NEXT year's Advent Calendar.

[cambridgealex]

It's a great idea and you've done better than any of could've hoped to do with it. But sadly with anything like this, those that don't get their achievements and contributions celebrated, will always feel left out and unappreciated, no matter how tough or manly they are!

Merry Christmas Rich.

Yes, naive of me. Not being in one of the 24 slots doesn't mean anything negative!

Not a hint of dissension last year with any of it, especially from anyone who didn't make it in, so I went again

Live and learn

Happy Xmas Alex.

So the people who have left the forum over it are people from this year?

[AndrewT]

It's a great idea and you've done better than any of could've hoped to do with it. But sadly with anything like this, those that don't get their achievements and contributions celebrated, will always feel left out and unappreciated, no matter how tough or manly they are!

Merry Christmas Rich.

Yes, naive of me. Not being in one of the 24 slots doesn't mean anything negative!

Not a hint of dissension last year with any of it, especially from anyone who didn't make it in, so I went again

Live and learn

Happy Xmas Alex.

No hard feelings Rich - once I'm crowned Champion of Advent Calendar tomorrow I'll start posting a bit more.

[bobAlike]

That's a great shame Rich. It's unbelievable that after last years success this year has drawn such negativity. Its a bit of fun, some people just take this stuff so bloody seriouslywhen there's some serious shit going on in the outside world.

Merry Christmas

[TightEnd]

It's a great idea and you've done better than any of could've hoped to do with it. But sadly with anything like this, those that don't get their achievements and contributions celebrated, will always feel left out and unappreciated, no matter how tough or manly they are!

Merry Christmas Rich.

Yes, naive of me. Not being in one of the 24 slots doesn't mean anything negative!

Not a hint of dissension last year with any of it, especially from anyone who didn't make it in, so I went again

Live and learn

Happy Xmas Alex.

So the people who have left the forum over it are people from this year?

I'm not naming names, but issues concerning this thread and the advent calendar thread yes

Really, its very disappointing for me.

[paulhouk03]

I remember cos was really annoyed that he wasn't in the hall of fame on blonde

[George2Loose]

Name names. Pretty pathetic. (Obv only saying this cos I made last year)

[Longy]

This thread is totally ridiculous and has led to the inevitable conclusion that one of the best things on blonde has been ruined by people's fragile egos. Who really gives a crap if x isn't in a fun end of year thread ( clearly lots of people)

[TightEnd]

I remember cos was really annoyed that he wasn't in the hall of fame on blonde

Anyone at any time could nominate anyone to go in the Hall of Fame

Anyone at any time could write up anyone

No one did

It fell down my list of priorities, even before we had big IT problems

The last month doesn't exactly encourage me to kick start it


Anyway, none of this is a biggie in any sort of scheme of things. Just some late night frustration :-)

[nirvana]

It's a great idea and you've done better than any of could've hoped to do with it. But sadly with anything like this, those that don't get their achievements and contributions celebrated, will always feel left out and unappreciated, no matter how tough or manly they are!

Merry Christmas Rich.

Yes, naive of me. Not being in one of the 24 slots doesn't mean anything negative!

Not a hint of dissension last year with any of it, especially from anyone who didn't make it in, so I went again

Live and learn

Happy Xmas Alex.

So the people who have left the forum over it are people from this year?

I'm not naming names, but issues concerning this thread and the advent calendar thread yes

Really, its very disappointing for me.

Understandably disappointing - day 20 aside I enjoyed all the entries as much as I enjoyed reading them last year

[mondatoo]

People jumping to conclusions a bit here, the two people didn't necessarily leave because they weren't included, maybe they just thought all the negativity or bickering over something like this was pathetic and that's why they left.

Such a shame it won't be happening again next year, was one of the best threads ever on here last year, huge huge sigh.

[TightEnd]

Yes Ray the issues are NOT not being included. Other things, related to the two threads

[bobby1]

It is a completely fresh list this year compared to last, with the exception of David Nicholson

I realised after his entry this year that one of the ways to get more new people in was not to duplicate from last year, so changed a few things around

As I have said repeatedly, I have 24 days, and about 50 entries I could put in. Speaking now, I probably have a backlog of over 30 entries to go in, were it to continue. I had to make some difficult cuts, and did so.

The only DTD bias in it is that is where I update, and hear the stories and meet the people...no more than that, but there are plenty of people in both lists that I have never met or have never been to DTD


Anyway, I have been hopelessly naive, to say the least. Last year's advent went swimmingly, and was popular. Thought i would repeat it. However its been such a depressing experience for me and led to such conflict that I can say now for sure I won't be doing one again. Leave you all to your own devices next year

Two people, each with many thousands of posts, have left the forum over all of this and if you'd told me that a month ago I'd have thought you were tripping. Never ever did I think it would be taken so seriously but that probably reflects that naivety I was talking about

It was meant to be an innocent, giving, celebration of some achievements this year whether on forum or in poker.

After tomorrow, which I am quite proud about but no doubt will get fucked over pillar to post about I'm done with it

Don't feel bad, it is a lovely concept. What you could do is make it a nice yearly Christmas list of people that have contributed a lot or had a tremendous poker/life achievement that year. It does seem you are very restricted when it is just 25 selections. I am really sorry people have decided to stop posting, is that just coz they aren't in the list?

That is ott for me if it is but in general it is hard to feel comfy with a 'Blonde Advent Calendar' when someone gets in coz he plays at DTD and posts infrequently when say Alex, Mantis, Eso and Pleno and others too have contributed page after page of content and comment. We don't all agree all the time but it's pretty safe to say we can appreciate the people that drive the content and help convo's develop. It's difficult to relate to some guys that play poker in Nottingham but rarely post on any of the threads.

cheers

[The Camel]

People jumping to conclusions a bit here, the two people didn't necessarily leave because they weren't included, maybe they just thought all the negativity or bickering over something like this was pathetic and that's why they left.

Such a shame it won't be happening again next year, was one of the best threads ever on here last year, huge huge sigh.

Ok, fair enough.

Deleted my post.

Still find it very difficult to swallow a genuine issue has risen from the advent calendar which that is important enough to cause someone to stop doing something they presumably enjoy. IE posting and participating on Blondepoker.

[I KNOW IT]

I would just like to say to the 2 forum posters who have decided to leave over the Advent Calendar

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[TightEnd]

No problem Phil

The only person in the category of "guys that play poker in Nottingham but rarely post..." in either year is Rastafish, which I am quite prepared to accept might have been an incorrect choice. However I could argue my reasons for his inclusion pretty strongly too

Indeed I didn't include a few guys for precisely the reason that it was too DTD-centric to do so, compared to some forum guys

As everyone can see, and I have discovered this year, you can't win