CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #364

[Billfred]

Welcome to the end-of-the-year extravaganza!

The scores after the last round (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1066877&postcount=21):

Taylor 142
EricH 141
Ryan Simpson 132
GaryVoshol 130
Wayne Doenges 127
Karibou 125
DonRotolo 110
JaneYoung 107
rsisk 102
rtfgnow 98
Al Skierkiewicz 90
Bill_B 64
dodar 46
Aerosound 43
delsaner 30
kstl99 24
AndyB 22
Vermeulen 22
JackG 20
S.P.A.M.er 17 19
skimoose 19
kramarczyk 18
Ninja_Bait 18
Katie_UPS 18
jblay 17
MaxMax161 16
Chris is me 15
Purple 15
Lee Reid 3136 14
BrendanB 13
KarenH 13
Barry Bonzack 12
gyroscopeRaptor 10
RoboDesigners 10
kenavt 9
jmanela 8
Andy Baker 7
Colin P 7
Alex Cormier 6
EricS-Team180 6
nitneylion452 6
efoote868 5
Lil Lavery 5
SuperNerd256 5
Travis Hoffman 5
ThaineP 5
Kusha 5
akoscielski3 4
Mr. Pockets 4
Spiffizzle 4
Bharat Nain 3
Cynette 3
DRAKE343 3
bduddy 3
Brianna 3
Kevin Kolodziej 3
OmerSD 3
theprgramerdude 3
Phoenix Spud 3
Chief Pride 2
James1902 2
kjolana1124 2
Swan217 2
BJC 2
jgw 2
Josh Fox 2
RMiller 2
2403_Andrew 1
computerteen643 1
DoronS 1
Gdkoopa 1
Kohala2460 1
Lledargo 1
mom-bot 1
O'Sancheski 1
PAR_WIG1350 1
Rich Wong 1
Schmoebot 1
SlaminSwimster 1
Superllama12 1
The Cyborg 1
TJ92 1
ttldomination 1

And, as is traditional during the last week of a year's contest, this week's picture isn't one picture--it's closer to 600 frames:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHaUeoLkYw

(so is that worth 600,000 words?)

As always, the deadline is theoretically Saturday at midnight Eastern. With three people mathematically eligible for the title, this week should be interesting.

Go!

[EricH]

JVN never stopped believing that he could find a girlfriend. However, his calling cards tended to be more popular than he was.

[Katie_UPS]

And that's the story how JVN lost his hearing.

[rsisk]

What do you do when the ice cream falls out of your JVN cone? Start singing and hope nobody notices.

[JaneYoung]

The journey of moving from a very cool doll to a very lousy, er, loud mic is not for the weak. It is only for those who can wrangle continuous improvement in design and have the ability to knock the stuffing out of those who stop believing in the ultimate protection: earplugs.

[Ninja_Bait]

With antennae like that, you'd expect better music quality from her brain radio.

[ATannahill]

After claiming not to like Journey, JVN was sentenced to submersion exercises.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

In this demonstration of the power of the JVN doll, Katie can be made to sound just like Journey. I wouldn't have believed it if I wasn't there.

[S.P.A.M.er 17]

Its ok dude, no matter what anyone else says, Don't Stop Believing that you can sing.

[Karibou]

JVN's head works well as a microphone - the sound just bounces right off of it.

[GaryVoshol]

Further proof that JVN NEVER stopped believin'.

[Jim Wilks]

There is no holding back true talent.

[Taylor]

Who will provide Ultimate Protection from this?

[Wayne Doenges]

At IRI the JVN voodoo doll was very popular. The only drawback was JVN couldn't hear a thing for the rest of the day.

[EricS-Team180]

Blue Shirt guy thinking:
"dang! try and sing along man! ...with that JVN doll, this video could go viral" ... "or it COULD make BillFred's CC." "...yeaaaah...even better!"

[Billfred]

Here we go!

First place goes to:

The journey of moving from a very cool doll to a very lousy, er, loud mic is not for the weak. It is only for those who can wrangle continuous improvement in design and have the ability to knock the stuffing out of those who stop believing in the ultimate protection: earplugs.

Second place goes to:

JVN never stopped believing that he could find a girlfriend. However, his calling cards tended to be more popular than he was.


Honorable mentions go to:

1) rsisk
2) Katie_UPS
3) Al Skierkiewicz
4) rtfgnow
5) Wayne Doenges
6) Karibou

And the burn award goes to:

Who will provide Ultimate Protection from this?


Which means the final scores for the year are:

EricH 146
Taylor 145
Ryan Simpson 132
GaryVoshol 131
Wayne Doenges 129
Karibou 127
JaneYoung 117
DonRotolo 110
rsisk 104
rtfgnow 100
Al Skierkiewicz 92
Bill_B 64
dodar 46
Aerosound 43
delsaner 30
kstl99 24
AndyB 22
Vermeulen 22
JackG 20
S.P.A.M.er 17 20
Katie_UPS 20
skimoose 19
Ninja_Bait 19
kramarczyk 18
jblay 17
MaxMax161 16
Chris is me 15
Purple 15
Lee Reid 3136 14
BrendanB 13
KarenH 13
Barry Bonzack 12
gyroscopeRaptor 10
RoboDesigners 10
kenavt 9
jmanela 8
Andy Baker 7
Colin P 7
EricS-Team180 7
Alex Cormier 6
nitneylion452 6
efoote868 5
Lil Lavery 5
SuperNerd256 5
Travis Hoffman 5
ThaineP 5
Kusha 5
akoscielski3 4
Mr. Pockets 4
Spiffizzle 4
Bharat Nain 3
Cynette 3
DRAKE343 3
bduddy 3
Brianna 3
Kevin Kolodziej 3
OmerSD 3
theprgramerdude 3
jgw 3
Phoenix Spud 3
Chief Pride 2
James1902 2
kjolana1124 2
Swan217 2
BJC 2
Josh Fox 2
RMiller 2
2403_Andrew 1
computerteen643 1
DoronS 1
Gdkoopa 1
Kohala2460 1
Lledargo 1
mom-bot 1
O'Sancheski 1
PAR_WIG1350 1
Rich Wong 1
Schmoebot 1
SlaminSwimster 1
Superllama12 1
The Cyborg 1
TJ92 1
ttldomination 1

And, as is tradition, a few awards and interesting statistics:

Year 7 Champion: EricH (146 points)
Year 7 Runner-Up: Taylor (145 points)

Most Wins: EricH, Wayne Doenges, Taylor, and Ryan Simpson (5 each)
Most Runner-Ups: Karibou (6)
Always the Bridesmaid Award: Aerosound (43 points without ever winning a contest)
The Travis Hoffman Memorial Burn Award Award: Taylor and rtfgnow (6 burn awards each)
The Mr. Clean Award: JaneYoung (117 points without ever receiving a burn award)
Funniest Team in FRC: FRC 1676, The Pascack Pi-oneers (203 combined points)

Perfect Year: rsisk and GaryVoshol, each entering all 52 contests.

Onward!

[Taylor]

Three cheers for EricH. Long live the King!

[EricH]

You're next--when it's down to the final contest for the win, the competition is really tight.

On to the next year!

[JaneYoung]

Well done, guys!

I hit some caption contest burnout this past season but will try to do better and crank out some really bad puns more consistently. :)

Thanks for making this game available to all of us who love having fun with captions, Billfred!

Jane

Edit: @Billfred (post below) - I had no idea. Add, pay more attention, to my promise.

[Billfred]

Well done, guys!

I hit some caption contest burn-out this past season but will try to do better and crank out some really bad puns more consistently. :)

If entering 50 of 52 contests, four wins, and an average of 2.34 points per entry is "burnout", I'm glad I don't have to compete against you! :P

[Molten]

I've been planning on joining for almost a year. I certainly hope my humor is dry enough for this competition. Good luck to all in the new season.

Jason