party
4. Fluffy Pink Party
5. The Unne Avatar Party
6. Fabio Party

Hey Proto, we could have a jolly old prediction session like the Ciddies! I'm sure I'll beat you in those again, though! :p

pfft. You're going BAoTW all the way. I know you.

Haha, you couldn't be further from the truth :)

I'll log in as EB sometime this weekend and see if I have six official and acceptible applications.

Don't we have until th 18th to send in the application? I'm waiting for all the forums to be represented by members of the #eoff party voluntarily, otherwise I'll just send them in on the 16th or something. If you're changing the dates, don't forget to give us 2-3 days notice! :)

Yea, if I do change the date (which I probably won't because I'm busy during the week) I'll give plenty of notice.