Magic Deck Vortex: MDV Idol #3: Let the Voting Begin!

Welcome back to MDV Idol, where we are entering the voting portion of the competition. The contest is heating up and now comes the important part of the contest…

If you have not ever paid attention to the PGA Golf circuit, you may have missed out on how hyped certain events, the Majors, can get. They have four Majors, The US Open, The British Open, The Masters, and the PGA Championship. Each one of those Majors are individually huge events, however, each one has a link to the other in that if one person can somehow win all four, they are the Grand Slam winner. Tennis also has this in their format, albeit different events.

This feature has been implemented into the MDV Super Series (MSS). There are going to be a total of four Majors in the MSS, and if you can figure out how to win all four events, you would a MSS Grand Slam winner. Sounds good doesn’t it?

That is where it gets a little tricky, you see as with the other sport Majors, everyone seems to come crawling out of the woodworks for Majors. What this means is that your competition will be greater for these events, making it a little tougher on you.

A question you may be asking yourself right now is, “I wonder what the other Majors are in the MSS?” Well sports fan, you are in luck! I will tell you what those events are right now, but first I have an important note to pass along to you.

And I will tell you that important message right after this important message from our sponsor.

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*Two gentlemen are laughing to themselves on a golf tee box in the distance. In front of the camera a man steps into his tee box and lines up his shot. Before swinging he yells…*

“FORE!”

*Again he lines up his shot, but then steps back and takes a few practice swings. Looking up to the camera…*

“Oh. You know, golf is a tender sport. *Looking into the distance, eyes twinkling* Look at the beauty all around me. The slight chirping of grasshoppers. The ever so soft brush of wind across my cheek. *Takes in a deep breath* Yes, nothing beats a nice relaxing day at the old country club to bring an end to a long week of work, wouldn’t you say? *chuckles at this poetic beauty. He steps back up to his ball and lines up his shot again.*

“FORE!”

*Mightily he swings his club. “PING” The ball rockets through the sky and towards the green. Suddenly from behind the man two gnarled, hairy looking goblins take off in chase of the ball. The camera shakes as it tries to focus on the two little creatures running down the fairway.*

“I get! I get!”

“Me first too!” The goblins taunt each other.

“What the f[BLEEP]! I thought I told you guys to get them out of here!”

*The golfer shouts from off camera. The ball lands on the green with a sharp “POP”. It rolls to within inches of the cup and stops. As the goblins begin to rush the green, a shriek is heard from above, stopping the goblins where they stand.*

“No.. NO! Not the Green!!”

*Swearing ensues from the tee box as the golfer protests loudly the happening events. The camera pans up to the sky just in time for a red creature to fall out of the sky. Quickly, the camera man corrects his aim and finds the creature heading towards the green and the goblins. The creature, a dragon apparently, opens it’s mouth and spews molten fire outwards and across the green. Quickly the green is devoured in flames and the goblins scream out in terror for only a brief amount of time before their bodies fall to the ground burning.

The dragon then falls to the ground and rolls into a nearby bunker, sending sand flying into the air.*

“CUT! DARN IT! GET SOMEONE OUT THERE TO CLEAN UP THAT SET! GET THOSE BEASTS OUT OF HERE!”

“Sir, it was not a beast, it was a dragon!”

“I don’t care if it was a unicorn! Get them out of here. Time is money!”

“Wait!!”

*The camera spins quickly to the golfer in the tee box who now has binoculars. He is pointing at the green and gestures for everyone to look. Spinning quickly back, the camera shows the green, and then zooms in. Slowly the smoke lifts, revealing the charred remains of the green, but then something appeared to be moving. A goblin? No.. it’s the ball! It’s slowly rolling… into the cup!*

“WHOOOOOOOOO! A hole in one!”

*The crew begins to celebrate loudly. Men begin popping beers and high-fiving each other.*

“WILL SOMEONE GET THOSE THINGS OFF MY COURSE PLEASE?!”

“The dragon or the goblins?”

“BOTH, ALL OF THEM! Throw them in the garbage for all I care!”

*As the camera fades to black…*

“But sir, it was only a whelp…

Before we broke, I left you with two things, the first was that I would tell you about the other three Majors, and the other was just mentioned as an important message.

Let’s do the important message first, as I seem to have left my index card with the contest descriptions in my jacket pocket backstage. I’ll get it while you watch this video.

*lights brighten* You thought I was unprepared didn’t you? Oh, I am just full of surprises. Want another surprise? Since MDV has decided to expand the Major contests, guess who they have asked to host the Fit the Flavor Major… ME! That’s right, [HOST] will be hosting the Fit the Flavor Major. Fitting eh? *cheesy wink*

To the point at hand, Fit the Flavor will be going retro, meaning that we are going back to its roots. Unlike the smaller version found in the forums, this will be run like the original Fit the Flavor contest. The contest will run for a total of six weeks. During that time, anyone can join in.

The point of the contest is that you will be provided with a flavor text, and you must design a card that works for that flavor text. The cards will be judged and scored according to some predetermined categories, and then the scores will be posted. In the article that follows with the scores, you will find the next flavor text for the next round. This process will continue for the six week period. When the contest is completed, all the scores that each person has accumulated will be added together to get a final score for each contestant. Finally, those scores will be used to determine the standings of the contest and the MSS points will be assigned according to those standings.

The third Major will be another MDV Idol contest. MDV Idol 4 will be going live this time as we will go closer to the format that Americal Idol uses. This means that instead of giving you a scenario at first to make your cards, you would begin by submitting any card you want to enter the contest. The judges would decide which players are deserving of entering the contest, and those players would be given weekly themes. At the end of each week, voting will take place, and the last place finisher(s) will be eliminated. Depending on the number of contestants, this contest is tentatively six weeks also.

Finally, the MSS season will end as it began with a Major. The MDV Forum Awards will serve as the final Major for the circuit. How do you get into this event? You do so by being active throughout the year. Last year there were 11 categories for the Forum Awards. In each of those categories, the people who were nominated were done so by their peers. Once the nominating process was complete, the voting took place. Again, the MDV community chose who would win the awards by voting. Each of the categories will act as an individual Major event, and will score points via the Inverse Scoring System with a modifier of 5.

Once the Forum Awards have been decided, we will be able to determine who the big winners of the inaugural season of MSS are.

Folks, we are just getting started here. We still have to reveal the contestants for this edition of MDV Idol. Stick around.

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Ever wonder what happened to Snow White? We decided to head out and take a look to find out exactly what was the story.

After months of searching, we found the mystical castle, and it turns out that it was all just a stage. Behind the castle walls was just a blue curtain. We were disheartened, but would not be deterred.

Weeks later we found an old stage hand who, after a few pops and some Jefferson persuasion, led us to a housing community in northern Texas. Upon entering the community, we found that it wasn’t really a community after all, but more like a group of trailers surrounding one bigger trailer.

Investigation showed that there were, ironically, seven smaller trailers. We knocked on all the little doors, and you guessed it, there were the dwarves. After talking with them they did indeed confirm that the trailer in the middle was Snow White’s. We then knocked on that trailer and were shocked to see a middle aged man answer the door. He was obviously drunk out of his mind and was not in a mood to deal with our questions.

We then asked one Doc … no last name given… and he informed us that the drunken man was Prince Charming, and that he was a b[BLEEP]. Surprised, we began to leave the trailer park, when something, or rather – someone caught our attention. We discovered that it was Bashful hiding in the bushes. He shyly told us that Snow White had moved out and left for New York.

More research on the internet confirmed this and gave us an address listed under Wons Etihw. Clever… We reached the home of Snow, excuse me, Wons and knocked on the door.

What we saw caught us off guard. We never in a million years would have expected the sight that we saw. Snow White answered the door, cigarette in mouth, asking us who we were and, “What the [BLEEP] we wanted.” That was not the surprising part. The fact that behind her was the big grinning face of the Burger King left us in surprised shock.

People freaked out.

You know, I am always surprised at the number of people who just love to see their own name in print somewhere. I too find myself in that category.

When I head into the forums, I read each and every post with my eyes wide, scanning every word – not really reading anything mind you - looking for my name. I have to say though that I am always disappointed, as you guys never talk about me.

But enough about me for right now. What about you? Do you want to see your name in print? Did you submit a card for the contest? If you did, then scroll down and see your name in the big time spotlight of the MDV Red. All of the cards have been scrambled up and randomly have been placed into one of five divisions. Upon leaving this hall, you may begin voting. You get one vote per division so make it count. Make sure to vote in each division as well. Here are your divisions:

Please use the division thread as your discussion thread for that division. Remember, your vote counts! SO get out there and let us hear who you think should be on the big stage in the Next MDV Idol!

Due to there being a total of 30 entries (and one disqualification for not supplying a card) for this contest, the winner of MDV Idol will be receiving a whopping 150 points in the MDV Super Series points chase. What a great way to start the season!

The stage has been set. You have your MDV Idol 3 contestants. Only one thing left to do…

One of these contestants will walk away with 150 points, bragging rights, and most importantly, the right to call themselves a champion, and the Next MDV Idol.

Editor Note: During the last contest, I allowed one person to enter the contest late, as a nice gesture on my part. I am doing so again in this contest. Hostility entered his card Saturday, however, it was his first post at MDV, and as a 'welcome to the community gift', I will allow this entry to be entered into the contest.

In the future, please don’t take my soft side as weakness and attempt to take advantage of it by breaking the rules. I do make exceptions in certain cases, and Hostility’s case seemed to be an interesting exception.

P.S. Yawgmoth, what happened? Did you lose your homework on the way to school? ~ cpn

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