Trashdome - Dune vs Cosmic Encounter

Notahandle wrote:

Where will it all end?

I don't know, but there will be blood. We already have cat-in-box pictures.

Trashdome tries to appease the crowd with tough matches that make the decision of who to bet on difficult. And this fight is a great indication that its working. We're roughly in the middle and there is no clear winner here yet. But this is Trashdome so in the end there can be only one.


Cosmic Encounter
Shellhead
Octavian
Not Sure
Notahandle
sanildefanso
Space Ghost
The Dukester
Mr Skeletor

Dune
sydo
JoelCFC25
jeb
Bulwyf
lj1983
timeLESS
Mad Malthus
Jarvis


Let me know if I miscounted anyone. Its sometimes difficult to tell who you're betting on or even if you're betting. Thanks to everyone who makes it easier by writing it clearly at the end of their post.

So, an 8 to 8 tie? Better calculate Barnes's vote now!


oh wait - 8.5 to 8.5

FAIL

OK, I'm no good at addition.

Put my vote in for DUNE. Jeff Harkonnen swayed me.

You forgot 1 vote for Descent.

Michael Barnes wrote:
"Put my vote in for DUNE. Jeff Harkonnen swayed me."
No changing of votes allowed, you'll have to stay sitting on your euro-fence.
(So we can continue mocking you.)

No, it's simple. I clearly have Barnes listed as one of my four traitors. Give his vote for Dune and continue to mock him. Just be sure to give him his participation trophy and the paper that says everyone is a winner.

Jeff Harkonnen

If DUNE and COSMIC finish within one vote of each other, it really is like a Eurogame. Particularly if it turns out the winner didn't know how to play.

Dune here. I love Cosmic to death, but Dune plays out as an epic narrative, and there is no more satisfying victory to be had in any game, anywhere, than the predicition victory of the Bene Gesserit.

In the end it's got to be Dune, although Cosmic seems like it might be a better value in gaming for a lot of people (quicker, doesn't need as many, more accessible and still great fun). But Dune is so epic.

Vote: Dune

Oh, and can I request Starcraft vs. A Game of Thrones for the next Trashdome matchup?

I'm going to use the power of upset here. The winner of Trashdome loses and the loser wins.

Vote: Cosmic

Partizan wrote:

I'm going to use the power of upset here. The winner of Trashdome loses and the loser wins.

Vote: Cosmic

Nice! Well-played.

Octavian, give the man some GeekGold.

DUNE


Dune is AT.

The votes must flooow.... to DUNE.

Don't get me wrong, I like Cosmic, but not as nearly as much as Dune.

I think Tom has it. DUNE is AT. It really does embody the best of what AT represents on pretty much every level and it has a specificity, a concreteness, that COSMIC doesn't have. I think that's as good an argument as any.