I will say this now – if there’s a GGP 2018, I won’t be running it.
Well, that aged like milk in a desert.
Yes, I’m going to run the GGP this year, but I feel like the old format’s a bit stale and could do with some livening up. So, here are a few changes.
- Nominations are going to be done privately rather than in the comments section of this post. This is to create a bit of mystery as to who will actually be in the GGP, and also to get you to really consider who you want to see nominated – there’s every possibility that you’ll nominate someone that someone else does, but nominating someone is the only way that you can be sure that a certain person will be in the GGP! People still get 10 nominations each like before, and slots are filled on a first-come-first-served basis. You can send nominations via:
- Discord: my username on there is VanillaXSlime#7169 – this would be my preferred method as I can’t access ECG and UMD on mobile data, and I have it constantly running on both my phone and computer, and I mainly use Twitter for shitposting these days rather than WAM stuff.
- EC Gunge‘s private message system: my profile is here. Note: The ECG forums are currently glitched, meaning that new members cannot register. You can still use the PM system if you already have an account. Otherwise, use one of the other platforms.
- UMD‘s private message systems: my profile is here – please use the message button rather than the chat button as it’s easier for me to keep your list logged!
- Twitter: my profile is here, and it’s full of horrible toxic stuff that’s probably best ignored while you dive for the message button. If you send via Twitter, use the private message function rather than just tweeting it at me so that your anonymity isn’t undermined.
- Whichever method you use, you only get one set of nominees.
- Just to emphasise this point: Do not post your nominees in the comment section or any other public space until the full voting bracket is revealed. Nominee lists posted in public will not be counted and will be either deleted (if they’re on TellyGunge) or have deletion requested (elsewhere). This embargo is lifted as soon as the bracket is up.
- There are only 128 slots this time, rather than the 512 from last time. This is to speed things up and get down to the wire sooner.
- Last time the matchups were decided randomly. I considered a seeding system but I got some rather negative feedback on the idea and so mostly canned it. I say “mostly” because all the celebrities nominated will be placed into a bracket on Challonge, with its seeding system used to determine who goes against whom. Seeding is just who gets nominated in which order, with the first nominee going against the 128th, second vs. 127th and so on, rather than any sort of deep analysis of who the “favourites” would be. This also means you can try and predict who you think will take the crown!
- While I do plan on having some sort of crowning glory for the winner with its own set of rules and regs, I am repealing the rule against stories about any of the celebrities involved being posted during the GGP. If anything, I encourage them as a way of getting people to vote for your nominees/other nominees you take a particular shine to!
Some stuff hasn’t changed though.
- The GGP is still only open to real, living, female celebrities over the age of 18 as of today (16th September 2018). If I can easily find them with a Google search of their name (and possibly a keyword such as their band name or WWE if they use a stage name), I’ll consider them. I do hold the right to reject someone for lack of notability, however – Jenny the bassist from local band #62,241 isn’t going to be entered, for example.
- On that note, their current appearance is what matters. While I will accept pictures with nominations, they must be ones that readily come up when I search for “[celebrity name + any keywords] 2018” for me to use. These are also the terms I will use to find pictures for any nominees that pictures aren’t supplied for.
The deadline for nominations is, assuming the 128 slots don’t fill up sooner, 30th September 2018! I look forward to getting swamped with DMs!
(Oh and I’ve got 10 celebs I want to throw in myself so you’ve actually got just 118 slots have fun lel)