This is the first of many, many monthly updates. With these updates we plan to cover where the site stands, initiatives we’re taking, feedback we’ve received, issues we’re working on, and the current status of Team Cool & Tough (funny crap we’ve discussed, if anyone has knocked up their girlfriend, the last person to pee a sofa, etc.). The update will kind of be like the site’s monthly blog, except we don’t want to call it a blog, and we don’t want to be known as bloggers. Blogging sounds too much like pooping as far as we’re concerned.

The NextRound.net Update:

Well, we officially went “live” in December (we’re not great with the tech jargon, so please excuse us). Currently we have friends and relatives and friends of relatives on the site. Since we plan to keep the site pretty fluid, we’ll constantly be introducing updates as well as doing some tweaking. Expect the site to become exponentially awesomer as time moves on.

Feedback on the StillAwesome content has been good so far and we plan to keep churning it out. There will be new contributors and heavier volume soon, so keep your eye out. Reader’s ideas and suggestions are welcome, so contact us with any you may have.

We are officially beginning our “marketing push” (not so comfortable with the business jargon either), which Booth is in charge of. The entire team is on the edge of their seats waiting for Booth’s first brilliant marketing campaign idea. We’re pretty sure it will involve us standing on street corners in costumes handing out flyers with NextRound.net written on them.

But seriously, we have a plan and intend to expand a lot over the next year. Word of mouth is our best friend, so if you’re reading this and like the site, or you’re reading this and like the articles, or you’re reading this and think we suck and just want to let your friends know how much we suck, email any and everyone you know and tell them to check the site out. If you send us an email and let us know you’ve mentioned the site to a few people, we’ll send you a NextRound.net Koozie. So there’s a little incentive. What? You don’t drink beer? You don’t like koozies? We all win here.

As far as technical issues, we have a few small ones we’re currently working on (an issue with hotmail sucking and an issue with our system time thinking we all should live in the future). Nothing too major, but they’ll be fixed soon.

So that pretty much wraps up where NextRound.net is after close to a month of functionality. We’ve weathered through ‘06, the holidays, and some growing pains. We’re ready to start our period of utter domination. Keep checking in. And Stay Alert.

Now to what really matters…

The Team Cool & Tough Update:

Every month we’ll highlight the latest happenings of everyone’s favorite crew of socially challenged twentysomething dudes.

In no particular order, things that went down last month:

• Proto–in a Costanza-esque maneuver–decided he would no longer go by any of his many nicknames and would instead be known as Candle Man. Yeah, you read that right. He delivered it with this line: “Call me Candle Man, simply because I am on fire.” The weird part is that it has started to stick even though creating your own nickname goes against every sort of guy protocol.

• JB sat next to Gary Sinise on a plane. It turned out to be a memorable experience. Here’s JB’s breakdown of what went down:

“So I’m rolling 1st class on the way to Tampa for my annual holiday debacle with the fam. Quick trip: 4 days. Just enough time for my dad to realize that an intervention is necessary, but not enough time for him to properly organize one. Works every time.

“Well anyway, halfway through the flight I realize that the guy sitting next to me reading the CSI NY script is none other than Gary Sinise. So we end up chatting about which one of us would pulverize the slutty Miss USA more over a few glasses of White Zin. He quickly wins the argument by reminding me that he’s famous and I’m not and that I will never meet any Miss USA ever.

“Then I told him about NextRound.net and asked if he’d be game to push for a little ‘product placement’ in an upcoming CSI episode, you know to help get the word out. He gave me his email and said that he’d work on it. We shall see, but I’m not holding my breath. The email address was Lt Dan@fuckoff.com, which sounds a little suspect to me.

“I also thanked him for not shitting on me like most celebs do when they meet me. Told him all about how Shaq, Jay Mohr, and Emmitt Smith still own me to this day. He told me he hated Emmitt too and thought that he looked like a big queer on that dancing show. I said yea, me too.”

• Speaking of the slutty Miss USA, all of Team C&T really enjoyed her story last month. We especially liked the idea of some chick being decrowned for being too much of a skeezy lush. After talking her up these shots have become real crowd pleasers.

• Team C&T had a long and heated debate over whether “Fergalicious” is the greatest song of all time.

• In a disappointing turn of events, the number of wingmen continues to dwindle as one more member got engaged. We’re all keeping our fingers crossed that one solid night with a hooker will either change Toast’s mind or shame him out of going through with the wedding.

• Steve Irony succeeded in not re-impregnating his wife over the holidays. A real triumph for all. He may even make it to Vegas this year since there will be no new diapers to change in his house.

• On a sadder note, Steve Irony’s porn site postings have dwindled in volume over the last few weeks. We’re all hoping the vasectomy he “may or may not have had” hasn’t reduced his appetite for girl on girl action.

• Team C&T has decided on a March Vegas date. Should be another good time. We definitely plan on keeping a log of all the weird crap that goes down on the trip and do an in depth Vegas update when we get back.

• T-Bone introduced us to the YouTube Juggernaut clip and we’re all better for it.

• And last but not least, Booth (aka Tubbs) is still homeless, jobless, and low on favorable attributes. In even more Costanza-esque fashion, he has begun to refer to ‘07 as “The Year of Booth.” T-Bone correctly pointed out he needs to jump on those Frolf lessons soon. To his credit, Booth’s bowl picks have performed pretty well so far, so maybe there is something to this whole “Year of Booth” thing. We’re all thinking best case scenario this site does well and this can become the job he’s always dreamed of underachieving at.

The CEO is excited that the results of Booth’s marketing campaign will really come to fruition over the next few months. Booth already implemented a huge marketing initiative when he changed his online poker handle to “NextRound.net.” World domination here we come.�

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