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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@sszibler 186674 wrote:
Carol tried really hard to find it tonight – we’ve been texting back and forth and either Steve M. got it or some lowlife stole a bunch of handmade friendship bracelets
I propose 2 points for Carol for going above and beyond her normal routine. She was glad to get some extra miles for her team.
I definitely looked! I even had a couple of people come by and try to help. Of course, I told them I was looking for a water bottle, not a Calvinball.
My only hope is that it was another Freezing Saddles participant, not a thief, who found it before me.
@reji 186664 wrote:
The Calvinball has been recharged and is now at the Falls Church Dominion Wine and Beer store.
I left it with Graham who was somewhat amused by our little game.
Visit the store and ask whoever is at the counter for the Calvinball. Make sure you look in the wallet before you leave because my proposed ordinance…. 5 points to whoever consumes the swag onsite and 10 points if it’s consumed with a nosh upstairs.
Mmmmm. Coffee stout.
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@SarahBee 186684 wrote:
Sszibler- I have been enjoying your crazy Calvinball antics, Siber-Hobbes side plots, obscure clues, and off the wall hiding places so much. Sir, if a person could embody a Calvinball, it would be you!
@Thor 186757 wrote:
Hey, I’ve got a bright idea! Pick up Hobbes and then bring him along to Team 10 Snow Patrol’s beer drinking extravaganza at New District Brewery!!! We’ll be there by 8 or come by Conte’s Old Town at 7:15 and ride over.
Sorry, Team 10’s beer drinking extravaganza is instead at 8pm on Friday.
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