The Wheaties Fuel Curse, Part III: Don't Say We Didn't Warn You

SoSG Eric Karros mocked the Wheaties Fuel Curse yesterday. He thought the whole thing was just a joke, perhaps just a crazy coincidence.

Well, look at the facts now:

Sock Monkey

Muno (from Yo Gabba Gabba)

Robot

Teddy Bear

(EDIT 8:20a--whoops; this shot is of Teddy Bear's friend, Rabbit. Try these--)

Mr. X

That's right, every one of the beings associated with Wheaties Fuel is damned to a life of misery and misanthropic mayhem. Just look at this last wave of once-happy childrens toys, turned into mangled animal chewtoys, broken shells of their former selves, crazed dismembering maniacs, or punted pigskin proxies. I wouldn't wish any of these fates on our dear readers.

The curse of Wheaties Fuel is real. Beware the Wheaties Fuel Curse!

photos: Sock Monkey from the cindymindypindy blog; Muno from the fabulousvalency blog; Robot from fotolia; bear rabbit from the Luke Chueh print "Jacked" (acrylic + ink), and bear from "I Am Your Plaything", and "Bear With Knife Hand...Bad Idea"; Mr. X from the blabla site itself.

Opening Round, 2nd Half: Comment-Time!

Here're the halftime scores:

Muno Regional:

• (1) rbnlaw leads (8) BWrightson by 4:39
• (4) Dusty Baker leads (5) Paul by 0:48*
• (3) Steve Dittmore leads (6) Greg Photo by 1:38
• (7) jmk leads (2) djansson by 0:26

Robot Regional:

• (1) QuadSevens leads (8) Fite Club by 9:20
• (4) Erin leads (5) Felix Pardalis by 6:10
• (3) Jason leads (6) Curious Gene by 0:14
• (2) Greg NoPhoto leads (7) DB's Toothpick by default**

Sock Monkey Regional:

• (8) Fanerman leads (1) Fred's Brim by 9:50
• (4) Loney Fan leads (5) MLASF by 2:35
• (3) J Steve leads (6) Matt by default**
• (2) Keven C leads (7) Booger by 1:22

Mr X Regional:

• (1) Josh S leads (8) TD by 9:48
• (5) Mr Customer leads (4) GLG by default**
• (6) Betsy leads (3) MSTI by default**
• (2) Neeebs leads (7) w.d.d.i.m. by default**

Now let's fire up the second half!

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*just kidding DB. You lead by 0:57.

**If one competitor defaults the 1st half and his/her opponent defaults the 2nd half, the one who commented the soonest after the comment time thread was posted in their respective half wins.

SoSG March Madness Update

This is just an update, not a comment-time post, so you can relax*. Here're the halftime scores from yesterday as I have them, please let me know if I got something wrong as I went through it really quickly:

Muno Regional:

• (1) rbnlaw leads (8) BWrightson by 4:39
• (4) Dusty Baker leads (5) Paul by 0:57
• (3) Steve Dittmore leads (6) Greg Photo by 1:38
• (7) jmk leads (2) djansson by 0:26

Robot Regional:

• (1) QuadSevens leads (8) Fite Club by 9:20
• (4) Erin leads (5) Felix Pardalis by 6:10
• (3) Jason leads (6) Curious Gene by 0:14
• (2) Greg NoPhoto leads (7) DB's Toothpick by default**

Sock Monkey Regional:

• (8) Fanerman leads (1) Fred's Brim by 9:50
• (4) Loney Fan leads (5) MLASF by 2:35
• (3) J Steve leads (6) Matt by default**
• (2) Keven C leads (7) Booger by 1:22

Mr X Regional:

• (1) Josh S leads (8) TD by 9:48
• (5) Mr Customer leads (4) GLG by default**
• (6) Betsy leads (3) MSTI by default**
• (2) Neeebs leads (7) w.d.d.i.m. by default**

*well don't relax too much, as the next comment-time post might be in 2 minutes...or not...

**if one competitor defaults one half and the other competitor defaults the other half, whichever competitor commented soonest after the comment-time thread posted in the half they won wins.

Sweet 16, 2nd Half: Comment-time!

Here's how the 1st half of the Sweet 16 round went down:

Muno Regional:

• (4) Dusty Baker leads (1) rbnlaw by 3:41
• (3) S Dittmore leads (7) jmk by 2:34

Robot Regional:

• (1) Quad lead (4) Erin by 4:15
• (3) Jason leads (2) Greg NoPhoto by 0:02

Sock Monkey Regional:

• (4) Loney Fan leads (8) Fanerman by 1:56
• (3) J Steve leads (2) Keven C by 0:21

Mr X Regional:

• (1) Josh leads (5) Mr C by 1:47
• (2) Neeebs leads (6) Betsy by 0:15

Remaining Questions:

1. Will Neeebs, J Steve, and particularly Jason hang on to their tenuous half-time leads?
2. Will the Robot Regional continue to go according to seed?
3. Will archrivals Loney Fan and QuadSevens continue their collision course to the finals?
4. Who will win the Fan-bowl (Loney Fan vs Fanerman)?
5. Will EK make another mistake in scoring?

Find out the answers to all these questions in the comments section!