Final Standings: Total Madness

And in a finale that shocked no one, Johnny Bananas and Jenny took the win while our very own commissioner, Jon, took his third Challenge title -- Rival III, War of the Worlds 2 -- and his second solo one.

• Jon (168)
• Susan (154)
• Ameer (136)
• George (125)
• Roger (124)
• Yasmine (114)
• Kim (113)
• Victor (107)

He did it by riding his rookies, Kaycee, Jay, and Fessy (plus a dash of Nelson) to the sweet win. Susan made a late push the last two weeks and almost pulled off a tremendous upset with Jenn taking the final, but in the end, she fell just a bit short.

Thanks for a great season and as a special treat, we had Roger "The Voice" record us a very professional announcement reveal for our final standings! Hear it here!

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Scores: WK16

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Cory, Jenny
• Tribunal (+1): Cory, Jenny
• Elimination (+4): Melissa, Rogan, Kaycee, Bananas
• Survival (+4): Kaycee, Bananas

• Winner (+10): Bananas, Jenny

• Out of Show: Bayleigh, Melissa, Rogan

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Cory, Fessy, Bayleigh, Kaycee, Jenny, Bananas
• Medic (+4): Bayleigh
• Booted (+6): Bayleigh, Melissa

Scoring Notes: The "booted" is actually "quit" but we categorize them the same. Have there ever been so many cries?! A full 2/3 of the people go cry points!

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Scores: WK15

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Kaycee, Bananas
• Tribunal (+1): Kaycee, Bananas, Kyle
• Elimination (+4): Rogan, Jenny, Dee, Nelson
• Survival (+4): Rogan, Jenny

• Finals (+5): Jenny, Melissa, Kaycee, Bayleigh, Bananas, Kyle, Fessy, Cory, Rogan

• Out of Show: Dee, Nelson

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Melissa, Jenny, Cory

Scoring Notes: Can we give Nelson some bonus points for that emotional display of friendship?! My goodness!

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Scores: WK14

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Jenny, Fessy
• Tribunal (+1): Jenny, Fessy, Josh
• Elimination (+4): Kyle, Josh, Bayleigh, Aneesa
• Survival (+4): Bayleigh, Kyle

• Out of Show: Aneesa, Josh

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Aneesa, Josh

Scoring Notes: Get rid of that crybaby Josh!

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Scores: WK13

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Nany, Rogan, Josh, Aneesa, Cory, Bananas, Jenny
• Tribunal (+1): Nany, Rogan, Josh, Aneesa, Cory, Bananas, Jenny
• Elimination (+4): Melissa, Nany
• Survival (+4): Melissa

• Out of Show: Nany

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Bayleigh

Scoring Notes: Get out of here Bayleigh!

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Scores: WK12

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Bayleigh, Dee, Fessy
• Tribunal (+1): Bayleigh, Dee, Fessy
• Elimination (+4): Cory, Swaggy
• Survival (+4): Cory

• Out of Show: Swaggy

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Cory

Scoring Notes: Crying as a tactic and using his kids as bait, no no no!

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Scores: WK11

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Josh, Melissa
• Tribunal (+1): Josh, Melissa, Bananas
• Elimination (+4): Mattie, Dee
• Survival (+4): Dee

• Out of Show: Mattie

BONUS POINTS:

• none

Scoring Notes: But there was so many on the unseen Dee footage! Sex, crying, lots!

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Scores: WK10

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Dee, Wes
• Tribunal (+1): Dee, Wes, Rogan
• Elimination (+4): Bananas, Wes
• Survival (+4): Bananas

• Out of Show: Wes

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Josh

Scoring Notes: There should be "awwww..." points for Bananas and Wes!

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Scores: WK9

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Dee, Nany, Cory, Wes, Bayleigh
• Tribunal (+1): Dee, Nany, Cory, Wes, Bayleigh
• Elimination (+4): Kaycee, Aneesa, Kailah, Jenna
• Survival (+4): Kaycee, Aneesa

• Out of Show: Kailah, Jenna, Tula (Medical)

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Melissa, Jenna
• Medical (+4): Swaggy
• TJ Lavin (+4): Aneesa, Kaycee
• Booted (+6): Tula

Scoring Notes: Finally a TJ point, for two people no less!

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Scores: WK8

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Wes, Mattie
• Tribunal (+1): Wes, Mattie, Bananas
• Elimination (+4): Fessy, Nelson, Jordan, Bear
• Survival (+4): Fessy, Nelson

• Out of Show: Jordan, Bear

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Jordan
• Kiss (+2): Bear, Kailah
• Medical (+4): Tula, Jordan

Scoring Notes: Two medicals in one week, woohoo!

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Scores: WK7

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): none
• Tribunal (+1): none
• Elimination (+4): Tori, Jenna
• Survival (+4): Jenna

• Out of Show: Tori

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Nany, Tula, Jenna, Jordan, Tori
• Kiss (+2): Bear, Kailah, Swaggy, Bayleigh, Tori, Jordan

Scoring Notes: Lots of crying this week, woohoo!

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Scores: WK6

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Jordan, Nany
• Tribunal (+1): Jordan, Nany, Jenna
• Elimination (+4): none
• Survival (+4): Rogan
• Booted (+6): Jay

• Out of Show: Jay

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Kailah, Jenna, Aneesa, Bayleigh
• Medical (+4): Jay

Scoring Notes: More points for our early season MVP Jay!

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Scores: WK5

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Jenny, Josh, Kaycee, Swaggy
• Tribunal (+1): Jenny, Josh, Kaycee, Swaggy
• Elimination (+4): Jay, Rogan
• Survival (+4): none

• Out of Show: none

BONUS POINTS:

• Kiss (+2): Bear, Kailah

Scoring Notes: We can only assume the doctors will come for RIP Jay...

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Scores: WK4

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Aneesa, Bananas, Bear, Tula, Kaycee
• Tribunal (+1): Aneesa, Bananas, Bear, Tula, Kaycee
• Elimination (+4): Ashley, Dee
• Survival (+4): Dee

• Out of Show: Ashley

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Ashley
• Kiss (+2): Swaggy, Bayleigh
• Medical (+4): Nelson

Scoring Notes: Why do Jordan and Tori never kiss? Should they be docked points?!

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Scores: WK3

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): CT, Bayleigh
• Tribunal (+1): CT, Bayleigh, Swaggy
• Elimination (+4): Jay, CT
• Survival (+4): Jay

• Out of Show: CT

BONUS POINTS:

• Cry (+2): Ashley, Jay
• Kiss (+2): Swaggy, Bayleigh, Jay, Dee

Scoring Notes: Guess we're not giving Bananas and Wes romantic kiss points since it wasn't really a kiss?!

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Scores: WK2

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Dee, Swaggy, Cory
• Tribunal (+1): Dee, Swaggy, Cory
• Elimination (+4): Jenny, Jennifer
• Survival (+4): Jenny

• Out of Show: Jennifer

BONUS POINTS:

• none

Scoring Notes: Can we get some more bonus points?!

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Scores: WK1

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COMPETITION POINTS:

• Challenge (+2): Rogan, Jenny
• Tribunal (+1): Rogan, Jenny, Cory
• Elimination (+4): Asaf, Jay
• Survival (+4): Jay

• Out of Show: Asaf

BONUS POINTS:

• Kiss (+2): Nany, Asaf

Scoring Notes: No sex for Nany and Asaf, even though who knows!

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Total Madness: Rosters

We had our very first live draft at on a Friday night! Using Zoom, eight of us took time out of our busy social lives to get together for a four round snake draft! Seeing as there were only twenty-eight contestants, we instituted new rules that the last round would be a double up round, allowing the last four remaining contestants to be drafted twice each -- in any order. And then we group rated each team! What fun!

Teams in draft order, and by the order each contestant was selected.

Victor: Tori, Cory, Asaf, Aneesa
Yasmine: Jordan, Wes, Nany, Aneesa
Jon: Fessy, Kaycee, Nelson, Jay
Susan: Jenny, Rogan, Ashley, Swaggy
George: CT, Jenna, Bayleigh, Swaggy
Roger: Kyle, Bananas, Jennifer L, Jay
Kim: Mattie, Kailah, Josh, Melissa
Ameer: Bear, Dee, Tula (Big T), Melissa

Pre-Season Rankings

1. Yasmine (8.5)
2. Susan (8)
3. Kim (7.5)
4. Ameer (7)
5. George (6.5)
6. Victor (6.5)
7. Roger (6)
8. Jon (4)

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Total Madness: Rules

Last year we had a lot of rule changes, and here was why. Aside from the lonely one use of the "TJ point," it worked out pretty well I think. See below for the new rules and scoring. Blue is scoring that changed.

DRAFT

• Eight team owners will each select four players each, in a snake style draft.
• For this year, since we have eight teams and twenty-eight contestants, we instituted new rules that the last round would be a double up round, allowing the last four remaining contestants to be drafted twice each -- in any order.

Scoring Rules
Keeping the same competition points as last year, minus Tribunal (+2) because in theory there is no more tribunals. But if they add in tribunals or redemptions, we'll add it in!

COMPETITION Points (awarded per episode)

• Weekly (+1): Awarded for each episode a player stays on the show.
• Challenge (+2): Awarded for winning weekly challenge. If team game, each individual on the winning team receives the points.
• Tribunal (+1): Awarded to members of the tribunal, usually three people. (Note: Last year this was +2 points.)
• Elimination (+4): Awarded for being tossed into an elimination challenge.
• Survival (+4): Awarded for winning the elimination challenge.

BONUS Points (awarded once per episode max)

• Crying (+2): A clear case of crying, has to include visible tears.
• Kissing (+2): Awarded for romantic kisses and not for congratulatory pecks.
• Sex (+4): Must be shown on-camera, or acknowledged by both parties, with no doubts.
• Medical (+4): If a player needs treatment from an on-screen medical professional, or if they go to a hospital.
• Puke (+4): Throwing up from drinking, exhaustion, food poisoning, etc. Has to be on-screen, and not just gagging from almost throwing up.
• TJ Lavin (+4): There are two parts to this rule. Either (1) Making TJ verbally express his disappointment in your behavior or performance or (2) If TJ says “you killed it” to someone. This has to be said directly to an individual so if it’s just a general TJ being disappointed, that won’t score. TJ must say your name and express either disappointment or "you killed it" specifically.
• Fight / Tirade (+6): For fights, it must be physical, with an intent to do harm. One-sided fights can be possible if there's clearly just one antagonizer. A tirade must be crazy-level, up to and including throwing or breaking things.
• Booted (+6): Getting kicked off the show by producers, be it for physical altercation, safety reasons, injuries, etc. Also applies if the person quits the show.

Finals Points (awarded once at end of season)

• Finals (+5): Awarded to everyone who makes the finals.
• Winner (+10): Awarded to the overall winner or winners.

ARBITRATION DETAILS
Majority wins on voting for questions about scoring. Broadly speaking, we like to lean toward more scoring, especially for drama. The more points the more fun!

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S35: Total Madness

The new season is upon us, it's going to be one where nobody can slide by! Trailer here, and cast previews here! Season starts April 1st!

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