First, a caveat: after I left the chatroom earlier for late dinner and English homework, I began to feel cooped up in my apartment. So I stepped out to do the English homework elsewhere. As a result, I have now assimilated a few John Donne works and am also drunk. Let me remind the forum that I do not speak ex cathedra on this matter. Iron Quizbowl. Those of you who know Tricia Southard know that she's an Iron Chef fanatic and also plays for Furman. Probably it's some amalgam of these that led to this path of reasoning. But here's the basic idea: At some trash tournament or other, an organization with one player each specializing in the Big Five trash categories -- sports, movies, music, TV, geek (or however you want to count them) issues a challenge. Some third party prepares a theme packet of unknown theme -- TRASHionals would be a nice place to testbed this, but that's a few months away. A challenger -- say, the player with the highest PPG at the tournament -- approaches the podium. The theme of the packet is revealed (dare y'all to write a packet on Giant White Asparagus!). The challenger chooses his opponent -- Iron Quizbowler Sports, say. Or something. I remind you, I'm drunk and "reasonable" means something different to me. They play a high-stakes battle on the packet. Here's the kicker -- the points scored only count for half the total score. There are four judges. They rate the way the Iron Quizbowler and the challenger played, and add their assigned scores to the totals. And the winner lives on in eternal glory. I think it would be neat if, say, the Gerbils were to run a trash tournament this way. I think that, for a large enough organization (or one with a big enough specialist base) it would be a neat way to run a singles tournament. I'll mull it over again in the morning but I think there's something to be found here. Also, since I said it first, I dibs the Chairman Kaga role. Edmund
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