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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Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.
@LhasaCM 189011 wrote:
Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.
I missed it all together! Darn!
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@LhasaCM 189011 wrote:
Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.
I almost looked harder, but then wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with them if it was over . . . then I realized there was nothing really preventing us from continuing to at least next week. I also realized that I accidentally took an extra thing from the bag that I forgot to put back in!
So, if anyone wants to continue . . . I have a great, new hiding place idea!
@LhasaCM 189245 wrote:
Quick clarification: the “Owney-took-Hobbes-place” ball was found by several at FSLNHPP, but went unclaimed. (I wholeheartedly accept defeat, but prefer to lose with accuracy.)
BUT, did any Calvin Ball players find it . . . ?
There were a couple of high mileage FS riders who told me they just didn’t understand Calvin Ball, so I’d deem them foreigners and unqualified to assume possession without guidance.
@sszibler 189288 wrote:
BUT, did any Calvin Ball players find it . . . ?
There were a couple of high mileage FS riders who told me they just didn’t understand Calvin Ball, so I’d deem them foreigners and unqualified to assume possession without guidance.
Aren’t we all Calvin Ball players given the opportunity? If you had asked me in early January if I would be participating in this year’s game, I would’ve said “hell no – I don’t have time to keep track of any of this!” Yet here I am – thanks to Emm for the cute tiger she hid, Steve O for abandoning him in the wylds of Marry-lande, and school for having that random Friday off.
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