Metal Rebel

I think if the actual winner of the popular vote is no longer operating we should go with the "spirit" of the winner and not the losing venue. Therefore, we should go someplace with pool and music, such as the Fox and Hound.

Haha,

Santi - when you said you'd bring models I asked if you had any under 65 years of age - if you read the fine print on the Metal Rebel closing you'll see that it got overwhelmed by senior citizens who were such badass dancers that the place promptly got upgraded to a club. Santi - what have you done??

Mike - the official TNBC procedure for a defunct location is going to go into effect soon - wait and see :)

What is the source of this conspiracy???!?!?!!?!?

Yep, thanks for the advertising Santi :D I did hear that you are pussing out of this week though after promoting the living @#$% out of it. I don't know Michael, I think we need to mob Santi on Thursday and drag him into the "formerly Metal Rebel" club :)

Santi (Bravo) uses our old system (Yahoo Groups) to spread lies and defamation:

Santi writes:

Ok, so apparently the Metal Rebel has gone out of business. Even though we are not going there this week you should still vote for the Rebel. Here is why:

I am the Rebel. And I approve this message

WTF??? First of all, why would we tell only him that we're buying free beers? The truth is that Santi said if he doesn't get Metal Rebel to win this week he's going to do naked cartwheels while singing "I am a Rebel - Ecuadoooooooor" in Spanish in front of the bouncers at the "formerly Rebel" club (btw, does anyone know what it's called?). Now I see why he busted his ass so much ;)

Jokes, coupes, and defamation aside - this has been quite the promo for TNBC, so thx Santi. The only problem we're left with is that Metal Rebel is going to win and that will pretty much screw this week's TNBC (the perpetrator himself has told me he's skipping out on his own grand event!). But another thx goes out to Santi for that one. Why? Because this will hopefully act as a wake up call - if you don't like the weeks' pick get up off 'yo ass and VOTE! You can't complain about this weeks' selection if you didn't vote. And if you did, well, find Santi next time and tie him down for a week.

:D

Well spoken Santi :)

This was indeed a rigorous test of our democratic system, and shows that even if voters are totally mislead (free beers my ass) ;), when motivated, people will rally around a cause. And I don't think anyone can doubt now the importance of voting!

Since we are now confirmed as an open-minded, democratic society I will say that nothing is written in stone. The people can move the stone if they so choose. It's all in your hands! (getting teary now, have to stop).

Okay, here's my proposal - since no one seems to want to go to the "formerly Rebel" club, I'm going to support Santi's proposal that from now on if a location closes, or changes, the runner up gets picked. That being said, I will re-announce today's TNBC location as Diamondback by the end of today unless a majority object.

Please voice your opinions accordingly.

Actually he wrote "diamondback" in the subject line - I think he just goofed up on terminology - I fell for it too :)

Actually, that's total crap, for several reasons:

1) I can see exactly when Mr Presidente, Rebelde, and Xavier were introduced. And it wasn't late at night on Tuesday - it was just after 4pm in the afternoon, and since the timer resets at 7pm, they each had the opportunity to vote twice, which they took when 4 more votes came in before midnight.

2) It says on the locations page that the poles end Wednesday morning - I made that change a while ago when I couldn't get the scheduler to work properly (when it works I'll change it to midnight).

3) There were no additional votes after midnight save 1 for Metal Rebel and 2 for Diamondback. So at midnight, minus your phony votes, Diamondback was still leading by two points.

4) You used the old Yahoo Group system to spam people with vote requests by telling them a lie. A couple people talked to me about that and said they only voted for Metal Rebel because of the free beers you falsely promised them.

5) You told me you weren't even coming this Thursday. It's easy to vote for a closed location if you're not going to be there - you said you knew it was closed, why not pick another one to rally up the charts?

6) I'm not pissed that you scammed the system - in fact, it drummed up good promo :) But don't pull me into your dirty laundry - I was man enough to let Metal Rebel win, why do you have to puss out with excuses while posing on this "democracy" pedestal? I could easily have logged in as "Lincoln," "Washington," and "Adams" and posted enough votes to push Diamondback to the top. Or I could simply multiply Diamondback votes by 2. There's a reason I didn't do either of these and stuck by the rules I had laid out. Obviously no one's going to bother voting if I can change stuff around at whim.

I was especially encouraged by your challenging of the system and had no problem letting Metal Rebel win to show that anything can win, even if it's closed and gone high-security club. That's why I was disappointed to find out that after all that you had to get your hands dirty to win.

Ranting aside, it was fun and I look forward to more coupes and drama if it gets more people involved :D