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    Wednesday, September 13, 2006

    The Ultimate Graphics Showdown

    Jason "Lerroyyy Jenkins" Voorhees was the newcomer, the young fella in the Rawlings Group's graphics team. He had risen from intern to employee faster than any employee outside of Bommarito. And he was out to prove he had the graphic skillz needed to dominate the UFC.

    Jason "Spanish Blood" McCartney was the veteran, the old man of the graphics team, the voice of experience. Looking to send Voorhees back to his drawing board to make more t shirts.

    This was the ultimate graphics showdown.

    And it would be settled in the best way possible for these combatants: Via a good old-fashioned game of Pictionary. A coin flip determined the teams. McCartney would draw for the Worth product managers, Voorhees for the Rawlings product managers.

    Former UFC castoffs Tim Lord, Scott Keene, Seth Elrod, and Dan Cullinane joined current wannabee title holders Travis Gessley and Scott Siebers rounded out the teams.

    And they were off.

    First up was Team Worth. Tim Lord sat extra close to the chart, as he both likes to look over the artist's shoulders and his vision is failing a bit in his old(er) age. Travis Gessley tossed some things around, clearing off some tables to make room for himself. Seth Elrod color coded the markers to make McCartney's job easier.

    And McCartney did a glorious job, crafting an image of first a sports diamond. Wait a softball diamond. He began to draw a bat. He moved on quickly to the uniform, but (wait) the Worth team demanded he go back and change the bat color... done. Now he was back to the athlete, spending a ton of time in the details, bringing out the color in the scene at the plate. The look that screamed Mayhem....

    The beauty in the scene was unrefutable. McCartney leads 3-0.

    But WAIT.

    The game was interrupted by a flash of blinding light. Glorious Blinding Light. It was Jeff France. No, No, No. That look would NOT work for the Worth line. McCartney would have to start over. France kicked the easel over with his pearly white kicks and left with a 5-2-0 lead over the two Jasons.

    Next up was Voorhees and team Rawlings.

    The three product managers sat at attention and waited.

    Voorhees began to draw a monster, wait a dragon, with a growth coming off of his arm. But the dragon wasn't fierce enough for the Rawlings guys. More fire they said. Done. Now the spikes. Make them spikier, and add some Cool Flo vents to the dragon. Fine... But wait, is that leather scale the right shade of brown? This was leaving no doubt at all that Voorhees had, in fact, created a fierce looking dragon, Trogdor, with his fierce looking growth, Kuato, that the Rawlings team desired.

    McCartney was frightened. Enough to give up 3 points. But then...

    CRACK. another blinding light came in. This is NOT the look for the Rawlings brand. And with 4 kicks to the head and two to the now wobbly easel, the K Swisses had spoken.

    Both wounded combatants left the game to return to their workstations and the direction was given. Jeff France has won the fight, 12-3-3 over both Jasons.

    France advances to meet the winner of our next battle,

    Jeff "Schizo Frantic" France versus Andy "Tower of Power" Pawlowski

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