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<warpus> just under 5 and a half hours to go!!
<mel_farr> i could use more time
<warpus> more than 5 hours?
<mel_farr> yes
i went a little too ambitious this year
i mean we'll see. the background might go quick
<warpus> yeah we just want stuff to judge.  if you don't submit we can't
judge yours, so you should submit even if unfinished
<mel_farr> oh i am submitting no matter what
obviously
come on i'm MFS and this is blender
<gasoline> mfs likes to mention he is a 3 time Blender winner but thereby
    ignores the fact that he also is a 19 time loser. today he is
 aiming for his 20th loss.

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Too weird to live, too rare to die, the Blender "funpo" improvised art
competition took place Sat Apr 13th, 2019.  Taking place only once per year,
it's been trying to adapt its ruleset from a simpler age to cater to the needs
of today's artscene weirdos, but its ability to change quickly necessarily
cannot be described as "agile".  Our modified rules are being prototyped, but
not rapidly.  That said, this year's worked out OK: to address a pair of
mutually irreconcilable concerns, we forked the compo and ran two competitions,
a short form program, intended to last two ahd a half hours, and a long form
one, to be completed in a leisurely 24 hours.

<warpus> if there's nothing submitted, might as well extend it
<Cth^Mist> with no contestants, extending the deadline harms no one.
You know this precedent means that someday we will start
  a Blender that will never end until a submission comes
  in, and it will go on for weeks and months.

  But that's a risk that I'm willing to take!

Naturally, no one was ready with submissions at the end of the short form
deadline, so we wound up with two long form contests, and they both got enough
entries for a full podium of entries... and they also gave competitors plenty
of opportunities to rack up bonus points engaging the subjects of both compos,
sometimes (for additional bonus) within the same entry!  This resulted in one
group skyrocketing some six places up the overall rankings over the course of
a single day!

<Cth^Mist> if we extend the deadline, you can submit on one set of
subjects, on the other, do two entries one for each
theme for bonus points, or do one entry that works
in all six topics for bonus bonus points!
Is upping the ante fair?  I don't know, but we don't have
much stick and we only have so much carrot.
<theknight> you're blending the rules
<warpus> just as hennifer intended

<kniffy> if i didnt have to go to the store earlier i coulda won this!
 curses!
<Cth^Mist> kniffy -- if you'd sent in a haiku you coulda won this!
 and in fact if you write a double haiku working in all six words
     you still have a good chance of taking home the double grand prize
     if no one gets anything else in
<kniffy> i would do a haiku but i did that for 2016 i think didnt i
<Cth^Mist> all right, try a sonnet this time
 all these years later and cthulu has still not give up evangelizing
lit

<Cth^Mist> all right, game on, see alls yall in ... 21.75 hours?
<warpus> I'll be here
 but for now..  I might as well watch the end of this hockey game
warpus left the chat room. (Quit: i'll be back)
<mel_farr> well that's a canadian reason to quit if i ever heard one

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Picking up from that previous item, we haven't seen a great deal of Blender
activity from members of currently-active artscene groups -- Mistigris, despite
(Potemkin) artpacking like it's going out of style, has only just now seen its
first contributions since the turn of the century.  Blocktronics only likes to
Blend when it's called the Sweet Sixteen Colours, apparently.  Impure and Galza
have been conspicuously absent from the rankings... but for some reason, it
seems to have struck a nerve with Fuel, who first seemingly pulled Blender hero
Mel Farr Suppastar into their sphere while competing back in, yow, 2017!  Now
they're in full effect with Mel Farr having activated his surface tension to
somehow draw longtime Blender host and mascot Warpus into the Fuel zone (and
then Quip, who hasn't turned up Blending yet, but wait until 2020...)

Anyway, despite our very different ways of getting things done, it's very nice
to have a crowded IRC channel of Fuel members jockeying around to see which of
them will be landing first and second and third place in a given compo.  As
long as we prompt the creation of excellent art I couldn't give a fig about
which crew they're representing, and the tighter things get at the top the
greater the chance we might see some vengeful competitive spirit emerge from
the ages.

Warpus isn't just part of a Fuel HR initiative, he also lended the proceedings
this time around a generous dose of authentic period charm by co-presenting the
compo with Cthulu.  He was initially skeptical about how useful he could be
(to the point where we scripted portions of the opening business) but he proved
to be very useful indeed when Cthulu was stuck in traffic during the compo's
conclusion.  Not just a pretty face!

(And because Cthu forgot to turn on logging, these infofiles are markedly
lacking in authentic #blender logfile quotes to prove it... but we had a lot of
fun on the IRC.  Take my word for it!)

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BLNDR2019aempress / defending / restaurant

BLNDR2019bsupermodels / doing martial arts / in haunted ruins

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<Cth^Mist> just synchronizing all the submissions
<theknight> synchronizing them... sounds fancy
<kniffy> complex calculations taking place..
 algorithms running..
<Cth^Mist> reticulating splines...

<Cth^Mist> OK, we had two compos.
for the FIRST, "short form" compo about
the EMPRESS / DEFENDING / RESTAURANT

in third place...
(oh wait, there's a surprise...)
it's a teletext screen by Jellica Jake of Mistigris!

in second place...
a PETSCII screen by Polyducks of Mistigris...

and in FIRST place...
WE HAVE A TIE
A FUEL-COVERED TIE
of The Knight and Pinguino!
<kniffy> gasp!
<Cth^Mist> I'm not sure how that's going to swing in the final vote
 tabulation, but it will be good for Fuel

OK, now we also have a SECOND, "long form" compo, about
     SUPERMODELS / MARTIAL ARTS / HAUNTED RUINS

     in third place... it's another TIE!
 Jellica Jake did ANOTHER teletext screen, and will get a bonus
     point for participating in BOTH compos!
and sharing 3rd with him...
Pinguino of Fuel gets a bonus point for participating in both...
AND another bonus point for combining both compos' topics into the
SAME ENTRY

in SECOND place...
BURPS of FUEL!  It's just... tight!

     And in first place!  The opposite of tight, it's sprawling and
indulgent!
That's right, I can only be describing Blender lifer Mel Farr
      Suppastar!
GOSH WOW!
IT'S INCREDIBLE!

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<Cth^Mist> THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR TAKING PART!  This Blender was very unusual
in that it was two compos, but they were BOTH successes!  So maybe
     we'll do it again this way next time.
     NEXT TIME?
See you back in #Blender April 18, 2020!
   You're going to want to see the entries... we should have an
     artpack done up featuring all of the entries and updated infofiles
     by next weekend!
(Well, by the middle of the night Tuesday morning after a long weekend?)
     And that's a wrap!  Thanks to warpus for helping me keep a handle
     on this crazy business while lots of other things were going on
     over on my end.
Now I have to prepare for my concert in two hours
Thanks to all the participants!
<warpus> I did all I could
ok time for dinner
warpus left the chat room.
mel_farr joined the chat room.
Cth^Mist left the chat room.
<mel_farr> i take it nothing has been announced?

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   if there ever is another blender, it will most likely be held:
(tag team blender!)

    7:30pm (est) saturday, april 18th - 7:30pm (est) sunday, april 19th, 2020
#blender (on EFnet)

please join us.- cthulu
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