WDW March Madness: The Wacky Brackets

[GenerationX]

We already have Wilt Dasney's classic attraction tournament and SpongeScott's excellent extras tournament. Now, it's time to overdo a good thing. Go to the well one too many times, if you will. Where the other threads are the NBC Nightly News and CNN Evening News of tournaments, I give you The Daily Show.

We all know WDW is not limited to attractions, restaurants, resorts, and other fun activities. It's also host to boorish behavior and incomprehensible management decisions. Clearly, these items are the real draw of WDW, as we spend endless pages debating their relative merits.

So, I present you the first annual WDW March Madness Wacky Brackets. Unlike the other tournaments where you're voting for your favorite choice, here you're voting for the item you feel most passionately about - for or against. Let's take Pool Hopping, for example. If you think Pool Hopping is YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT, vote for it. Alternatively, if you think Pool Hopping will BRING ABOUT THE RUINATION OF MANKIND, vote for it. If you're a wishy-washy, namby-pamby, fence-sitter with regards to Pool Hopping, don't vote for it. Wimp.

Here's this year's bracket:

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse vs. #8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller vs. #5 Too Old to Still Be Getting in for Free
#3 Smoking Wherever vs. #6 Parking Wherever
#2 Pool Hopping vs. #7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand vs. #8 Eisner
#4 Changing Something vs. #5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#3 Pixarization of WDW vs. #6 Stitch Proliferation
#2 No Monorail Expansion vs. #7 No Beastly Kingdomme

I'll keep the voting open for as long as it takes until my preferred items are winning. I understand that this tournament may reopen healed wounds or restart vicious flame wars. Nobody, I repeat nobody, wants that to happen. :lookaroun

I have to have some rules here, so for each round you will be limited to one set of votes. This rule goes against my nature as a proud Chicagoan, but I don't want total anarchy here. Let's just keep it to the semi-controlled chaos of a rugby game or an office with a broken coffee machine. Have at it ...

 

[SpongeScott]

:ROFLOL: :ROFLOL: too funny!
Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner I love the wand....:sohappy:
#4 Changing Something
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[Monty]

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#2 No Monorail Expansion

:ROFLOL:

 

[stingrock23]

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#6 Parking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#4 Changing Something
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[Computer Magic]

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#3 Pixarization of WDW
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[Wilt Dasney]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School (I own 'em, not the friggin' school board!)
#5 Too Old to Still Be Getting in for Free (contrary to what some posts indicate, strollers ARE a boring, pointless topic)
#3 Smoking Wherever (be glad they let you light up at all, Puffy McPufferson!)
#7 Antagonizing Tigger (Tiggah's A-OK in my book)

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner (I liked Uncle Mikie)
#4 Changing Something (change is forEVAH, I can ride Pirates next year)
#6 Stitch Proliferation (Pixar makes good stuff, that's why it gets plastered everywhere)
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme (I want my unicorns )

:hammer::fork:

 

[DarkImage4]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#4 Changing Something
#3 Pixarization of WDW
#2 No Monorail Expansion

 

[nighttimewisher]

oh wow this had me in fits! :ROFLOL: :sohappy:

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#3 Pixarization of WDW
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[MouseMadness]

OMG LMAO!! :ROFLOL:

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#2 No Monorail Expansion

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#5 Too Old to Still Be Getting in for Free
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner
#4 Changing Something
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[Laura]

HILARIOUS! Of course, I will feel the need to justify my answers...

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
I refuse to spend twice as much money and deal with the heat and the crowds to spare the teacher 10 minutes of getting a packet together!

#4 Too Old for a Stroller
Gotta go with that one. The thread the other day boiled my blood. You gonna carry my kids around the park for me? They're getting a stroller!

#3 Smoking Wherever
GAG GAG GAG - Get some class you idiots!

#7 Antagonizing Tigger
Poor Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
I pick the Wand. Only because it's hilarious how seriously people take it. It's a piece of metal! Get over it and find something more important to b*tch about!

#4 Changing Something
I'm all for change. Change is good! Shut up you sentimental saps!

#6 Stitch Proliferation
The stitch thing was kind of annoying, the show and movie aren't even that great. (But I couldn't resist buying a soft little stuffed one for myself :lookaroun)

#2 No Monorail Expansion
They really expect me to DRIVE to Animal Kingdom? Hmph.

 

[k.hunter30]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#5 Too Old to Still Be Getting in for Free
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#2 No Monorail Expansion

 

[ntoeman]

Questionable Guest Practices
#1 Resort Mug Reuse
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#6 Parking Wherever
#2 Pool Hopping

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#4 Changing Something
#3 Pixarization of WDW
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[nibblesandbits]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#8 Eisner
#4 Changing Something
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[TwoTigersMom]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School
#4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever
#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand
#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation
#6 Stitch Proliferation
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[dopey]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School

I think everybody should do it. Please take your slackjawed brats out of school so that they don't infect my well-educated darlings in the summer.

#4 Too Old for a Stroller

Alright, the kid is fine. But I ain't getting a big stroller so I can push around his wife and kids too.

#3 Smoking Wherever

Die, nicotine fiends, die (as a former smoker, I say that with love)

#7 Antagonizing Tigger

Who doesn't love to see Tigger get riled up?

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand vs. #8 Eisner

A tough one. Eisner is gone, but the Wand remains. Would it be better the other way around? I'll fence sit on this one (as uncomfortable as it is).

#5 Rehabs During MY Vacation

They really need to consult me more often.

#6 Stitch Proliferation

OK, we get it. Stitch gets into everything and messes it up. You can go now, Stitch. Really. Gags from Hall of Presidents are funnier.

#2 No Monorail Expansion

I will not be happy until they expand the monorail to Chicago.

 

[GenerationX]

I'm going to close the first round sometime today, so if you want to vote for your pet issue ... QUIT LURKING AND START POSTING! Don't let your obsession fall by the wayside! You care enough to argue for (or against) it in thread after thread after thread. Now vote for it.

C'mon, you can use as many exclamation points as you normally do when discussing the issue. You can even use ALL CAPS, or start your post with everyone's favorite condescending opener - "Um, no." I'm allowing any of that. Just vote. You know you want to. You HAVE to. :lookaroun

 

[Wilt Dasney]

I'm going to close the first round sometime today, so if you want to vote for your pet issue ... QUIT LURKING AND START POSTING! Don't let your obsession fall by the wayside! You care enough to argue for (or against) it in thread after thread after thread. Now vote for it.

C'mon, you can use as many exclamation points as you normally do when discussing the issue. You can even use ALL CAPS, or start your post with everyone's favorite condescending opener - "Um, no." I'm allowing any of that. Just vote. You know you want to. You HAVE to. :lookaroun

Um, no.


(Oh wait, I did already.) :lookaroun

 

[GenerationX]

Resort Mug Reuse and Pulling the Kids out of School please come to center stage.

Resort Mug Reuse. Randy said it wasn’t your best performance. Paula said you’re a wonderful, amazing issue. Simon said you reminded him of a bottomless cup of bland coffee at all night diner.

Pulling the Kids out of School. Randy said you really brought it. Paula said you’re a wonderful, amazing issue. Simon compared you to a fantastic Senior Ditch Day.

The votes are in, and Pulling the Kids out of School? You’re through to the next round. I’m sorry, we have to say goodbye to Resort Mug Reuse. But I’m sure we’ll see you in a thread again next year. If not sooner. :lookaroun

Results:

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School defeated #1 Resort Mug Reuse (9-6)
#4 Too Old for a Stroller defeated #5 Too Old to Still Be Getting in for Free (12-3)
#3 Smoking Wherever defeated #6 Parking Wherever (13-2)
#8 Antagonizing Tigger defeated #2 Pool Hopping (14-1!)

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand defeated #8 Eisner (8-6-1)
#4 Changing Something defeated #5 Rehabs During MY Vacation (8-7)
#6 Stitch Proliferation defeated #3 Pixarization of WDW (11-4)
#7 No Beastly Kingdomme defeated #2 No Monorail Expansion (9-6)

A quick analysis of the results shows that the Selection Committee really got the seedings wrong. Clearly, the Selection Committee knows nothing about WDW issues - the old cliche Pool Hopping as a #1 ... it almost got swept! In their defense, the Selection Committee pointed to the issue's RPI (Rantlike-Post Indicators).

We had some great voting justifications in Round 1 (Wilt Dasney, Laura22, and dopey). Let’s see if Round 2 raises anyone’s blood pressure:

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School vs. #4 Too Old for a Stroller
#3 Smoking Wherever vs. #8 Antagonizing Tigger

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand vs. #4 Changing Something
#6 Stitch Proliferation vs. #7 No Beastly Kingdomme

 

[dopey]

Questionable Guest Practices
#8 Pulling the Kids out of School vs. #4 Too Old for a Stroller

PTKOOS gets my vote only because I like PTKOOS better than TOFAS. PTKOOS sounds like an expectorant. TOFAS sound like a piece of furniture you'd buy from IKEA. And I hate putting together Swedish furniture!

#3 Smoking Wherever vs. #8 Antagonizing Tigger

Usually it's the same person, no? Punks blowing smoke rings in Tigger's face. For shame! This isn't Six Flags! I'm going with Smoking Wherever because I hate smokers more than I hate Tigger antagonizers.

Unpopular Management Decisions
#1 The Wand vs. #4 Changing Something

Again, we have congruency. I'm going with the specific over the vague. Put me down for The Wand. (And, if you say it with a thick South Side Chicago accent, it sounds dirty. The Wand. The Wandski. Wandarooni.)

#6 Stitch Proliferation vs. #7 No Beastly Kingdomme

If Stich were confined to Beastly Kingdomme, I'd be a happy camper. I vote for Stitch. Or am I voting against Stitch? Whatever. Put me down for #6.