The Contest

## History

It all started in the voice chat. On April 15th, 2020, server members Kooky and Nadav were on the voice chat listening to the music being played by a bot. Before long, Brando joined in because Kook had mentioned that the bot was playing Electro Swing, a genre of music that Brando really enjoys. After awhile, while checking the bot's playlist, Brando jokingly said that there was a severe lack of "Penis Music" on that list, to which Kooky added the hour long version of the song. Before it started playing, Brando then made another joke that would be what sparked the whole contest.

He said that whoever managed to sit through the entire hour of Penis Music in the voice chat would be granted the mod role. Determined to get ranked up, Kooky and Nadav immediately accepted the challenge. Cow, who was already a mod, just kinda went along with it because she was already in the voice chat. Doxxer joined about a minute into the song, asking if it was too late to join the challenge. Brando deemed it okay so long as he write an essay about the deeper meaning of the Penis Music. They managed to make it 57 minutes into the challenge before Cosmic had the bot skip it (by Brando's request, as he wanted to see how the others would react).

After asking about what exactly just happened, Cosmic then proposed a new challenge. He stated "The last person to disconnect from that VC gets mod. If it isn't Brando then you take his mod status. Begin now". And begin it did. Brando stayed on simply because he wasn't sure if Cosmic was kidding, Cow stayed for the hell of it, and the others stayed because they *really* wanted Brando's mod status. A new channel was created called #Penis-Music-Wars, which is where all the commands of what songs Cosmic would torture everyone with were posted, along with general discussion among the contenders.

*The rules were then established, which were fairly simple:*

* *No muting the music bot*
* *No disconnecting other people (only applicable to the mods)*
* *No deafening*
* *If Doxxer leaves, new non-mods are allowed in for a window of 5 minutes*
* *If you leave you can never return to the VC. Ever. Even mods.*

The first to leave the voice chat was Kooky, though that was because he was switching devices, which disconnected him for a split second. It was then established that accidental disconnections would still disqualify a contender. A few tweaks were then made to the voice chat that would help with the rules. Being AFK wouldn't kick you out, and it was made to not let anyone join or even switch devices, which was what made the last rule a lot easier to enforce. Chris, another mod, then joined for the hell of it, and shortly afterwards, the first to officially lose was Nadav.

Nadav was given another chance in the contest to test out whether or not the tweaks to keep people out of the VC worked, only for him to lose 2 seconds later be being disconnected by internet issues. The next to fall was Kooky, who got disconnected because his VPN crashed. That left Brando, Cow, Doxxer and Chris (who wasn't even technically competing).

Chris didn't last too much longer. It started to get late on his end, so he called it a night and wished luck to everyone else still competing. About 3 hours later, Cow also called it a night, but she found a loophole. The rules never stated that a contender couldn't fall asleep while in the voice chat, so Cow kept her phone connected to the channel while she slept. It was an oversight to be sure, but everyone was too far into the contest for it to be applied, and it wouldn't be fair to Cow either, as she wouldn't have even been conscious when the rule would've been applied. So it was deemed fair, and she was allowed to stay.

Another 3 hours passed, and then the next person was disqualified. Brando's laptop had apparently frozen, which caused Discord to lag temporarily and disconnect him. He was now out, and the fate of his continued status as a mod was left to Cow. Unfortunately for him, about an hour and a half later, Cow's phone had disconnected from the voice chat as well, likely due to it being too low on battery. This meant that the victor was Doxxer.

Despite this, he had to wait until Cosmic himself woke up, because at some point earlier, he too had went to sleep. Despite being upset about how he lost, Brando congratulated Dox for winning and wished him luck with his new role. Sure enough, 6 hours later, Cosmic removed Brando's mod role and granted a new one to Doxxer, which was titled "Champion". It was stated that he would have the role for the next 4 days, afterwards Brando would be reinstated as a moderator, and Dox would be allowed to start a new challenge.

## Trivia

* Brando is the reason the "no disconnecting other people" was put in place, as he casually mentioned that he could win simply by doing that, although he had no intentions of actually doing so.
* Cow is the only one to have actually found a loophole in the contest.
* It's unclear how often these challenges will be held.
* It's also unclear about whether or not future challenges are also held for the fate of Brando's status as a mod, or if each one has to have at least one moderator offer their status as a reward.
* The rules of the contest were updated after the first match ended to be a bit more clear and applicable to as many members as possible. They now read like this:
	+ *The challenge is picked by previous winner (it can be anything, from lasting through a video to painting, but it must be something everyone can do at the moment)*
	+ *No videos longer than 5 hours (if the challenge is listening)*
	+ *No disconnecting (yourself or others)*
	+ *No deafening*
	+ *Once you leave, it's over for you in this time's challenge. You can try again next time though.*
	+ *Whoever wins the challenge gets the champion role for a set period of time (no less than 4 days and no more than 2 weeks)*
	+ *No humiliating others in the challenge*
	+ *The chance to seize power is not limited to organized challenges! An ambitious member could challenge the champion for their role. Those sub-rules include:*
		- *No challenges are allowed before the champion has their status for at least 3 days/72 hours*
		- *Champions can decline any challenges as they see fit, but they can't cancel them once they have begun (same for the challenger)*
		- *The champion chooses the challenge (see above)*
		- *If the challenger wins, the champion role is handed to them and the timer to the next formal contest resets*
		- *If the incumbent champion wins, they get to pick the ambitious challenger's punishment*
			* *The punishment can be anything, BUT it must not contain NSFW or have the person kicked or banned under any circumstance. Jails are allowed but only up to an hour.*
* Kooky named the contest "Game of Throne", as only one mod's status was at stake.
* The server name was briefly changed to "Penis Music" after the events of the Contest.