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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FFG found the CalvinBall in plain sight at coffee…
Beware Giraffey wants to go to Happy Hour!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Giraffey continues to have
very exciting adventures! After FFG found him at HDCC he was persuaded to take it to a “very special place” where it would find love and devotion! So FFG and Giraffey flew around DC, visiting even as the snow continued to fall! FFG soon got so tired he could not make it to the “very special place”! Giraffey made it to WTFCC this morning! I asked if FFG would be able to make it to the “very special place” today but he said he could not! So I put Giraffey on the back of my bike and we explored more places! We ride along with My Dear Watson…and then made his way to Velo and the Hains Point 100 Happy Hour…he had a bit of beer and some of Saul’s pie! Knowing that after Happy Hour I would not be able to get Giraffey to his “very special place” I passed him on to Boomer who promised to get him to his “very special place” and so he did!
Not far off the WO&D and Shreve Rd…near Avon lane!
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Calvinball acquired! Giraffey met a new friend, om nom nom all the yummies, and a bee practiced being a seal.
Giraffey persuaded me to take him on a special tour today. Adventure photos forthcoming.Giraffey wanted to visit the Air & Space museum to get some new swag for the Calvinball.
Giraffey has to wear his PPE when he went into the construction zone!Giraffey is safely tucked away for the evening in a Smithsonian bag near the new bike lockers at the EFC metro station and the WOD. Find him soon for some new swag!
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Was there a stuffed animal fight to get it back? https://youtu.be/8fw6mqYB4f4
Sort of. I got lectured about the perils of littering.
and enjoyed adding the new swag 
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