The rules of the game still apply. However, there are some differences which will be noted in the next post.

Boot and Immune Rules - UPDATED Edition

-NEW RULES and INFO-

The Boot and Immune game was the brainchild of blackcyborg and has been continued through the efforts of others, SUCH AS tgrant, LadyRaiden, moosie_fate, Deadboy, MDC86, TheKrypt, RasAlGhul, lnkinprk777, Shinomune, Danadbab, queve, Bloodline666, Crow and others. (The first thread of this game reached 1498 posts!) Of course it could not last long without everyone taking part. However, there have been a few who have made this game difficult rather than fun either through malice or ignorance.

The following is some ground rules that I hope will help keep this game going and not banned by the gods of MKO. These are not set in stone and could be changed or completely removed depending on feedback. Mainly wrote this so no one can whine "I didn't know."

REGISTRATION

In order to participate in the game, you MUST have at least 100 visits and then you MUST PM Crow. You should receive a PM back saying you are eligible to play!

GAME RULES!

1. THIS IS ONLY A GAME! Please repeat as often as needed THIS IS ONLY A GAME!

2. Everyone gets ONE Immune and ONE Boot vote per round.

3. 7 Boot votes removes a character from the game, 7 Immune votes prevents the character from being booted through the existing and following round. After which his/her votes are set to (0,0)

4. DO NOT create/clone multiple accounts/membership/usernames/etc so as to be able to vote more than once. If you are caught you will be ban for the rest of the existing game, and if you are a repeat offender you will be banned permanently. Your name will be seen on the Banned List so that everyone knows whose vote not to count when adding up the votes.

5. Flames are to be kept to a minimum. If your favorite character/fighter has been booted from the game, please refer to Rule #1. However you are allowed to weep and/or cry.

6. Each round will have at least 15 votes. The exception is when there is no one else to vote for or if there is one person left to vote for. This may happen in later rounds where there are fewer fighters to choose from. In the event of one person being left, which will happen if everyone else is Immuned and/or Booted, a new round will start will any Immuned characters having their tally reset to (0,0). The single character will continue with their tally as it was.

ALL votes MUST have an Immune and Boot vote. Any without either of the two will be ignored and not included in the final 15+ votes to be tallied that round. Also, anyone posting the name of a character whom has been booted in previous rounds WILL have their votes ignored also! This would most likely be done purposefully to avoid booting someone else that person likes! Check the list before voting! The exception is if that character was booted earlier in the same round via votes, where we can assume the voter did not check previous posts.

7. DO NOT change your vote after the tally is posted. You are welcome to change your vote during an existing round, but once the round is over it is too late.

8. Team efforts are welcomed.

9. When a character wins, he/she will not be included in the following games until after the Grand Championship.

10. In the event of the final round, the final two characters in the game will have their votes set back to one. This is when you vote for the winner. There is no need to boot anyone. Just post the name of the character you wish to win. The round will last for a full 24 hours and the character with the most votes will be the winner. In the event of a tie, the first vote cast after the 24 hour barrier will decide the winner.

11. The game MUST only be updated by players who DO know and FOLLOW these rules. Please, if you are not sure how the system works, don’t update in order to keep the game with out confusion.

GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP

When there are 16 champions, a Grand Championship between the fighters shall start. The Grand Championship will have basically the same rules as the normal Boot and Immune game. The winner of this game will be given the title of Grand Champion and will sit out of the following games until it comes time to defend his/her title. The others will return to the Boot and Immune game as ordinary fighters. Aside from the first Grand Championship, there will be one returning Grand Champion and 16 challengers to vote for.

Thanks to LadyRaiden, tgrant, Deadboy, danadbab and others contributions for the above rules and background.

If there is anything about the rules you wish to ask about, contact myself or LadyRaiden. Please do the same if there is anything you wish to add to the rules

Tournament Layout

The tournament will last 11 days.

Each round will last 24 hours!

The Boot and Immune layout for each round will work as follows:

Round 1 begins: 16 characters to vote for, none booted, none immuned

Round 2 begins: 12 characters to vote for, 2 booted, 2 immuned

Round 3 begins: 10 characters to vote for, 4 booted, 2 immuned

Round 4 begins: 8 characters to vote for, 6 booted, 2 immuned

Round 5 begins: 7 characters to vote for, 8 booted, 1 immuned

Round 6 begins: 6 characters to vote for, 9 booted, 1 immuned

Round 7 begins: 5 characters to vote for, 10 booted, 1 immuned

Round 8 begins: 4 characters to vote for, 11 booted, 1 immuned

Round 9 begins: 3 characters to vote for, 12 booted, 1 immuned

Round 10 begins: 2 characters to vote for, 13 booted, 1 immuned

Final Round: 2 characters to vote for, 14 booted, 0 immuned

Points System

So as to make the Boot and Immune fairer this time round, a new points system has been introduced!

For every immune vote received, the recipeint character wil gain a +1 in their point total. For every Boot vote, the recipient character will gain a -1 in their point total.

This system is to prevent rounds where a character may get the following tally - (14,13) and then be Immuned despite being almost as unpopular as they were popular. It makes sense that a person with the following tally - (9,0) should be Immuned as they did not receive a single Boot vote, rather than Immuning the person with the (14,13) tally as they received Boot votes.

This way, the person(s) with the largest point total at the end of the round will be Immuned, whereas the person(s) with the smallest point total will be Booted!

An example:

End of round 1:

Sonya (14,13)
Kabal (15,8)
Mileena (20,10)
Nightwolf (4,12)
Kitana (0,16)

Points awarded:

Sonya (14,13) +1
Kabal (15,8) +7
Mileena (20,10) +10
Nightwolf (4,12) - 8
Kitana (0,16) - 16

Therefore, Kitana (-16) would be Booted and Mileena (+10) would be Immuned!

In the event of a tie

Should there be a tie for a boot or immune slot at the end of a round, the person with the highest number of boot/immune votes will get the respective slot. For example:

Shang Tsung (7,4) +3
Scorpion (16,10) +6
Jade (7,8) -1
Kitana (13,7) +6
Ermac (13,14) -1

Scorpion and Kitana are tied for the immune position. Jade and Ermac are tied for the boot position. In this scenario, Scorpion would be immuned since he has the most immune votes. Ermac would be booted since he has the most boot votes.

Thanks to both Crow and Moosie_fate for the above rules and layout.

Boot and Immune Character Ranking List

The following list is based upon when everyone was booted. We can see how popular everyone was.

The Champions gain an automatic Top 16 position.

The brackets show the total number of points the other characters gained out of a possible high of 592.

1. Younger Sub-Zero
2. Scorpion

Top 2 subject to change!

The Champions

3. Ermac
4. Shang Tsung
5. Kung Lao
6. Kabal
7. Smoke
8. Raiden
9. Kenshi
10. Jade
11. Kitana
12. Sonya
13. Nightwolf
14. Quan Chi
15. Mileena
16. Johnny Cage

Runners Up

17. Kintaro (503)
18. Cyrax (476)
19. Sindel (450)
20. 2 way tie = Goro and Fujin (420)
22. Li Mei (398)
23. Noob Saibot (393)
24. Baraka (382)
25. Reptile (368)
26. Motaro (362)
27. Mavado (360)
28. Sub-Zero (Classic) (356)
29. Khameleon (351)
30. Sareena (346)
31. Jarek (333)
32. Nitara (317)
33. Chameleon (307)
34. Shao Kahn (299)
35. Kai (298)
36. Sektor (293)
37. Blaze (284)
38. Jax (278)
39. 3 way tie = Rain, Reiko and Sheeva. (271)
42. Shinnok (263)
43. Tanya (261)
44. Drahmin (255)
45. Liu Kang (241)
46. Moloch (209)
47. Bo’ Rai Cho (205)
48. Stryker (201)
49. Kano (175)
50. Frost (162)
51. Mokap (149)
52. Hsu Hao (146)
53. Meat (92)

The above results are not final.

Pending. . . .

Congrats on your 10,000th visit tgrant. So when can we start to vote?

Here we are! The Championship! Choose your champion and lead them to victory!

Let the Championship BEGIN!

Ermac (0,0)

Jade (0,0)
Johnny Cage (0,0)

Kabal (0,0)
Kenshi (0,0)
Kitana (0,0)
Kung Lao (0,0)

Mileena (0,0)

Nightwolf (0,0)

Quan Chi (0,0)

Raiden (0,0)

Scorpion (0,0)
Shang Tsung (0,0)
Smoke (0,0)
Sonya (0,0)
Sub-Zero (Younger) (0,0)



Immune: Raiden

Boot: Scorpion

Immune - Sub-Zero (younger)

Boot - Mileena

Immune: Scorpion
Boot: Raiden

Immune: Quan Chi

Boot: Mileena

Immune: Ermac Pimp Daddy Master of all other puny and weak pathetic fools

Boot: Nightwolf

Immune: Sub-Zero
Boot: Ermac

Immune: Mileena
Boot: Ermac

Immune: Kabal

Boot: Johnny Cage

Immune: SONYA

Boot: Ermac

Its time Queve!

Immune: Ermac
Boot: Raiden

Immune Smoke,
Boot Jade.

Please do not forget that you must register in order for your vote to be counted in the tally. Refer to the rules and regulations section of this thread for registration information.

Immune: Ermac
Boot: Kenshi

Immune:Sonya


Boot:Kitana

Immune:Ermac
Boot:Nightwolf

Immune: Kitana
Boot: Smoke

Immune: Kenshi
Boot: Johnny Cage

Immune Sonya
Boot Kitana