All-Time Writers Draft II

[Fatal9]

Since the other thread is a bit controversial and slow, I thought we should switch over.

It'll be 10 participants but maybe we'll extend to 12 if there are couple more who want in before the end of round 1.

10 rounds total, 8 hrs to pick for first round and 7 hrs for the remaining rounds. PM your picks in advance, there shouldn't be any reason to get skipped.

Any category that falls under literature can be selected. Your pick can be a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, journalist etc, provided their work is written. Posters who declared for the other draft get first dibs.

Draft Order/PHP:

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RND PICK OWNER SELECTION
1 1 Snoop Cat William Shakespeare
1 2 MasterDurant24 Leo Tolstoy
1 3 boozehound Marcel Proust
1 4 Fatal Charles Dickens
1 5 Timmy D Aristotle
1 6 Jasi Dostoevsky
1 7 iamgine Isaac Newton
1 8 Fuhqueque George Orwell
1 9 raiderfan19 Homer
1 10 Jailblazers7 James Joyce
1 11 Lebowsky Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 1 Lebowsky Franz Kafka
2 2 Jailblazers7 Vladimir Nabokov
2 3 raiderfan19 J.R.R. Tolkien
2 4 Fuhqueque Geoffrey Chaucer
2 5 iamgine Lao Tzu
2 6 Jasi Dante Alighieri
2 7 Timmy D Edgar Allan Poe
2 8 fatal Cervantes
2 9 boozehound Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2 10 MasterDurant24 William Faulkner
2 11 Snoop Cat Mark Twain

3 1 Snoop Cat Victor Hugo
3 2 MasterDurant24 Aesop
3 3 boozehound Oscar Wilde
3 4 Fatal John Milton
3 5 Timmy D Sophocles
3 6 Jasi Jane Austen
3 7 iamgine Plato
3 8 Fuhqueque Nietzsche
3 9 raiderfan19 Ernest Hemingway
3 10 Jailblazers7 Walt Whitman
3 11 Lebowsky Voltaire

4 1 Lebowsky Jorge Luis Borges
4 2 Jailblazers7 Samuel Beckett
4 3 raiderfan19 Alexander Dumas
4 4 Fuhqueque Anton Chekhov
4 5 iamgine Adam Smith
4 6 Jasi John Steinbeck
4 7 Timmy D Herman Melville
4 8 fatal Virgil
4 9 boozehound Albert Camus
4 10 MasterDurant24 Jin Yong
4 11 Snoop Cat St Paul

5 1 Snoop Cat William Golding
5 2 MasterDurant24 Rabindrath Tagore
5 3 boozehound Joseph Conrad
5 4 Fatal Thomas Mann
5 5 Timmy D Samuel Coleridge
5 6 Jasi TS Eliot
5 7 iamgine Rene Descartes
5 8 Fuhqueque Euripides
5 9 raiderfan19 Moses
5 10 Jailblazers7 James Baldwin
5 11 Lebowsky WB Yeats

6 1 Lebowsky Benito Perez Galdos
6 2 Jailblazers7 Julio Cortazar
6 3 raiderfan19 Robert Louis Stevenson
6 4 Fuhqueque Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 5 iamgine Charles Darwin
6 6 Jasi Aleksandr Pushkin
6 7 Timmy D Isaac Asimov
6 8 fatal John Keats
6 9 boozehound Venedict Yerofeyev
6 10 MasterDurant24 Albert Einstein
6 11 Snoop Cat Galileo Galilei

7 1 Snoop Cat Stephen King
7 2 MasterDurant24 John Hersey
7 3 boozehound Mikhail Bulgakov
7 4 Fatal Du Fu
7 5 Timmy D Wu Cheng'en
7 6 Jasi Pablo Neruda
7 7 iamgine Jean-Jacques Rousseau
7 8 Fuhqueque Aldous Huxley
7 9 raiderfan19 Ayn Rand
7 10 Jailblazers7 Haruki Murakami
7 11 Lebowsky Sir Arthur Conyan Doyle

8 1 Lebowsky Yasunari Kawabata
8 2 Jailblazers7 Tennessee Williams
8 3 raiderfan19 Machiavelli
8 4 Fuhqueque Fernando Pessoa
8 5 iamgine Saint Augustine
8 6 Jasi Balzac
8 7 Timmy D Aristophanes
8 8 fatal Jonathan Swift
8 9 boozehound V.S. Naipaul
8 10 MasterDurant24 Alan Moore
8 11 Snoop Cat St. Benedict

9 1 Snoop Cat Confucius
9 2 MasterDurant24 Thomas Jefferson
9 3 boozehound Ben Okri
9 4 Fatal Gustave Flaubert
9 5 Timmy D Arthur C. Clarke
9 6 Jasi Aeschylus
9 7 iamgine Sigmund Freud
9 8 Fuhqueque PG Wodehouse
9 9 raiderfan19 Jules Verne
9 10 Jailblazers7 Philip Roth
9 11 Lebowsky Philip K Dick

10 1 Lebowsky Herodotus of Halicarnassus
10 2 Jailblazers7 CS Lewis
10 3 raiderfan19 JK Rowling
10 4 Fuhqueque Umberto Eco
10 5 iamgine Karl Marx
10 6 Jasi David Grossman
10 7 Timmy D Michael Chrichton
10 8 fatal F Scott Fitzgerald
10 9 boozehound Cormac McCarthy
10 10 MasterDurant24 Eugene O Neill
10 11 Snoop Cat
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Things to consider when picking:

- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)

[brooks_thompson]

thompson, brooks.

[SourPatchKids]

J.K. Rowling

sweet.

[Timmy D for MVP]

So this here is the one?

Cause I'll be in if it is.

[iamgine]

in

[Snoop_Cat]

me

[ZeN]

This is going to be a difficult draft to judge.

[Snoop_Cat]

what's the criteria for judging?

[Jasi]

Thanks Fatal, I'm surely in.


(Thanks also to those who invited me to start the draft thread; I fell asleep before I saw those posts - and that's also the reason why I don't start draft threads: I think it's difficult to be the commish from Europe due to the different time zones)

[Fatal9]

what's the criteria for judging?

some things to consider...

- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)
- maybe something for popularity of their work as well?

if other things come to mind, let me know and we can get down to four or five concrete categories

[raiderfan19]

some things to consider...

- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)

if other things come to mind, let me know and we can get down to four or five concrete categories

Im in.

[sawyersauce]

I'm in.

[brooks_thompson]

i'm out. will be out of town for a week starting thursday, no certain internet access.


someone better have picked charles dickens by the time i get back

[Jailblazers7]

I stilll want in.

[ZeN]

I stilll want in.

you been on the list..?..