Originally I posted the above as a joke but I think I will keep it the way it already is...Note to self:
Select 'anonymous voter' setting while creating polls for next bracket challenge...
Ties suck. 
I will let you and @visionary duke it out about the testosterone crack.
Yeah. 1:00 minute mark:
I would have rammed into someone's car too...
Guilty as charged.
I had not really thought about Hayek's low seeding until your post.
Please note that I copy-and-paste nominees names straight from members' posts into my Excel spreadsheet.
I do all my point calculations with the spreadsheet automatically. Points are added up for each celebrity according to their name. The celebrity's name must be spelled exactly the same if she is listed on multiple members' lists. So I went back and reviewed the members' who nominated Alba and Hayek in the previous thread.
@Runwildboys ranked Alba 3rd on his list. 30 points
@BigStar ranked Alba 24th on his list. 9 points. [Note: The actual numbering appears in the next immediate post]
DallasEast ranked Alba 5th on his list. 28 points.
My spreadsheet matched up three J-e-s-s-i-c-a A-l-b-a and added up 67 points correctly.
Here is a short funny story. Hayek's first name is Salma, not Selma. The end.
Only two members nominated Hayek (could have been THREE members if a certain admirer of hers had done so too):
DallasEast ranked Salma Hayek 6th on his list. 27 points.
BigStar ranked Selma Hayek 12th on his list. 21 points.
My spreadsheet did not auto-calculate 48 points for Hayek because the spreadsheet author did... not... spell check her name when he copied-and-pasted it.
A 5th seed would have placed Hayek in the Wonder Woman region. Alba and Hayek may have still met face-to-face but it would have only happened in the championship round if they both had advanced that far.
I do not deserve forgiveness. I sabotaged my own work. Just know that my normal paranoid self will be 10 times greater spell checking stuff in any future tournaments. That is sort of a punishment in itself.
One thing I do know for certain. There will be a strict limit on the number of nominees according to a thread contest's guideline. Extra nominees over the guideline limit will be auto-deleted.
I did Hayek wrong. What makes me feel worst is that I ended up spell checking a certain nominee named Justine Jaro in this particular list. Google corrected me when I copied-and-pasted the name as it was spelled during a search for an adequate pic for her.
I ended up entering a correct spelling of Justene Jaro into my spreadsheet. I do not even know who the bleeping heck she is but Hayek? I missed her misspelling and I have loved her since the first time I saw her in Desperado decades ago. Anyone see her love scene with Antonio Banderas in that movie??????
I feel like throwing up.
Do you mean the scene I already mentioned in the next-to-last paragraph of this post?How about the “other scene” from Desperado?
I accept my blame. You are not blameless though.I knew it was a set up
I could feel it in my ..............
bones
The points you could have given Hayek might have helped offset my mistake.
I am looking back at you too, Mr. Non-Voting Critic, who did not give any celebrity any points for ranking them in the tournament.
Be sure to check the Off-Topic Zone after this tournament ends. A new thread will be posted. I will ask members for any ideas for a new tournament contest. There have already been some ideas posted already for the new tournament.
Be sure to check the Off-Topic Zone after this tournament ends. A new thread will be posted. I will ask members for any ideas for a new tournament contest. There have already been some ideas posted already for the new tournament.
Plus, members shall be able to rank their choices, according to the most popular idea agreed upon, by posting their own ballot list. Each choice will receive a descending points value. We will have a hard maximum limit of nominations for an idea at 32 but it maybe necessary to pare that down to 16 depending on the idea chosen.
I hope all interested members will participate in the upcoming thread. The more the merrier, I say!
So now it's Biel vs. Hayek. That's all you had to say. LMAOOops! Forgot to add that Jessica Biel advanced through the tournament thus far via the Coffy region, not the Katniss Everdeen region. I made sure to re-check the Round 1, Sweet 16 and Elite 8 threads first before posting this (making certain to keep my tired head in-check
True. You know me. I will reply with an essay instead of 'uh huh'.
True. You know me. I will reply with an essay instead of 'uh huh'.
Just wanted everyone on the same page if they read my response since Jessica Alba sparked some... commentary... when she did not reach the final four.
A word of warning.If Hayek doesn’t win I vote for a “Hottest Female Celebrity” thread
Can I make a prospect list so guys might want to draft?A word of warning.
Be prepared to see your ballot list and every participating member's ballot list get lumped in together and see some "hottest female celebrity" names you have NEVER heard or read about before.
And a tip: Position your top hitters at the top of your list down. Yeah. That is a Captain Obvious thing for me to say but the higher the rank, the higher the points given. And that effort could prove the difference in getting as many of your nominees into the final tally used for the tournament as possible.
Sure but wait until the next idea thread to post it. Also make certain this prospect list will be separate from your one and only ballot list, which will only count one (1) time in the official tally.Can I make a prospect list so guys might want to draft?
