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Champions Christmas Carol Contest!
williamkony
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Reindeer Games is hosting a Christmas Carol Contest!
Though Santa's reindeer team sometimes participate in superheroics, their first priority has always been making the Yuletide gay. And what better way to do that than to let your heart be light with a little singing? The only problem is, very few Christmas songs take our superpowered community into account!
That's where you come in; the music of old is just fine, tune-wise, but the lyrics could use a little spicing up to make it more relateable to all us superfolk. Just take a Christmas song of your choosing, scratch out the lyrics, and put in your own Champions-related words instead!
Once you have your song all set up, just post in this thread with the lyrics you've made, and the song that you used as a base. Then, winners be will be decided by Rudolph, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen! (The rest of the reindeer plan to gorge themselves on Christmas cookies and candy canes, and have thus declined the offer to help judge the contest.)
Entries will be judged on these main criteria:
Thorough lyrics
It's easy enough to replace the name "Santa Claus" in any old song with "Defender" and call it a day. But we want these carols to feel new and exciting!
Flow
It can get pretty tough to stuff five syllables where there was only one before. Try to sing your song out loud so you're sure it rolls off the tongue!
Adherence to Champions
Jingle bells, Batwho smells? Make sure the lyrics have to do with Champions! The more tied-in, the better!
As for prizes, there will be 3 winners selected! 1st place will get 5 Cosmic Keys to try their luck at some lockboxes. (Kind of like that one friend who gives everyone lotto tickets!) If you don't want to take the chance, you can always regift them, or "return" them to the market they came from to buy what you really want! Similarly, 2nd place will get 4 keys, and 3rd place will get 3 keys. You can put in as many entries as you'd like, but you can only win one prize placement.
Submissions will be cut off on Thursday, December 25th (Christmas!), and the winners will be announced on Friday, December 26th. The winners will receive a private message asking for their handle (or you can just post it in your entry), and we will get the prize to you at the earliest convenience. Good luck, happy caroling, and Merry Christmas!
Though Santa's reindeer team sometimes participate in superheroics, their first priority has always been making the Yuletide gay. And what better way to do that than to let your heart be light with a little singing? The only problem is, very few Christmas songs take our superpowered community into account!
That's where you come in; the music of old is just fine, tune-wise, but the lyrics could use a little spicing up to make it more relateable to all us superfolk. Just take a Christmas song of your choosing, scratch out the lyrics, and put in your own Champions-related words instead!
Once you have your song all set up, just post in this thread with the lyrics you've made, and the song that you used as a base. Then, winners be will be decided by Rudolph, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen! (The rest of the reindeer plan to gorge themselves on Christmas cookies and candy canes, and have thus declined the offer to help judge the contest.)
Entries will be judged on these main criteria:
Thorough lyrics
It's easy enough to replace the name "Santa Claus" in any old song with "Defender" and call it a day. But we want these carols to feel new and exciting!
Flow
It can get pretty tough to stuff five syllables where there was only one before. Try to sing your song out loud so you're sure it rolls off the tongue!
Adherence to Champions
Jingle bells, Batwho smells? Make sure the lyrics have to do with Champions! The more tied-in, the better!
As for prizes, there will be 3 winners selected! 1st place will get 5 Cosmic Keys to try their luck at some lockboxes. (Kind of like that one friend who gives everyone lotto tickets!) If you don't want to take the chance, you can always regift them, or "return" them to the market they came from to buy what you really want! Similarly, 2nd place will get 4 keys, and 3rd place will get 3 keys. You can put in as many entries as you'd like, but you can only win one prize placement.
Submissions will be cut off on Thursday, December 25th (Christmas!), and the winners will be announced on Friday, December 26th. The winners will receive a private message asking for their handle (or you can just post it in your entry), and we will get the prize to you at the earliest convenience. Good luck, happy caroling, and Merry Christmas!
Dasher@Tool-box, donning his armor to prance into battle and blitz the enemy! No joke!
Cupid@Tool-box, stunningly radiant stag ready to play matchmaker between villain and arrow!
Vixon@Tool-box, frighteningly eager to summon despair for his adversaries!
Jebin Zedalu@Tool-box, elementalist weaponmaster. ...One of these things is not like the others!
Cupid@Tool-box, stunningly radiant stag ready to play matchmaker between villain and arrow!
Vixon@Tool-box, frighteningly eager to summon despair for his adversaries!
Jebin Zedalu@Tool-box, elementalist weaponmaster. ...One of these things is not like the others!
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In Renaissance Center, no one goes to bed;
Our good friend Defender just stands there instead,
Gives missions to newbies and old hands alike -
It's amazing he's never tried to go on strike!
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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Let them Burn!
Lets go watch as the entire world burn into ashes!
For when they all Die!!
They will never see it coming once agan!
Oh when i see those pesky heroes! It makes me want to heat things up with a grenade!
Yet every time i see them smile it makes my beating heart go even more colder.
Oh Let them Burn!
Let them Burn!
We don't need those champions here out!
For Here I stand on a dead body!
Watch as the whole world burn into ashes!
The Champions never bother me anyway..
All Are Gone, Except Me
I'm All Alone In The Ren Center
Lonely Hero, Brave and Bold
Playing Gravenly Silence,
Playing Gravenly Silence."
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
"Trap these miscreants between us" is the thing to say
On a brilliant Westside Christmas Day
That's the hero's greeting that we send to you
From the town where Foxbat plays
Here we know that Hi Pan's 'bout to run and hide
Defender has just penetrated the other side
"Trap these miscreants between us" is the Champions' way
To say Merry Christmas to you
They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
Silent night, quiet night
Except in one place, known as Westside
Where criminals riot all day long
Until the brave heroes come along
To help restore the peace
To help restore the peace
Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new Lockbox to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our newest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
You just need to buy a key, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
No new content here, pa rum pum pum pum,
Take your money and run.
Pa rum pum pum, ra pah pum pum.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the Canada zone shows
Where Justiciar's stands shining,
And heroes start whining
About fighting zombies in snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Telio-clone I fight
May your friends be furry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Marvel clone in sight
May your abs stay ripped and tight
And may all your Christmases be white
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Four-armed Grond threw a car in the dirty Desert.
Where the rocks glow in the dark, from the Rad-i-ation.
How much fun to throw the car at the little Heros?
When Santa came in sight, thews bulging with his m-i-ght.
"Naughty Mutant stand you down, don't you want a preasent?"
"Why do you do these things, throwing cars at pe-o-ple?"
But the angry mutant did not reply to him
For he was eating his dinner, flying reindeer Bl-i-tzen!
Then Santa got really mad, promised him more coal!
Strode to the green hulking beast, and with him gr-a-ppled.
To and fro, forth they went, forth they went together.
Smashing the rocks apart, while irradiates stood cheer-i-ng!
Many hours they strove in vain, raised the dust cloud higher.
'Til at last the beast was lost, he could fight no l-o-nger!
"Naughty Mutant have you learned? Only coal for Christmas!"
Santa left him on the ground, with the leg of Bl-i-tzen.
Fast away his sleigh was bound, o'or the dusty desert.
Good and Evil both will find, what the Saint has left th-e-m.
Four armed Grond his lesson learned, in the rocks abiding.
Throwing cars is not a nice thing, angry green m-u-tant!
Hello one and all! Rudolph here! (by way of Cupid, as my PerfectWorld login is having issues)
First off, we want to thank all of you for participating! What better way to do that than a little extra holiday gift, eh? Cupid tried to convince me that we should give you all mistletoe (and drag you under it), but I thought a cosmic key for each participant aside from the winners would be a little better received. Don't worry, he'll be back around on Valentine's Day.
But on to business! The effort that was put into a lot of these is obvious, which is part of what convinced us that participation prizes were in order. However, in the deliberations we carried on after finishing winter deliveries there were three that came out on top.
These were chosen by a vote system: a vote for first place got you 3 points, a vote for second got you 2, and a vote for third got you 1. We figured that with so many cervines trying to chime in, that was the best way to go over it. Then after an initial vote, we had a little more discussion and did a final tally. Without further ado, the winners are as follows:
- - - 1st - Sistersilicon (Mele Kalikimaka) - - -
Clever following of tune, thorough lyrics, good rhymes, and fitting song (and appropriate Defender references in Cupid's opinion). You should have heard us set up the rhythm with the sleigh bells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJhYrC8Rq8w
- - - 2nd - Jonsills (Away In A Manger) - - -
"Like a sir."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftEpuxUo1E
- - - 3rd - Citizenamerica (Little Drummer Boy) - - -
We hope more content comes, pa rum pum pum pum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1fA59oH7Q
Thank you all again for participating! Those of you who provided your handles will be receiving your gifts shortly. Those of you who didn't, will receive a PM from us asking for one! Keep an eye out for further holiday contests by yours truly, the Reindeer Games!
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Cupid@Tool-box, stunningly radiant stag ready to play matchmaker between villain and arrow!
Vixon@Tool-box, frighteningly eager to summon despair for his adversaries!
Jebin Zedalu@Tool-box, elementalist weaponmaster. ...One of these things is not like the others!
Such a wide variety of entries!
I was expecting [Coal] :biggrin:
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
(Rudolph here - login issues resolved!)
Nah, we sent the [Coal] to numaman1990. In retrospect, with Numaman's proclivity for burning things, that may have been a bad idea.
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They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
Yeah, yeah. BRAINS!
But, no more precision on old threads. :: shrugs :: Probably not that important, just seems an odd choice.
Maybe a subtle reminder that you just might be necroing that thread? (Says the person who necro'd a thread in the CoT forums that was a week old, give or take an entire year. 2014, 2015, to-may-to, to-mah-to.)
They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends