by The NextRound Team

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve updated all you faithful out there. For that we apologize. We know you’re aware of how busy we’ve been with the site overhaul, but still, it’s been pretty shitty of us to deprive you of Team Cool & Tough exploits for a couple of months. For that we sincerely apologize. Here’s a gratuitous picture of Slutty Miss USA to help make up for it.

The NextRound Update:

The site’s back in full working order. The new team (multi-user) pages are functioning smoothly. If anyone has any issues or sees a bug, please email us at info@nextround.net and we’ll work to get it fixed ASAP.

We still consider NextRound.net (the team page portion) to be in BETA, meaning it’s not a finished product. We will continue to update, enhance, and streamline for many months. Small issues may spring up here or there, but we’ll get them resolved. We know all our users are here because they see the importance in what we’re trying to accomplish. Besides, wouldn’t you rather be supporting a start-up rather than some multi-national conglomerate who’s probably responsible for global warming? Thought so.

StillAwesome.com has been a big hit so far. Under the new format–as you may have noticed–content is coming at a much faster clip, is far more organized, and now supports comments. We will continue to upgrade this as well. Not only do we plan to have better share, print, and other capabilities, we also have a few tricks up our sleeves to make Stillawesome.com even more increasingly awesome in the future. Shocking, we know. Feel free to take a second to shovel your jaw up off the floor.

And now for the indefensible shameless self promotion part:

1) For all of you out there that check out StillAwesome.com regularly but don’t have a team page formed, we highly recommend you look into it. It’s easy to set up and provides a really convenient and private place for you and your friends to communicate and plan stuff. Pretty soon we’ll have implemented upgraded email options for when new events or polls or board items are added to a team page, so that’s more of a bonus. Team pages are only going to get better, so you should probably get in early so you can look all boss and smart around the late entrants.

2) As you may have noticed, we now feature Bodog ads on the site. We somehow Forrest Gumped our way past their stringent filtering process (mainly from being all cool and tough over email) and are now part of their affiliate program. We can’t even put into words how kick ass this is. Bodog is far and away or favorite online gambling site, which is quite a testament considering there’s been plenty of trial and error on our part. So if you’ve never rolled on the NBA Playoffs before, need to find a new place to get your football action before the season starts, aren’t really pleased with your current service, or just want to show your homies at NextRound some love, set up a Bodog account through our links. You won’t regret it.

3) The Google ads have been pretty relevant lately, except for one we saw that featured a show on Lifetime and one advertising a new show on CBS about Pirates. We felt these missed our demo by a little bit. Either way, if something looks cool, check it out. Each time helps contribute to the site. And if you’re into Pirates, disregard the above.

4) Word of mouth is still our good buddy and we’ll buy him a beer whenever we see him. Don’t hesitate to spread the word, post a link to our content on a message board, or just annoy the shit out of everyone you know telling them about the site. Any PR is good PR as far as we’re concerned. Just spell our names right. Except for Booth; he often prefers “Boof” or “Tubbs”.

That’s it. Not too painful. With a little help, we can really do wonders for people who already have friends.

And now what you’ve really been waiting for…

The Team Cool & Tough Update:

Every month we highlight the latest happenings of everyone’s favorite crew of socially challenged twentysomething dudes. In quasi-chronological order, here are things that went down last month (as logged on Team Cool & Tough’s team page on NextRound).

• Beer Golf apparently happened one weekend in Atlanta. But many details are blurry as all involved managed to either time travel through the event or suffer from temporary amnesia.

• Planning for Beer Golf involved: 1) Strategizing over how to avoid getting maced this time around, 2) Old Man S-Mac debating whether his balls were just too damn old to handle the event, 3) Whether JB went to night school and got his PHD without telling anyone, and 4) What is and isn’t acceptable in the realms of female hygiene in the year 2007.

• Post-Beer Golf Analysis involved: 1) Long winded debates over whether Team D Knife, Team Plow Session, or Team C— Punchers won the tournament, 2) Whether trying to work in a double date during Beer Golf is acceptable behavior, 3) A unanimous ruling that condoms are still for virgins, 4) Applauding the chicks who relentlessly pelted Booth with peanuts at one of the bars, and 5) Voting for the ‘Most Awesome Rape Face After 15 Beers’ Award ending in multiple draws.

• Booth took a team of Jersey hooligans to Charleston for a high school reunion. The city almost went down in flames when they realized there was no skeeball to be found in South Carolina.

• All members of Team Cool & Tough confirmed that Maxim’s Top 10 Hottest Chicks list is a travesty. We proceeded to put together our own list not limited to just actresses and pop singers. Victoria Secret models, Playboy models, and hardcore porn stars were all more than welcome on our list. It was weird when Beezer cast a ballot for Brady Quinn, though.

• Talk of Poker on StillAwesome.com was not well received. Booth contemplated offing himself.

• Steve Irony informed us all of porn star to-be Katee Holmes and how transcendent her plan to lose her virginity in her first “movie” is for the porn industry. He proceeded to inform us that chicks like this “are what put my feet on the carpet every morning.” How do you not love this guy?

• And finally–most importantly–Toast found the story behind the ‘Wade Boggs Drank 63 Beers on a Cross Country Flight’ legend. Needless to say it was everything we all thought it would be and more. We now worship Wade Boggs and are looking to have this story bound into some sort of Torah-like fashion.

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