All I Want for Christmas Contest 2024!
MariahGeddon* 2024!
@nolaspe and @Arathrael are repeat winners (2022, 2023,2024) and are exempt from the 2025 contest but must not partake in any plan to entrap, ensnare, or otherwise dupe players in 2025 under severe penalty of Christmas music punishment to be realized at the date and time the violation is committed.
@swampdawg1969 gets a ~two-week bye, with them included in the shenanigans starting at 6 AM, December 12.
Our single-year winners get a ~one-week bye, joining the festivities at 6 AM, December 6. NOTE: the dates for the byes have changed! Since the contest ends on December 24th we use math to divide the number by four, getting six-day weeks for the contest. Do not try this at work, your employers will frown on it.
(Any repeat winners from this group will get byes in 2026. As contest director, I am excluding myself from the contest. I'm subjected to #AIWFCIY when I am ded.).
Everyone who decides to take the plunge must declare entry between December 1st and December 4th by posting that declaration in this thread.
Wham!A!Geddon is CANCELLED
No one liked you anyhow.
@buzd's Rebirth Bonus Round & Lounge - New for 2024!
Based on a suggestion from @livefromDC...
Once you're eliminated, you have a second chance to win a new challenge. As normal, once you've been murdered (eliminated, sorry, @buzd ), you report it in the thread. Now that you're in the afterlife, you can win the challenge for the deceased by reporting each time you randomly (keyword, randomly) hear the song again until Christmas day. The people who survive without hearing the song, of course, win the main challenge. But the person who hears it most often wins the @buzd Rebirth Bonus Round & Lounge.
Here are the rules/guidelines (honor system applies):
* Now with a NEW & IMPROVED image!
MariahGeddon* 2024!
- The objective of the game is to go as long as possible without hearing Mariah's Christmas classic, "All I Want for Christmas is You".
- The game starts on December 1st at 6 AM and runs through midnight on December 24th.
- Only the original version applies. You may enjoy remixes and covers.
- We are using the honor system: you're out as soon as you hear and recognize the song. Post here to indicate when you're out.
- Single-year winners
- Two-year winner
- Three-year winners
@nolaspe and @Arathrael are repeat winners (2022, 2023,2024) and are exempt from the 2025 contest but must not partake in any plan to entrap, ensnare, or otherwise dupe players in 2025 under severe penalty of Christmas music punishment to be realized at the date and time the violation is committed.
@swampdawg1969 gets a ~two-week bye, with them included in the shenanigans starting at 6 AM, December 12.
Our single-year winners get a ~one-week bye, joining the festivities at 6 AM, December 6. NOTE: the dates for the byes have changed! Since the contest ends on December 24th we use math to divide the number by four, getting six-day weeks for the contest. Do not try this at work, your employers will frown on it.
(Any repeat winners from this group will get byes in 2026. As contest director, I am excluding myself from the contest. I'm subjected to #AIWFCIY when I am ded.).
Everyone who decides to take the plunge must declare entry between December 1st and December 4th by posting that declaration in this thread.
Wham!A!Geddon is CANCELLED
No one liked you anyhow.
@buzd's Rebirth Bonus Round & Lounge - New for 2024!
Based on a suggestion from @livefromDC...
Once you're eliminated, you have a second chance to win a new challenge. As normal, once you've been murdered (eliminated, sorry, @buzd ), you report it in the thread. Now that you're in the afterlife, you can win the challenge for the deceased by reporting each time you randomly (keyword, randomly) hear the song again until Christmas day. The people who survive without hearing the song, of course, win the main challenge. But the person who hears it most often wins the @buzd Rebirth Bonus Round & Lounge.
Here are the rules/guidelines (honor system applies):
- Each time you hear the song, you must post how you encountered the earworm and include you're own running total in math we can all understand.
- You can seek out the song by lingering in places that will definitely play it, but you can't directly be responsible for making the song play.
- No repeat listening.
- No self-starting - you cannot punch play, drop the needle, request the stream, etc., and count it as yours. It must be random.
* Now with a NEW & IMPROVED image!