CHALLENGE 2/19/2007: Chinese New Year
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Topic: CHALLENGE 2/19/2007: Chinese New Year
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 2/19/2007: Chinese New Year
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 1:31am
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 1:32am
Whew, that first challenge was f**king exhausting. So glad this one is only 150x150.
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:26am
so...
a boar huh.
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:31am
whew, drawing a boar is hard. I think the lines will be my biggest problem
Is there no color restriction?
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:48am
I planned on taking a little break from the weekly contest, but this simpler, smaller, and more straightforward challenge seems less stressful.
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:49am
no dragon, just the size restriction
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Posted By: buloght
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 4:11am
I already have a 150x150 boar in my gallery :D But that's not gonna stop me from entering this one. Must it be only a boar? Or could we ... say give it a rider?
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 4:32am
I got my idea down, not sure what do do about the bg though..
I think I'm going to post this in the wip section for some comments..
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 5:00am
Originally posted by buloght
I already have a 150x150 boar in my gallery
Cheater, I've never fully trusted you... 
Originally posted by buloght
...Or could we ... say give it a rider?...
Super Mario Riding a Dithergasmic Boar, ftw.
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Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 5:07am
@Cure: Your last week, last minute entry was awesome.
As I've said before, I really just want to try to submit something every week. I think I'm going to draw a lot of inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki's boar characters in Princess Mononoke. Although, I might try to add my own brand of humour to it.
We'll see.
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Posted By: buloght
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 5:48am
Originally posted by jalonso
Super Mario Riding a Dithergasmic Boar, ftw.
Hah :D Thanks for the idea haha!
ISTVAN, princess mononoke is an art wonder :). I agree, cure's was awesome.
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 11:12am
Thanks to the both of you. I liked yours from the get-go, iSTVAN, the humor was wonderful. And I can only began to wonder what buloght could have contributed.
As for this challenge, I'd thought it seemed right up buloght's alley, even before I remembered the piece in his gallery. I expect you to enter something nice this time.
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:33pm
 playing with light sources mainly... thats they chinese symbol for the year of the boar
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Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 2:58pm
No problem Cure, and cheers!
Interesting direction Ens! It looks nearly like a colour reduction, for some reason. It would be nice to have atleast a miniture pig shape created in the lines that make up the background- just for added effect.
@Buloght: Damn straight!
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Posted By: AwesomePossum
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 4:45pm
So are we allowed to go smaller than 150 x 150? If so what do you guys think about this?
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 5:21pm

my wip... :P
istvan, yeah still got lots more to go... i pounded this out so i can add things here and there and not feel so rushed at the end of the week
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 6:02pm
Originally posted by AwesomePossum
So are we allowed to go smaller than 150 x 150? If so what do you guys think about this?
I think we can go smaller, it's 150x150 max, not 150x150.
I think the tail looks weird, just like its coming out of the bottom half of his behind, not the upper half
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Posted By: AwesomePossum
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 6:54pm
OK i redid the colors and tail and a bit of everything. Any better?
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Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 7:18pm
Nice WIP Ens! I wasn't accusing you of colour reduction, just making an observation, as I'm sure you know.
AP: Pretty simplistic so far, both technically and conceptually. I think I liked the tail the way it was before.
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 7:31pm
istvan, you're a jerk >:(
joking! nah, i took it as a compliment really... i was just posting that, because if you think it looks lie it, then others probbly would accuse me of such :)
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 7:57pm
Possum the first tail is better. Try to develop a BG or frame that adds some WOW factor. The challenge here seems to be making a boar unboaring 
Cool idea ens. I looked at that Chinese character but guess its now out.
...a boar, hmmm...
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 10:27pm
The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the
domesticated pig. It lives in woodlands in central Europe, the
Mediterranean regions, across southern Asia and as far as Indonesia.
Animals similar to the wild boar include the warthog of Africa and the
peccary or javelina of the American Southwest; but these animals do not
share the pig's taxonomic genus.
http://www.chinese.new-year.co.uk/calendar/boar.htm - chinese new years ... get YOUR facts strait before you make yourself look ignorant... thank you and good bye
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Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 11:55pm
Here's mine so far peoples:
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 12:47am
Originally posted by iSTVANHere's mine so far peoples:
he is soo cool!! Ill show my WIP soon too! (working on Miss Piggy :p)
EDIT:
Here is my first Wip..
Actually its my first non iso lineart.. I have never done any real
pixel art that was not isometric.. so this is going to be quite a
challenge for me!!
What do yo guys think of this?
The hair will be changed alot, but the rest will be like this:

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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 1:56am
more hardcore update action

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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 3:56am
Ok I know why I have never done non-iso pixels before.. But Now I have started I wont quit..
Tips are welcome..

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Posted By: klav
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 4:36am

this is an extremely rough wip.... Im going with the demon style pig-boar.
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Posted By: Tremulant
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 7:54am
My first shot at it. I missed the last challenge, so I thought I'd throw my... pixels into the ring this time. Looks like it's a bit bland compared to some of the others. I'll have to see what I can do about that... 
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 9:47am
Trem = win.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 10:57am
Trem, you may not have entered the last one but mine was inspired by you and B.O.B so you were a part of it ;) ...and damm, that's great already
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Posted By: skeddles
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 11:16am
Originally posted by Tremulant
My first shot at it. I missed the last challenge, so I thought I'd throw my... pixels into the ring this time. Looks like it's a bit bland compared to some of the others. I'll have to see what I can do about that... 
the moment i saw that i said "oh, what the f**k." how did you get to be so good? oh well, i might as well try....
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Posted By: Dra_chan
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 2:06pm
I really want to participate in these challenges.
Let's see, my first idea is an adorable boar, cuter than j00!
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Posted By: AwesomePossum
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 4:52pm
Any better?
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Posted By: Shawn
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 6:19pm
These are all looking pretty rad. :D I may try my hand at one. :P I'm also expecting Rabidbaboy to be entering. :P
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 1:54am
Love the ideas you've got going peeps. Ack, I better get cracking.
I was thinking of doing a lord of the flies type spin-off, but I can't get the idea put together.
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 2:29am

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Posted By: skeddles
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 5:53am
Originally posted by Ensellitis blah
those look good, but may i make a suggestion? i'd put the shadow back in, but two of them, going the opposite direction of the light. then where they overlap, its darker.
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 5:54am
Yay I got a bg!
(Used Ensellitises idea of the chinese sign for a boar so I could fill up the bg a little bit, hope you don't mind ens)
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Posted By: df0
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 6:19am
 I'm working on a boar shaman.. I've come pretty far but I hope that I get some time to work more on the animation.
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Posted By: Spider Boy
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 8:11am
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:57am
On man, the pressure is building. I'm not looking at this thread till Sunday night.
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Posted By: buloght
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:00am
Tremulant: That is looking pretty darn fantastic, waiting for you to upload so I can fav. It looks a like a poodle-boar :D I love the unified colours and the smoke blowing.
ISTVAN: Awesome as usual!
df0: That is superb, so nostaligic, the atmosphere is mind-blowing.
dragonrc: I love how that is turning out.
ensellites: awesome :D, love the lanterns! Your idea is too unique 
AwesomePossum: I'd say definitely better, great work.
Lollige: Hehe, miss piggy.
Klav: That's gonna end up great!
spider boy: That's an awesome idea, haha.
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Posted By: Afflict
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:03am
Nice entries al I love df0 shaman!
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Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 1:21pm
Wonderful WIP's everyone!
I'm finding the weekly challenge thread organization quite weird though.. Wouldn't it be easier to make a weekly challenge board with all the previous (locked) challenges in it, and the current one stickied?
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 2:28pm
Yeah I was thinking that too, now it looks like it is just another challenge instead of The awsome WEEKLY CHALLENGE!
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Posted By: df0
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 1:16am
@ buloght, afflict: Thanks people!
@ Spider boy: Great idea and nice art. When you're stranded on a tiny island the last thing you want is a "LoL" in a bottle, haha.
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Posted By: silent sniper
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 8:25am
Posted By: FrankieSmileShow
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 10:55am
Im trying something out, but it wont be as flashy as the last one.
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Posted By: Doppleganger
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 2:41pm
 This'll be my entry. Any CnC welcome. 13 colors atm...however if one feels that it'd benefit from a few more, I'm not completely against it.
Everyone's pics are really great, I'm glad that I spent the extra time on this one.
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Posted By: Dra_chan
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 4:06pm
All the submissions are looking good.
I'm almost done with mine, I still have to add a background.
5 colors (not planing to add more)

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Posted By: Kobun
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 6:01pm
Originally posted by buloght
Originally posted by jalonso
Super Mario Riding a Dithergasmic Boar, ftw.
Hah :D Thanks for the idea haha!
I couldn't resist...
Since I cant submit I probly wont finish it... just wanted to try =]
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 6:26pm
Why can't you submit? The challenge is open to all members, and there are still a few days left.
EDIT: Ah, thanks, Doppleganger.
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Posted By: Doppleganger
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 6:29pm
Because it's an edit from a pre-existing sprite of his.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 4:48am
wasn't gonna look here again but couldn't resist. Awesome job by everyone so far. Too bad about Kobun's mario, its real funny.
Dopple, you kill me.
Again I'm stumped and thinking about this non-stop.
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Posted By: Tremulant
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 7:24am
Thanks guys! I made an update, which is hopefully sex ('cause I think I'm pretty much done working on this). CnC is way more than welcome though... I want this to be as good as it can...
This thing's getting to be pretty sexified. All the entries are looking sweet.
Jal: I dunno how I missed your entry for the last challenge, but it's friggin' hot and I'm glad, nay, honoured to have played some part in it's conception.
Buloght: Thanks  I'm hoping you'll enter this one, too. Your stuff is so great, it shames me, and usually ends up making me cry a bit. Why must you hate me!? 
Dopple: I love your colours to death. Maybe it's 'cause I was playing it recently, but for some reason it reminds me of tomba (minus the pink hair). 
Spider boy: haha cool idea and pretty great execution. Poor guy; he looks so helpless...
df0: Kinda hoping you'll, like... spontaneously combust or something, 'cause that thing is badass and will probably rape my entry. I both damn and praise you. 
Dragonrc: Haha that worries me. Nice.
Ens: Really, really loving the light flickering thing you've got going, and the smothness of the whole piece.
Possum: Nice improvement. Just add some highlights and that'll make for a pretty tasty piggy. 
Klav: Angriest. Boar. Ever. Nice stuff. Especially love the curly smoke.
Lollige: Great likeness, though Miss Piggy always frightened me a bit...
Istvan: I really like yours a lot. Very much makes me wish I'd had a more original concept...
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Posted By: Doppleganger
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:06am
Now Tomba is a great game! I always think about it every now and again. I can see how Tomba, although it's in the reaches of my mind, could've played a role in that characters development.
Trem: The texture on the boar is top notch stuff. if I had one complaint, and I really don't. It would be that the foliage in the background lacks depth. I mean it has it, but it just looks like it's one giant bush going across all the trees that you can see. Where as the trunks display depth, the leaves only show depth on the plane closest to us, if that makes sense.
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Posted By: AdrianJensen
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:51am
Originally posted by skeddles
Originally posted by Ensellitis blah
those look good, but may i make a suggestion? i'd put the shadow back in, but two of them, going the opposite direction of the light. then where they overlap, its darker. the shadow comming from the right(red side) should be blue, because all that exists in that area is blue light. the shadow comming the other way should be red. the overlaping shadow should be black, because no light esists in that area.
I love the flicker.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:34pm
Tried something different for me, dunno...

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Posted By: AdrianJensen
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 10:37pm
lol, that's great.
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Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 2:44am
Baha, funny :) If you have the time, you should dress one of them like a geisha.
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Posted By: Elk
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 4:27am
nice entry...im working on my boar too :P
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Posted By: df0
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 8:21am
Tremulant: Thanks for the praise and ill-wishes ;) Your entry is looking super, you've got a great style going on with texturing skills that i can only hope to have one day.
Jalonso: That's looking great, kind of like the three little boars in an excellent scenery.
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 12:27pm
Originally posted by ceddo
Baha, funny :) If you have the time, you should dress one of them like a geisha.
Geisha's are Japanese.. Lunar New Year is Chinese.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 1:12pm
I got the drift anyhow and included his great idea. http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/18485.htm?sec=date - Final pixel in gallery, w00t.
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Posted By: FrankieSmileShow
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 2:50pm
 Thats my entry! all done! Was pretty fun to animate. I was going to make it longer first, but lost interest.
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 3:04pm
you are animating god.
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 3:11pm
:/ I've been without a PC since last monday, I didn't have any good ideas anyways.
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Posted By: FrankieSmileShow
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 3:15pm
Setzer youve got one whole day left. Draw a boar riding a motorcycle, with kewl shades.
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 3:32pm
Kickass work on your entry Frankie. Your animations are always awesome.
And once again, less than a day left and I have nothing. Let's see if I can still manage to make something tomorrow :)
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Posted By: Elk
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 4:47pm

o.o took about 5 hours 39 colors 150x150
already posted on PJ
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Posted By: AwesomePossum
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 9:40pm
[img]http://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/untitled__r138879101.png[/img]
Heres my finished version. Hes with his Dog Boar House
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Posted By: Dra_chan
Date Posted: 24 February 2007 at 10:22pm
Originally posted by AwesomePossum
Heres my finished version. Hes with his Dog Boar House
I can't see most of the dark shades. Maybe in other monitors it's
different, but anybody with non-optimal monitor settings or very old
ones wont be able to see them, which is a shame.
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 8:39am
Originally posted by FrankieSmileShow
Setzer youve got one whole day left. Draw a boar riding a motorcycle, with kewl shades.
Yeah, that wouldn't be a problem if I had my PC :( I should hopefully get it back on monday. Looking foward to the next challenge, though :)
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 9:58am
Originally posted by Elk took about 5 hours
damm 
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Posted By: Elk
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 10:26am
Posted By: fil_razorback
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 12:08pm
WOW
I've been away for the whole week...man what a thread !
Congrats to all of you, this is really awesome.
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Posted By: The B.O.B.
Date Posted: 25 February 2007 at 12:55pm
Bada bum bum bow!!
"New Challenger!" (yeah, I'm a Street Fighter dork...)

Since I missed the first, thought I might try and redeem myself. Good luck to everyone...
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