Announcing the weekly Cool Botcheck Contest (in Contests)


Fark May 20 2005 1:23 PM EDT

Hate botchecks? Annoyed by constant harassment interrupting your play? Well, botchecks are a necessary part of CB. But, now, they are also a fun part of CB. Thanks to Fark! Yay me.

Starting now, each botcheck is no longer an annoyance, but, instead, a lottery ticket. Here's how it works: each time you get a botcheck, it consists of two words. If the two words say something cool, funny, or remarkable in any way, take a screenshot of it. Host the image somewhere online, and chatmail me a link to it.

Once per week, I will post the coolest submissions in a Contests thread like this one, and I will send $10,000 to the player who submitted my favorite. It's not much money, but then, it's free to enter. If it was a big prize, we'd get a lot of cheaters entering these contests. Also, the prize will be coming directly from my pocket, and I'm poor, so the prize pool is bound to be limited.

I will be deciding which botcheck is my favorite entirely on whimsey. I'm not asking for anything in return for running this contest, so I won't be giving a crap whether anybody disagrees with my judgement about who wins.

Now go find me some cool botchecks!

FYI: "botchecks" is not accepted by the spelling checker, although "botcheck" is

smallpau1 - Go Blues [Lower My Fees] May 20 2005 1:29 PM EDT

sent a CM, and lol @ the FYI.

AdminShade May 20 2005 1:43 PM EDT

sent a link with 231 bot checks. :P

Fark May 20 2005 1:50 PM EDT

Okay, new restriction: 1 botcheck per user per week. If you send me more than one, I will only consider your most recent submission.

So, make your decision, Shade. Also, let's please try to limit it to new ones that 'spawned' during the week in question - not old ones you have saved up - although this will have to be honor system, since I can't enforce it.

AdminShade May 20 2005 2:06 PM EDT

As i said in my chatmail, i won't enter but will keep on saving my bot checks up :)

Fark May 20 2005 2:18 PM EDT

You're not playing for much money. It's just for coolness. So enter! I want this thing to gain popularity.

Fark May 20 2005 2:19 PM EDT

Okay, here's a better caveat than "Only botchecks from the past week, please" -

Instead, I won't consider botchecks that are the same as ones that have previously been submitted to this contest. That way you can use your old ones, but only once each.
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