Contest 1v1 Matchup Derp

Hey there everyone, just a quick apology from us staff. Somewhere in this round, we missed out a few matchups in the Loser's bracket. Those matchups have now been posted, but we apologize for missing them earlier. Won't happen again, I swear!

In the meantime, Round 4 will be slightly delayed to give these six players enough time to finish their matches before it begins. The delay shouldn't be too long, but the players have until Friday at 11:59pm CST until they are automatically moved on to the next round. For those unaffected by this mix up, your matchups should be organized by the end of the day.

Again, our apologies!
-The Staff

 

 

Oh dear oh dear.

 

Oh dear oh dear.

 

No worries (because I wasn't affected)

 

Sooooooooo I can still play my match up saturday rightae

I alfreadyad talkedffd to mafy guyf

 

The staff here is just incompetent!

 

The staff here is just incompetent!

But you're the admi-

Never mind.

 

The staff here is just incompetent!

I know that "is" works, "are" works as well. Correct?

I think it should be "are"

 

I know that "is" works, "are" works as well. Correct?

I think it should be "are"

The staves here are just incompetent.

 

The staves here are just incompetent.

Staff is singular in that there is one staff, but there are multiple members (usually) within a staff. Therefore, when referring to multiple members of a staff, but using the word staff, my thinking is that it would be more correct to use the staff are blah blah blah.

Also, fuck your staves, Gandolf has a sword.

 

Staff is singular in that there is one staff, but there are multiple members (usually) within a staff. Therefore, when referring to multiple members of a staff, but using the word staff, my thinking is that it would be more correct to use the staff are blah blah blah.

Also, fuck your staves, Gandolf has a sword.

Isn't it Gandalf?

 

Isn't it Gandalf?

No.

 

No.

Umm..it actually is...can anybody back me up here?

 

Umm..it actually is...can anybody back me up here?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gandolf

Definition 5.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gandolf

Definition 5.

But that's the Urban Dictionary...my turn: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf
And: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000143/

 

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

 

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

So true. At first I quoted from Wikipedia and then thought that it wasn't very reliable so I added IMDB too. Still, that might not be very reliable either

 

"The staff" refers to a group of people. Words that refer to a group of people are singular, and thus required the singular form, "is".

Similar words: Group, crowd, team, etc.
Thus, these two sentences are similarly correct in grammar:

"The crowd is restless."​

"The staff is incompetent."​

These sentences are similarly incorrect in grammar:

"The team are bad."​

"The staff are incompetent."​

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Don't start something you can't finish

 

"The staff" refers to a group of people. Words that refer to a group of people are singular, and thus required the singular form, "is".

Similar words: Group, crowd, team, etc.

These sentences are similarly incorrect in grammar:

"The team are bad."​

"The staff are incompetent."​

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Don't start something you can't finish

Well said. They take the singular verb because in technical terms they are called 'singular entities'. Other examples include 'Food' and 'Water' etc.