Round 3: March Madness
The Sky Is The Limit || Writing Contest (CLOSED)
Welcome to TSITL Tournament
March madness: round 1
In this round, you guys will be competing against each other in a single-elimination tournament.
The challenge of this game is how to use the "ball" wisely. We will give each game pair the same prompt.
Each round will begin on the given date: March 2 & last 2 weeks long unless stated otherwise.
In the "game", the "referees" will check on creavity, originality & grammar. Also if the link of our contest & the prompt is listed in the foreword / description.
If someone forfeits / doesn't finish in time, the opponent wins that round.
If 2 people don't submit for one round, we will rule that as "N/A". So in the next round, the person going against the "N/A" still has to submit an entry to qualify for the round. (You may submit a drabble. Whatever floats your boat.)
The same process will repeat until only one person wins!
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ ALL RULES / FAQs / ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE ASKING US QUESTIONS!
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT ONE COMPLETED ENTRY!
P.S. Sorry for not making a bracket. The website I used suddenly failed on me, but next round, there will be a bracket!
P.P.S. Use ctrl + f to find your username. And yes, all teams and prompts were chosen at random.
Start: 2 March, 12 am EST
End: 19 March, 12 am EST
THE STARTING TEAMS
joonismiracle vs. halcyon
prompt: "I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for." - Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
LuckyFriday13th vs. nairxarika
prompt: "He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer veritgo." - Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
myst-- vs. genieforyou14
prompt: "One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it." - F. Scott Fizgerald, Tender is the Night
Xtra4u vs. _milkshake
prompt: "The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone." - Cormac McCarthy
sunnedeerae vs. chocopretzles
prompt: "That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories." - Haruki Murakami, IQ84
Sara_Argh vs. sj_swag15
prompt: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I need to be." - Douglas Adams
shining_writer vs. hyo_jinki
prompt: "I had all the characteristics of a human being - flesh, blood, skin, hair - but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resumblance of a humna being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning." - Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
beastlyoppas vs. itsme456
prompt: "I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways." - Rumi
contradictori vs. thederpchanyeol
prompt: "I alwasy wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya
strawberryrain vs. whatsyourname
prompt: "Srong and independent? I'm neither. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not." - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
BlackCarnation vs. cho-Pii
prompt: "It's easy to look at poeple and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul." - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kaosuhime vs. singaporetwins
prompt: "I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." - Augusten Burroughs
B-blanc vs. Shineywriter12
prompt: "The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed." - Cassandra Clare
SoaringCliche vs. SHINeeFever_95
prompt: As we stand there, it hits me how quickly everything changes - how life is like peering into a kaleidoscope, and just as you're looking at a gorgeous pattern you think you'd maybe even like to keep around forever, the colors morph into something completely different, and there's no gettng back to that first pattern. No matter how much you'd like to see it again." - Holly Schindler, A Blue So Dark
Cindoosh vs. LUCKy13
prompt: "Most days I wish I never met you because then I could sleep at night and I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge there was someone like you out there." - Good Will Hunting (1997)
leaderblankkymp vs. vonpika
prompt: "You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery." - Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo
booksrawesome99 vs. sporkerism
prompt: "I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky." - Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Kpoptown vs. ifallelsefails
prompt: "We are all a volume of a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or restrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are tickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it's is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together." - Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
amster vs. TheNightingale
prompt: "Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping its dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared." - Tupac Shakur
sneeze vs. musikseoul
prompt: "Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems. I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me." - Anne Boleyn
SKID_11 vs. ErisChaotica
prompt: "It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can trane love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." - E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
enlightened_ vs. Wonderboy
prompt: "I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I." - Grata Garbo
layseokris vs. LolliLovee
prompt: "Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late." - Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
Ee_JjangMe vs. chocolate--pies
prompt: "Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out." - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Bearbear_990606 vs. alwayskpoplover
prompt: "I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be a peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest." - Farah Gabdon
AutumnDreams vs. Alliekat_6
prompt: "There are two people you'lll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his/her time reading every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you'll never see coming. The one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book." - From Tumblr
Pensieve vs. xxchamin
prompt: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blackrabbit123 vs. AhnCheonsa
prompt: "What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce." - Karl Lagerfield
FisieunL vs. primadonna1608
prompt: "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it does of weariness, of withering, of tarnishings." - Anais Nin
Alluring vs. Angel-of-the-Sea
prompt: "When we hold each other in darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right," we whisper. "I'm here. I love you." And we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad." - Neil Gaiman
insertnamehere1 vs. awesomeGEE
prompt: "I've broken a few hearts in my times, but we've all done that, so I'm nothing special in that regard. I'm a boring heartbreaker, at that, because I've never abandoned one woman for another. I never dated or married more than one woman at a time. I didn't break hearts into pieces overnight. I broke them slowly and carefully. I didn't set any land speed records running out the door. Piece by piece, I disappeared. And I've been disappearing ever since." - Shawn Alexie, "What You Pawn I Will Redeem"
iHeart-u vs. ShigaPetal
prompt: "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment." - Sarah Dessen
seamanthedog vs. babogurl
prompt: "It didn't rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatteres and rains shards of glass." - Epik High, Pieces of You
eseech vs. chrisachii
prompt: "That is why it's so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts. Don't expect your genius to be discovered of your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, ger rid of dust. Stop being who you were and because who you are." - Paulo Coehlo
ryeowookiminda vs. Shakespeare
prompt: "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could." - Louise Erdrich
missuskwonjiyong vs. Eunhye
prompt: "Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle
kiwibubblecat vs. PandaPop82
prompt: "A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of a mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind." - Albert Einstein
cyndeeah vs. krissingyou
prompt: "When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it, I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up." - Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
ChibiDeer vs. minji-
prompt: "Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." - Albert Schweitzer
Minny-- vs. whenwillthemadness
prompt: "I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed." - Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
yourSecretkept vs. -pompous
prompt: "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." - Jonathan Safran Foer
swabluu vs. skyblaze208
prompt: "I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." - Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
th_silenttear vs. Sunako
prompt: "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." - ia Woolf
qrystal vs. jessicathao
prompt: "She met a boy and called him Stargazer because instead of poems, he recited the names of constellations. He said the freckles on his arms were roadmaps to the sky, and the bruises that he carried were supernovas in disguise." - Alaska Gold, Stargazer
kisoap vs. greyingsky
prompt: "What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." - Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Scheherazade vs. flirtingwithstars
prompt: "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz
Akkahana vs. huskylover200
prompt: "No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by." - Franz Schubert
Riicchan vs. -Hae
prompt: "Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you." - Jonathan Safran Foer
AliciaRose vs. JustDerpin
prompt: "It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you." - Jodi Picioult, My Sister's Keeper
imarazhane vs. bigbangbias
prompt: "You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?" - Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
tillynilly vs. AbsolutelyAwesome
prompt: "I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." - ia Woolf
JongKey1221 vs. Kpoplovercynthia
prompt: "I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me." - Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
leettaemiri vs. SweetWriter
prompt: "I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me." - J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
thefeminist vs. sorrowlicher
prompt: "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." - John Steinback, The Winter of Our Discontent
summerchild vs. superelfing
prompt: "I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time. I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been." - Raymond Carver, "Intimacy"
peacelovehugs vs. JeffJeff
prompt: "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland
PaleFlesh vs. peculiar
prompt: "I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely." - Megan Miranda, Fracture
forestwhisperz vs. LadyBlackthorne
prompt: "No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention." - Chuck Palahnuik
ForeverKeyLocket vs. catchmeifyouwanna
prompt: "Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them." - J.K Rowling
inspiritexoticbaby vs. 1stRateDreamer
prompt: "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." - Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
IcePrincess2299 vs. kirakirashahida
prompt: "I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year." - Edna St. Vincet Millay
unicornhealining vs. royalblueblood
prompt: "If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory like scent. And it never faded and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again." - Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
xdreammerx vs. rocketshipmonkey
prompt: "His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, 'I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come.' Those souls are always light becuase more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places." - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
TheDevilSaidHey vs. jamdii
prompt: "Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen." - Anne ton
Let the games begin!
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