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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[reji]

A Calvinball has been released into the wylde along ye WOD near Shreve. Find it and ye shall see and be seen.

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Proposed ordinance: Upon finding a Calvinball, the number of Calvinballs to be released in the wylde shall equal the number of BAFS participants (including slackers) who findyth the Calvinball

[SarahBee]

@reji 185186 wrote:

A Calvinball has been released into the wylde along ye WOD near Shreve. Find it and ye shall see and be seen.

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Proposed ordinance: Upon finding a Calvinball, the number of Calvinballs to be released in the wylde shall equal the number of BAFS participants (including slackers) who findyth the Calvinball

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!!!! The excitement might just undo me!!!!!!

[rcannon100]

@reji 185186 wrote:

Proposed ordinance: Upon finding a Calvinball, the number of Calvinballs to be released in the wylde shall equal the number of BAFS participants (including slackers) who findyth the Calvinball

Yay lets make Bruce the Sleepy get an advanced degree in accounting!

[Emm]

Calvinball #1 obtained. Delicious oatmeal raisin cookie (my favorite!) from Best Buns has been consumed. I hadn’t had lunch yet so this was perfect.

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[Steve O]

@Emm 185194 wrote:

Calvinball #1 obtained. Delicious oatmeal raisin cookie (my favorite!) from Best Buns has been consumed. I hadn’t had lunch yet so this was perfect.

Time and motion specialists can now determine how long it takes for Emm to consume an oatmeal raisin cookie by noting the distance covered by the red car during this first bite

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[LhasaCM]

@Steve O 185206 wrote:

Time and motion specialists can now determine how long it takes for Emm to consume an oatmeal raisin cookie by noting the distance covered by the red car during this first bite

Not being too familiar with weekday traffic patterns at that location: what speed would it be reasonable to assume for such a calculation – 40mph?

[rcannon100]

Eating cookies (or drinking booze) from unmarked bags left covertly in parks by strangers using pseudonyms

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[sszibler]

@Steve O 185206 wrote:

Time and motion specialists can now determine how long it takes for Emm to consume an oatmeal raisin cookie by noting the distance covered by the red car during this first bite

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I was going to leave hot chocolate in mine, but decided if it took awhile our tiny neighborhood residents might find it first. Congrats! It’s all in the timing!

[cvcalhoun]

@rcannon100 185217 wrote:

Eating cookies (or drinking booze) from unmarked bags left covertly in parks by strangers using pseudonyms

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My First Freezing Saddles, I decided to go to the final Hains Point event. I told my wife I was going to meet a bunch of guys I didn’t know in a deserted park after dark. She just rolled her eyes at me.

For the record, I lived to tell the tale.

[SarahBee]

Second Calvinball acquired- hip hip hooray!!!!

[sszibler]

@SarahBee 185226 wrote:

Second Calvinball acquired- hip hip hooray!!!!

Gosh, I must have passed you. I think I looked under most of the power poles before 29 and slowed down for a lot along 4 mile run south of Columbia Pike (By then I was probably getting hypothermia because Shreve isn’t even that far south, right?). It was just too cold for me! Surprised at all the cyclists out tonight.

Don’t you have to make a bunch of them now?!

[Steve O]

@sszibler 185218 wrote:

I was going to leave hot chocolate in mine, but decided if it took awhile our tiny neighborhood residents might find it first. Congrats! It’s all in the timing!

It probably wouldn’t have been hot any more either.

[Sunyata]

@CBGanimal 185184 wrote:

Wait… Have I been sleeping under a rock somewhere? Did anyone else notice that beautiful Cutthroat lurking about there?

[SarahBee]

@sszibler 185234 wrote:

Gosh, I must have passed you. I think I looked under most of the power poles before 29 and slowed down for a lot along 4 mile run south of Columbia Pike (By then I was probably getting hypothermia because Shreve isn’t even that far south, right?). It was just too cold for me! Surprised at all the cyclists out tonight.

Don’t you have to make a bunch of them now?!

Shreve intersection is right before the big hill where you jog up to Virginia Lane on the WOD. Sounds like you were looking under a lot of poles. Not to worry, not only was the spot less than a mile from my house, but now I have the pleasure of making 3 more? 4 more? Rumor is that a few of them may cross state borders…

[Emm]

Oh no! Hobbes needs your help! He’s stuck under a piano looking thingy by a stinky water treatment plant. To rescue him and free the Calvinball, you must consume the beverage holding him hostage on site (a tool to do so is hidden within the package) and take a picture of said consumption that also shows you freed poor Hobbes.

I propose 3 bonus points for freeing Hobbes.

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