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As if on cue, four people declared their candidacy to AWTeen Governor yesterday, two days less than a month until the new governor takes office. Some of the candidates came as a surprise to many, and others said that they would run only if Mark decided not to. Mark has not yet officially announced intentions to run, however it is predicted that he will.

Of course, GC declared that he would be running, which came as no surprise to most people. He only outlined a short and vague platform in his announcement, but one that would come with big changes to AWTeen nonetheless. The biggest change GC wishes to make for the world is a schedule of AWTeen events, as opposed to the random but successful events that the current Governor, Strike Rapier, runs. GC also wants a leadership council to vote on things such as banning, day and night cycles, etc. He claims that this will help give the users representation in AWTeen Government. Despite these intentions, the feedback in GC's announcement thread was either negative or off topic, as he holds a very bad image with most people in the community.

GC was not the first to announce his intentions to run, however. GSK started the avalanche of intent to run threads when he announced that he would be seeking election. GSK plans to "continue where Strike left off". The first change to the world that he mentioned would be the reversal of Strike Rapier's recent decision to change the name of the Just Ask Me Guides to the AWTeen GZKeepers. He says that unlike some other candidates, he would not just bring in a completely new organization to the world or fire everyone who is already staff. Overall, he claims that he wants to turn AWTeen into a place for teens to chat, build, and hangout.

Another candidate who declared candidacy shortly after GC and GSK was Chorus Line. The serious part of her announcement was short and sweet. Like Strike Rapier when he was running for Governor four months ago, she wants to stop the hindering of the world's staff by politics or personal opinions. Getting users of AWTeen more representation in the government is also a large part of her plan. Like GC, she wants a council of caretakers to make decisions for the world, or a "Queen's Court", as she calls it. Responses to her in the thread of her announcement were mostly focused on how funny it would be to have Chorus Line as Governor, although Asuran has given Chorus Line backing in the thread.

Last but not least, Gnu32 announced that he would be running for Governor too, or at least if Strike Rapier does not attempt to get re-election. He offers many of the same ideas as Mark did four months ago, including the ever popular "place a permanent ban on GC", claiming that this would be a decision "making AWTeen better". He also claimed that GC got AWTeen into the "shithole" that Strike got it out of. In his policies, he offers a Chuck Norris style of administration, promising to roundhouse kick anyone who disobeys his rules.

No matter who comes out on top, announced that they will be running next, or whatever happens in this election, it is sure to be an exciting one.

Note: The following post was written by Matthew, not Brant.

Following the post by Dr. SquaiLboonT on the AWTeen forums that the world would be handed over to Flagg and the Peacekeepers, discussion quickly moved to the reason behind this. While Boont and Digigurl would not provide any (real) information as to the reason behind this decision, many of the users of AWTeen, and people who were not users, talked about the reasons. There were disagreements. Some people thought that Boont and Digi were completely in the right for doing this. Gnu summed it up in his post with the following statement.

Cause really, if there's half the world abusing the volunteers on the team, people bickering in the background about changing the way they run things and one really persistent little muck-racker, then there's not much point to providing these services anymore, no?

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