Ultimate Admin Thunderdome - THUNDERDOME CHAMPION REVEALED

[Shorty]

It's held for years, the shaky truce. Del Murder gets a slice of the profits and free Steve entertainment when he throws a party. Psychotic gets to administer his own brand of justice. He gets to defend his own turf. If Del Murder blunders into a thread and he's not shopping for what Psychotic is selling, he sends him packing.

But he sends him back alive.

That's the rules.

That's the truce.

Del Murders stays quiet.

That leaves Psychotic free to keep the second accounts and the bots out.

The forums will be left wide open.

It'll be war.

The streets will run red with blood -

members' blood.

But Del Murder isn't going to stay quiet anymore. No sir, he's fed up. It's clear from his hysterical outburst here in The Feud thread when Psychotic tried to make a wise crack that he isn't going to take it anymore.

How do we solve a situation in which the forums are no longer big enough for these two admins?

There is only one answer. The one we've all been waiting for.

THUNDERDOME.

List of supporters:

Team Del Murder:
Agent Proto
Calliope
Crop
Freya
Kalevala
Miriel
noxious.sunshine
Parker
Raistlin
Rantz
Shauna

Team Psychotic:
DK
Goldenboko
Iceglow
Jinx
Lenna
Locky
Mister Adequate
Scotty_ffgamer
shion
ToriJ

[Goldenboko]

Everyone knows that Psychotic is the schemiest Mafia player. He shall dominate this thunderdome.

[Del Murder]

I accept this challenge, but let's raise the stakes a little.

In Thunderdome, two men enter, only one leaves.

Therefore, I propose the loser of this battle must....


retire from EoFF staff.

[Old Manus]

joe allen

[Madame Adequate]

I respect Del Murder. I even like Del Murder.

But my loyalty must lie with Paul C. Hotic.

[Psychotic]

I accept this challenge, but let's raise the stakes a little.

In Thunderdome, two men enter, only one leaves.

Therefore, I propose the loser of this battle must....


retire from EoFF staff.

The Age of the Four Admins has lasted entirely too long. We're stagnating and something has to change. I do accept these terms. No joking, no smurfing about, let's do just that.

And yet, you would seek to fight me in the Thunderdome, of all things? Someone grab me a shovel. Time to bury an old man six feet deep. Enjoy the show folks, this will be the internet equivalent to watching Rome burn.

[Shorty]

The gloves are off from both competitors, and the first challenge will be revealed in a few short hours.

[Shauna]

Poor Del. I will root for him because nobody else is at this point.

Also he is way cooler than Psy.

[Shorty]

Not so! Del has Jinx on is side. ##voting is voting them as SCUM.

So far it's all ladies for Murder and a sausagefest for Psychotic.

[Shauna]

That just proves further that Del is the cool guy

EDIT: Okay.

[Shorty]

no no no i'm on pauw's side

do you even mafia

[Del Murder]

I probably don't want somebody named 'Jinx' on my side anyway.

Rome may have burned, but it did rule the world for quite some time. You can't stay on top forever, but I don't think my time has come yet. I may be a Thunderdome rookie but I still have a few tricks left up my sleeve.

Too bad this is a one-on-one battle and not a couples tag team bout because Miriel would wipe the floor with Iceglow any day of the week.

[Rantz]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a staffer. To me, being a staffer was better than being President of the United States. Even before I was first nominated for MLT be the next Cid's Knight, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in the forums that were full of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double posted in front of newbies and nobody ever gave them a warning. In EoEO when they spammed more than anyone, nobody ever banned them.

theundeadhero. tuh. tuh went around people's profiles and a few other places for his friend Psychotic who was the boss over everybody in the user notes section. Psychotic might have responded slow, but it was only because he didn't have to respond to anybody. At first, my friends loved that I got recruited to staff. Pure Quin14, who was another FFIX fan, had tried to get on staff since he joined, and he liked that I got in. He always said IX fans were underappreciated. And Cz was happy after he found out that several staffers were British, just as he was. To Cz, it was the answer to his prayers.

I was the luckiest guy in the world. I could go anywhere. I could do anything. I knew everybody and everybody knew me. But it wasn't too long before my friends changed their minds. For them, the staff position was supposed to be a light-hearted thing, but for me, it was dead serious. People like Quin could never understand, but I was a part of something. I belonged. I was treated like a grown-up. Every day I was learning to score. Quin was always pissed off. He was pissed that he had to follow the rules. He was pissed that he got warnings for spamming. He was pissed that the user notes were replaced with visitor messages. But after a while, he was mostly pissed that I stayed on staff. He said they were elitists and that I was an elitist. He said I was going to get corrupted. I used to say I was only trying to be a good role model, but he knew better. He knew what went on in the staff forum and, every once in a while, usually after he got his load on, I had to listen to him flaming me. But by then, I didn't care. No matter how much flaming I took, I wouldn't listen to what he said. I don't think I even heard him. The way I saw it, everybody has to get flamed some time.

That was it. No more remarks from Cid's Knights. No more snarky attitude from oldbies. In fact, no more snark from anybody. How could I go back to General Chat after that and discuss peeing in the shower and soda vs. pop.

Hundreds of members depended on Psychotic and he got Ciddies votes from every one of them. It was tribute, just like back in user notes, except they were doing out in the open forums. All they got from Psychotic was protection from other staffers looking to profile rape or joke ban them. That's what it's all about. That's what the people who report posts can never understand, that what Psychotic and his underlings does is offer protection for people who can't get help from the staff. They're like the forums staff for rulebreakers.

People looked at me differently. They knew I was with somebody. I didn't have to wait in line in the Signature Service thread. The best sig artists knew who I was with, and they'd come online right away, no matter how many people had been begging for sigs. I was taken care of first. Nobody reported my posts anymore, even though I was insulting members openly. After three years as a member, I was getting more Ciddies than most of the oldbies around the forums. I had more Ciddies than I could name. I had it all. One day some of the newbies at the time voted for LunarWeaver to get his first Ciddie. It was out of respect.

Long story short, I betrayed Psychotic. I support Del Murder.

[Shorty]

ROUND 1
JUMBLE TO JUMBLE
VS.

We'll start you boys off nice and easy with our first challenge. Simple enough - throw jumbles of letters at the other competitor to interpret into words. You'll have forty-eight hours to issue and complete as many as you can to win the hearts of the members.

Spectators, pay close attention. When all of the rounds have been completed, you'll be voting on the winner. Keep your eyes peeled for talent a la verbiage in this challenge!

No one but the competitors are to guess. If I catch guessers or helpers, they will be swiftly and painfully escorted from the arena by Security. You do not want to mess with Security.


*Del Murder supporters are likely to be treated more roughly as security is not impartial.
**Ref (yours truly) cannot be responsible for heinous actions security may engage in with offenders.

And GO!

[Psychotic]

Well well! For all your love of Empires, Del Murder, how about an Empire that surpassed Rome? That's right, I'm going to go BRITISH on you! Home field advantage, you dirty scoundrel. Unjumble these British words to obtain a UK serial programme which is globally popular. Pip smurfin' pip mate.

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GDOSDNI - _ _ _ _ _ _ _
FEFCHUD - _ _ _ _ _ _ _
OHERCEI - _ _ _ _ _ _ _
MEUPRCST - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
NUVGRO - _ _ _ _ _ _
EKANWR - _ _ _ _ _ _
IIBSCUT - _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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