Calvinball: The Rise of SkyHobbes

[rcannon100]

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After endless councils of the Wizards of Yore, and in consultation with Orcs on Bikes, we have brewed

CALVINBALL 2021: The Rise of SkyHobbes!

Calvinball is a hot-potato cycling game that celebrates creativity and stoopidity, like Burning Man or politicians. The rules are made up and the points don’t matter. There is no winning Calvinball. There is creativity and inclusion.

The game shall be played on the FS FB page. There shall be a post on FS FB page foretelling the location of the Calvinball.

Obey ye these rules but three (these be the only fixed rules to Calvinball).

(1) Find the Calvinball while cycling. Post on THAT thread for THAT hide on the FS FB page ASAP that the ball has been found (so others waste not time gazing for it)

(2) Hide the Calvinball while cycling within 36 hours ⏱️, an easy enough find that even a can find it

(4, NO THREE!) Make a NEW post for the new hide on the FS FB page that includes a clear description of how the Calvinball can easily be found . Use the hashtag #calvinball

Points and new convoluted rules seem too flustergutted for 2020. We need a game that even the peasant Dennis could comprehend.

Heed not my warning and be tossed to the Bunny! Calvinball is a competition of creativity, not number of finds. The winners are those who make us laugh If the game delights the elves, there shall be a final round of hides with fabulous prizes for the winners.

Wait! You said there would be no winners!

No I didnt.

Yes. Yes you did. In the paragraph abaaarrrrrggghhhh

Sorry. The typist has been sacked.

Hog-balls will be cursed If you have lots of finds, please wait before going after a hide. Think about hiding the ball so that new players can join.

Calvinball is a hot-potato game, not a hide-and-seek game. The goal is to keep the ball moving, not make it hard to find. Please state CLEARLY how to find the Calvinball.

Hide the ball generally amongst the cycling trails around DCNOVA. Avoid federal land. Avoid anything that might scare people who dont know the game (dont hide the ball where it might be confused for a bomb – yeah… this happens all the time with geocaching).☠️

Also – as funny as it is – please do not hide hard liquor in the Calvinball. It was funny. But it could also go very very wrong.

Participants please consider donating to either Phoenix Bikes or Gearin Up.

I am Tim the Enchanter , I have spoken.

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[kwarkentien]

Oy! Such kvetching!

So I’m now trying to “pin” the latest hides for each active CalvinBall. Once that ball gets captured, I will “unpin” it. Then when a new thread is posted for the new hide, that one will get pinned.

All of this presupposes that I can find the time to do this, which is always in short supply during the workweek. It’s the best I can do.

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[dbehrend]

Tonight, I snagged the Calvinball Rumi hid near Wells Rink. I forgot this got moved over to FB this year. I created a FB account for the sole purpose of re-hiding the Calvinball. As soon as I’m approved to join the FB group, I will post there.

[Judd]

@Steve O 206621 wrote:

Now that we are several weeks in, I do not find using Facebook to be better. For one, any posts re: Calvinballs are lost in the posts of other Freezing Saddles stuff. But worse is that hashtags don’t even work for Calvinball, so you have to scroll through all the FB posts anyway.
At least for me, if I use a hashtag like #CB1 it doesn’t show me the most recent post, it shows me the ones FB thinks I want to see, and they are all scrambled chronologically. Here on the forum they are chronological. And CB can be kept on its own thread and not mixed in with everything else FS.
My two cents.

There is a disturbance in the Calvinball Force. For every evil (Facebook), there must good (Forum). For every darkness (Facebook), there must be light (Forum). A Forum Only Calvinball has appeared on a Northern Virginia trail. The Forum Ball has two rules:

1. It’s location may never be revealed or discussed on Facebook. Violators of this rule lose 1 million points and must make a $20 donation to Phoenix Bikes, Gearin Up Cycles or the the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail.
2. When hiding the Forum Ball, the poster must post a picture and also create a quatrain of poetry to describe it’s location.

Calvinball on Facebook,
is pretty hard.
Seek help from the people,
of Potomac Yard.

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[mrhappy_onabike]

Even better than a threeum ball, I found a fourum ball!!

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[dbehrend]

I created a Facebook account. I joined the FS group. I posted about hiding the Calvinball. FB deactivated my account for violating their community standards.

Was it because I didn’t add a photo to my profile? Possibly. Was it because Facebook finds FS and Calvinball unsavory? Highly likely.

[Judd]

@dbehrend 208250 wrote:

I created a Facebook account. I joined the FS group. I posted about hiding the Calvinball. FB deactivated my account for violating their community standards.

Was it because I didn’t add a photo to my profile? Possibly. Was it because Facebook finds FS and Calvinball unsavory? Highly likely.

Gonna have to play Forum Ball instead as soon as Mr. Happy hides the ball.

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[mrhappy_onabike]

ABAB Quatrain; iambic pentameter

How many trails? This boulevard has two
The Calvinball upon one, you should look
The east one, that’s the one considered new
Under some leaves, you’ll find it in a nook

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[mrhappy_onabike]

Bump

[cvcalhoun]

@rcannon100 203104 wrote:

Heed not my warning and be tossed to the Bunny! Calvinball is a competition of creativity, not number of finds. The winners are those who make us laugh If the game delights the elves, there shall be a final round of hides with fabulous prizes for the winners.

rcannon100, did we ever get a list of winners for this? I’m trying to put together a spreadsheet of all the prize winners for the final Zoom happy hour, and this is one of the few I’m still missing.

[sszibler]

I still have a Calvinball from last year . . .

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