Obscure For A Penny Zero T2 FINALE

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http://czechinthekitchen.com/tag/butter-cookies/ Obscure For A Penny Zero T2: World Series

Going Here Here we are. Face to face. A couple of silver spoons.

Congratulations on making it farther, and further, than 99.6% of OFAPZ contestants.

The winners of OFAPZ T2 will receive:

A Tweet To Comic

An Obscure Gentlemen shirt

The Title of Duke or Double Duchess

GLORY

The championship is determined by a best-of-three Rounds/Themes. To win a round your team must win best of 3 of each round. This is a total of 3 tweets submitted from each warrior.

Theme 1: Remake The Ending Of A TV Show

Write a tweet in which you “fix” the finale of a TV show. Imagine if LOST hadn’t ended with a PSA for your local Presbytarian Church. Imagine if Battlestar Galactica had resolved its questions instead of flashing forward to the robot from Rocky IV doing a little popping and locking. Or on a more contemporary note, think about the recent finales to Game of Thrones, Veep, or Designing Women. Your reimagined ending can be more satisfying or simply ironically worse, but it has to be clever and make us laugh.

Theme 2: Freestyle

ANYTHING YOU WANT

Theme 3: Your best “classic” tweet

Submit an original tweet posted prior to this contest commencing. The tweet cannot have been submitted to this or any previous OFAPZ contest. Just a personal fav.

Deadline: 8/28/2019 11:38am PST

Each member of your team must submit ALL three tweets. All of your tweets must be submitted to @theobscuregents to lock in your final round. The Theme 3 battle will only take place in the event of a tie.

And you’re off! On this lonely road. Tryin’ to make it home. Doing it by my lonesome, pissed off ya want some.

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Obscure For A Penny Zero T2: Final 4

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Obscure For A Penny Zero T2: Final Four

One contest stands between you and the championship round of the second-ever OFAPZ Team Tournament. Whom will rise to the occasion and whomst will experience the heartache and frustration of falling just short?

Whatever happens, all four of our final teams made it leaps and bounds further than the cocky trash-talkers of Team Rock Solid. You oughta be proud. You oughta be real proud. And speaking of the Internet’s second best-ever music podcast, your theme is music-related.

Theme: Parody Song Lyrics

Write your own lyrics to any popular song. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. You can choose any song you wish, but the more recognizable the better. See if you can top this:

Deadline:6/25 11:38am PST

How to Submit:
You should know what’s up by now. Good speed and God’s luck.

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Obscure For A Penny Zero T2: Elite 8

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The Elite 8! The “Ocho,” as it were. It’s here and you’re a part of it and that’s splendid. Congratulations. Now you face the most hated round in all of OFAPZ: picture tweets.

We’re not sure why, but contestants dread the picture round as much as Thanos loathes overpopulation. As much as a certain journalist from Kazakhstan hates…

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MAAAAAAAAH WIIIIIIIIIIFE.

Now that that’s out of the way, we will give you a gift. You will now have the freedom to post any picture you want along with some tweet copy. The text of your tweet can be imagined dialogue for the scenario in the picture, a caption, or a reaction or commentary to what’s being depicted. You are also welcome to include text on the image itself. Points will be given for originality as well as humor, so it’s to your advantage to find a unique picture as opposed to merely writing new captions for an existing image meme.

Theme: Pictures (Freestyle Edition)

Restrictions: No Borat (images or jokes).

Due: Friday June 21st 2019 11:34am PST

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Obscure For A Penny Zero T2: Sweet 16

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The Sweet 16 round is always bittersweet because we have to say goodbye to some great contestants. Thank you to everyone who elevated the overused dialogue tweet format last round! And congratulations to our MVP for making us laugh with a well crafted joke!

Now let’s do a theme that is loosely based on the “T2” title of this contest. Your theme for this round is the end of the world. You can tweet about Biblical or religious apocalypse, natural disaster, man-made extinction events, or simply play with “the end of the world” as a figure of speech. We just ask that if your tweet is based on an observation, you elevate it in some way. It’s a loose round and if you have to ask if your tweet qualifies it probably doesn’t.

Also a shout out to the crazies that @ our battles with nonsense. This is for fun you sad sacks.

Theme: End of Days (and Nights)

Restrictions: 
No Terminator
No BORAT (regardless of how much some judges love it)

Deadline: 6/17/2019 11:34am pst

How to Submit:
Post your tweet to your own timeline and send it via DM to @theobscuregents

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Obscure For A Penny Zero T2 Round 2

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Obscure For A Penny Zero: T2

Round Two. Fight!

Congratulations on surviving the bloodbath that was Round One. Your humble judges are grateful for the creativity and wit you put on display. So, so much wit and so, so many tweets. Now we want you to do it again.

The challenge for this round is to put a new spin on one of the most popular humor tweet formats: dialogue. Write a tweet in the form of a conversation between two or more entities. But there are a few stipulations. Namely, you need to avoid the most obvious and overused clichés of the format.

Theme: Dialogue tweets.

Restrictions:

No “Sir, this is an Arby’s” style punchlines.
No job interviews.

No Barista

No Bautista

No conversations with God.

No therapists.

No genies.

And did we mention no “Sir, this is a ____” interactions with fast-food cashiers?

Deadline: June 12th 11:34am PST

How to Submit: Post your tweet to your own timeline and send it via DM to @theobscuregents in your team DM room

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