Calvinball 2019 Official Thread
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Welcome to Calvinball, where the rules are constantly made up and the points don’t matter!
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I am the new Tim the Enchanter, also known as Bruce the Sleepy — keeper of the scores and arbiter of the rules. I will begin the game by hiding the Calvinball and posting here.
Initial Rules:
Your quest is to seek thee the gameball, hidden secretly amongst the cycling trails inside the beltway (but not to be found in any federal park).
Seek the game ball. Maketh up a new ordinance for the game. Hide the sacred ball. Post your new ordinance along with guidance on how those who follow can seek the gameball. Thou shall find, hide and post within the same hours 24.
For finding the gameball, ye shall be awarded 5 points, less a point for each day that passeth before the gameball is once again uncovered.
Ye may find the gameball but once during each rotation of the Earth. Ye may possess the gameball but once every other turn.
If your new ordinance nets three likes, ye shall likewise be award points equaling five and your ordinance shall be implemented as law of the game, which all who play must loyally adhere.
This be not organized competition. This be Calvinball. New rules are obliged to follow the spirit of Saint Calvin and Saint Hobbes. New ordinances shall not thee be bills of attainder but must generally apply to all fools of venture into our midst. New ordinances cannot benefit the ordinance’s scribe uniquely. New ordinances should make the court jester smile upon thee, and shall not place any in existential peril.
If a new ordinance shall contravene an old ordinance, the ordinance with highest net likes shall be declared the law.
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Ordinances that matter:
- 3 points for pic of Calvinball balanced on head
- 2 points for on-site consumption
- 10 points for wearing the friendship bracelet to the closing happy hour (hunt me down to show me)
Ephemeral Ordinances and ones that don’t matter:
- Staying in DC
- Bringing it back to VA
- Freeing Hobbes
- Friendshipball is called the friendshipball
- Nepotismball’s band should be worn
Scores:
SpreadsheetPrizes:
Those who play shall seek their reward as follows:
• Rosalyn Award :: The player with the ordinance that has acquired the most net likes at the time of the next find
• Miss Wormwood Award :: The player with the most implemented ordinances
• Spaceman Spiff Award :: Best Calvinball
• Calvin Award :: Tim’s Award of Mystery (oooooooooohhh)
• Hobbes Award :: The Hobbes Prize is to be awarded to the person whom played but scored the least amount of points.
• Susie Award :: Most swag points
• Lost Dog Rescue Award :: Best picture of your dogNotes:
Consider Thee Calvinball a Hot-potatoe game – not a hide-and-seek game. This be not geocaching. More, we wish the Calvinball attain perpetual motion, constantly moving, from pilgrim to pilgrim. (Translation: don’t make your hides hard or your rules constraining. The more silliness the better)
This is not a winner take all game — “The points don’t matter”Thanks to rcannon100 for moderating last year’s Calvinball game and providing a template for this thread.
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@LhasaCM 186289 wrote:
Unless something has happened more recently and not yet reported – Hobbes (post-transmogrification) was hidden by me/M, and then found and hidden again earlier today by Erikaceae. New hiding spot at the previous post in this thread
I found one.
Note to self: don’t try to do standing no-hands with Bar Mitts, then grab the brake when you get crooked.
@drevil 186294 wrote:
I found one.
Note to self: don’t try to do standing no-hands with Bar Mitts, then grab the brake when you get crooked.
Didn’t you read the warning inside the Bar Mitts to not ride without hands? But you get London Bridges points, so there’s a silver lining.
@drevil 186294 wrote:
I found one.
Note to self: don’t try to do standing no-hands with Bar Mitts, then grab the brake when you get crooked.
You better not have hurt Hobbes [emoji35][emoji197]
(Or yourself… Team 17 needs you! )
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@Emm 186297 wrote:
You better not have hurt Hobbes [emoji35][emoji197]
(Or yourself… Team 17 needs you! )
Fret not, the Siberian is injury free. As for me, I have a skinned elbow and sore knee.
The plethora of goodies inside! I’ll refill with other things and soon go for a ride.
The current Hobbs Ball location is where the Campus Drive trolls live underneath a bridge along the Northeast Branch Trail:
https://vimeo.com/312891941
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@drevil 186308 wrote:
The current Hobbs Ball location is where the Paint Branch Avenue trolls live along the Northeast Branch Trail:
https://vimeo.com/312891941
[video=vimeo;312891941]https://vimeo.com/312891941[/video]That video sure upped the game!! Damn
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@drevil 186308 wrote:
The current Hobbs Ball location is where the Campus Drive trolls live underneath a bridge along the Northeast Branch Trail:
This pic has a creepy Blair Witch Project feel to it. We all know how that ended up.
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Just checked, and Hobbs still awaits rescue in College Park
Rating: 7/10 at night in bike shoes and booties, even with cleat covers! Missed it on the way north and found another one of your tracks, which was better. Heading home to treat my wounds. Don’t know how you got a bike up there! If I’d know rock climbing skills were important . . .
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@sszibler 186356 wrote:
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Rating: 7/10 at night in bike shoes and booties, even with cleat covers! Missed it on the way north and found another one of your tracks, which was better. Heading home to treat my wounds. Don’t know how you got a bike up there! If I’d know rock climbing skills were important . . .
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Doh! You ok? Nice work
I left something in there that would be good for your fingers! Show us
@drevil 186361 wrote:
Doh! You ok? Nice work
I left something in there that would be good for your fingers! Show us
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It’s almost not bad enough to use the Bacon Strips. I may tomorrow since I’ll be working in a hospital environment.
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