1) Registration
 a) In order to register you must post in this thread that you want to participate in the tournament as well as sending me a PM so that I can confirm that you have registered. If a user posts in this thread an does not send me a PM or vice versa, they will not be registered and their name will not appear in the contestant list.
 b) There is a registry fee of 500 Viz (this applies to contestants only. Judges do not have to pay a fee but still need to send me a PM). The purpose of the entry fee is to make sure that the contestants who want to participate are paying and will hopefully keep the contestants active. The PM that is receivedfrom the Viz counts as a PM sent to register.
 c) A user can register to be either a contestant or a judge. In order to be a judge, you must either have over 100 posts and have been registered for over 100 days or be trusted.
 d) When the number of contestants reaches the max, any other members who wish to register. If a contestant decides to withdraw their registration I will send a Viz refund to them and their name will be taken off of the contestant list and replaced with the first person on the waiting list.
 e) ONLY REGISTER IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE ON VIZZED DAILY! This tournament requires all participants to be active and the matchups take time to occur so all contestants must be patient and active.

2) Judging
 a) All judges must be active. I will summon the judges after every matchup to decide the winner. They competitor who has the majority of the votes wins and advances to the next round. The loser gets the prize available for the losers that round.
 b) Judges can only post after I summon them to determine the winner of a matchup.

 c) The judges will receive 1000 Viz at the conclusion of the tournament.

3) Contestants
 a) If a contestant wins, then they advance to the next round. If they lose, they get the Viz rewarded for that round to losers and are no longer allowed to post until the end of the tournament.
 b) Only the two competitors in the matchup can post to post their rap. No one is allowed to interrupt their raps until after the matchup is over. Any contestant who breaks this rule three times will be disqualified from the tournament and will only receive the Viz from the last round (for example if they advanced to the semifinals and broke this rule 3 times, they’d receive the amount of Viz that the losers of the quarterfinals received). If they break this rule in the first round than they will receive the same amount of Viz the rest of the losers of the first round receive.
 c) No flaming or curse words (I’ll allow certain words such as hell and ass but not f**k). Any contestant who breaks this rule will be eliminated and will receive the Viz from the last round (refer to the example in 3b). If they break this rule in the first round than they will receive half the amount of Viz the rest of the losers of the first round receive(so 250 viz).
 d) A contestant has 24 hours to post their rap. If they fail to do so I will send a PM reminding them to do so. If they fail to post their rap 24 hours after I sent the PM they will be disqualified from the tournament and will not be allowed to post in the thread until the tournament is over. They will also only receive the Viz prize that the losers from the first round received.

4) Viz Prizes
Eliminated In First Round: 500 Viz rewarded
Eliminated In Quarterfinals: 1000 Viz rewarded
Eliminated in Semifinals: 2500 Viz rewarded
Runner Up: 5000 Viz rewarded
Champion: 10000 Viz rewarded

Contestant List:
1) NotJon
2) Sonicmcmuffin
3) GuardianZack
4) mitchelw
5) joshtpw
6) No member selected
7) No member selected
8) No member selected
9) No member selected
10) No member selected
11) No member selected
12) No member selected
13) No member selected
14) No member selected
15) No member selected
16) No member selected

Judges
1) earthwarrior
2) trouble982
3) Eddy88
4) zelda2
5) james44028

Waiting List
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Registration ends on December 1st or where we reach 16 contestants and 5 judges. The tournament will begin January 1st, 2013 (if any delays occur, the tournament will start as late as January 4th).

If I am not allowed to use the title that I used please let me know and I will change it.

sonicmcmuffin: If you want to be a contestant then send me a Pm and the 500 Viz (sending the Viz counts as the PM). To be a judge do the same (judges don't need to pay the Viz fee though). There's only one judge spot left, but 15 contestant spots available. Whichever you want to be is up to you. And I think you did pretty well in the last rap battle tournament.

I'm in. I have the utmost confidence in my skills, as writing was what I was born to do. You guys are going to need some serious luck, skills, or both. Have at thee!

GuardianZack: Done. You are now on the list.

Thanks to a generous offer by GuardianZack, two people can now register without paying a registration fee (I still need to get a PM though). Don't forget to thank him.