Calvinball 2019 Official Thread

[josh]

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:
Spreadsheet

Prizes:
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 dog

Notes:
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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[mrhappy_onabike]

You may have to take a detour to get your free espresso

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[sszibler]

SiberHobbes has found a warm drawer for the night at what one employee calls “The Best Bike Shop in the City!” But Hobbes doesn’t like hibernating for too long, he prefers being out and about, so someone rescue him from movie night (“Edge of Tomorrow”) soon!

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[drevil]

sszibler;186463 wrote:

siberhobbes has found a warm drawer for the night at what one employee calls “the best bike shop in the city!” but hobbes doesn’t like hibernating for too long, he prefers being out and about, so someone rescue him from movie night (“edge of tomorrow”) soon!

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matt & steve!!!!

[josh]

Ok I wanted to get in on the action. Figured I’d stop by Detour and see if the Calvinball (Friendshipball? Need to track the finds again) was still there, because I need more coffee rides. It’s right next door to the notorious Darna Lounge. No one claimed it yesterday, so I enjoyed my espresso courtesy of SteveO/MrHappy.

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I spent some time trying to get the Calvinball #dangerpanda down (dropping the Calvinball at least once) with no success, and my hands were getting cold so I gave up. This is the best you’ll get.

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I believe I qualify for double points as a first-time finder.

Proposed ordinance: If you hide the Calvinball at a brewery, then you receive 2 bonus points.

[josh]

Hobbesball has been retrieved. Didn’t want it stuck there too long.

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[sszibler]

@josh 186517 wrote:

Hobbesball has been retrieved. Didn’t want it stuck there too long.

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Him! He looks good now. There’s still a friendship CB out there for like over a week.

[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 186577 wrote:

Him! He looks good now. There’s still a friendship CB out there for like over a week.

Perhaps it’s time to give some extra hints on exactly where it is?

[sszibler]

You don’t recognize the neon sign? If you go to the coordinates mentioned, it would be difficult to miss. What store has a huge W?

[josh]

One Calvinball has been hidden:

You received a “Telegraph” of the Calvinball’s location at the Entrance to Hell in Alexandria.

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[Thor]

Hobbes has been frolicking around the alleys of Old Town, found some left-over Heineken and is now sleeping off the buzz in a miniature Siberian forest, but don’t make him sleep there all night!!!

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[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 186598 wrote:

Perhaps it’s time to give some extra hints on exactly where it is?

Oh, c’mon! I live way over in Virginia, have no clue about these neighborhoods or establishments, and about 90 seconds of sleuthing was all it took to figure this out.

[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 186600 wrote:

You don’t recognize the neon sign? If you go to the coordinates mentioned, it would be difficult to miss. What store has a huge W?

Nope, don’t recognize any of it. Then again, I rarely go to that area. And when I do, I’m focused on finding Friendship Heights, not on what stores may be in the area. Plus, as I recall, you said it was in Friendship Park, a location that doesn’t exist on Google maps. At a guess, I would have assumed it was a park.

But I’m not your target audience anyway. I get involved in Freezing Saddles for four reasons:

1. To motivate myself to get out for at least a short ride every day.
2. To motivate myself to commute by bike more often.
3. To motivate myself to bike rather than taking Uber for errands.
4. To meet people.

Since riding in my limited spare time is not one of my goals, I have only a passing interest in Calvinball. If I needed to go there for some other reason, and had some free time, I’d look. If we’re talking about a 10-mile ride to look for it, I’m unlikely to do so.

[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 186633 wrote:

Oh, c’mon! I live way over in Virginia, have no clue about these neighborhoods or establishments, and about 90 seconds of sleuthing was all it took to figure this out.

I wasn’t looking for it. I was merely commenting that if it had been there for a week, it was probably difficult to find.

I think Szibler is under the impression that I go there often, because we’ve had a couple of flybys there. I don’t. I was there those times because I couldn’t take my own bike, and had to use a Jump. And I was blindly following Google maps to Friendship Heights, because that is as far as I’m allowed to take a Jump.

[josh]

Sszibler’s lost Calvinball:
Presumably somewhere near the Friendship Heights Whole Foods, next to Friendship Heights Park. W sign shown on Street View here. I don’t know the area well enough for the last three photos to help without being there in person, but if that aids anyone else, please go retrieve it.

I’m putting out a 3x points bounty on this.

[sszibler]

@cvcalhoun 186638 wrote:

Nope, don’t recognize any of it. Then again, I rarely go to that area. And when I do, I’m focused on finding Friendship Heights, not on what stores may be in the area. Plus, as I recall, you said it was in Friendship Park, a location that doesn’t exist on Google maps. At a guess, I would have assumed it was a park.

But I’m not your target audience anyway. I get involved in Freezing Saddles for four reasons:

1. To motivate myself to get out for at least a short ride every day.
2. To motivate myself to commute by bike more often.
3. To motivate myself to bike rather than taking Uber for errands.
4. To meet people.

Since riding in my limited spare time is not one of my goals, I have only a passing interest in Calvinball. If I needed to go there for some other reason, and had some free time, I’d look. If we’re talking about a 10-mile ride to look for it, I’m unlikely to do so.

I thought I saw you bemoaning the fact that there were no Calvin Balls near you, which is why I braved the snow and windchill to hide it there. I figured if it wasn’t at your exact location the Metro could help with its wonderful (kidding) elevators. You were sick at that time, so it would have been easy to miss.

Possibly Steve Mitchell will get it since he lives right there.

The idea was to put it near Friendship themes since it’s the Friendship Calvin Ball.

The original post was on page 13, #130, but someone else pretty much just spelled it out. The pictures will help.

If you do a google maps search for Friendship Heights Park, it will come right up. Without the search you have to go in very close, which might be the case if you were looking for Friendship Blvd.

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