Topic: Historical Figures Draft Tournament - Round 1

[charlie]

Time for the Deserted Island Historical Figures Draft Tournament. I used the randomizer to randomly select seeds from 1-9:

Playoff Seeds (Draft Order in Parentheses)

• drakkenkorin (6)
• micah (8)
• JaWiB (5)
• ober (4)
• Duwenbasden (3)
• kermi3 (1)
• charlie (2)
• axon (7)
• PJYelton (9)

The idea is to vote for your favorite collection of historical figures. Pick one list for each matchup (one for each color). You can use any rationale you like for making your votes. You can vote for yourself.

Since we have 9 entrants there will be a "play-in" match between the randomly selected bottom two teams, in this case axon and PJYelton. I also included some first round matchups so we can spread out the voting a little. The poll expires in 4 days.


(I'll post the individual lists below to refresh your memory...)

[charlie]

axon

Khufu (Egyptian King)	Pope John Paul II
Aristotle	William Shakespeare
Isaac Newton	Julius Caesar
Ernest Hemingway	Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dalí	Kazimierz Pulaski

vs.



PJYelton

Leonardo da Vinci	Galileo Galilei
Charles Darwin	Genghis Khan
Moses	Elvis Presley
Copernicus	Nefertiti
Ernest Hemingway	Muhammad
Neil Armstrong	Barack Obama

[charlie]

JaWiB

Nikola Tesla	Richard Feynman
Napoleon	Archimedes
Plato	Johann Sebastian Bach
J. R. R. Tolkien	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ernest Shackleton	Marie Curie
Freddie Mercury	T. S. Eliot

vs.



kermi3

Benjamin Franklin	Thomas Jefferson
Queen Elizabeth I	Alexander the Great
Charles Dickens	Alexander Graham Bell
Wilhelm Grimm	Annie Oakley
King Leonidas I	J. M. Cattell
Daniel Boone	Ted Kennedy

[charlie]

ober

Winston Churchill	John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison	Charles Kettering
Kim Jong-il	Gandhi
Christopher Columbus	William Penn
Steve Jobs	Andrew Carnegie
Pete Rose	Larry Ellison

vs.



Duwenbasden

John Cleese	Nero
Confucius	Nostradamus
Attila the Hun	King Arthur
Bruce Lee	Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
Robert Louis Stevenson	Francisco Pizarro
Hammurabi	Mel Blanc

[Jake]

sorry for not making all the picks guys - been kind of busy and I didn't want to pick just anybody.

But damn, even I had to vote for PJY - great list.

Jawib and Ober for the other two.

[charlie]

Err... why was voting locked by an administrator?

ober pulling stunts again?

Or maybe somebody accidentally voted for both people in the same matchup?

[Perspective]

Geez, axon vs PJ is a hard choice. Axon has two great artists I like (Picasso and Dalí) while PJ has some great scientists. They also seemed to have cut Hemingway in half and shared him as a choice (or is there a mistake in the summaries )

[charlie]

They also seemed to have cut Hemingway in half and shared him as a choice (or is there a mistake in the summaries )

Ack! PJ picked him in round 9 after axon picked him in round 7 and nobody noticed. I'll leave him in both lists this time since voting already started but Hemingway will have to be deleted next round. Sorry about that everybody.

[Jake]

no! PJ must be disqualified and I must be declared the clear winner!!!

[Perspective]

but Hemingway will have to be deleted next round. Sorry about that everybody.

Actually next round it won't matter since either axon or PJ will be gone, so there will only be one Hemers on the board.

[charlie]

Yeah... but I don't want to start the voting over and I don't want to change the voting halfway through. If anybody cares I can make a different decision (but I have a feeling nobody cares).


By the way, can an admin fix the poll when you get a chance? Thanks!

[kermi3]

Shit PJ wins again, is this your 3rd draft win???

[ober]

PJ, Kermi and me... and I unlocked the voting.  Not sure who locked it.

[kermi3]

Thanks Ober -  I voted the same as Obes...

[PJYelton]

oopsie, didn't notice Hemmingway had been taken.  I'm ok with just losing a pick, or if I'm allowed to pick again can I replace with Jack Kerouac?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_keroac

Shit PJ wins again, is this your 3rd draft win???

Only the first round!