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Or the card game, yeah. Good thinking!
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Seriously, I will never ever understand how anyone involved in the show thought that kind of teaser video was a good idea.
You do know you're talking about an actual real person, who comes here and reads these forums, right? If I read those kinds of things about me, it'd make me feel pretty unhappy.
That or I'd just post my ridiculously awesome image of the Chandra skateboard, and sit there happy in the knowledge that I was a ridiculously awesome artist.
Remember way back when Amy told Katie not to say anything about the Thunderdome because it gave her an advantage? It looks like they've all been doing that. You find out about it when you take your turn, and Monica hasn't taken her turn yet.
That said, I know she's game for it once she finds out what she'll be doing. I said some episodes back that she has a thing going at her strip where, when her schedule opened up due to no more college, once every six months she participates in Hourly Comics Day: you draw at least one panel depicting every hour you're awake and recap your day. Which is some damn good Thunderdome training.
She's done three of them so far; the first two came prior to filming:
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I want a girl with a slow hand,
A ping-pong player with an easy touch,
I want somebody who will take their time,
Not smash the net in a heated rush.
Also it was hilarious seeing the look on Maki and Tavis' faces at the start. I don't which was dreading "sports" more, but they sure couldn't hide it very well.
Agree. There needed to be some slow motion ping-pong with Eye of the Tiger playing in there somewhere. Ending with Maki's miss-hit into Kiko's junk?
I can't believe they'd do something as boring and one-sided as the PA crew obliterating the strippers in a ping pong battle, so I've got to assume they're baiting us on the teaser. Besides, isn't it supposed to be testing some web-cartoonist needed skills? Sure, ping pong is a near requirement for PA success (look how hard Erika Prime had to work to get "in"), but it's not a global requirement.
Looking forward to seeing what the teaser really means!
I hope I can be their friends in real life. The way they encourage each other or champion themselves quietly shows that they're all high-caliber.
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Doesn't make him any less of a goose for saying that, but when you put yourself out there like that people saying stuff like that is bound to occur. Hate is part of the "game"... especially with reality type stuff. I imagine she'd just ignore the remark tough, at least based off her wonderful (imo) response on the twitter thing. :P
edit: plus dude's been hating on her forever so it's kind of like... whatever especially in his case, I'd guess.
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I agree with you, but I do believe that there is a silent majority on the internet who let "Haters gonna hate" fly because it's "part of how the internet is." We might not be able to change the internet, but if that silent majority just speaks up every now and then, we might just be able to ostracize such behaviour from the things we love. It's worth saying we're not okay with this.
Maki has a good comic about a different subject, with the same moral.
Plus, how likely does it seem that they'd do two variations of the same challenge in one day?
Edit: To clarify, I think it has something to do with the card game, but I have a hard time believing they'll be playing the game competitively for their challenge. There's nothing webcomic-y about that. The most logical thing is creating art for a new card, but so far the challenges have been quite different and they've already done one making art for a CCG. I know I'm probably overthinking this; all the same, I feel like they're going to do something besides the obvious.
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Yeah, I think that team antics, with your standing in the tournament determining order of pick, is a super good guess.
This seems like a pretty good guess too. It would also prevent my main concern with any ping pong challenge, ie that the winner of the social competition pretty much autowins any competition that uses the same set of skills AND gives you an advantage for having just won.
I also agree with this. The Paint the Line CCG makes perfect sense. I really don't see them playing the PA staff in ping-pong, not only would they get annihilated - but it would be the exact same challenge twice in an episode more or less, which would be poor tv.
The Paint the Line CCG, however, would be a nice "twist" and - hey, look! - advertising for a PA product!
On the other hand, thus far all of the competitive competitions have tied - even if loosely - into the artists either doing art (t-shirt design, the M:TG challenge) or into something else connected to running an actual webcomic business (twitter, interviews, booth design, convention sketching). Paint the Line would be.... neither. I'm not sure how comfortable Id be with an event that can send an artist to elimination having nothing to do with being a webcomic artist. For the social challenges, it's fine. But for the competitive ones? Eh.
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Although I kind of suspect that even though everyone is agreeing she should go, several of them would actually NOT send her in if they felt that there were 2 clearly worse competitors. I do think they'll all be looking for an excuse though.
And you guys thought 15 minutes of go-karts made for mediocre TV. I have a hard time imagining a less interesting challenge than watching people play a card game whose rules I don't know. And incorporating a tutorial into the episode for viewers would be even worse. I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.
Well they did art for a CCG company, but it was for skateboards. Before I'm accused of being anal about semantics, there was a really specific set of needs there (a skateboard deck is a uniquely shaped canvas), but at the same time, what they were required to draw was fairly open-ended.
Card art for a CCG, though, is a different animal; you've got a very small space to convey a concept, possibly a fairly abstract one. I think it might be different enough to be an interesting challenge, especially since now that there's only 6 artists left we'd get to see a little bit more of each's creative process.
We've had 12 nominations so far and 11 different artists have gone up. You usually only get that kind of spread in explicitly-bracketed competitions like The Contender and Full Metal Jousting (and even in Full Metal Jousting they had to keep eliminated jousters around in case they needed to fill a hole in the bracket due to injury or expulsion). After Katie went up twice in the first two rounds, nobody's wanted to put up anyone else that's already been there.
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I'd like this. They get a blank card with a power description and have to art it up. Maybe Katie's prize is that she gets to pick the card?
Although, wasn't Lexxy contracted to illustrate the first run? Seems like she would have a distinct advantage having already taken direction on what they like in CCG art.
Well, the preview says "and you have to fight the Penny Arcade staff", so this clearly is not an art challenge. And there are seven staffers lined up behind Graham. Something tells me that extra staffer matters. Maybe Katie's prize is she gets to play doubles with that extra staffer as a teammate.
This might be a red herring though, as the PA staff is soooo into Ping Pong, any kind of head-to-head challenge is going to be a slaughter. Maybe it will be the card game or video game version of it? Or maybe they'll just do something art related - shirt, paddle, or card design?
Congrats to Katie! Wonder what her prize is gonna be? Did I see Monica dressed as Tavis in the end there - Whaaaaa?
Yeah, I think she illustrated like 6 of the cards. So "Hey, you get to design card art for free!" doesn't seem like much of a challenge, when at least one of the players has already been paid to do it...
It's been 15 years or thereabouts for me too, but I still remember learning how the weak point of the penhold grip was the backhand - and also that traditionally Asian players used that grip. Which is why I though it was weird that the only Asian contestant was also the only one using the grip here... and even weirder that she exploited another player's weak backhand (instead of it being the other way around).
After today's episode, I'm pretty sure I want Monica to win in the end. (Katie and Abby being tied for second on my list of remaining favorites.)