User blog comment:CaveJohnson333/Jack's Official Video Game Tourney!/@comment-28938497-20150222205203/@comment-13974523-20150222215614

There is a process to many of these non-official Wiki rap tournaments.

I have a theoretical example that has a good general outline, in my opinion, for any given "non-official tourney". It may not be exact or to precision, but once again, it's an outline that I'm sure you can get general information out of.

Round 1
1) People enter a rap tourney on this Wiki due to high interest in the subject.

2) Match-ups are created, and some people have already lost a little interest due to lack of knowledge on their opponent.

3) Writing begins, and some are more victorious than others at writing. Some find that they have less material than they thought.

4) Some match-ups begins to be finished, and adrenaline is increased a little due to voting and stress on personal verses.

5) This adrenaline makes people want to perfect their verses, and they wait on their opponent as a result. Their opponent is doing the same.

6) At this point you have 2 results.

7a) They finally get it over with, and thus begins Round 2.

7b) They assume that the other has given up and stop themselves, halting progress.

Round 2
8) People find increased stress from having made further progress, and more of their own material has been used up.

9) Match-ups are created once again, and people find that their material is straining even more than ever.

10) People write, and they begin to think of the important question. The important question that shuts down pretty much all non-official tourneys.

"What's the point of winning?"

Winning a non-official tourney isn't much to brag or be excited about in comparison to the official one.

"Ha! I was the victor of Jack8073's Official Video Game Tourney!"

Most competitors and other people don't care that much about it.

"Why should I keep writing? I'm low on material and I'm stressed. It's not like it'll hurt me to get out of the tourney."

They stop.