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    WELCOME to The 300 Challenge!


    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is The 300 Challenge! This is a contest of your historical knowledge, your wit, your debating skills, and of your movie-watching abilities! The object of The 300 Challenge is simple: find 300 things the movie 300 got RIGHT.

    The rules of The 300 Challenge are as follows:
    • All contestants must post 50 corrects items in one post.
    • All posts that contain more or less than 50 items are disqualified
    • Contestants may challenge another's list. If a single item on a list is found to be historically innaccurate, the post is disqualified
    • If a post is disqualified, the contestant may post again with a new list.
    • When a post is disqualified, every single item in that contestant's list is disqualified, and may not be used by any contestant again. That means that nothing should used more than once.
    • The first team to get an unchallenged list of 300 historically accurate items from 300 wins!
    • Users registered after 2009 are on team 1. Users registered 2009 and before are on team 2.
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    Default Re: THE 300 CHALLENGE

    What's wrong with the forum lately? Did I miss a "post nonsense" vote?

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    It's good to have some fun here for once in a while. It is getting way to calm here lately, the only thing going on here is maybe a weekly demotivator, some questions by a newb that didn't read the FAQ and some questions about something that occured during a campaign.

    But OT, coming up with 300 things just for the sake of winning, I don't think I'll participate. I'll gladly follow this competition though, if someone experiences an overload of free time.

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    This would be more fun if:

    When a post is disqualified, every single item in that contestant's list is disqualified, and may not be used by any contestant again. That means that nothing should used more than once.
    You struck this rule. I doubt you'll get many posts otherwise.

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    I think maybe a thing per person, rather than 300.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jirisys View Post
    I think maybe a thing per person, rather than 300.

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    Quote Originally Posted by saka-rauka1 View Post
    This would be more fun if:



    You struck this rule. I doubt you'll get many posts otherwise.
    That is what makes it hard though. One person will contribute 299 correct ones, then the person after them will use the same 299 + 1 other one and win.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Populus Romanus View Post
    That is what makes it hard though. One person will contribute 299 correct ones, then the person after them will use the same 299 + 1 other one and win.
    No one has such a small amount of work to find 300 correct things about 300.

    Maybe, one proposal per each person.

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    Default Re: THE 300 CHALLENGE

    I changed the rules to make it more interesting and probable now.

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    there´s only 299 historically accurate things in the movie 300 and no leonidas pectoral muscles ain´t one of them they used bronze breastplates that looked like naked torsos ...

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    Default Re: THE 300 CHALLENGE

    1 there was a man named Leonidas
    2 he was a spartan
    3 he was a spartan king
    4 there was a city named athens
    5 athens refused to give persia earth and water
    6 there was a city named sparta
    7 sparta refused to persia earth and water
    8 there was a country named persia
    9 persia was an empire
    10 persia invaded greece
    11 the persian king was named xerxes
    12 there was a storm that sunk many persian ships
    13 there was a peninsula named greece
    14 there was a unit later called "immortals"
    15 There was a pass called Thermopylae
    16 Thermopylae controlled access to greece
    17 There were spartans occupying thermopylae
    18 leonidas led the spartans occupying thermopylae
    19 there were 300 spartans with leonidas
    20 thermopylae was narrow
    21 thermopylae was on the ocean
    22 Persia is in asia
    23 there was a battle at thermopylae
    24 the battle involved spartans
    25 the battle also involved persians
    26 the battle lasted more than one day
    27 Spartan is in greece
    28 athens is in greece
    29 thermopylae is in greece
    30 there were greeks other than spartans and athenians
    31 xerxes wanted to conquer greece (as opposed to loot it and leave)
    32 xerxes was occompanying the persian army
    33 the persian army was large
    34 the greek army was comparatively small
    35 the greeks used a spear
    36 the greeks used a sword
    37 the greeks used a helmet
    38 the greeks had shields
    38 the greeks were people
    39 the persians used weapons
    40 the persians were people
    41 the spartans at first fended the persians off at thermopylae
    42 xerxes was not pleased
    43 xerxes ordered the immortals to attack
    44 the spartans beat the immortals
    45 there was a secret passage around the thermopylae
    46 a traitor showed the persians the passage
    47 the persians surrounded the spartans
    48 there was a last stand
    49 leonidas died
    50 all the spartans died.



    Team 1 is now 1/6 of the way there!

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    No. Mistake! you haven't 50 good, but 49! Thermopilae wasn't ON the ocean! rather close to it! DISQUALIFIED!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duguntz View Post
    No. Mistake! you haven't 50 good, but 49! Thermopilae wasn't ON the ocean! rather close to it! DISQUALIFIED!

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    When one says "on" the ocean, it is commonly accepted that the intention is to state that the location is close to the ocean. English grammar prevails!

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    The movie '300' got only one thing absolutely right, and only needed to get one thing absolutely right. The movie was 99% faithful to Frank Miller's graphic novel '300' that it originated from. The graphic novel was used as the movie's storyboard.

    It's Frank Miller's story and artistic design, not Zack Snyder's. All Snyder did was convert a printed format to an audio-visual one. So any historical inaccuracies are Frank Miller's responsibility.

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    This really has nothing to do with EB so I fail to see why it is here,. The Org is a big place and it is so unfair on every part of the community that you would post on topics that belong elsewhere in some place where they do not belong. I'm going to close this until we can get it moved,.

    Please please please think about what you are posting and where you are posting it before you actually post.

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