Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the premier episode of the weekly forum poll,

Avatar wars!

In this game, two randomly chosen contestants wage a war of non-wit in a contest to determine who has the greatest forum avatar. The rules are simple: every forum member, including the contestants, have the ability to vote for their favorite avatar. After three days of voting, the contest will end, and forum goers will have the ability to see who won this week's Avatar Wars Contest!

UPDATE: After the winner of the contest is declared, the loser gets to choose who the winner will fight next by sending me a PM. If I do not receive a PM within 3 days (ie another contest must be created) then I will automatically choose another contestant for the winner to fight myself.

This week's avatar war will start on January 20th, 2010, and will end exactly 3 days later on January 22nd, 2010. During that time, contestants may promote themselves, bribe voters, trash talk opponents, and otherwise carry out whatever (non-lethal) action it takes to win the contest, besides the following:

Users may not hack or sniff incoming forum packets (obviously)
AND
Contestants may not change their avatars during the contest

Now, for your contestants....

ROUND 1:

VS.
Quadraxas versus Cowabanga!
WHO WILL WIN???

Avatar Wars is brought to you by forum user "Redeemer". Any questions or comments regarding the Avatar Wars ideas should be forwarded to him in a PM.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCMENT:
This week's Avatar Wars contest has ended! Congratulations to our winner, Quadraxas!

Stay tuned for our next episode, coming Wednesday next week, in which our champion must fight in another battle to determine who has the niftiest avatar!

Avatar Wars: Round 1 single choice
Quadraxas	69%, 22 Votes
Cowabanga	31%, 10 Votes
Total Votes: 32 Voting on this poll ends: 01/22/10 23:01

holy shit. you really did it.

this automatically disqualifies me. my avatar automatically changes every time you see it. (refresh the page ppl ) It could even be that, the one on the Redeemer's post and my avatar on this post is diffrent.

Unless you change your avatar's link in the middle of the contest, you are not disqualified. An avatar like yours might be considered an animated avatar.


They animate together, so this isn't the case.

@achaziel:
You bet I did.

soory i accidentally post

who chooses the next contestants after this round? the victor? you? who?

i think the winner should choose. but that's just me

This is a tough decision. Quadraxas' is quite cool (and helped by always looking different -- they're always cool). But Cowabanga's is "Ed, Edd and Eddy"!

If I'm feeling particularly pro-active, I'm tempted to make myself an avatar just to participate in this contest

Jibb

Good question. I originally thought I would pick contestants myself (just to make things a little random) but it might be interesting to have the winner of the last round pick someone to fight against. Of course that might be a little unfair because the winner might pick somebody who he can easily beat (like me).

Tell you what: the loser can pick who should fight the winner. He can send a PM to me containing the name of the person he wants the winner to fight next. That way nobody else would know and things will stay interesting.

nice contest xD