Once again, it’s time for the biannual Screen Name Competition! I know, I know. I can barely keep my excitement contained, too. That exclamation point at the end of my name? Yeah, that’s because of this tournament. New to EoFF? Wondering what the SNC is? Let’s go to my good friend copy/paste for answers!

For those of you unfamiliar with the competition, 128 screen names vie for the grand title of greatest screen name ever—or at least the best on EoFF. Competitors are divided into eight brackets of sixteen screen names, in which they’re divided into eight different match-ups. You (ideally) select one name from each match-up. The screen name with the majority of votes wins the match-up and moves ahead to the next round. For a more detailed history, check the wiki.

There will be seven rounds in this tournament, and so as to not prolong this too much, I’m gonna go ahead and make each round last about two days (so the tournament as a whole lasts two weeks). Ties will be broken by a randomly selected member who has not already voted (and by randomly selected, I mean I’m just going to pick a name off of the list of people who are currently online while I’m tallying the votes). With all that aside, let’s throw down the rules.

The Rules
1. Don’t post your votes.
2. PM your votes to Ouch!.
3. Vote for one name in each match-up in each bracket (you should have eight names left in each bracket).
4. If you do not wish to vote for a specific match-up (for example, you do not want to vote for or against yourself), just omit it from your votes.
5. Please vote for a majority of the match-ups.
6. Title PMs accordingly for easy recognition (Psychotic is apparently exempted from this rule).
7. If you wish to change your votes, title the PM “Vote Changes” and list only the votes you wish to change.

A handful of people have had trouble with the bracket-style voting in the past, so I made this nifty tutorial which cleared things up!

If the sample bracket looks like this:

Bracket 01
1. Frank
1. John
2. Melinda
2. Bill
3. Beth
3. Lauren
4. Jessica
4. Alex

Then your vote would look like this:

Bracket 01
1. Frank
2. Bill
3. Lauren
4. Jessica

This means that you should have eight people in each bracket, not one. Each match-up is listed with the same number to the left of their names. Pick one of the two in each bracket, not just one person per bracket. Hop to it, people!

All right, ladies and gentleman. Let’s get this ball rollin’.

To start off, let’s take a look at the previous winners of this competition.

The UnOfficial Screen Name Hall of Fame
Big Ogre Umaro
Rydia of Mist
Chickencha
Kawaii Ryûkishi
Mikztsu
Aexoden
Crunchy Beverage
Melted Snowman
mystic ice cube
o_O
Mo-Nercy
edczxcvbnm
Meat Puppet
boris no no
I'm my own MILF
Supergyration!
Death by Moogles
Del Murder

And now, as they say, on with the show!

Fire Bracket
1. DK
1. Laddy
2. Hambone
2. The Shoeless Hobo
3. Bolivar
3. Cz
4. leader of mortals
4. Tavrobel
5. Linus
5. Raebus
6. Araciel
6. Crossblades
7. Nominus Experse
7. Croyles
8. Momiji
8. Sergeant Hartman

Ice Bracket
1. Kossage
1. Demon Dude
2. Chaos Is the Key
2. Vikeve
3. Tsukasa
3. Rantzien
4. Kentarou
4. Baloki
5. Vyk
5. Dignified Pauper
6. Bert
6. rubah
7. Blue Harvest
7. Serapy
8. Mirage
8. Levian

Wind Bracket
1. Avarice-ness
1. Yaridovich
2. Cookie
2. Quin
3. Iceglow
3. Jiro
4. Clouded Sky
4. Breine
5. Leen-Leen
5. Future Esthar
6. ShlupQuack
6. Del Cupcake
7. Marshall banana
7. McLovin’
8. Moon Rabbits
8. m4tt

Earth Bracket
1. Shiny
1. Zeldy
2. Denmark
2. Magixion
3. Loony BoB
3. Polaris
4. scrumpleberry
4. BG-57
5. Mercen-X
5. Rengori
6. nik0tine
6. Akaria
7. Roogle
7. qwertyxsora
8. Omecle
8. Captain Maxx Power

Thunder Bracket
1. theundeadhero
1. Jessweeee♪
2. Behold the Void
2. Misfit
3. Ryth
3. Balzac
4. Aerith’s Knight
4. Burtsplurt
5. 41-Inches-Wide
5. Calliope
6. Karellen
6. God
7. fire_of_avalon
7. Chemical
8. Bunny
8. The Man

Water Bracket
1. The Unknown Guru
1. Spatvark
2. Ouch!
2. Spiffing Cheese
3. Old Manus
3. Lekana
4. Resha
4. Hawkeye
5. Agrias
5. Xaven
6. Mitch
6. Depression Moon
7. Namelessfengir
7. KoShiatar
8. Miriel
8. Dreddz

Light Bracket
1. Dr. Acula
1. Martyr
2. Woodinator
2. Ki Ki
3. TheSpoonyBard
3. Skyblade
4. Necronopticous
4. Flying Mullet
5. Rainecloud
5. Rase
6. I Don’t Need a Name
6. Bastian
7. Clawsze
7. Rye
8. black orb
8. Evastio

Darkness Bracket
1. Montoya
1. Big D
2. smittenkitten
2. Agent Proto
3. Psychotic
3. Azar
4. Wolf Kanno
4. Shorty
5. Hsu
5. Renmiri
6. Jess
6. Dolentrean
7. Pureghetto
7. Heath
8. Jojee
8. sir helix

Round One of the competition will end Thursday night at around 12:00 AM EST (sometimes I’m a little late announcing that voting is closed; deal with it). Get those votes in!