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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[LeprosyStudyGroup]

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Calvinball is hidden.

I propose that those who select and wear one of Calvin’s friendship bracelets inside to the closing happy hour (or better yet forever and ever ��) get extra points (to be determined by the scorekeeper wizrd)

[reji]

@Steve O 185560 wrote:

Rumor has it that Mr. Happy Onabike has rescued Hobbes

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Dang it all to heck, Mr. Happy, you beat me by minutes!

[CBGanimal]

@Steve O 185560 wrote:

Rumor has it that Mr. Happy Onabike has rescued Hobbes

You must have been out early?! I road by around 845am but didn’t see it!

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[SarahBee]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 185562 wrote:

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Calvinball is hidden.

I propose that those who select and wear one of Calvin’s friendship bracelets inside to the closing happy hour (or better yet forever and ever ��) get extra points (to be determined by the scorekeeper wizrd)

Love the hiding spot!

[bmif]

@SarahBee 185570 wrote:

Love the hiding spot!

Also a fan.

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[reji]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 185562 wrote:

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Calvinball is hidden.

I propose that those who select and wear one of Calvin’s friendship bracelets inside to the closing happy hour (or better yet forever and ever ��) get extra points (to be determined by the scorekeeper wizrd)

Calvinball acquired. New location to be posted later

[reji]

Friendship Calvinball has been hidden in 4MR park. Look in the tree behind the mulch pile.
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Proposed ordinance: This shall be forever named the Friendship Calvinball

[mydear_watson]

CalvinBall II has been hidden!
Find it near the new bridge off the Holmes Run Trail.
For the person who finds it, post a picture of you using/wearing one of the contents!

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[mrhappy_onabike]

@CBGanimal 185564 wrote:

You must have been out early?! I road by around 845am but didn’t see it!

That was before me. You must have not looked carefully enough.

[mrhappy_onabike]

I rescueth Hobbes nigh this morning from alongside the Foure Mile Run
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Hark! I balanceth it on mine head!
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Retireth we to a nearby coffee shoppe and shareth some coffee and a pastry
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New proposed ordinance: Any photos upon this thread that containeth me–even if nae remotely associateth with Calvinball–shall gaineth thee an additional 2 pointes.

[mrhappy_onabike]

Ventureth did I acrost the River Potowmack, into the dangers of the wildes of Mary Land.
Although did I escapeth, Hobbes didst not.
Though he be a tiger, vicious and brave be not his mien. Cold and shivery he waits. Who shall braveth the snow to rescue him?

Here I be, pointing to his hiding spot:
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Scrute these other pictures, and thou shalt know where to seek.
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[Emm]

Friendship Calvinball obtained. Do you know how many piles of stuff in 4 mile run park look like mulch in the snow?!?!

Many thanks to Alexandria for the great job clearing the trail through the park. Now if only they would do the same for their roads and sidewalks…

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[sszibler]

@Emm 185761 wrote:

Friendship Calvinball obtained. Do you know how many piles of stuff in 4 mile run park look like mulch in the snow?!?!

Many thanks to Alexandria for the great job clearing the trail through the park. Now if only they would do the same for their roads and sidewalks…

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3.5 piles? Are there any Calvin Balls our there now? I can’t keep track. Not that I’m necessarily leaving DC in this icy mess. You are brave!

[rcannon100]

So where was the “mulch pile along 4MR?” I mean that could have been anywhere. Curious.

[Emm]

In Four Mile Run Park (between Commonwealth and Mt Vernon Ave on the opposite side of the river as the trail), near what Google is calling Frank Mann Field… Which is really just a giant gravel lot and ugly building that are SURROUNDED by giant steaming mulch piles, some about 1 story high…

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