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Speaking of tournament 4... you have less than 4 1/2 days left to submit recordings. The deadline for recordings is July 31st at 2359 GMT.(7:59 eastern time) Anything with a reading of August 1st will not count!
Don't fret everyone - for those who liked the tournament the way it is now, there will be a 5th tournament, with voting for games starting as soon as we find a winner for tournament 4. Tournament 5 is slotted to begin October 1st.
There will be a knockout tournament taking place starting September 1st. Those who would like to take the challenge, please contact Chris Parsley to sign up. The deadline to sign-up will be August 15th.
Ben Jos Walbeehm takes his first trivia game(I think) by reaching 5 points first. Three-way tie for second with 4 points involving Barry Rodewald, BeeJay, and SportsDude. Thanks to everyone for hosting, and J.D. Lowe for scoring. The next trivia game is Saturday, July 29, at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT(July 30).
Vasco "Vaz" Serafini has placed a motion to restructure the tournament from an 8 game tournament like we're doing now to an elimination tournament(single/double/etc.) using one game only / round which would be randomly selected. All players interested in the tournament's future are encouraged to vote here and place your opinion on the idea. There are also various ideas on how this tournament would go - you are also invited to share your ideas as well.
Scoreboard minus those not playing 8 games after 7 weeks are as follows:217 scores processed on 8 games. 33 players. 23 qualified players. 184 total maximum number of points per player. ar bo ga gb pn ra sf so 1. Renzo Vignola 9 6 1 1 5 3 6 1 ( 32) 160 (86.96%) 2. boxster 1 10 7 4 8 5 9 7 ( 51) 141 (76.63%) 3. QRS 2 9 4 7 15 7 10 2 ( 56) 136 (73.91%) 4. Zylquin 5 2 11 2 4 9 23 3 ( 59) 133 (72.28%) 5. BBH 17 1 2 10 14 16 1 4 ( 65) 127 (69.02%) 6. Ben Jos Walbeehm 7 11 12 6 1 4 13 16 ( 70) 122 (66.30%) 7. Frankie 15 5 5 11 10 1 18 6 ( 71) 121 (65.76%) 8. JSW 16 7 3 8 17 17 2 5 ( 75) 117 (63.59%) 9. Donut 3 17 16 15 2 2 14 8 ( 77) 115 (62.50%) 10. Blost 11 3 14 9 7 13 11 12 ( 80) 112 (60.87%) 11. Q.T.Quazar 10 14 6 18 13 11 7 9 ( 88) 104 (56.52%) 12. Phil Lamat 6 13 18 13 9 8 19 13 ( 99) 93 (50.54%) 13. J.D. Lowe 19 15 13 16 16 6 4 11 (100) 92 (50.00%) 14. Jazz 13 16 10 14 11 15 16 10 (105) 87 (47.28%) 15. Crash 12 12 17 19 3 10 22 14 (109) 83 (45.11%) 16. Sandman 14 19 8 17 18 14 8 15 (113) 79 (42.93%) 17. Barry Rodewald 20 8 20 12 21 22 3 20 (126) 66 (35.87%) 18. Blue Monday 21 22 9 3 22 23 5 23 (128) 64 (34.78%) 19. Zwax 4 18 15 21 19 12 21 21 (131) 61 (33.15%) 20. Olivier Millardet 8 21 22 5 23 19 12 22 (132) 60 (32.61%) 21. Pam 22 4 19 20 12 21 20 18 (136) 56 (30.43%) 22. gameboy9 18 23 21 23 6 20 15 17 (143) 49 (26.63%) 23. Chris Parsley 23 20 23 22 20 18 17 19 (162) 30 (16.30%)OK - it's coming down to the final wire now... Ben Jos has charged seven places since last week. Ben Jos has also told me that Zylquin has charged six places as well! Thanks to Ben Jos for the observation. :) The tournament expires on July 31st at 2359 GMT. Remember: Those who don't play eight games(those who aren't listed here) will have their score erased, so if you care to keep the tournament scores that you have, PLEASE qualify! Thanks - and good luck to all!
Looks like we have a nice little battle of the week going on between Alex Weir and Ken Okamoto for the Metro Cross title. Have a look at the superb .inps and then place your bets as to who wins this battle. Ken currently leads Alex by 60K with an astounding improvement of around 80K over his previous best. Current Top 3 on the game are Ken Okamoto: 323,400 points; Alex Weir: 266,200 points; Fungo: 192,850 points.Best of luck to you, MARPers! {QCN}
Anybody realize that he's already going to Devry to pursue his college degree on this day? He is :) Good luck to J.D. in his educational pursuits. {GB9}
Barry Rodewald breaks Sportsdude's streak of two straight by claiming 5 points in the trivia game Saturday night. Second goes to Ben Jos Walbeehm and QRS both with 3 points. Thanks to everyone for hosting, and J.D. Lowe for scoring. Oh... speaking of J.D. Lowe...
Q.T.Quazar, resident MARP Rules Coordinator, has access to the site code and can make all sorts of neat updates and... stuff. He'll be signing with
Has anyone not checked out Cicca's stats page? If not - you should - you will find some very neat tournament statistics! {GB9}
Lagavulin updated the poll with the results of the latest vote about the likeness or hateness of Tournament 4 games. The loser game is quite clear on this one :) However, there's a couple games people like.
Scoreboard minus those not playing 8 games after 6 weeks are as follows: {GB9}215 scores processed on 8 games. 33 players. 22 qualified players. 176 total maximum number of points per player. ar bo ga gb pn ra sf so 1. Renzo Vignola 8 5 1 1 4 3 6 2 ( 30) 154 (87.50%) 2. boxster 1 10 7 3 7 5 9 5 ( 47) 137 (77.84%) 3. QRS 2 9 4 5 14 7 10 1 ( 52) 132 (75.00%) 4. BBH 15 1 2 8 13 15 1 3 ( 58) 126 (71.59%) 5. JSW 13 6 3 6 16 16 2 4 ( 66) 118 (67.05%) 6. Blost 10 3 14 7 6 12 11 11 ( 74) 110 (62.50%) 6. Donut 3 15 16 12 2 2 14 10 ( 74) 110 (62.50%) 8. Frankie 14 8 5 11 9 1 21 8 ( 77) 107 (60.80%) 9. Q.T.Quazar 9 12 6 17 12 10 7 6 ( 79) 105 (59.66%) 10. Zylquin 6 2 11 20 3 9 22 16 ( 89) 95 (53.98%) 11. J.D. Lowe 17 13 13 14 15 6 5 9 ( 92) 92 (52.27%) 11. Phil Lamat 5 14 17 10 8 8 18 12 ( 92) 92 (52.27%) 13. Ben Jos Walbeehm 22 11 12 13 1 4 13 21 ( 97) 87 (49.43%) 14. Sandman 11 17 8 15 17 13 8 13 (102) 82 (46.59%) 15. Jazz 12 18 10 16 10 14 16 7 (103) 81 (46.02%) 16. Barry Rodewald 18 7 18 9 20 21 3 19 (115) 69 (39.20%) 17. Blue Monday 19 21 9 2 21 22 4 22 (120) 64 (36.36%) 18. Olivier Millardet 7 20 21 4 22 18 12 20 (124) 60 (34.09%) 18. Zwax 4 16 15 22 18 11 20 18 (124) 60 (34.09%) 20. Pam 20 4 19 18 11 20 19 15 (126) 58 (32.95%) 21. gameboy9 16 22 20 21 5 19 15 14 (132) 52 (29.55%) 22. Chris Parsley 21 19 22 19 19 17 17 17 (151) 33 (18.75%)If you have not completed all 8 games yet - I suggest you do, cause you only have 2 1/2 weeks remaining - and if you don't qualify, your scores don't count!
On a happier note(not that the previous was sad...), we have reached 175,000 hits according to NedStat. This measures unique hits and it doesn't count a reload. I think the hit counts again after 6 hours or something. Well however they count hits - congratulations to MARP!
A motion has been put up to determine the future of marathoned games. Click here to voice your vote and opinion. I only gave three games - but I know there's more games that have been marathoned to bits - and everyone is welcome to add to the list. All players, newbie or veteran, are encouraged to vote.
This week's interesting stat involved the MARP Tournament - what I did was added some features on the mix-in page. This will be re-released after tournament 4. I added a mix-in to the power rating system, old MARP leaderboard, new MARP leaderboard, raw score, overall leaderboard(you know - the one where Cicca combines all the leaderboards, adds them up that way?) with the addition of old and new MARP leaderboards, put a % on top on all of the overall leaderboards,(please forgive me Cicca :) ) and added each of the % on tops to get a final leaderboard. Here's the top 10 of the final item mentioned. (in percent, as always)1. BeeJay 93.45 Tourney 1 2. Ben Jos Walbeehm 89.23 Tourney 2 3. Ben Jos Walbeehm 80.40 Tourney 3 4. Phil Lamat 73.86 Tourney 3 5. Ian Sutton 72.89 Tourney 3 6. Tommi Tilhonen 67.84 Tourney 3 7. Brian McLean 64.97 Tourney 1 8. Donut 63.90 Tourney 2 9. JoustGod 61.56 Tourney 1 10. Cicca 59.56 Tourney 1
Sportsdude has now won 2 in a row - claiming 5 points in Saturday night's trivia session. BBH was second with 4 points, and QRS was third with 3 points. Thanks to everyone for hosting, and once again J.D. Lowe gets credit for keeping score.
I'm going to start dishing off interesting statistics about once every week. The first interesting stat I want to give is top 10 average leaderboard scores per recording. I will also include their real leaderboard standing. A person must be in the top 50 to qualify. Can you defeat these scoreboard giants? {GB9}1. LordGaz 92.6 23rd 2. GiganT 90.0 50th 3. Bubble 83.4 7th 4. Giovanni "GBY" Solinas 78.2 47th 5. Ken Okamoto 77.4 11th 6. Tickenest 74.9 45th 7. BBH 74.2 1st 8. Tommi Tilhonen 73.9 46th 9. DDR 73.5 41st 10. BIL 71.9 34th
OK - here's Sportsdude - just wandering in to the chat room - and then promptly wins the saturday night trivia game with 10 points. Second went to BBH with 7 points, third was a tie between JSW and Barry Rodewald with 5 points. Thanks to everyone who played, Chris Parsley for hosting, and J.D. Lowe for scoring. Next trivia game is Saturday night at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT. {GB9}
Well... Ron talked about MARP's Tournament - so it's only fair that I talk about his Deca 2000 tournament.
The winner was Phil Chapman racking up 638.28 points and winning Q-Bert(428,735), and Time Pilot(1,031,000).
Second place went to MARP participant BeeJay(546.17) - second in Tapper(911,025) and third in Bubble Bobble(3,663,170 - A force in Tournament 4?)
Another MARP Regular took a podium spot - JoustGod(483.38), taking 3rd in Burger Time(4,227,000) and a second in Joust(412,250)
Other players who participate in MARP include:Neil Chapman 474.27 4th 1st in Ms. Pac-Man(415,480) Alex Weir 417.48 8th 1st in Tapper(978,250), 1st in Track N' Field(93,310) Ben Jos Walbeehm 384.61 9th 2nd in Time Pilot(733,400), 3rd in Track N' Field(89,980) KFT 358.42 10th 2nd in Q-Bert(358,850) J.D. Lowe 348.91 11th 1st in Burger Time(4,472,500) Steve Krogman 310.69 14th AlexLux 307.07 16th 2nd in Burger Time(4,383,850) Rick Fothergill 298.12 19th 2nd in Ms. Pac-Man(407,200) Mark Longridge 260.48 23rd 1st in Joust(612,000) Pat Laffaye 255.69 25th 1st in Frogger(283,950), 3rd in Joust(253,750) Aquatarkus 170.86 38thThere's a good chance that I missed somebody - if you're in MARP and I missed you - let me know with the nickname you use on the site if applicable and accept my apologies. Congratulations to all - and I'm sure a lot of people at MARP appreciate Ron Corcoran for hosting the tournament. {GB9}
For those who haven't had enough of Bubble Bobble - check out this groovy music variation created by LizardKing - you will need a Mod Player to play this back - WinAmp will do you fine.
Here's a moment everyone's been waiting for... I think :) Scores removing those who haven't played 10 games after 4 weeks in Tournament 4:197 scores processed on 8 games. 33 players. 15 qualified players. 120 total maximum number of points per player. ar bo ga gb pn ra sf so 1. Renzo Vignola 5 10 1 1 2 3 4 2 ( 28) 100 (83.33%) 2. boxster 1 4 6 3 5 4 6 4 ( 33) 95 (79.17%) 3. QRS 2 3 3 4 11 6 7 1 ( 37) 91 (75.83%) 4. BBH 9 1 2 6 10 12 1 3 ( 44) 84 (70.00%) 5. Blost 7 2 10 5 3 10 8 9 ( 54) 74 (61.67%) 6. Q.T.Quazar 6 6 5 12 9 8 5 5 ( 56) 72 (60.00%) 7. Donut 3 8 12 9 7 2 9 7 ( 57) 71 (59.17%) 8. Frankie 11 5 4 8 6 1 15 8 ( 58) 70 (58.33%) 9. J.D. Lowe 13 7 9 10 12 5 3 12 ( 71) 57 (47.50%) 10. Jazz 8 12 8 11 8 11 11 6 ( 75) 53 (44.17%) 11. Blue Monday 14 13 7 2 15 15 2 11 ( 79) 49 (40.83%) 12. Phil Lamat 12 14 13 7 4 7 13 10 ( 80) 48 (40.00%) 13. Zwax 4 9 11 15 13 9 14 15 ( 90) 38 (31.67%) 14. gameboy9 10 15 14 14 1 14 10 13 ( 91) 37 (30.83%) 15. Chris Parsley 15 11 15 13 14 13 12 14 (107) 21 (17.50%)
JoustGod won Sunday night's trivia game with 10 points. Barry Rodewald was second with 9 points, and BBH was third with 7 points. Other winners include J.D. Lowe(4), JSW(4), Q.T. Quazar(2), and Ben Jos Walbeehm(1) I'd like to thank Mark Longridge for hosting and J.D. Lowe for scoring. Next game is next Saturday night at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT.
I am now making a request - because it seems to affect playback performance, if you are using an unofficial MAME in your recording, please indicate which MAME it is so we can play it back correctly. I have added a reminder in the submission page. Thanks :) {GB9}
BBH won another game of video game trivia taking home 5 points. Joustgod was a close second with 4 points, and Barry Rodewald goes to the podium for third with 3 points. Other winners include J.D. Lowe(2), Gameboy9(1), Mark Longridge(1), Ben Jos Walbeehm(1), QRS(1), and BeeJay(1). I'd like to thank everyone for hosting. Next game is next Saturday night at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT.
We also played a trivia game Sunday night. This time, JSW won with 20 points. BBH and BenJos tied for second with 16 points. Other winners include Mark Longridge with 11, Barry Rodewald with 4, Joustgod and Q.T. Quazar with 3 each, and J.D. Lowe with 2 points. Next game is scheduled on Saturday night at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT(and we'll probably do another one Sunday night too :) ) There will be one allowed rule change - the categories can expand to any video game platform - not just arcade (That really expands my question set - it was horrible last night if you ask me! :) ) {GB9}
I have results for the Saturday trivia game. BBH won the game claiming 6 points. Joustgod was second with 3 points, and Ben Jos Walbeehm and J.D. Lowe tied for third with 2 points. Other winners include Mark Longridge, Barry Rodewald, and JSW with 1 point each. I'd like to thank BeeJay for hosting on such a short notice!
I updated the staff page. One thing was added for Q.T. Quazar, an exact date was found for one of Skito's items. I also did some spelling fixes(surprised Ben Jos didn't catch them!) and some other minor fixes. {GB9}
I never knew MAME 37 beta 4 came out - but Pat told me - and with that he'll talk about the changes of MAME 37 beta 4... now! Oh... the file in brackets is the master set.*** new ashurau "Ashura Blaster (US)" [ashura.zip] exodus "Exodus (bootleg?)" [redufo.zip] hanaawas "Hana Awase (Flower Matching)" [hanaawas.zip] hitice "Hit the Ice (US)" [hitice.zip] pang3-10 "Pang! 3 (Euro) (10 Level Game)" [pang3.zip] pang3-50 "Pang! 3 (Euro) (50 Level Game)" [pang3.zip] pang3-panic "Pang! 3 (Euro) (Panic Mode)" [pang3.zip] pang3-secret "Pang! 3 (Euro) (50 Level Game - Secret Levels)" [pang3.zip] puzbobb "Puzzle Bobble (Japan, B-System)" [pbobble.zip] rambo3 "Rambo III (Europe)" [rambo3.zip] rescrdsa "Rescue Raider (Stand-Alone)" [rescraid.zip] qzshowby "Quiz Sekai wa SHOW by shobai (Japan)" [qzshowby.zip] victory "Victory" [victory.zip] victorba "Victor Banana" [victory.zip] wofa "Sangokushi II (Asia)" [wof.zip] *** changed short pang3-10 -> pang3j-10 "Pang! 3 (Japan) (10 Level Game)" [pang3j.zip] pang3-50 -> pang3j-50 "Pang! 3 (Japan) (50 Level Game)" [pang3j.zip] pang3-panic -> pang3j-panic "Pang! 3 (Japan) (Panic Mode)" [pang3j.zip] pang3-secret -> pang3j-secret "Pang! 3 (Japan) (50 Level Game - Secret Levels)" [pang3j.zip] *** changed long bublbobr "Bubble Bobble (US set 1)" -> "Bubble Bobble (US with mode select)" [bublbobl.zip] bubbobr1 "Bubble Bobble (US set 2)" -> "Bubble Bobble (US)" [bublbobl.zip] redufo "Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO" -> "Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO (bootleg)" [redufo.zip]
Finally I'll talk about the trivia game last sunday night. Joustgod swept all three rounds at 8 points each for a total of 24 to win trivia. Second was Brian McLean with 13 points, third was Ben Jos Walbeehm with 10 points. Other scorers included Q.T. Quazar with 9 points, QRS with 5 points, and J.D. Lowe with 1 point. I'm going to change the date of trivia to Saturday night at 10pm eastern, 0200 GMT to get more people to participate. {GB9}
I fixed the problem with the dropdown menu. Looks like 'someone' edited an old version of the script and uploaded it over my newer version. :o) I think it's all OK now. {Zwax}
But to keep you entertained, we have the second arcade trivia game at 10pm eastern tonight, 0200 GMT. {GB9}
Well I tried to change the dropdown menu from bublbobl to boblbobl and now I'm getting exceptions. Zwaxy has been ICQed - but we're out of commission until at least 1/2 a day from this update. Sorry about that :( {GB9}
The weird page gets another update thanks to Barry Rodewald and two bugs he caught in the Street Fighter II game. {GB9}
I was forced to remove bublbobl and replace it with boblbobl in tournament 4. The reason was because windows players be at a disadvantage if we stayed at bublbobl because no windows recording would playback. However, windows recordings will playback in boblbobl. Don't ask me why. Everyone will need to resubmit a BOBLBOBL recording. I apologize for any inconvinience. {GB9}
For those who are interested, I posted some rules for Pnickies, including how to find your ranking, and how the game is scored. Be aware however, there IS some REALLY formal writing here :) One final comment: If you'd like to submit rules for your favorite game(s), then please email me, and I'll be more than happy to post them! {GB9}
Lagavulin(who I just added to the staff page) has updated the MARP Poll - we're now wondering how you feel about the Tournament 4 games... {GB9}
Here's a first - the weird page has been uploaded for the first time in ages! I added one of QRS's attempts to get 1st place in rallyx... you'll see it at the very bottom of the page. {GB9}
Please understand the lateness of the matter - Pat was at the Twin Galaxies' Classic Arcade tournament at Funspot - but he's now updated the database for MAME 37 beta 3(the versions are already on the submission page). The changes are...*** new aafb "All American Football (rev E)" aafbd2p "All American Football (rev D, 2 Players)" aafbb "All American Football (rev B)" alleymas "Alley Master" ashura "Ashura Blaster (Japan)" ataxx "Ataxx (set 1)" ataxxa "Ataxx (set 2)" ataxxj "Ataxx (Japan)" basebal2 "Baseball The Season II" cerberus "Cerberus" champbbj "Champion Baseball (Japan)" crimec "Crime City (World)" crimecu "Crime City (US)" crimecj "Crime City (Japan)" dangerz "Danger Zone" dblplay "Super Baseball Double Play Home Run Derby" hatris "Hatris (Japan)" indyheat "Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat" magix "Magix" mayhem "Mayhem 2002" nastar "Nastar (World)" nastarw "Nastar Warrior (US)" offroad "Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road" offroadt "Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road Track Pack" ohmygod "Oh My God! (Japan)" pacnpal2 "Pac & Pal (older)" pigout "Pigout" pigouta "Pigout (alternate)" powerins "Power Instinct (USA) [bootleg]" quarterb "Quarterback" quartrba "Quarterback (set 2)" rastsag2 "Rastan Saga 2 (Japan)" redlin2p "Redline Racer (2 players)" safarir "Safari Rally" strkzone "Strike Zone" teamqb "John Elway's Team Quarterback" teamqb2 "John Elway's Team Quarterback (set 2)" tetrist "Tetris (Japan, B-System)" viper "Viper" wseries "World Series: The Season" wsf "World Soccer Finals" zerotime "Zero Time" *** changed both invdpt2m -> invaddlx "Space Invaders Part II (Midway)" -> "Space Invaders Deluxe"
Well we had our first arcade trivia game at MARP's chat channel, and our first winner was Jason Dyer. He was the first person to score five points. Other winners included BBH(3), BeeJay(3), Ben Jos(3), Gameboy9(2), and J.D. Lowe(2) - well done to all involved! I also would like to thank Chris Parsley for hosting. BIG NOTE: We will be playing arcade-related trivia every sunday night at 0200 GMT(that's monday there), 10pm eastern, 7pm pacific. {GB9}
A new record has been broken on MARP. At 22:34:45 GMT on this day, I submitted a 1st place score on the OffRoad Track Pack. 10 SECONDS later, sportsdude(welcome back!) counters with a better score! So the new record is... shortest lead in one game - Gameboy9 - 10 seconds :) Remember that, it might be a trivia question one day! {GB9}
The server had about 14 hours of downtime today. I don't think it had to do with the scripts this time - I couldn't log onto the FTP server to see what was up(got a socket error) - so it probably had to do with a server problem - not a script problem. Regardless, we're back online - and you can submit your recordings once again. We apologize for any inconvinience. {GB9}
Finally, I have posted where we are on IRC on the news page - and I intend to keep it there for an extended period of time. The link is pointing to software for mIRC... for now. {GB9}
More tournament related stuff - to make sure we're clear on this - if you submit a tournament recording and would like to submit it on regulation MARP - it's perfectly legal because it is using TG Settings amongst other things. {GB9}
In addition, MARP is having two of the busiest days in at least three months. Click on the graph on the banner frame for the proof! {GB9}
We have played 24 hours and I already have gotten emails for 108 recordings in Tournament 4 play. Click on the tournament link if you're on the regulation banner and join in on the fun!
The recent update about the settings confused me on the subject of solarfox. It said that the settings were default, but also that lives should be at 20, 100 and 300k. The default I see is 70, 200 and 500k. I spoke to GB9 about this, and he said to just use the default settings. Neither of us is a solarfox expert - does anyone even know how to change the scores at which lives are awarded? - Zwax
I have updated the tournament rules page. There really isn't many changes, but the important thing here is that I have made the tournament more generic - to apply for all tournaments so I don't have to update every four months. {GB9}
Our 4th tournament is about to begin in less than 36 hours. Here are the settings for the tournament. NOTE: Anything with a * on it means the settings need to be changed from default.Arkanoid II:(arkanoi2) 3 lives, normal difficulty, Extras at 100K, 200K(is that worded right?) Bubble Bobble:(bublbobl) 3 lives, Medium Difficulty, Extras at 30K, 100K, 400K * Gaplus:(gaplus) Difficulty: 4 - 3 lives - extras at 50K, 150K only * Green Beret:(gberet) Medium Diff. - 3 lives, extras at 30K, every 70K Pnickies:(pnickj) Normal difficulty * Rally X:(rallyx) Medium difficulty - 3 cars - extra = 20K(A) Solar Fox:(solarfox) Diff = 3, 3 bases, extra = 20, 100, 300K, 10 levels after * Street Fighter II:(sf2) Hardest Difficulty
A vote on four issues has been called by Q.T. Quazar. To vote, click here. All players, newbie or veteran, are encouraged to vote.{GB9}