T-Shirt Wars Movie Quiz

It may or may not have escaped your notice, but we quite like movies here at T-Shirt Wars. So as part of our occasional series of blogs commemorating 1000 hits to our blogsite, here is a little movie quiz based on our T-shirt blogs for you to amuse yourself with. There is no prize, just the satisfaction of completing the quiz without resorting to Google.

Day 1, and Pete used his ‘Blue Steel’ look on the inaugural day of T-Shirt Wars. Who starred in the 1990 film of the same name and who are her famous movie star parents?

Day 2 featured an Alcatraz T-shirt. Who played the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’?

Day 3’s blog title was ‘Zero to Hero’. Which movie had this phrase as its tagline?

On Day 6, Nick wore his Felix the Cat tee. Did the original Felix talk or was he silent?

Day 10 – Pete ended his blog with ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. Which musical (made into a movie in 1956) was this originally from and who wrote it?

Day 11 – Brian loses with his Batman T-shirt. Name as many Batman films as you can.

Day 12 – Nick quotes a classic movie line in his blog. Easy question – which film is it from. Hard question – What is the name of the character played by a young Harrison Ford, and what is the significance of this?

In Pete’s blog on Day 13, he mentions Judge Dredd. Who directed Judge Dredd the Movie? (Bonus non-movie question: he also quotes Mork from Mork and Mindy. Which TV series was this a spin-off from?)

On Day 15, Brian won with an Erroll Flynn T-shirt. What island did Flynn come from?

‘Carry on Camping’ was a title for a sub-blog before Day 18. How many ‘Carry On’ films were there?

‘Beyond good. Beyond evil. Beyond your wildest imagination.’ Was the tagline for which movie alluded to in Day 19’s blog?

Oompa Loompah was the Guest Blogger on Day 31. Who plays all the Oompa Loompas in the recent remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Day 34 – Brian mentions Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in his blog. What Burt Bacharach song won an Oscar for the movie? There are also quote from two 80's science fiction movies. Which movies? And which Neil Young song did the second quote originally come from?

Day 35 – Flatliners. Which star of Flatliners went on to have an 81 minute conversation in movie with Colin Farrell?

Day 36 – Risky Business brought which grinning midget scientologist to public attention? Why?

Day 37 – The Eagle Has Landed. Who played the only Nazi with a Cockney accent in the film of the same name?

Day 38 – Hex, Lies and Autoclave Tape. An obvious pun, but which prestigious award did the movie pick up?


Answers on a postcard, please… Now get back to work!

Day 38 - Hex, Lies and Autoclave Tape

Well, having had the weekend to recover from the body blow which left them (and the rest of us) reeling on Friday lab 301 were back on judging duty today. Luckily for them the line up today was a little more easy on the senses and the stomach. Brian had a green number with several different coloured wee stick men flying across it, Pete had an unusual (apart from the fact that we have seen it in competition before) black offering with additional fabric bits on it with the letters D & C for Duck and Cover, I had a pretty old Pixies T-shirt from their Planet of Sound days with a bold (but cracked) ‘P’ printed on the front.

And so the 301 judges lined up as usual to give us the once over. Our synchronised spin (to show any back-prints) was particularly slick today. While the judges seemed disapproving of Pete wearing another brand name T-shirt it was pointed out that Brain was also wearing a brand name - twolegs. In addition there was some shocking ignorance displayed regarding one of the most influential bands of our time.

And so the results were delivered in their usual timely fashion. Initially it seemed good for Brain in first place with me in second and Pete last. However I had played a Hex, hoping to hold onto my lead. And hold on I did with Brain scoring 0, me 2 and Pete ½.

So the bitter battle for first continues with Brian a joker still to play and both of us with a Hex in hand - could this result in a Hexican stand-off?

Oh yeah, here’s a clue if you haven’t worked out the title

Week 8 Minipoll results

Dear T-Shirt Wars Fans,

Here are the results of last week's Minipoll. We asked you how often you visited our website:

78% of respondents said 'At least every day'
11% said 'Less than once a week'
11% said this was their first visit

So no selection bias there then.

A new Minipoll has to be devised then and, inkeeping with the feeling of weariness that overcomes me when I try to think of what we can ask next, the question this week is 'Is T-Shirt Wars getting a bit dull?'. After 8 weeks (8 weeks! Who'd a thought it?) of ups and downs in the topsy-turvy world of T-Shirt Wars, are things getting boring? Do you resent the tail-end of our wardrobes, or are you amused by the worst threads that we have to offer? Is the daily accumulation of points passé now, or have the new scoring rules since Pete started his 2nd Cycle spiced things up? Are our blogs now repetitive, or did our week of guest blogs refresh the palate?

Vote now!

P.S. It will be a short week, next week with competitors absent on Thursday and Friday, so only three days of play to look forward to. Savour it.

Day 37 - The Eagle Has Landed

Actually, the eagle has not so much landed, rather crashed... and burned in quite spectacular fashion.

'truly awful'

'spectacularly bad'

'uggnh' (staggers slightly)

'wow!'

These were just some of the comments made about my T-shirt today, culminating in the lead in the Quality Competition passing to Nick.

Pete came in this morning resplendent in his 'Cards' T-shirt , last worn on Day 19, quietly confident I think. Nick and I both seem to have gone for an 'ethnic' theme with Nick wearing a teracotta 'shirt with a full-chest aboriginal design. He garnered a number of compliments through the day, despite the fact that he doesn't like the t-shirt and never wears it. I went for a pretty outrageous choice - let me see if I can describe it. Multi-colour, tie-dyed tee from a North American Indian reservation, with a cow's skull on the front and a majestic, swooping eagle on the back, a rattlesnake ensnared within its claws - doesn't quite do it justice, I'm afraid, just look at the picture. I kept it covered all day until judging partly because I felt ridiculous in it and also to maximise the effect of the 'reveal' (which was duly achieved with one judge almost falling over). Sadly, Operation Shock and Awe didn't work and Nick claimed three points, Pete 2 (halved to 1) and I walked away with nothing but a skull, a mangey bird and a dead snake.

Those of you who have been following events since Pete started his 2nd Cycle will know that the scoring has been haywire, tactics all over the place and fortunes swinging like a dodgy couple from the Midlands. So what was behind my choice of T-shirt today? (Or 'What were you thinking?' as some judges put it). This was only ever going to be a novelty winner at best, so tactically I probably should have left it to the end and hoped that Nick ran out so I that would never have to unleash it upon the world.

But no, I felt that this was a 'shirt that the world had to see and that being so, I might as well play it now, accept the loss, but give myself time to come back. And so Nick propels himself into first place. He did some research and found that this is the first time I have not been in the lead since September 27th - a sobering thought and one that highlights the fact that the competition is now wide open!

We're 1000!

While some websites get thousands of hits per day, we here at T-Shirt Wars are comfortable with our 20-odd daily visits. We know that what we lack in numbers, we make up for in sheer quality of visitor… that’s you, dear reader.

And yesterday we hit a milestone, and one that we have been hoping to reach for some time – 1000 hits to our website, since we started way back in the dying throes of summer. We will be celebrating our 1000 hits with a sporadic series of blogs examining the phenomenon of T-Shirt Wars, starting today with you, the visitors. So who are our readers? What type of person would want to visit a weblog about 3 guys wearing T-shirts and being ridiculed by their workmates?

Well, contrary to popular belief, we do not boost our hits by visiting the website ourselves. Our Sitemeter is set to ignore our visits so no additional hits there. Blogger, the service hosting this site have a ‘Next Blog’ button on the header bar that lets you browse randomly through the thousands of blogs that they host, so a number of these ‘surprise’ visitors pass through every day, and I’m happy to say that some of them become repeat visitors. Other random interlopers arrive via search engines like Google or MSN. The variety of search terms (mostly, but not all T-shirt-related) that land them on our doorstep is quite fascinating, and we will expand on that in a future blog.

But the vast majority of our hits come from our beloved friends and colleagues. Workplace hits make up the single biggest grouping of hits to the site (although I’m sure that this does not affect your productivity!), followed by a large number made up by a small number of relatives (you know who you are…), and another swathe of hits comprising random friends and acquaintances. And we must not forget our friends who found their way here via Jen Garret’s blog, and bizarrely, from a Rock Climbing Forum. Thank you all, for your support and ridicule. Now, on with the War.

They say that War is Hell... At my signal - unleash Hell.

Day 35 - Flatliners

As you will see from the Trend Graph Brian and I are both Flatliners. And no I don't mean Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland (you choose who is who). Including today Brian has scored nothing for the past 4 days and I am following suit, having flatlined for the past 2 days.

As Brian mentioned yesterday things have become interesting since Pete ran out of T-Shirts and started playing his high quality numbers again.

Well today Brian and I decided to fight back with what little we had left in our arsenal. Unfortunately we both seem to be all out of Big Guns. I used a T-Shirt that I have acquired since play commenced - something which is allowed proved it is within normal buying habits. And I think one can't argue when it came free with a computer game I bought (if you don't know the game from looking at it then it probably won't mean much to you). Suffice to say I didn't feel it would be in my advantage to point this out to lab 405 prior to judging. Brian pulled out one with a psuedo-tie dyed palm tree on it (the second in his tree trilogy he tells us) feeling that it would please the judges in 405.

As you will have noticed from my opening paragraph it didn't really work out for Brian and I. Pete's diesel number pulled into first place leaving me in a fairly academic second and Brian third (they really didn't go for the palm tree - apparently the pocket was a significant flaw). The final score - Pete 1.5, Nick 0, Brian 0.

If Brian and I carry on this way we will soon be too far gone for even Nelson to shock us back to life.

Day 34 - All or Nothing

It all seemed so easy last week. I was winning lots of days, and on days when I wasn't winning, I often got 2nd place. I had a lead, and a good one too. It seemed unlikely that anyone could catch me, so much so that when I got Hexed on Friday, I shrugged it off - 'Have the points, I can spare them!'. Pete ran out of T-shirts, and it seemed that all I had to do was see off Nick's challenge and both contests would be mine.

Oh, the complacency...

With Pete now repeating his T-shirts, the full implications of the new scoring-rules slowly dawned on me. Pete scores half points, but anyone ranked below him scores no points. In effect this means not only that you have to beat Pete to score anything but that if Pete is 2nd-placed and your opponent is first, then the opponent gets 3 points compared to your zero - a huge points-gain in one day and one which yesterday allowed Nick to come flying back into contention, only one point behind me. Where did my lead go?

So what should the tactics be? Bear in mind that Pete's T-shirts should now be at their strongest as he is repeating, whereas Nick and I are running on low. Perhaps, then, I should try and ride out the storm, play mediocre 'shirts for a week or so, until Pete is reduced to O'Neills and Quiksilvers. But Nick may have the same idea, and all the time Pete is clawing his way back with his half-points. And if Nick runs out during that time, the plan could backfire as then both Nick and Pete will be repeating their Tees at full strength while I flounder with the tail-end of my wardrobe. And if they are both repeating, I can only score points with a first place ranking.

The risk of that strategy seems too high, the odds too long, the gamble too great. Perhaps then, the only option is to come out with all guns blazing (but that's what Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid did and look what happened to them) and fight fire with fire. Play my strongest remaining T-shirts against the best that Pete and Nick can produce. These crazy rules can only be defeated by outright wins - you can't argue with 3 points. Of course, resources are now limited and I could have a few days of glory before crashing out of the sky like a fallen-Icarus. But to quote liberally (and probably inaccurately) from 80's science fiction movies - 'The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long' and 'It's better to burn out, than to fade away'. Yep, it's all or nothing, do or die, to be in with a chance of a win.


But that's exactly what they'll be expecting me to do...

?

ThEcHoOk

PS. In today's contest, Pete won again with his blurry lady, I came second and Nick came third, so Pete gets 1.5 points and no-one else gets anything.

Blue Peter

Well, it’s official – Pete has run out of T-shirts! On Friday he declared that he was on his last ‘T-shirt’ (I say T-shirt, but it was actually a football top) and so it only remained to be seen today whether it not he had acquired any new shirts over the weekend. He had not, and so he officially retires from the Longevity Contest.

What does this do to T-Shirt Wars? Well, the ramifications are many and we only have ourselves and the Byzantine rules that we wrote to blame for that. Here is a brief summary of what happens now…

So is Pete out of T-Shirt Wars then?
No. He is only eliminated from the Longevity Contest. He still competes in the Quality Contest every day, as before, but wearing his T-shirts a second time. He cannot wear them a third time until he has worn them all again!

So he can still get points then…
Yes, but he can only get half normal scores i.e. 1.5 for a First place, 1 for a Second and 0.5 for Third place. This reflects the fact that although one of his shirts may be good enough to win a day, it is being worn a second time. Everyone else gets normal points. Furthermore, any players who place below him in a day’s play score 0 points that day. So if Pete gets first place, no-one else gets any!

That makes no sense at all!
No, it makes perfect sense. It means that someone with a high quality collection of T-shirts is not beaten by someone with rubbish T-shirts just because they have more of them. However, they can’t just keep wearing the same T-shirts over and over again as the score that they get for them falls each time they wear it.

What about Jokers and Hexes?
If a player plays his Joker but is beaten by Pete, they get no points. However, if someone plays a Hex on Pete, they can score even if Pete ranks above them.

And what happens when a second player runs out of T-shirts?
At that point the one remaining player is the winner of the Longevity Contest. But the Quality Contest goes on! The third player must declare on that day how many more days the competition will go on (and they must have at least that many original T-shirts left) - thus the Quality Score will end on a predetermined date and whoever is in the lead at that stage is declared the winner.

So that’s how it works… Pete’s legacy to T-Shirt Wars is immeasurable, but his record is:

Played 32
‘Gold’ medals 8
‘Silver’ 11
‘Bronze’ 11
Nil point days 2

High Point – Winning ‘Immunology Day’ in Theme Week with a Luke O’Neill T-shirt
Low Point – Wearing his best T-shirt and not playing his Joker and then playing his Joker the two days later and ending up with no points.

And so the game goes on…

Minipoll Results

Well folk, I think it's time to stop being so nasty to Pete. He took a bit of a kicking last week and now the Minipoll results show that 89% of you who voted thought that his T-shirts of late have been, well quite simply, rubbish. 11% voted for Nick, with no votes for Brian. To be fair though, I believe that Pete did vote for himself last week.

Anyway, on with a new poll. This week we want to know how much time you waste on our website (we already know how much time we waste). Do you visit our website daily, a few times a week or less than once a week? Or are you a first time visitor?

Vote now!

P.S. To try and lure more poor suckers to our website via Google here are the top 15 search queries last week: Sea turtle, Daniel Craig, Domino Harvey, refco, Sienna Miller, Powerball, ipod video, Steelers, sweetest day, James Bond, Yon Kippur, Keira Knightley, Pumkin Carving, Notre Dame, Ricky Martin. Hmmm... no sex?

Blog Update

Hey,

Hope you're enjoying the blogs from our guest correspondents this week. Just to let you know that we have now updated the Day 28 blog with the photos of Nick's 'Jesus Juice' T-shirt. Perhaps something from Jacko's wardrobe?

ThEcHoOk

Week 5/6 Minipoll Results

Due to an energy-conservation exercise, the last minipoll ran for two weeks rather than one... We asked you which lab was the most discerning. Our survey said:

Lab 301 - 69%
Lab 405 - 21%
Lab 207 - 8%
Lab 306 - 3%

So 301 wins by a clear margin, mostly due to a glut of voting that took place over a 5 minute period from one computer last week.

This week's minipoll harks back to the poll we had way back in Week 3. We asked you then who you thought would win the Longevity Contest, and you said Nick, by 39% vs 35%, vs 26%. Well all three contestants are still going, but we want to know 'Who's T-shirt quality is suffering most as they reach the nether-regions of their wardrobe'; in other words, who is now clearly wearing rubbish T-shirts. Remember you can browse through the recent T-shirts here on the Blog.

Get voting!!

Day 26 - Rock and Roll

After my burning exploits yesterday, I decided to try a T-shirt which I didn't feel was really going to win, but which had enough sentimental value to me that I didn't really want it to lose. Not so much burning, more smouldering, I suppose. It was an old Led Zeppelin number, custom made by my brother some years ago and featuring the album art from their debut album 'Led Zeppelin' on the front (with the logo in blue, as per the rarely seen first pressing of the LP) and artwork from Led Zeppelin III on the back.

Nick had also kept with a musical theme, sporting the original Teenage Fanclub T-shirt - very much inkeeping with the fact that it is John Peel Day today as one of our more learned judges pointed out. However, the fit was a little baggy reflecting the fact that Nick used to be about 25 stones in his heftier days... Pete had an enigmatic 'shirt chosen and bought by his wife when they were in Rome, so a poor result in today's bout would be an insult indeed to the missus.

Judging today was Lab 306 usually known for their 'no nonsense' attitude to judging. Until today that is. Judge 1 instantly came up with his opinion: '1, 2 , 3,' he declared indicating Brian, Nick and Pete in that order. Judge 2, however took a little longer to decide, quizzing the combatants on the history of the T-shirts before coming up with the order Brian, Pete, Nick ('although to be honest I don't like any of them,' he sighed). Deliberation and negotiation took place before the order BPN was settled on. Finally.

Or so we thought. Five minutes later Judge 3 entered the fray. He had noted the aforementioned John Peel Day and ranked Nick over Brian with Pete last. Lordy! All three judges' rankings were amalgamated to give today's actual, final, ultimate, definitive, no-nonsense, unchangeable, eventual and, in my opinion quite correct, result. Led Zep pulled rank to claim top spot, Teenage Fanclub rolled in a creditable second and Rome burned in a day, in third place.

Day 25 - Burn baby burn

We are all familiar with the following definition of "burn"

verb 1 (of a fire) flame or glow while consuming a fuel. 2 be or cause to be harmed or destroyed by fire. 3 use (a fuel) as a source of heat or energy. 4 (of the skin) become red and painful through exposure to the sun. 5 (be burning with) be entirely possessed by (a desire or emotion). 6 (burn out) become exhausted through overwork.

However we now have a new definition

7 to play a T-shirt which is felt unlikely to be able to win at a time which is strategically advantageous

I have no recollection of how it began but now all three competitors use the phrase "burn" when playing a shoddy T-shirt intentionally as part of a strategy. For example during theme week one might feel unable to fulfil the theme and therefore choose to "burn" a lame T-shirt. Or if one suspected another player (or players) was likely to play a particularly strong T-shirt on any given day. Or as in Brian's case if you have an almost unassailable lead.

And this is exactly what he did on Tuesday, playing a plain (and very bobbled) orange T-shirt. Pete had chosen another Quicksilver number (surely the last?) and I was wearing a Japanese T with kanji on the front I am assured says "ichiban", that means "number 1" not the restaurant.

Sure enough the orange offering was "burned" in third place, I came in second and Pete first. And so Brian continues to burn so bright while Pete and I splutter along, 5 points behind.

P.S. Not sure what happened with the bird-fest in the pictures, you can try and guess who started it (they are shown in the order of placing, not necessarily the order taken)

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Ah Plead the Fifth!

In fact it's more like the First and Second. A meeting of Congress was held on Friday and in the interest of the people it was decided to make changes to the Bill of Fights. Two new amendments were debated, drawn up and ratified. The First and Second Amendments to the Bill of Fights are now available for viewing on the rules page.

The First (The Right to the Freedom of Tees) covers the addition of Jokers and Hexes to play in order to spice things up a bit. When a competitor plays a Joker their score is boosted provided they come in first or second place. A hex is played on another player and they score nothing for that day. As mentioned all the ins and outs are on the rules page

The Second (The Right to Bare Arms) covers a change to the scoring system used once a player runs out of T-shirts in order to allow them to continue scoring points at a reduced rate.

Day 23 - Eat my shirts

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Well, I've been told that I have to gloat in this post, something that doesn't come naturally to me. But still, if you look at the evidence, there is some justification for engaging my gloating muscles. I now have a 5 point lead over both King Pete and Monkey Magic - unprecendented, I think - and a glance at the cumulative score graph reveals that I have now been in the lead for 9 consecutive days, also a record.

Yet it was with modest ambitions that I came in today wearing my Palm Beach, Florida tee. It's an old favourite that I like for the fit, colour and the fact that it has front, back and sleeve prints. I wasn't convinced that it would win me first place, but faced with some lacklustre competition from Pete's umpteenth O'Neill T-shirt (he swears this is the last) and Nick's understated grey effort, I was in with a chance. To be fair, I quite liked Nick's, particularly the stripes that run all the way around the shirt, but history tell us that Judges rarely go for 'understated' or 'subtle' designs.

So three points came winging my way, with Pete getting 2 and Nick 1, placing me in aforementioned first place. Another week start's next week and we've introduced some new rules - look out for a post from MonkeyMagic over the weekend.

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Day 22 - Rising from the ashes...

...or going down in flames?

Having made some headway yesterday I decided to keep up the fight in an effort to try and push up through the ranks. Consequently I chose a strong player I had been keeping on the bench for some time - a sky blue T-shirt with a city skyline (London I believe) and some clouds on it. When I saw the competition I was a little concerned. Brian had chosen one with a simple but elegant NYC logo on the front, Pete had an Aem-Kai number with the logo printed on the front in an artistically styled abstract font. This was not going to be easy, but I felt I was still in with a good chance.

As ever lab 405 adopted a no-nonsense approach and after a quick but thorough inspection we could tell they had all reached their decisions. And so we trooped off to await that all important phone call.

As I had hoped my T-shirt claimed first prize with Brian second and Pete third. The judges had been impressed with all the apparel on show and were pleased by the fit of all three. While mine had come in first across the board there had been a bit of a fight for second place.

And so another day with three points and I manage to nudge into second place. Is this the beginning of a meteoric rise to stardom, or simply the last gasps of a dying wardrobe? To answer that would be to say too much.

Day 21 - Pizza the action

After the success of my Joe Satriani effort yesterday, my hand instinctively reached for my other Satriani Tee this morning. Could Joe win twice in a row?

However, Nick, seeing things slipping away from him, knew that special measures were required. He pulled out a brown, yes brown, number from his closet, adorned with a screen print of autumnal trees, birdies and a cute Bambi-like deer, and a minimalist Foursquare logo on the back. A good call for a lab full of girls. Pete, had a tee with several lines of Chinese/Japanese characters and a phone number. Not a bad shirt and intriguing, until you realise it is advertising a pizza company!

The judging today was cerebral - many questions were asked about the T-shirts, explanations expected. Quite different from the physical challenges of yesterday. And so the results came in, along with the judges' remarks:

Brian's T was visually striking and could have won any other time. However Nick's was subversively cute and appealed to the female contingent of the lab, perhaps he is in touch with his feminine side after the camp theme day?

So Nick starts his long struggle back into contention with 3 points, I maintained the lead with 2 and Pete gained a lowly 1 point, with extra anchovies.

The day 20 blog will be up shortly

Sorry about the delay - we hope to post later on today!

Day 19 - Fading Fast

As theme week drew to a close, I heaved a sigh of relief. While it had certainly been interesting I had not fared well. Every theme that had come up left me struggling (with the exception of the Proclone affair). Admittedly the others had often been quite ingenious when it came to fitting the theme, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't shoe-horn any of my T-shirts into the categories. Only my success on 'camp' day saved me from total embarrassment in the scores department, although a fair amount of embarrassment was still involved. Consequently I was looking to this week to try turn the tide.
Today I opted for a Transformers T-shirt. Not one of my greatest garments but I figured it would fair well in 306. Initially things looked good, Brian was wearing a Deuchars IPA T-shirt which was a little old looking and had the wiff of being a freebie - that was third place sorted. One of the judges also told me how Optimus Prime had been one of his favourite toys. Sweet! Pete turned up a little later on and had an unusual black number with a black print. Interesting, and clearly a contender for first place. Foolishly I thought it would be Pete and I slogging it out for the top two slots.
Late on in the day the verdict came in. Shocker! I was not too surprised to see Pete take the 3 points for first place, but Brian got second leaving me trailing in 3rd. It seemed that the thought of beer combined with the fact that the T-shirt came from Edinburgh, Brian's old stomping ground had won out over the glory of 'robots in disguise'.
So that leaves Brian and Pete out in front with 39 and 38 respectively, and me trailing behind with 36. What does fate have in store for the rest of the week? Can I fare well in the unpredictable realms of 207 tomorrow?

Week 4 Minipoll Results

The results of last week's Minipoll showed that 100% of those voting felt that the eventual winner of T-Shirt Wars Longevity Contest would have between 25 and 50 T-shirts. If that is correct then the contest could end next week... or it could go on into mid-November.

So to this week's Minipoll. We thought we'd turn the spotlight on our gorgeous judging panel, so we're asking you: Which judging team has the most discerning tastes? It's your chance to reward them for good decisions or punish them for bad ones (Pro-Clone, anyone?). To help jog your memory, here's how they voted so far:

Lab 207

• Day 1 - 'Prototype' (King Pete)
• Day 5 - 'Miro' (The Chook)
• Day 7 - 'Cool As Flock' (The Chook)
• Day 11 - 'Girl Walking Away' (King Pete)
• Day 18 - 'Mars Attacks' (MonkeyMagic)

Lab 301

• Day 2 - 'Native American' (MonkeyMagic)
• Day 6 - 'Cowboy' (The Chook)
• Day 12 - 'Lightning' (MonkeyMagic)
• Day 16 - 'Luke O'Neill' (King Pete)

Lab 306

• Day 3 - 'Shorinki Kempo' (MonkeyMagic)
• Day 9 - 'No Bears' (The Chook)
• Day 13 - 'Edge' (MonkeyMagic)
• Day 15 - 'Erroll Flynn' (The Chook)

Lab 405

• Day 4 - 'Diesel N21W73' (King Pete)
• Day 10 - 'Shedd' (The Chook)
• Day 14 - 'Quebec' (The Chook)
• Day 17 - 'Crabs' (King Pete)

Who de best - you decide. Get voting!