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.
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Originally Posted by eestlinc
