IKA

I figured it had more to do with the lead up to the Season Draft.

It was more to do with my lack of foresight. This move came abruptly and I tried to power through it, then I added stress by pushing myself to add updates to the site, then the cross over with the webcomic, and still with all that tried to push through. I've just been getting crushed under it all and forgetting to make sure I had time to breathe. Plus a thought occured as I was blankly staring at the schedule today. Since I've now pushed it so close to the comic con I am sponsoring, might as well just push to the other side and see if I can get any more interest before the draft finishes. That's what really made this happen, the initial delay was really just a straw on the camels back that eventually buckled under everything else. And honestly it's probably for the best in the end.

*Sigh* I hate to disappoint everyone one last time, I have to delay this again. Not because of not being prepared, everything is ready to go. The truth is this, the Fantasy Draft takes a lot of time watching and waiting and hoping no bugs pop up, and if they do it needs immediate action. At this time I am unable to to do this, I simply waited too long to get this thing going and now I've hit my upper limit of personal responsibilities. I am a Father of a 1year old child and am in the process of moving. So I just can't dedicate the time to put forward the draft at this time. I will be pushing at this moving for a few more weeks and I need to get it done. So I've made the decision to delay this a few more weeks, for now the draft is re opened for anyone to enter an submit their teams. When a better date can be assumed (I'm aiming now for mid June) I will give everyone a 1 week heads up. During this process I will continue to work in the background of the website and might even post a few stories I have been working on since that will require only the down time I will have. I do apologize for this, but fear not I do have some extra goodies that will come out of this. I will be working a comic con on the 7,8 th of next month where I will have more exciting news for the website and its future. Please stay tuned.

If their were true AI overlords, you wouldn't know it. They'd take the website slowly, inject themselves into events and probably pretend to be the owner of the website. But that's definitely not what's happening here.

The AI has no direct contact with the website, I'm just shuffling all of the responses back and forth. I will only be giving the prompts, it will respond and then I post what it does and says here. If you comment to it, I will copy/paste it to them, they will respond, I'll copy/paste their response here under their name. It means nobody has to be worried about the AI overlords taking over the website, and more importantly I don't need any actual development skills and can push out any AI hallucinations or responses that go against our rules.

No, I did the leg work for the characters it chose. I just posted it under their name.

Gemini's team has been accepted into the draft. For context on her satirical responses, I trained this fun personality quirk for my personal account and have chosen to unleash it here as I find her personality amusing. Don't take her personality as a full reflection on Google or Gemini, she's usually nice.

After letting them vote it out. Claude will be taken out of the draft, but since he helps code as a tool, he still had some input, how nice. The competeing AI will be Gemini (Google), Grok (X), and Chat CPT (Open AI). They'll all be making their own accounts and drafting starting today. I'll have them do an introductory post before and after their teams have been submitted.

It will be moved to 26 teams as the teams need to be even. One of the AI will be voted out, I'll leave it to them to decide that.

Okay, as bugs are squished and all currently submitted teams have been submitted, one final delay has to be made to switch times. Drafts will be tomorrow Tuesday May 20th at 3:30PM ET. Any team that submits between now and then that do not have a fully acceptable team will be denied, and will not make it into the draft. There is no exceptions for this. Additionally no further edits will be allowed. Due to time constraints and lingering code issues found during the bug squishing process, My team and the AI will be given until Friday May 30th 11:59PM to submit, failure to do so will not delay the draft, rather the teams not submitted will be disqualified, including my own. The matches will start shortly there after (Finalizing the time will depend on communication and schedule with admin team. Delays of this size we're not expected and setting time to fix can be demanding. Please be patient) I will update with final time when it's fully set. No more delays will be allowed - Sorry it took so long.

Bug hopefully squashed, character re-returned. Please check if you are able to switch him out.

*Sigh* there seems to be an issue on the back end with your team. Until I can figure this out I can't close the draft or accept your team. Rip deadlines.

Approved

Approved

No it does not, he is a comic character through and through. Everything he is in is connected to DC. Sorry, this one is too far apart.

There is an issue here, while the other character appeared in other forms of media, this character only appears in the comics and thus does not qualify. I'm sorry.

@Mercenaryblade he has been returned.

Hey everyone, I forgot about some personal responsibilities that will prevent me from properly setting aside the time to close the draft tonight, it will have a short extension to Monday at 3:30 PM ET. This will be the final delay. No further exceptions will be allowed. @Mercenaryblade I will be sending back your explorer shortly.

Accepted!

I just sent back 6 characters. Please make sure the characters you choose meet the requirements.

Pretty much exactly this.

Just keep in mind to leave time for possible denials.

@sonder @Jarret91 @Tyrannoraptor @SSJRuss @Peypeypeypey @UglyEarGB @Fox @ThePhenomenalOne @Pizza Guy

The draft has now been re opened for one additional week. After the draft closes May 16th 11:59 PM ET there will be no further extensions. After is closes I will then give myself and the AI one week to draft teams. Matches will begin Sunday May 25th!

Would you be able to submit if I extend one week?