Billfred
03-07-2011, 22:18
Time to start up the caption contest's eighth year!
Normally, I'd post the scores after the last contest (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1067687&postcount=16), but since this is the start of the year, the scores are pretty simple:
You 0
Instead, I give you the rules. (Other rules have been created, but these are the ones that see use:)
The rules:
-I am never ever gonna be eligible, unless I change the rule just before handing over control of the game to someone else.
-If it's your image I pick, you're not eligible.
-If you suggest an image and I pick it, you're not eligible.
-Entries will be scored by me on originality, or in the absence of that, dry humor.
-First place gets ten points, second gets five, honorable mentions will be awarded at my whims.
Traditionally, roughly half of the entries receive a two-point honorable mention, and one particularly good zinger received the burn award, good for three points. The remainder receive a single point.
There have been some updates to the rules over the years:
Preventing anyone from entering the caption contest by means of any feat of engineering is prohibited. This rule shall not apply if both the victim and Billfred are laughing after the act has been committed.
If, for whatever reason, Billfred is working on a job on a day he has to post or judge a caption contest, he reserves the right to fudge the posting or judging by one day in either direction.
("Working" gets a rather liberal interpretation, mind you.)
No person may kidnap, threaten, or otherwise cause harm or mental distress to Billfred in order to influence the outcome of a caption contest.
At certain times, should Billfred be pwned by a contestant, he may, at his sole discretion, assign a score of -infinity to that contestant. Points still accumulate as normal, but the -infinity score will remain posted until Billfred either lets off or forgets to add the -infinity score again.
Anyone except Billfred can enter the caption contest, even if it's their picture.
Since then, the only thing that's changed is the deadline: Saturday at midnight Eastern, though entries posted afterward will count if they're posted before I open the thread to score it.
With all that said, here's this week's picture:
http://chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36889
Go!
Normally, I'd post the scores after the last contest (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1067687&postcount=16), but since this is the start of the year, the scores are pretty simple:
You 0
Instead, I give you the rules. (Other rules have been created, but these are the ones that see use:)
The rules:
-I am never ever gonna be eligible, unless I change the rule just before handing over control of the game to someone else.
-If it's your image I pick, you're not eligible.
-If you suggest an image and I pick it, you're not eligible.
-Entries will be scored by me on originality, or in the absence of that, dry humor.
-First place gets ten points, second gets five, honorable mentions will be awarded at my whims.
Traditionally, roughly half of the entries receive a two-point honorable mention, and one particularly good zinger received the burn award, good for three points. The remainder receive a single point.
There have been some updates to the rules over the years:
Preventing anyone from entering the caption contest by means of any feat of engineering is prohibited. This rule shall not apply if both the victim and Billfred are laughing after the act has been committed.
If, for whatever reason, Billfred is working on a job on a day he has to post or judge a caption contest, he reserves the right to fudge the posting or judging by one day in either direction.
("Working" gets a rather liberal interpretation, mind you.)
No person may kidnap, threaten, or otherwise cause harm or mental distress to Billfred in order to influence the outcome of a caption contest.
At certain times, should Billfred be pwned by a contestant, he may, at his sole discretion, assign a score of -infinity to that contestant. Points still accumulate as normal, but the -infinity score will remain posted until Billfred either lets off or forgets to add the -infinity score again.
Anyone except Billfred can enter the caption contest, even if it's their picture.
Since then, the only thing that's changed is the deadline: Saturday at midnight Eastern, though entries posted afterward will count if they're posted before I open the thread to score it.
With all that said, here's this week's picture:
http://chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36889
Go!