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MOD EDIT: As Croatoan and Pretentious Food before her, Wroughtirony has escaped the feeble bonds of this world and left us without a chairman. If one of you is willing to step up and coordinate this, please PM your friendly local mod. Without further ado, I present to you the rules for the longest running of goon cooking competitions, IRON CHEF SOMETHING AWFUL: What is ICSA? ICSA (Iron Chef Something Awful) is a series of online cooking contests loosely based on the Iron Chef TV series. In each contest, contestants must design and execute a menu based on whatever theme the chairman has chosen. The winner is picked in a poll that usually pops up a few days after the deadline, and REAL PRIZES usually get shipped out in a week or two. The chairman has nearly unlimited power to decide the rules of their specific event. Most entries are multi-course meals where the theme ingredient is featured in each course. How do I enter? Post a new thread for your entry, and link it in the chairman’s thread. A typical entry will include recipes and pictures of mise en place and major steps, but participants are encouraged to be creative in the way they present their entry as well as in their execution. A chairman may also add specific challenges or constraints in their ICSA regarding how they want you to enter. What about NICSA? NICSA (Newbie Iron Chef Something Awful) differs from ICSA in that it excludes ICSA winners, regulars and professional chefs from entering the final poll. (You can still enter if you work the line at Applebees.) The spirit of NICSA is to encourage as many people as possible to participate with a chance of winning, since the regular ICSA can be daunting due to the number of culinary heavy hitters who regularly enter. Am I a regular or a newbie? If you have to ask, you’re probably a newbie. If you're a novice cook, even if you've posted a bunch of times, go ahead and enter. Worst case scenario is you cook an awesome thing and don't get to be in the voting. PM your chairman if you are really on the fence. So how do these prizes work? That’s up to the chairman! Usually there’s a prize for first place, and the chairman may give prizes out to the top 3 or his or her personal favorite. Sometimes, particularly altruistic users may donate prizes to their picks as well. How often do they happen? It’s flexible, but generally every 4-6 weeks. We usually take the holidays (Nov-Jan) off. How do I host an ICSA? Shoot me a PM or post here! I will do my best to keep an updated list of who is up next. If we have to skip you for whatever reason, PM me or post when you're ready to host and I'll put you in the next slot. How soon after the last ICSA should I post my ICSA? You have two weeks from the end of the previous ICSA (close of voting) to post your ICSA or get in touch with me. After two weeks your slot goes to the next person and you go to the end of the line. I am an angry chairman and I think your rules are dumb! What rules, bro? It's your ICSA. PM me if you have questions. POST YOUR ENTRIES ON THE WIKI! 
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Past N/ICSAs: Please help me correct this list and let me know via PM which contests you have hosted. Links are appreciated but not necessary. ICSA 001: Eggs ICSA 002: Tomato ICSA 003: Squash ICSA 004: Beans ICSA 005: Cookies ICSA 006: Budget Battle ICSA 007: Bacon ICSA 008: Seafood ICSA 009: Coconut ICSA 010: Avocado ICSA 011: Mushroom ICSA 012: Melon ICSA 013: Grilling ICSA 014: Pumpkin ICSA 015: Cheese ICSA 016: Alcohol ICSA 017: Soy ICSA 018: Cucumber ICSA 019: Ginger ICSA 020: Minimalism ICSA 021: Onion ICSA 022: Coffee ICSA 023: REMOVED BY ADMINS ICSA 024: Ancient Foods ICSA 025: Citrus ICSA 026: Multi-Week Single Dish Battle ICSA 027: Cumin ICSA 028: Balsamic Battle ICSA 029: Coriander/Cilantro ICSA 030: Garlic ICSA 031: Fall Fruits ICSA 032: Offal ICSA 033: Buttermilk ICSA 034: Peanut Butter ICSA 035: Soul Food ICSA 036: pr0k: Chiles ICSA 037: Oats ICSA 038: Rice ICSA 039: Potatoes ICSA 040: Wroughtirony: Preserved food ICSA 041: Corn ICSA 042: Noodles ICSA 043: Cherries ICSA 044: Street Food ICSA 045: Season's Feedings [02/11] ICSA 046: Candy [04/11] ICSA 047: Milk [07/11] ICSA 049: Chopped! [09/11] ICSA 049: BATTLE EFFORT [10/11] ICSA 50: Fluffy Bunnies: Would You Like Fries With That, Sir? [01/12] ICSA 51: Plastic Jesus: Vanilla [05/12] ICSA 52: Casu Marzu: Mustard [08/12] ICSA 53: Spam ICSA 54: Fluffy Bunnies: Lunchbox ICSA 55: King Hotpants: ???? ICSA 56: dino.: Vegan ICSA 57: bartolimu: Undiscovered Country ICSA 58: Toast Cheese Redux ICSA 59: Never happened. For whatever reason we skipped from 58 to 60. ICSA 60: Mr Wiggles SIX INCH FISH ICSA 61: dino. Mixed Rice (Kalantha Saadam) ICSA 62: toplitzin ICSA 63: The Best Thing You've Never Tasted (Hosted by Gourd of Taste) ICSA 64: Breaking Bread (Hosted by Scientastic) ICSA 65: Sesame (Hosted by Drink and Fight) ICSA 66: 'Round The World (Hosted by PDP-1) ICSA 67: Chili (Hosted by Liquid Communism) ICSA 68: (Hosted by Liquid Communism) NICSA 1: Comfort Food NICSA 2: Sandwiches NICSA 3: Breakfast NICSA 4: Soup [12/10] NICSA 5: Christmas Desserts [03/11] NICSA 6 Fluffy Bunnies: Cook For Others [07/12] NICSA 7: Ethanol [10/11] NICSA 8:Home Groan [01/12] NICSA 9: Overwined: Cast Iron Cookery (It doubles as a bludgeon!) NICSA 10: Fluffy Bunnies: Color NICSA 11: CzarChasm: ? NICSA 12: dino.: Vegan NICSA 13: PunkTaft: baking bad NICSA 14: Wroughtirony Noodle NICSA 15: Vegetable Melange NICSA 16: PIE (Hosted by Liquid Communism) NICSA 17: CRANBERRIES (Hosted by psychokitty) NICSA 18: 'Round The World (Hosted by PDP-1) NICSA 19: Picnic (Hosted by Liquid Communism) NICSA 20 (Hosted by Liquid Communism) Upcoming ICSA: NICSA 20 Upcoming NICSA: ICSA 68 Somebody fucked around with this message at Aug 27, 2018 around 07:52 |
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| # ? Nov 24, 2013 15:50 |
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I posted that I'd like to host one - either NICSA or ICSA, depending on need - whenever it's suitable.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2013 16:50 |
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I mentioned this to Wrought in PM's but I already did mine ICSA 58 (i believe) Cheese Redux... back in the summer. Y'all can stop "reminding" me to post an icsa. It's someone else's turn.
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I recall something about I was supposed to take over for azn if he/she never came back. Bit did they come back? Who makes the call?
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| # ? Jan 15, 2014 14:38 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I recall something about I was supposed to take over for azn if he/she never came back. Bit did they come back? Who makes the call? wrought is the new chairperson. she should. At this point I think whoever puts a thread up first should go next.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2014 21:25 |
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Okay, I'll put up a thread in the very near future. Iron Chef soon to come!
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| # ? Jan 16, 2014 05:11 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Okay, I'll put up a thread in the very near future. Iron Chef soon to come! Squashy has this one put together already and is posting today, do you want the next?
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| # ? Jan 16, 2014 20:08 |
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Yep, I'll take it.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2014 20:57 |
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I think we may have to start recycling some ideas... I thought of several good ideas that had already been done before. Granted, I've only been around for the second half or so, so I don't remember then all.
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Squashy Nipples posted:I think we may have to start recycling some ideas... I thought of several good ideas that had already been done before. Granted, I've only been around for the second half or so, so I don't remember then all. Battle : Breast-milk hasn't been taken yet.
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| # ? Jan 17, 2014 15:45 |
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Croatoan posted:Battle : Breast-milk hasn't been taken yet. ICSA 60: Placenta
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ICSA 61: hufu It was a scam, but I wish it was real.
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| # ? Jan 20, 2014 22:18 |
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Sign me up for an ICSA. I'm going to do the thing I mentioned in chat.
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| # ? Jan 25, 2014 14:40 |
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dino. posted:Sign me up for an ICSA. I'm going to do the thing I mentioned in chat. Done and done.
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| # ? Jan 25, 2014 15:31 |
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We're doing the NICSAs monthly, right? So mine would be in April? Also, is there sense in promoting this with GBS anymore now that it has turned into an abandoned ship full of cannibalistic rats floating adrift in the north sea?
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Vegetable Melange posted:We're doing the NICSAs monthly, right? So mine would be in April? Yes and no, unless there's a lot of disagreement re: GBS. I don't mind the idea of a GBS thread so much as I don't want to put in the effort to make one when it would probably attract more cannibalistic rats than good entries anyway. Any chairman who wants to promote their N/ICSA this way is of course still welcome to.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2014 03:31 |
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I'm certainly not going to troll GBS for contestants, once the voting is up I was planning on posting in GBS to get some voting traffic.
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I've been given the necessary permissions (i.e. my wife has said I can have some money to spend on prizes for people on the internet) to do an ICSA, so I'd like to run one. Preferably in March or April.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2014 00:45 |
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Looks like April if things go according to schedule.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2014 01:51 |
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Has the Happy Hat NICSA thread been posted yet?
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| # ? Feb 17, 2014 23:17 |
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-oops- next time!
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| # ? Feb 25, 2014 00:11 |
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Can I sign up to chair a ICSA without having entered one before? I've got an idea that i'd like to see some of y'all attack. May, likely, right?
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toplitzin posted:Can I sign up to chair a ICSA without having entered one before? You're on the list. Maybe enter one while you wait?
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Lessons Learned from ICSA 59:Squashy Nipples posted:I'm certainly not going to troll GBS for contestants, once the voting is up I was planning on posting in GBS to get some voting traffic. Don't do this. We gained no useful traffic from my post in GBS. Also, asking people to state how many times they had entered came off weird, and I wouldn't want it to skew people's votes, so I don't think we should do that again. My intention was to come up with some honorable mentions for newbies, but that didn't really work out well, either. We have the separate NICSA, that's plenty.
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Posted a new one.
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How long does one wait after voting ends of the previous ICSA to start the next one?
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| # ? Apr 9, 2014 13:07 |
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dino. posted:How long does one wait after voting ends of the previous ICSA to start the next one? No more than two weeks.
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I'll drop the NICSA before the end of the month, don't want too many people crossing wires over with Dino's jam.
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Does anyone have a link to ICSA 023? Also what happened to 59?
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Croatoan posted:Does anyone have a link to ICSA 023? Also what happened to 59? As far as I know, the idea behind 23 was an abomination, a crime against humanity so heinous that the only option was to remove all trace it ever happened so that our shame may remain unknown, unknowable. 59 was just a glitch- it never happened. For some reason we went right from 58 to 60.
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Wroughtirony posted:As far as I know, the idea behind 23 was an abomination, a crime against humanity so heinous that the only option was to remove all trace it ever happened so that our shame may remain unknown, unknowable. I think it was just earl grey. Not a big deal, really.
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ICSA: 62 coming June 1st!
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| # ? May 25, 2014 20:29 |
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ICSA 63 coming tonight or tomorrow, please hang onto yourselves, I am done waiting
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Gourd of Taste posted:ICSA 63 coming tonight or tomorrow, please hang onto yourselves, I am done waiting Can I let go yet? I've gone numb.
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Drink and Fight posted:Can I let go yet? I've gone numb. No keep hanging on, when have I ever just left you with no explanation
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| # ? Aug 15, 2014 20:34 |
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Okay you can let go now http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3658040
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| # ? Aug 15, 2014 21:01 |
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I'll take the next ICSA.
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I'd like to sign up to chair one as well.
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