Text Pro/Am Tournament #1 SIGN-UPS

[Kiwi Peewee]

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is proud to present

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The Inaugural Text Pro/Am Tournament

Prizes: 200 Credits & a Ring Item from the emcee shop, courtesy of Guts, and The Satisfaction of Winning

Have you ever seen one of those films where an old pro who has fallen from grace redeems themselves by helping an up-and-coming underdog rise to the top? Well given that you probably lead busy and difficult lives you are unlikely to ever become either of these roles, but the Pro/Am Tournament is here to help you live those fantasies out through a tournament! The tournament is a completely new format that will see site veterans teamed up with newer, less experienced members who they will help and advise.

Who should enter?
Veterans: The more experienced, successful, revered battlers on the site. If you have or ever have had a tournament title, LBA, LBT, moderator or admin tag below your name, or have been active on the site since before about 2015, or just generally feel like most of the people who have would think of you as a veteran, this applies to you.
Up-and-comers: Really anyone who has joined in the past 12 months or so is encouraged to apply. If you somehow meet one or more of the criteria to be a veteran despite having joined so recently then you count as a veteran, but otherwise this is your chance for a tournament win early in your career!

What are the rules?
The general idea and spirit of the tournament is that the up-and-comers write the verses with advice, feedback and information from the veteran they are partnered with. Obviously as a new format run through the forums the capacity for cheating is great and it would be pretty easy for the veteran to just write the verse; so if you're considering signing up to do this please don't ruin it for everyone else. The exact specifics and regulations of rules are open for suggestions from those wanting to participate and will be finalised closer to the time. The general format of the tournament will be an 8-bar text tournament with match-ups and deadlines communicated through forum posts. Teams will stay consistent throughout the tournament and the winners will be a team.

When is it?
At the moment the dates (and even whether it takes place at all) will depend on how many people sign up. Ideally it will be held in June, after the Text Concept Tournament but before the Text Tag Team Tournament.

Wow, this sounds like an awesome tournament, where do I sign up?
Sign up with your name below, and also whether you're going in as a veteran or an up-and-comer. This will probably be pretty obvious already but this way if I disagree with you its easier to have the discussion and sort it out at the time. If a particular veteran and up-and-comer want to sign up specifically as a team they can both signal that they want to do this in their sign-ups and I will pair them up, otherwise match-ups will be random.

Sign-ups:
(Format: "Veteran | Up-and-comer"; this is not the teams you are in, it is just the order in which you signed up)

Shodan | Bone Daddy
exwhyzee |
Edgeworth | Solo Fives
Lil Kilo | Culture
Rai | ColossalMini
g u t s | Ice Bear
BURDENS |
Gamma Vile |
CakedOut |
GOOD GRIEF |
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Anyone with any further questions should message me or post them on this thread. Good luck to all participants!

[Shodan]

Get me in, as a veteran presumably.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Gotcha, good to have you on board

[exwhyzee]

I'm down.

[Ginge]

peggin me as a vet wud prolly be a stretch but its up 2 u, i throw my hat in 4 anythin text

[Edgeworth]

Can put me down

[Ginge]

peggin me as a vet wud prolly be a stretch but its up 2 u, i throw my hat in 4 anythin text

yh ok i actually just read it properly without skimming lmao
so it's like a big brother programme
not 2 sure in tht case

[KG The Prince]

Might be up for the vet role, cos I'm the Young Price

Nah, cos I don't got too much time to write anything lol

Your choice broo

[Edgeworth]

Might be up for the vet role, cos I'm the Young Price

Nah, cos I don't got too much time to write anything lol

Your choice broo

Vet role guys don’t write the verses. Just give feedback and advice as the rookies write the verse

[KG The Prince]

Vet role guys don’t write the verses. Just give feedback and advice as the rookies write the verse

I wouldn't mind that

Who's rookie-ing

[exwhyzee]

Mfs bout to start classifying themselves as vets just cos they been here a couple months to a year.

[Rai]

I'd be up for this...

[Kiwi Peewee]

I'm down.

Signed you up as a vet

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peggin me as a vet wud prolly be a stretch but its up 2 u, i throw my hat in 4 anythin text

Got u down as an up-and-comer if you're good with that

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Can put me down

Got you as a vet

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Might be up for the vet role, cos I'm the Young Price

Nah, cos I don't got too much time to write anything lol

Your choice broo

I'll put you as a vet; the number of times you've been an LBT contender etc definitely put you in that league

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I'd be up for this...

Got you as a vet

[joan of arc]

put me in, now we need rookies

[Ginge]

yh thats fair m8, count me out tho i cant b dealin with sum1 advisin me on bars

[OGxCERBERUZ]

Been her since 08 think I'm def vet status

[Kiwi Peewee]

put me in, now we need rookies

Got you, hopefully when they see the vets the up-and-comers will start rolling in

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Been her since 08 think I'm def vet status

Got you down as a vet

[B U R D E N]

I'm w it.

[joan of arc]

eastes, vet is more about status and accomplishment. for example, edge is more vet than me and i've been here ten years. he's a better battler. if you want in, you'd have to be willing to be a rook role.

[Kiwi Peewee]

I'm w it.

Got you down as a vet

[Brayne Ded]

Put me in as a rookie.

[Kiwi Peewee]

eastes, vet is more about status and accomplishment. for example, edge is more vet than me and i've been here ten years. he's a better battler. if you want in, you'd have to be willing to be a rook role.

o EaSTeS x I don't know what you're more suited to qualify as so I'm gonna go with g u t s judgement on this one; if you think this is incorrect feel free to make your case in this thread because I'll probably be relying on the judgement of other vets to make the call.

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Put me in as a rookie.

Ok will do. I feel like this is blurring the lines a little though since you have technically held the LBT Championship before, so if we end up being short on vets and have plenty of rookies I'll move you over, but at this stage that doesn't look too likely.

[Alzie]

Sure sign me up

[Kiwi Peewee]

Sure sign me up

Sure. I assume based on when your account was created that you're joining as a rookie but if this isn't the case let me know.

[Shodan]

No offense to Bone Daddy but I'm already best-buddies with him. I'd rather have someone I'm not as familiar with. Gotta mix things up

[Brayne Ded]

No offense to Bone Daddy but I'm already best-buddies with him. I'd rather have someone I'm not as familiar with. Gotta mix things up

Damn, you gon' do ya boy dirty like that?

Nah, he's right, though.

:monkey:

[Kiwi Peewee]

Sure thing, I’ll bear that in mind when matching up pairs. Or do it with a random number generator.

[EtH]

gutz and KG are "veterans" lol

[Shodan]

gutz and KG are "veterans" lol

I'll agree that sounds a bit "off," but they're still good picks to be veterans if there's a higher number of REALLY new people.

[EtH]

I'll agree that sounds a bit "off," but they're still good picks to be veterans if there's a higher number of REALLY new people.

If I joined LB and was immediately paired up to communicate with gutz every day I'd be on Netcees so fucking fast.

[Locchart]

If I joined LB and was immediately paired up to communicate with gutz every day I'd be on Netcees so fucking fast.

So you'd subject yourself to going back to how people used to write in like 2010-2013?

[Solo Fives]

<<<<---- Am Textcee Sign up

[Prodi G]

BURDENS you ready to spit some fire with me, or what?

[KG The Prince]

gutz and KG are "veterans" lol

Send bars sometime :high:

[Kiwi Peewee]

<<<<---- Am Textcee Sign up

Got you down

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BURDENS you ready to spit some fire with me, or what?

I'll sign you up as an up-and-comer now, if BURDENS says they want to pair with you I'll put you together when I pair everyone up.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Am I allowed to sign up (as a rookie) for my own tournament? I'm assuming not normally but since I'm not actually picking things like concepts, schemes etc and this tournament would be really really helpful to me as someone looking for help to improve I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

[Student]

Put me down Lil Talent

[EtH]

Student bout to be a problem in this rookie category.

[joan of arc]

i'm having lock decide who will be rookie and vet in this tournament.

[Student]

Student bout to be a problem in this rookie category.
You know it EtH :cool:

[Kiwi Peewee]

Put me down Lil Talent

Got you down

[Gamma Vile]

sign me up

[Student]

Got you down
Was hoping to battle :guns:

[Kiwi Peewee]

sign me up

Got you down as a rookie

[Student]

On second thought I don't think I'll show so please take me off.

ALSO BUMPING
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[Kiwi Peewee]

On second thought I don't think I'll show so please take me off.

ALSO BUMPING

Sorry to see you go, thanks for the BUMP though

[Rai]

Boss Blaster
BKC|Kalamite
forcspeed
BlackFire911

[Ice Bear]

I'll join as a rookie, unless someone otherwise thinks I'm a vet. I don't see how though.

[Gamma Vile]

will i get a dm about this?

[Kiwi Peewee]

I'll join as a rookie, unless someone otherwise thinks I'm a vet. I don't see how though.

Got you down as a rookie.

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will i get a dm about this?

When we have enough numbers we’ll sort out dates and I’ll message everyone to let them know the match-ups.

[Gamma Vile]

okay thanks

[BKC|Kalamite]

Somehow I got tagged into all this lololol

[Rai]

I tagged you to see if you wanted to sign up.

[Kiwi Peewee]

BUMPING this cos all we need are three more rookies and we'll have ourselves a viable tournament

[ColossalMini]

Been here a little but don't consider myself a vet, lemme in.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Been here a little but don't consider myself a vet, lemme in.

Sure thing

[Gamma Vile]

is this still happening?

[CakedOut]

Sign me up. I qualify for both. I can take advice or dish it out.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Sign me up. I qualify for both. I can take advice or dish it out.

I’ll sign you up as a rookie for now; I’m under the impression Arthur Morgan will sort people once we have the numbers

[Locchart]

CakedOut is nowhere close to a rookie.

[Student]

UPPING THIS

[Kiwi Peewee]

BUMPING this because its so close to having enough sign-ups. We just need a few more rookies.
Toke Loc The Wrathchild Cecil I think that calling you rookies per se would be inaccurate, but I think you have a lot to learn and maybe the ability to elevate through this tournament may interest you. Let me know if you're into it

[The Saaxxx Baba]

Will sit this one out.

[Prose_]

Cool I’m down for a vet spot. Been in this shit since 2012 plus I was one of the first couple LBT Champs.

[Locchart]

Cool I’m down for a vet spot. Been in this shit since 2012 plus I was one of the first couple LBT Champs.

Do you wanna get access to that other account?

[Prose_]

Do you wanna get access to that other account?

Yeah HVK said he was gonna try getting help from an admin. I need to at least know the email attached to it. If I can’t get it back I’m not sweating it tbh.

[GOOD GRIEF]

Jimmy Hoffa got it

[Kiwi Peewee]

Cool I’m down for a vet spot. Been in this shit since 2012 plus I was one of the first couple LBT Champs.

GOOD GRIEF I'm getting you down as a vet and I assume the GOOD GRIEF account is the one you want to go in as? If not let me know