n00bz - n00b 14 needed

[giraffe]

Perhaps there should be bonus points available for getting exactly the same order as someone else.

[Bunnylump]

I'd quite like some extra points if I managed to use each name once and once only.

[Laura]

Look. If anyone loses squintillions of points, and it really upsets them, I'll gladly swap scores with them. I'm good at losing games! (And actually, as the official Ambrosian President I insist.)

If anyone loses squintillions of points, it'll probably put them level with me! (and that's providing I get 0 or above).

[kingsley]

I'd quite like some extra points if I managed to use each name once and once only.

Me too. I think I might have missed out someone. I'd also like some points for actually sending in my entry!

[fernando]

Perhaps there should be bonus points available for getting exactly the same order as someone else.

But then what we could do is send pm's around to a few people and using he same order as them.

OOPS. I shouldn't have said that, you never know, Cenwulf might have changed the rules and said that Giraffe's idea was a good one.

[LAT]

some of you don't even need to use PM's to do that

[giraffe]

You think they are on speaking terms?

[kingsley]

You think they are on speaking terms?

Definitely not. He's been hogging the upstairs computer all morning.

[Bunnylump]

Oh, the joys of family life!!

[evilkeen]

I'd quite like some extra points if I managed to use each name once and once only.

And more bonus points for getting an order which satisfies the criteria! (Or penalty points for breaking the rules )

[kathlyn]

How about some points for having a go

[Laura]

Or just for begging? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssse??????????????

[Cenwulf]

I am still awaiting submissions from Scurra and MBH.
However, a submission which says you are refusing to submit an entry will cost you 10 penalty points.
Looby has been allowed to sit out this round due to special circumstances - and this was allowed because I was notified while we were between rounds.

No extra points for getting them in the same order (or even the same place) as another n00b.
No extra points for using each name once and once only, or for having a go, or for getting an order which satisfies the criteria.
And definitely no extra points for begging.

"I am the Arbiter, I know the score."
From square one he'll be watching all sixty-four.

[gill216]

I take it you are a "Chess" enthusiast

[Cenwulf]

Well, I have seen it performed at my local theatre.

...last Friday (26th Sep)...I went to see Chess, performed by WOS, the local musical theatre group.
I must say that it was definitely worth going to see. From start to finish, it was a good show, and the members of WOS are excellent performers - you could say they are professional amateurs! As there are only officially two female leading characters, it was helpful that the Arbiter is not given a gender, as in this production it was played by a woman (with 'he' replaced by 'she' in the Arbiter's song). But doing this meant that One Night in Bangkok had to be sung by Freddie. But he did it very well!
...
Overall, with a good cast, good singers, good dancers and a good set and props it was definitely a night to remember.

[MBH]

I always did like that rhyme - it says so much with so few words, setting the 'environment', the power structure, etc... but without the knowledge that it's to do with Chess the words become nonsense (Why 64? 64 what??)

[Laura]

And definitely no extra points for begging.

aww. Meanie.

[kingsley]

I am still awaiting submissions from Scurra and MBH.

Maybe you could dock points for having to remind to n00bz to send their entries!

However, a submission which says you are refusing to submit an entry will cost you 10 penalty points.

It might be more beneficial to submit and lose just 10 points instead of lots for getting the wrong answer. Maybe I did the wrong thing in entering an answer...

[Scurra]

The old system made losing points highly likely and -10 looked like a decent score!
The new system is much more friendly, and I think -10 would be quite a bad score. Which is why I did decide to submit something in the end.
I still think that a negative score could be viewed as a good result though.

[MBH]

I am still awaiting submissions from Scurra and MBH.

Maybe you could dock points for having to remind to n00bz to send their entries!

Oi! No Fair... The other ones I could answer with what I've already got rattling around in my brain - I haven't had time for shuffling a pack of brothers (unless I go the 'random' route that makes me look silly)