Gauntlets

This article refers to Board 8's gauntlet crew, a group of tight-knit buddies- and Pokewars- who just enjoy playing gauntlets and chatting with each other.

What the F#&@ is a "Gauntlet"?
A gauntlet is a game that pits one character against another until only one- the champion- remains. In a group gauntlet, 4 or more players take turns selecting characters, or songs, or movies, etc. on a match by match basis until the finals, in which every person participating votes on the winner. Still confused? Try one for yourself!

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~efleckenstein3/Gauntlet_List.html

Pokémon Gauntlets
Gauntlets were brought to Board 8's attention by user Silver Ermine who found this site http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~msandbot/Pok?mon/blackwhite.html and began hosting group gauntlets with other B8 users via join.me. Pokémon gauntlets boasted a whopping 200 total games played complete with its own personal STATS page (kept by Kate) to track the results before it fell out of general popularity, though some users (e.g. Ermine, FD, red, XIII, Nick, and Comm, among others) still play full gauntlets from time to time.

Disney Gauntlets
User starfox2245 created his own gauntlet engine based on the one found by Ermy. His first experiment? Disney gauntlets of course! Disney being the controversial subject that it is, the gauntlets- which pitted one character against another until only one remained- were wildly popular. The drama got to be so rampant that star at one point pulled down both the STATS page and the gauntlet itself for over a week. Once he chillaxed and reinstated the gauntlet itself, he gave control of the STATS to Inviso. Despite all the negativity, Disney gauntlets more than doubled the popularity and duration of the original pokémon gauntlet, having fallen out of public use at almost 500 total group games.

Multigauntlets
Disney and pokémon having officially grown stale, user JONALEON1 brought the latest craze: multigauntlets. Rather than doing any ONE full gauntlet, multigauntlets take a fraction of the total number of any gauntlet's characters (usu. 50 or 100), and combine it with the same number from a multitude of other gauntlets (usu. a total of 4, but sextuple and even higher multigauntlets are becoming increasingly popular). No STATS page is kept for multigauntlets, so there is no way of telling how many have been hosted, but they don't seem to be dying out any time soon!