New and Improved!

mid-afternoon on Thursday, the 27th of April 2006 by Chad

Ok Ok, I know things have been a little slow here lately, but we’ve been working on… an idea.

An idea so spectacular, well, it is worth the wait.

We’re coming out with the 21st Century version of Battle of the Network Stars!!! Yea!!! {thunderous applause}

Each week we’ll be posting the teams, the coach, and the challenge. Scoring is based on you, the commenters. Simply put, “vote” for your favorite team by leaving an interesting comment telling us how the competition goes. An example, in the Fox vs. CBS fictional challenge of first to bathe a pig (pig not included) if you just post:

Fox kicks butt

You’d score a single point for the Fox team. However, if you go a bit above and beyond, by getting into glorious detail like…

Reese (Malcolm in the Middle) scores a dirty pig by luring Rosie O’Donnell from cheering for the CBS team with a box of krispy kreme’s…

Well that’ll get your team a few more points.

The schedule is going to be:

The “classic” networks- CBS, NBC, and ABC. Considering the only show I watch on any of those networks is NCIS this is gonna be tough to figure out the team. But we’ll do it.
The “upstart” networks- FOX, UPN, WB. Gotta get this one done before UPN and WB complete their merger.
“Basic Cable” - not sure all the channels we’ll do, but you know Sci-Fi Channel has to be one of them.
“Pay Cable” - the HBO, Skinemax kinda shows.

Rules: We’ll pick 6 random characters from the websites of the networks we chose. We’ll post by character and actor/actress names. All must have current shows based on the website.

We’ll pick a coach for the team, who must have had a show on that network, but probably one that is no longer on.

We’ll run for a week, and then post the winners, decided by us.

After each semi-final, we’ll run a championship.

And betting is allowed of course…

To see all posts about the battles, click here…