Although today's tasks were all worth double points, I don't anticipate much movement in the top three slots. So even I did technically perform all of the assigned activities, mine were all mediocre efforts.

Pokemon artwork. Like yesterday's Zelda challenge, this is just a callout for anything vaguely Pokemonesque. You're probably supposed to actually DRAW something, but whatever. You might recognize my Pokemon photo from this year's Origins trip. I just added some mysterious Unown text to it.

Face painting. NOA_Rufus is the final victim, and I reverted back to the same political protest that I used at Camp Hyrule '05: bitching about Nintendo never legally unlocking SMB, Zelda, and Punch-Out in the original Animal Crossing. I plan to make this my own little Camp tradition.

Songwriting. I have to admit that I brought in a ringer on this one. I asked Tony to write a song for me, because he is sadly good at this sort of thing. I don't know if he should feel proud of this ability or not.

Chins up, people... this is to to tune of The Beatles' "Come Together":

Don't game on Xbox, don't be groovin' on Sony
We got Gameboy systems that work as controllers
On your sleek, cube purple GC
Play DS with your stylus, try that New SMB

No Grand Theft Auto, we got Crossing Animals
They got Madden's zingers, we got Wares from Wario
They say "Halo rules, Gamecube's weak."
One thing I can tell you, Xbox Live isn't free
Play Nintendo, right now, buy a Wii

Delayed production, Zelda: Twilight Princess
Kill time on Koholint, or replay Wind Waker
Hot chick, dressed up like Master Chief
Samus with her blasters busts up Metroids with ease
Play Nintendo, right now, get a Wii

Play Uniracer, don't need Katamari
Peach one fine princess, Miyamoto built her
Toad say, "She ain't here, so sorry."
Kirby is a blowhard gunning for DeDeDe
Play Nintendo, right now, own a Wii

So, Thanks For All You Did, Tony. Shame it's for a loser cabin that will only get third place.

Awards Voting. Every year, there's this silly list of awards (The Luigi Award for Best Typer, for example) and you're supposed to nominate your fellow campers for each award on the list. It is ridiculous. But, every year some dedicated gamer starts an "official" discussion thread to compile a master list so that each cabin might actually have a shot at getting peoples' names in there. And you get a point for submitting a list of nomiations, so there ya go. I self-nominated for the Paper Mario Award (for Best Artist), but some schmuck hijacked the thread and bumped me off.

The awards will be announced at the final camp chat tomorrow evening, along with the name of the winning cabin (which will be 9, most likely). One random camper wins a Wii as well. Whoo! This is pretty much the end of Camp Hyrule 2006.

I was barely in the Cabin chat today, so no semi-hilarious quotes for you.