I was trying to think of an easy way to get rid of the friends invite I have, so... Write a haiku about starcraft1 or 2 or why you should get the key. It can be funny or serious. Sometime tonight I'll decide the winner.Contest Closed - Results Below ------------------------------------------------- I almost feel bad deciding given how much effort some people actually put into this. I should've done something even easier; like tell me a joke or send me a picture of a dog sniffing its ass. Unfortunately, there can only be 1 winner (unless I get another key). But first, the runners up:+ Show Spoiler + On May 03 2010 05:42 sa220 wrote: Starcraft 2 is here All sequels are always good Except Spiderman
This one made me laugh the most. It was hard for me not to give you the key just because I hate Spiderman 2
+ Show Spoiler + On May 03 2010 10:06 Sonnet wrote: I find the saddest thing about haikus, Is their particular brand of ubiquity, They seem the only form that people use, With any kind of solemnity 'tis fascinating strange to write, A sonnet when 'twas not requested And yet it's how I think I'll spend this night, In iambic solitude sequestered The sonnet is the perfect form, For me as it was for William Shakespeare, And from my saddened eye is torn, A single, glistening, reluctant tear For the sonnet is the perfect poem, But for me trochaic is the norm :'(
Not a haiku, but deserves praise nevertheless. I would have given the key to you, but I can't break my own rules.
And the winner is...... Drumroll please.....+ Show Spoiler + On May 03 2010 05:35 prototype. wrote: flash versus jaedong who will be victorious the power outage
One of the first ones in the thread, but was just my overall favorite. Congrats Prototype, I'll be pm'ing you shortly.
where has he gone to? he dominated SC the crotchmaster EDIT: but anyways this has already been done by fakesteve in his own contest
I want the key because I want to experience the gameplay and I tried so hard to get beta key but no luck. I don't have money to pre-order. and come from a low income family Thats why with the key i can atleast know I'm happy that I have one. or Starcraft 2 where are thou i need a key to play you so hence i shall get one I NEED IT! oh and im second XD
starcraft 2 beta key i would like give please thanks haiku haiku woo
On May 03 2010 05:30 Koiru wrote: EDIT: but anyways this has already been done by fakesteve in his own contest
Really? Damn, I should've said limerick then. Now I am disappoint.
StarCraft 2 comes out The sequel to a great game But i have no key
flash versus jaedong who will be victorious the power outage
On May 03 2010 05:35 prototype. wrote: flash versus jaedong who will be victorious the power outage
hahah this was a good one.
On May 03 2010 05:36 redtooth wrote: Show nested quote + On May 03 2010 05:35 prototype. wrote: flash versus jaedong who will be victorious the power outage
hahah this was a good one.
Yeah, definitely.
I love bacon too But I have no beta key Can I have one please
The hero zealot, Fended off, all the zerglings. Nexus in yo base.VIDEO
I was a bit surprised when Trozz wasn't the author of the OP... He should be allowed to auto-win this contest XD
haikus are stupid should be limericks instead they don't even rhyme
Starcraft 2 is here All sequels are always good Except Spiderman
Starcraft 2 will suck, If I don't get to play it So give me Beta Also: There's this girl I like, I think we'll go out if I Give her [a] Beta Key
a hapless newbie defilers in my bases oh no, not plagu
On May 03 2010 05:51 Radical wrote: a hapless newbie defilers in my bases oh no, not plagu
5/5
8rax openers fucking skilless newbies are plat in sc2
Zealot calls to me "Where should I fight for honor?" I say "Go for two!"
starcraft 2 is the game between the noobs and pros it can be fun or it can lame but if u give we'll be bros wanted it to rhyme
My life for Aiur. Battling the zerg. No hope is found.
On May 03 2010 05:56 Nal_rAwr wrote: 8rax openers those fucking skilless newbies are plat in sc2
This is fucking truth, Oh how we have all fallen. The glorious dream.
Beta Key for me I will dominate at zerg and train with you too
One key to rule all, One key to destroy our lives and in battlenet binds us.
TvP troubles: Arbiter in Starcraft 1, Fuck the mothership. Making Carriers: Very Useful Skill Toi Have. I leave. No gg.On May 03 2010 05:56 Nal_rAwr wrote: 8rax openers those fucking skilless newbies are plat in sc2
Your haiku needs work. Second line: eight syllables. Fix it promptly, please. Give me a key, please. When I become a bonjwa, I'll give you money.
On May 03 2010 06:13 DTK-m2 wrote: Making Carriers: Very Useful Skill Toi Have. I leave. No gg.
winner
Eight years for nothing That is what I am feeling Could you cheer me up? I played this game for so long and now I don't have a key. Life sucks : <
Reavers are imba Reavers are very imba Reavers are imba
Give me SC key Or I will come to your house (I know where you live) I will eat your cake And pee on your toothbrushes Then eat all your soap So give it to me Or your house will be smelly I never shower
On May 03 2010 06:21 Kenpachi wrote: Reavers are imba Reavers are very imba Reavers are imba
O.o Holy crap, too good. ><
On May 03 2010 06:17 TS-Rupbar wrote: Eight years for nothing That is what I am feeling Could you cheer me up? I played this game for so long and now I don't have a key. Life sucks : <
if i had my own account i would share with you, but this account is already clown caring like 5people
Starcraft is AWESOME! I've been waiting- ah screw it PLEASE GIVE ME A KEY!! :D also, I'm in Canada. Amazon, Gamestop, EB They've no key for me and, Everyone is Playing Starcraft 2, but me Cause I have no key here's a limerick I wrote for your amusement: There once was a post by I_Love_Bacon He said he was handing out keys – no fakin’! A haiku one must write He would pick by the night But alas, when I found out… they’d been taken ☹
AP's in the drain Starcraft two is in the rain I'll dish out the pain
Haikus are easy But sometimes they don't make sense Starcraft Two Beta
Yes! No AP Tests For me this week. Time to go and Procrastinate
Unhesitating, a sacrifice for the swarm, a drone scouts, alone.
My sweet sweet Reaver! Crawling meekly on the ground, Oh, where have thou gone? Combined with shuttle speed Thou does terrible damage When microed wholly. As thou releases Thy glitchy scarab with Horrible pathing, The commentators Scream REEBOREEBOREEBO From their excitement. Now thou is removed, replaced with the colossus for skilless newbies My dear imba reaver, Why have thou abandoned us? Where have thou gone?
On May 03 2010 06:39 ninjafetus wrote: Unhesitating, a sacrifice for the swarm, a drone scouts, alone.
are you implying scvs and probes scout in pairs or in teams?
Sometimes when I’m sad I look at the stars and see A Terran marine And all our problems Don’t matter to him up there Cause we’re far away But that’s not all true Because he cares about me Cause I have no key ☹
Hot_Bid, the kind mod, Throws keys to the poor users. Beta key roulette.
Though this may sound quite contrived, The trumpets, with passion revived Sound with a flair Hey, look over there - The limerick king has arrived!
On May 03 2010 06:49 jodogohoo wrote: Show nested quote + On May 03 2010 06:39 ninjafetus wrote: Unhesitating, a sacrifice for the swarm, a drone scouts, alone.
are you implying scvs and probes scout in pairs or in teams?
No.
I take a slow looksies around And see the ash sky and the ground And shake in disgust, I feel that I must Unleash my own doctrines profound:
Beset am I with what consists Of random-ass words that resist A structure, you see So they'll always be Bitch poems with a Japanese twist
So sorry Trozz, take no offense But let this great hating commence My battle's been won - The war has begun I take now my leave of absence
Are you kidding me. Second time you posted this video today. It's not even funny. Also, you already have a key, no?
War of the races The noble kind stands alone Fighting swarms and storms
Look at these mortals... You are being summoned, Trozz, Noone writes like you. Come and it shall rain Manna of sevens and fives, You God of haikus! ---(I do not wish to enter the contest, I don't want a key.)
I’ve tried all I could And I am down on my knees And begging you please All my friends playing Starcraft II have so much fun I just want to join I went to the stores To preorder my copy But they have no keys I applied online At Battle.net and I still Wait for the e-mail I tried the contests On Facebook, Twitter and blogs But I’ve won nothing So please I ask you In my last and final plea To give me a key
How about a sonnet, or atleast a short passage from a potential one You are the stressed ruler of my spare time The lone emperor of my blizzard game Blood is your breakfast, dinner green as lime King of the rainbow, look at yellows name
I love you so much I bend over my table Anything for you Super serious
I’ve always dreamt of Getting a key to play in The StarCraft Beta I’ve always hoped to Play with all the very best In a 1 v 1 I’ve always wanted To be in a game cast by HD and Husky Alas they’re but dreams Unless you, I_Love_Bacon Could give me a key
Can you tell us when you'll be judging? I'm working on a really long haiku that I want to finish on time.
Freeform Beta syeK Be.ta K + Show Spoiler + want too much ; but for A what? Kings and queens of SC! play SC2!! Each with "pleasure" Yet Lament > Must make... sure master .SC2!! with much help from Bacon.
Haikus are silly Too much work and waste of time Now, fucking gimme
SCV’s have drills And claws to help them to mine The mineral line MULES have little pods Which bring them down to help work They look like WALL-E :D Marines have Rifles Which allow them to shoot foes On ground or in air And the Marauders Have the Punisher Grenades With Concussive Shells Reapers have their wings So Protoss and Zerg beware The Ladybugs of Death! Stealthy, silent Ghosts Have long-range sniper rifles And, of course, the nuke And the Hellions Have Infernal Flame Cannons Roasted Zerglings? Yum! And the Siege Tanks? Whether in tank or in siege They can do the job Oh, the mighty Thor! Hammers, Missiles, Strike Cannons No need to explain In both forms, Vikings Can tear through an enemy With Cannons/Missiles And the Medivac Although it has no weapon, Has a beam to heal The Ravens, they have So much to offer: missiles AT’s, PDD’s… Tactical Banshees They can strike hard from above With Backlash Rockets The Battlecrusier: This Capitol Ship has its Laser Batteries And for the Protoss: The Probe even has its beam To help in trouble The Charging Zealot Has twin Psi Blades, that allow For rapid slashing The Stalker has a Particle Disrupter to Hit both Ground and Air Pod-like Sentries have Abilities at disposal Shields, Fields, and Mind Tricks Even the smallest Have things that they can use Observers… observe! The sleek Immortal Has two great phase disrupters And a Hardened Shield Even Warp Prisms Can Load and Unload, to where Units want to go The grand Colossus Has scorching Thermal Lances And can Cliff Walk too! Both swift and deadly, The Phoenix traps with a beam And kills with Cannons If you see Void Rays Beware of Prismatic Beams Kill ‘fore it’s too late The High Templars, they Have Psionic Storm, and, well That’s pretty much it Now the Dark Templars With blades or scythes, can kill you Before you can say – … When put together Templars make the Archon, with Psionic Shockwave The Carrier has Small ships of its very own The Interceptors And the Mothership Vortexes, Fields, Mass Recall, Purifier Beams And as for the Zerg Even the worker Drones have, Spines to call their own The speedy Zerglings Have claws, so make sure you don’t Let them surround you The Queen: Brood Mother Can defend if needed, with Claws and Acid Spines Now the Hydralisk Has its Needle Spines, which will Break through any wall The sapper Baneling Will run through your army’s midst And quickly explode The tough armored Roach Can spit Acid Saliva (Don’t get in the way!) Infestors can use Parasites, fungi, and spawn Infested Terrans Mutalisks have wings To fly above enemies And spit their Glaive Wurms Flying Corrupters Can spit their Parasite Spores And turn to Brood Lords The Ultralisk Beast Has giant Kaiser Blades, and Head Thrusts buildings too Powerful Brood Lords Spawns Broodlings to fire, and Makes more if needed Everyone has Something… all but me, unless I can have a key. Phew. I was working on that all afternoon and night. Please can I have a key, I_Love_Bacon? Please?
9 Pylon, 10 Gate 13 Core, but all too late Speedlings seal your fate. Alternatively, a non-haiku without any end punctuation because I'm lazy:+ Show Spoiler + Blizzard leaves their turtle shell Bringing us a game from Hell All new units: Phoenix, Banshee Hellion, Marauder, Thor and Sentry Stalker, Immortal, Void ray, Corruptor Infestor, Roach, Viking and Reaper MULEs haul in minerals Colossi bring 'Toss player lulz Mothership brings down a Vortex The Mutalisk looks like a T-Rex Warp prism brings the DT Rush Banelings turn Marines to mush Overlords go around leaking creep Brood lords make the Terrans weep Ravens have a seeker missile That I think should make a whistle When the enemy hears that sound They'll hurry, hurry - turn around The Queen is grounded and in detention And Nydus worms prove that you should carry protection Corruptors force you to feel the pressure And Roaches burn your units down at their leisure. All in all, the game is fun Though I can't say it's better than Starcraft 1 But it's still in beta, let's wait and see For it'll surely come out by 2023
The game of starcraft 2 Is fought between three races What is the motive Two players or more They battle relentlessly What is the outcome? The lings and the rines Bite and shoot at each other Blood drips on the ground The zealots slashing While the large siege tanks prepare To lay death upon And the mothership Flies in to lay waste of them Ane ends the battle A player prevails Through hardship and many tears He smiles with joy Of the team members None of them stay behind him As they scream and cheer And alas it is The silence of onlookers Is broken at last Please let me win, I have been searching for a key for a long time D:
On May 03 2010 07:19 Neobick wrote: How about a sonnet, or atleast a short passage from a potential one
I find the saddest thing about haikus, Is their particular brand of ubiquity, They seem the only form that people use, With any kind of solemnity 'tis fascinating strange to write, A sonnet when 'twas not requested And yet it's how I think I'll spend this night, In iambic solitude sequestered The sonnet is the perfect form, For me as it was for William Shakespeare, And from my saddened eye is torn, A single, glistening, reluctant tear For the sonnet is the perfect poem, But for me trochaic is the norm :'(
OK the sonnet guy directly above this post deserves to win.
No one has mentioned That sweet delicious bacon Yum, now I want some! A tough choice I have A Beta key or Bacon? Both equally good You decide for me Oh extra Beta holder Key is in your hands Should I make Bacon? or wait for your Beta key? Choice is up to you
On May 03 2010 10:06 Sonnet wrote: Show nested quote + On May 03 2010 07:19 Neobick wrote: How about a sonnet, or atleast a short passage from a potential one
I find the saddest thing about haikus,
Is their particular brand of ubiquity,
They seem the only form that people use,
With any kind of solemnity
'tis fascinating strange to write,
A sonnet when 'twas not requested
And yet it's how I think I'll spend this night,
In iambic solitude sequestered
The sonnet is the perfect form,
For me as it was for William Shakespeare,
And from my saddened eye is torn,
A single, glistening and reluctant tear
For the sonnet is the perfect poem,
But for me trochaic is the norm :'(
What wonderful iambic pentameter...
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
In the land of love SpiritoftheTunA lives Give TunA a key
Contest Over. Thanks for the haikus, limericks, and sonnet. Wish I had more keys to give out, but only have the 1.
So when will we know who won?
On May 03 2010 11:39 Kronos wrote: So when will we know who won?
I updated the OP.