Coupe AJA - Match 31

[junior shoal]

<@&1305149516403576852> Match thirty-one is underway and votes are open!

If you haven't submitted your entries yet, feel free to do so in @white sundial's DMs, even in advance (your own DMs must be open). We will play a match as it becomes available, so please don't let the order/match number worry you and be sure to send in your entries ahead of time! Even a single entry can sometimes make the difference between playing or waiting on a match.

[dark inlet]

the formatting was removed

I love the gauche aja! It’s really interesting how throughout many languages, left handedness is equivalent to evil, wrongness and weakness

[junior shoal]

It must have gotten lost when pasting the message. Can you forward your message to Nostra to me in DMs? I'll get around to adding the formatting again immediately. :D

[dark inlet]

oh! thank you <3

[junior shoal]

And perhaps also a screenshot just in case forwarding also breaks it. ^^

[wind maple]

@dark inlet How come you're not winning mdr.

[dark inlet]

Dhdhdhd, honestly I would vote for gauche too

[mint mulch]

I haven't decided what I want to vote for yet this one is hard

[dark inlet]

À rebours is interesting for me because it’s not in any of the other languages I know, but gauche has social implications

[wind maple]

Now that I researched about them, gauche kinda tops À rebours in most disciplines, but fails when it comes to literary and philosophical value.

[mint mulch]

lol

are you making an algorithm to measure the quality of entries? :p

[wind maple]

Duels create the best learning environment.

[mint mulch]

I'm glad then haha

[wind maple]

it's like deploying a beyblade or throwing a pokemon.

[mint mulch]

yeah right? I love the competitive aspect for that kind of thrill

makes me really happy to see that the feeling is shared :)

[scarlet ivy]

Eee ca marche comment ca/c'est quoi ca? 😅 (Explication/traduction en anglais pour acompagnier celle en francais est BIENvenue)

[mint mulch]

hello ! Tu as toutes les informations ici :

[wind maple]

how many points do you get for losing tho.

[mint mulch]

0

the scoring system will probably be different next time so it's less punitive but this is how it works for now!

[wind maple]

[scarlet ivy]

C'est que les contestants qui peuvent voter?

[autumn stone]

tout le monde peut voter !

[dark inlet]

Fbdhhdhd

[mint mulch]

that's a mood

@wind maple just to make sure, have you received Nostradamus' DM? :o

[wind maple]

Yes.

But I still don't really have a word.

or the conventions figured out on how to send it to Nastradamus.

[junior shoal]

You just send Nostra a DM, like you would any other user.

We'll be notified and can reply that way.

[wind maple]

so I have to add the headers myself? eg:

# My Word
> it means *blablabla*

[mint mulch]

you can format it however you like! we've had quite minimalistic entries

[junior shoal]

We only need the word and its meaning. The formatting has mostly been added by us.

[wind maple]

@dark inlet it's the first game heading for a draw! I hope I didn't jinx it tho.

[wind maple]

But I like eating other people's work too .

[junior shoal]

Eating? 👀

[dark inlet]

Ooooh

Can you vote on your own poll or is that forbidden?

[wind maple]

As long as you're only 2 votes behind it will be a draw.

[wind maple]

I haven't really seen anyone vote for themselves before. But not confirmed.

[dark inlet]

tyrian did which is why im asking

[wind maple]

Then you should nullify his vote by voting your word.

[mint mulch]

@wind maple @dark inlet

if there are self-votes we'll just deduct them

[dark inlet]

ahh oki

[wind maple]

lesgooo only 1 vote behind. Also what if someone uses an alt account to vote. Like how'd you guess if maybe suppose I'm an alt of someone else who already voted.

[dark inlet]

I don’t think anyone would go that far lol

[mint mulch]

that's the “we assume players to compete in good faith” part

honestly, cheating on a language learning event is so disgraceful, I don't know why anyone would bother

[wind maple]

'Anyone' with a virtual non-adaptive sense of morality starting and ending at 'It's legal until you get caught'.

[mint mulch]

that's honestly a non-issue in the context of this event

we're more concerned with missing entries at the moment lol

[wind maple]

it is all part of my plan hehehehe, letting @dim radish's insanely creative first few entries go by and settle down a bit, after which day 8 is mine to grabbywabby

[mint mulch]

uhuh