Shelter's Taco Island Day Gravedigging Bonanza!!

[Louisistan]

Season's Greetings, Citizens and Friends of Taco Island!

Yes, it is that most magical of times - Shelter's Taco Island Day is upon us! And given that we've recently been plagued by Zombies, the Taco Island Office of Civil Protection has ordered that all graves on Taco Island should be checked for Zombies. And so we are having a Gravedigging Contest!

The contest will start now and will end some time on November 25th! HumanSanity has thankfully agreed to join me as a judge.

You are all invited to gravedig threads on Taco Island in order to win prizes. Gravedigs will be judged by the following categories:

1.) Most beloved Thread gravedug (Judge: Louisistan )

2.) Thread with most posts made after the gravedig (Judge: HumanSanity )

3.) Best Thread by a CTE member gravedug (Judge: Louisistan )
[Please not that in this instance Wordy counts as CTE]

4.) Best Counting Thread gravedug (Judge: HumanSanity )

5.) Best coup d'état Thread gravedug (Judge: Louisistan )

6.) Best gravedig post (Judge: HumanSanity )

[As in: The best post used to gravedig a thead]

7.) Best gravedig of a thread created by a current or former Mayor of Shelter's Taco Island (Judge: Louisistan )

8.) Best Food Establishement gravedig (Judge: HumanSanity )

The judge will choose the winner for a category from all the gravedigs made in the announced timeframe. All decisions are highly subjective and final

To qualify as a "Gravedig" the thread must have been dormant for at least six months prior to the gravedigging post.

We have a total prize money of 40,000 Tacos, which means a 5000 Taco Prize for each of the categories! 24,000 of those Tacos are donated by me (which equals my annual salary as Mayor), the rest has been kindly provided by Taco Island Charities .

Get your shovels and commence digging for the Glory of Taco Island!

[Louisistan]

Tagging these folks who may be interested:

Hakketomat Aschente Boltor Republic of Tikistan Tuga Nation's Dragon @thx1138 Aersoldorf Ater Nox @dominionofcompassion Almonaster Marxist Germany Haivon United Royal Islands Echolilia Tanzoria Twobagger Klopstock Jabberwocky Palman @thetasmanianislands Sargon Reman @ammotangadia Vichya Dominion The Kerguelen Archipelago SweetHaven Neutrality United Free Earthian Yap Haganham Woonsocket Libraziland Elite Tanzoria Paffnia Al0neForever Vedrea The Soylent Green Party The Valencian Federation Nubpryton

[Tanzoria]

if I gravedig every thread I'm guaranteed to win

[Louisistan]

In theory, yes. And honestly, if you actually manage to gravedig every thread on TI, you deserve it

Although it would certainly make for a more boring competition

[Haivon]

I'm participating. I would love some fun!

[Aersoldorf]

Wait, the Mayor gets a salary now???

[Jabberwocky]

I'll sharpen my shovel now.

[HumanSanity]

Some of our tags above got messed up, fixing here: Dominion of Compassion The Tasmanian Islands Ammotangandia

Also, bribes accepted.

[Elite]

Nov 15, 2019 10:21:17 GMT -5 Aersoldorf said:

Wait, the Mayor gets a salary now???

I think he means the persistent bribing.

[Marxist Germany]

That's certainly something I need to do

[Woonsocket]

I'm posting these because it doesn't specify how to say something has been "gravedug" for the purposes of this contest.

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/19695/quote-unquote

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/6916/guess-who-post-next?page=1

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/6997/extreme-count-22?page=1&scrollTo=1714751


Here's a post - maybe the first post regarding gravedigging. And the thread is about Donald Trump too!

Dec 22, 2007 9:45:54 GMT -5 Shizensky said:

This grave has officially been dug.

10000islands.proboards.com/post/78184/thread

[Louisistan]

Nov 15, 2019 13:48:05 GMT -5 Woonsocket said:

I'm posting these because it doesn't specify how to say something has been "gravedug" for the purposes of this contest.

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/19695/quote-unquote

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/6916/guess-who-post-next?page=1

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/6997/extreme-count-22?page=1&scrollTo=1714751


Here's a post - maybe the first post regarding gravedigging. And the thread is about Donald Trump too!

Dec 22, 2007 9:45:54 GMT -5 Shizensky said:

This grave has officially been dug.

10000islands.proboards.com/post/78184/thread

Digging must have taken place during the timeframe laid out in the OP.

[Aersoldorf]

Noted

[Aersoldorf]

My submission for #8 (although technically valid for #3 and #6 as well I guess)

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/6908/finally-reopened-socrates-caf?page=1&scrollTo=1715234

[Aersoldorf]

My entry for category 7 is proof positive that poetry by committee is a horrible idea: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/7143/song-spam?page=1&scrollTo=1715237

[Louisistan]

Just to be clear: Submotting threads here is optional. All gravedigs will be considered.

[Aersoldorf]

Just trying to make it easier on y’all

[Louisistan]

Nov 18, 2019 1:50:28 GMT -5 Aersoldorf said:

Just trying to make it easier on y’all

Highly appreciated!

[Louisistan]

The competition has ended!


It'S going to take us a day or two to sort out the winners, so please bear with us.

[Marxist Germany]

Welp

[Louisistan]

Shelter's Taco Island Day Gravedigging Bonanza Winners announced!

Fellow citiens of Taco Island, in celebration of this year's Shelter's Taco Island Day (and on advice of the Taco Island Office of Civil Protection), we asked you to gravedig the hell out of this place and you did not disappoint. In fact, the submissions were so numerous and in such high quality that the judges HumanSanity and @louisista had to work through an excessive amount of threads in order to identify the winners. Several litres of the Mayor's Single Malt Scotch Reserve had to be sacrificed in order to find the winners.

And so, without further ado, here they are!

Most Beloved Thread gravedug

Guess who will post next is a thread with over 1300 posts. Originally posted by Cocobolo in 2011 (that's eight years ago!) the thread features posts by no less than 16 contributers, the most active of whom has made almost 400 posts there. Congratulations to Tanzoria for digging this one up.

Most Posts After Gravedig:
After taking a scan of all gravedug threads, We have identified Paffnia 's CTE Count thread gravedig as generating the most activity. So far, the Zombie Team of HumanSanity and Aersoldorf is outnumbering the Never Dead team of Paffnia . And Paffnia is also rewarded for this gravedig.

Best Thread by a CTE member gravedug

Deutsch-Suedwestafrika made only 604 posts before he logged off the 10ki forums never to be seen again in May 2007 (feeling old yet?). Well over 21,000 posts and the untimely demise of Deutsch-Suedwestafrika 's online presence qualify HumanSanity 's gravedig for this prize.

Best Counting Thread Gravedig:

We have chosen a much beloved counting thread, one which the judge has great memories of and was overjoyed when Paffnia reminded him of its existence. The Best Counting Thread Gravedig award goes to Extreme Count to 10,000, a thread once so influential its terms were part of the 10000 Islands information guide (no longer listed). That's another prize for Paffnia .

Best coup d'état Thread gravedug

Shelter's Taco Island has a violent and troubled history and so it is no wonder, that digging up graves from all the coups and civil wars would open up old wounds. The one which cut deepest was when we all had to pledge allegiance to that most devious of international villians: King Harald of Norway. This prize goes to Boltor for digging up The Norwegian Occupation of Taco Island.

Best Gravedig Post:
This award is co-given to Aersoldorf and Boltor . First, Boltor gave a lovely Aerso summoning song to Gravedig the thread, followed by Aersoldorf blowing it out of the water with a poem that epitomizes life in Taco Island. As a result of their collaborative masterpiece, we have chosen to jointly award this to Boltor and Aersoldorf . Congratulations!

Best gravedig of a thread created by a current or former Mayor of Shelter's Taco Island

Long gone are the times when Le Crochet ruled these lands as Mayor. Waaay back in 2008 he created A Song of Spam! The thread fell into disuse in 2010 before being violently yanked out of the ground by Aersoldorf ! Congratulations!

Best Food Establishment Gravedig:
While it has since been surpassed by its Discord twin, the original Kortexia's Korner of Drunk Rambling is an old time favorite, and we've decided it's close enough to a food establishment to count. Congratulations to Tuga Nation's Dragon for reviving this thread.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated. Taco Island Charities will be distributing the prize money! :-)

[Taco Island Charities]

Shelter's Taco Island Day Gravedigging Bonanza Prizes

Nov 15, 2019 3:28:29 GMT -5 Louisistan said:

We have a total prize money of 40,000 Tacos, which means a 5000 Taco Prize for each of the categories! 24,000 of those Tacos are donated by me (which equals my annual salary as Mayor), the rest has been kindly provided by Taco Island Charities .

Dec 1, 2019 14:35:30 GMT -5 Louisistan said:

Shelter's Taco Island Day Gravedigging Bonanza Winners announced!

Fellow citiens of Taco Island, in celebration of this year's Shelter's Taco Island Day (and on advice of the Taco Island Office of Civil Protection), we asked you to gravedig the hell out of this place and you did not disappoint. In fact, the submissions were so numerous and in such high quality that the judges HumanSanity and @louisista had to work through an excessive amount of threads in order to identify the winners. Several litres of the Mayor's Single Malt Scotch Reserve had to be sacrificed in order to find the winners.

And so, without further ado, here they are!

Most Beloved Thread gravedug

Guess who will post next is a thread with over 1300 posts. Originally posted by Cocobolo in 2011 (that's eight years ago!) the thread features posts by no less than 16 contributers, the most active of whom has made almost 400 posts there. Congratulations to Tanzoria for digging this one up.

Most Posts After Gravedig:
After taking a scan of all gravedug threads, We have identified Paffnia 's CTE Count thread gravedig as generating the most activity. So far, the Zombie Team of HumanSanity and Aersoldorf is outnumbering the Never Dead team of Paffnia . And Paffnia is also rewarded for this gravedig.

Best Thread by a CTE member gravedug

Deutsch-Suedwestafrika made only 604 posts before he logged off the 10ki forums never to be seen again in May 2007 (feeling old yet?). Well over 21,000 posts and the untimely demise of Deutsch-Suedwestafrika 's online presence qualify HumanSanity 's gravedig for this prize.

Best Counting Thread Gravedig:

We have chosen a much beloved counting thread, one which the judge has great memories of and was overjoyed when Paffnia reminded him of its existence. The Best Counting Thread Gravedig award goes to Extreme Count to 10,000, a thread once so influential its terms were part of the 10000 Islands information guide (no longer listed). That's another prize for Paffnia .

Best coup d'état Thread gravedug

Shelter's Taco Island has a violent and troubled history and so it is no wonder, that digging up graves from all the coups and civil wars would open up old wounds. The one which cut deepest was when we all had to pledge allegiance to that most devious of international villians: King Harald of Norway. This prize goes to Boltor for digging up The Norwegian Occupation of Taco Island.

Best Gravedig Post:
This award is co-given to Aersoldorf and Boltor . First, Boltor gave a lovely Aerso summoning song to Gravedig the thread, followed by Aersoldorf blowing it out of the water with a poem that epitomizes life in Taco Island. As a result of their collaborative masterpiece, we have chosen to jointly award this to Boltor and Aersoldorf . Congratulations!

Best gravedig of a thread created by a current or former Mayor of Shelter's Taco Island

Long gone are the times when Le Crochet ruled these lands as Mayor. Waaay back in 2008 he created A Song of Spam! The thread fell into disuse in 2010 before being violently yanked out of the ground by Aersoldorf ! Congratulations!

Best Food Establishment Gravedig:
While it has since been surpassed by its Discord twin, the original Kortexia's Korner of Drunk Rambling is an old time favorite, and we've decided it's close enough to a food establishment to count. Congratulations to Tuga Nation's Dragon for reviving this thread.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated. Taco Island Charities will be distributing the prize money! :-)

Prizes have been sent! Congrats to all the winners! Prizes have been sent! Congrats to all the winners, and thank you to Mayor Louisistan for the donation to help fund the prizes!

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[Paffnia]

Thanks Louisistan and HumanSanity for organizing!

[Aersoldorf]

This was really fun and provided a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thank you both for organizing it.

[Boltor]

Good event Mr Mayor.

[Louisistan]

Thank you. And a special thanks to HumanSanity for his help and support.

[Echolilia]

I totally missed the zombie plague.