SeegerOlympics

just as a reminder

2009-08-16T23:53:00.004-05:00

I know there has been some (a lot) some (very little) interest in how to submit a Seeger Olympic Event (and then actually have said event selected for a competition). So, this post will serve as a final decisiory ruling.

The best way to get an event selected is to submit it to the blog, via a comment. In the comment, make sure you make it clear how many/who the event is for (that is, is it a 5 person event, or just a Tim v. Brooke). Also, plan for tiebreakers if a tie is at all likely, and be specific as to how the event will be scored.

The basic rule is that at least half of the participants must agree to a suggested event, but to date, no event submitted to the seegerOlympics blog has been turned down. So, get involved.

(note: if your event will cost significant amounts of money {say you want to set up a scavenger hunt across Europe}, feel free to donate to the SeegerOlympics fund... just leave change on the sidewalk... i'm sure we'll come across it.)

such a Shame, Shane, Shame

2009-06-23T00:44:00.005-05:00

Last week, somehow, i was defeated by Andy in two separate sporting events... Golf & Basketball. I still have not as yet come to terms on how this happened, but it did.

With golf, i can somewhat accept the events as they've unrolled. I am uttlerly crap at golf. Though I do it somewhat often, and really enjoy it... i suck at it. (Take my recent conversation with Jackman as evidence:

Joel: Hey Chris, sorry I missed you last week for that round of golf. I just played my first round of the year last weekend & shot a 72.

Jackman: Oh, maybe we can't play together, man.

Joel: 72 on a 9-hole course...

Jackman: Oh, maybe we can't play together... man?

During my losing round to Andy, i shot a 12 on the second hole (literally 6 straight shots into the woods/field on the right) and got a ball stuck in a tree on hole 6. (I know it was stuck because i played it out, much to the chagrin of the mamaDove there in the tree).

But then, to lose at 1-on-1 basketball was truly a shame. Andy, impossibly, kept hitting three-pointers. Of course he'll tell you he "always" hits threes, but after such a long time since shooting around, I think it's quite astounding...

I did manage to still come away from the day with a pretty commanding lead, winning at H-O-R-S-E, the 'hand-slapping game' (the contest is still open, by the way, for anyone looking for a rice-cooker), several strategy/board games & (of course) any video games we happened to play, but the overall shame of losing two 'skill sports' games in a row, pretty well guarantees me choosing the 'run around the block' event sometime in the near future...

This is, by the way, an event that will bear watching. The premise is that two competitors run around the seeger Block in Clinton (Highland-High-Westview-Milwaukee) in opposite directions. The first one back to the starting point wins. It's oft been a 'joked-about' event for Andy & Jen, but Andy got a bit cocky during his recent wins and insinuated the potential to beat me at the event... Though I informed him this was impossible... the basketball & golf were similarly supposed to be impossible. So... game on.

It's been Official

2009-04-01T23:42:00.004-05:00

Though Andy has yet to add on to the trophy, the official winner for the 2008 SeegerOlympics was joel. By a slightly embarrassing method of winning enough of the individual events (J v. B, T v. A v. J, J v. J v. B v. A, etc).

His victory celebration/announcement/hidden-away handing off of the trophy took place earlier in the year, but it's time to officially announce it here. New year, 2009 events are underway (evidently)...

Brooke & Joel (for example) have played Ms. Pac-Man at the Afton House Inn and the radio game on the way to Clinton...

A couple events have been called as including anyone who played. I think the NCAA tournament determined a point (is that over yet? i wasn't really paying attention). And theoretically, someone chose the Oscars.

All in all, it's been a fairly slow year, on pace to be as big as last year. Which wasn't all that big. Remember, SeegerOlympic fans, to submit your events in the comments section. So, that's that.

Before it's too late...

2008-12-30T00:15:00.004-06:00

The winner of the 2007 Seeger Olympics was Andy.

Congratu- lations, Andy.

Here is a picture of Andy.

It was a hard-fought year & the trophy was only delivered to the champ in November (i'm looking at you, tim).
The year marked just the second in which women were allowed to compete, but continued to successfully lose the seegerOlympics, not because they can't win (that would be sexist), but simply, perhaps, because they won't win.

This year seems no different, with a tight 5-way race, but joel seeming to be solidly ahead in the individual events.

(notice: both the nutckrackers & the relative size of andy's watch are of interest in this photo. Also, obviously, the t-shirt. The SeegerOlympics blog will host its first ever contest... In the comment section, be the first to correctly identify the t-shirt andy is wearing and you will be sent a genuine, bona fide San Francisco souvenier picked out by three of the participants on New Year's Eve Day 2008... Good Luck - oh, and people wearing the shirt in this photograph are not eligble to win).

The Isaac Asimov Quiz

2008-09-27T09:09:00.003-05:00

Tim has called a Seeger Olympics event, each taking a day at the Isaac Asimov Quiz, available on the sTrib website.

The days break down like this:

Papa - Friday, Sept. 26th
Andy - Monday, Sept. 29th
Brooke - Tuesday, Sept. 30th
Jen - Wednesday, Oct. 1st
Joel - Thursday, Oct. 2nd
Tim - Friday, Oct. 3rd

Don't forget to do the test on your assigned day, and if you'd like to play along with the Seegers choose a day based on your first name (notice the schedule - minus "Papa" who went Friday - is assigned in alphabetical order). Good luck. You shouldn't need it.

Survival Football!

2008-08-25T20:07:00.002-05:00

The latest 5-person event, called by joel is Yahoo's Survival Football!

Contestants will pick 1 NFL team each week who they think is a lock to win. You can't choose the same team twice, so don't use up the Bears right away...

Just click here to play...

If you'd like to test your skills against the seegers, drop me an email telling me to sign you up to our league to play along (spots are limited).

the Shame!

2008-08-17T19:40:00.003-05:00

from Shane!

We had the opportunity to play a few SeegerOlympics Events on Saturday, before andy headed back to 'Bama. We broke in "Shifty Checkers" (which i think we'd played before, but nobody else had any memory of), then headed to the park... the Clinton Park.

We made good on an earlier drunken promise to play 2x2 basketball, teams being Andy & Shane vs. Joel & Grant. First off, let me tell you how bad you can look playing basketball on a metal backboard/rim. Man we were bad, playing to 11 took SOOOO much longer than it should have.

Still up & running

2008-06-11T10:17:00.002-05:00

Hey, SeegerOlympics 2008 is finally under way (actually, Tim & Andy have played some events, but their scores are not yet tallied {or remembered})...

As is Euro 2008. Here are the official picks for the tourney winner:

Andy - Germany (so predictable)
Tim - Poland
Jen - France
Brooke - Spain (ole)
Joel - Portugal

Anyway, enjoy the tourney, or at least my thoughts on it & party on...

Joel Dominates Brooke (in event related things)

2007-06-30T22:43:00.000-05:00

The last two days have emitted a plethora of Brooke v. Joel events, beginning with Joel calling a NASCAR Race event at SummerFest (pictures would be forthcoming if i had a cord that hooked my cell phone to my camera).

This evening shane brought his Wii to town... After creating Miis, brooke and i competed in Tennis & Bowling.

Unfortunately for Brooke, i won all of these events.

More events are sure to follow, as tim n' jen are in clinton for the next several days.

Big Days.

2007-05-20T22:51:00.000-05:00

A lot of playing has been played in the past few days. Today was an eventful day as we got back on track in the SeegerOlympics. Several long term events were announced and many games were played. Here are the on-going events:

Weight-Loss Challenge (short-term): Whoever has lost the most pounds between today & late June (when Tim & Jen will be in Wisconsin).
Cocktail Challenge - Each contestant makes a cocktail and the other contestants judge the others' cocktails.
Weight-Loss Challenge (long-term): Whoever loses the highest percentage of their body weight between now & Christmas Day.
20 Bucks - Each contestant accrues a $20 bill & tries to make as much out of it before December 31st as they can. Gambling, Investing, Pocketing, whatever you can do to make money. Whoever has the most at the end wins.

In other news, the SeegerOlympics has taken on a touchy-feely scoring system where all events will score 3 points for first place, 2 pts. for second and 1 for third. This is due to the fact that evidently people coming in second aren't necessarily losers. After this 1st round (starting at #3 above) all events will be scored according to this schedule. If future events somehow can't determine 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, the contestant can choose 3 events for the price of one.

And the Winner is...

2007-03-08T14:25:00.000-06:00

Tim!

After two months and four days of 2007 the fate of the 2006 SeegerOlympics has finally been decided. In an indoor ball-kicking competition tim defeated Joel 6-8 (fewest number of kicks to get around the house) to break the tie that may have occured (had joel won the as-yet-undecided poetry contest & tim lost Carcassonne to brooke). A complicated circumstance, but now, finally, our long national nightmare is over...

Games On

2006-12-11T20:15:00.000-06:00

And the Powerball Numbers Are... 12/16/2006	5	17	28	36	51		5
x 4

Brooke has chosen the next event... PowerBall! Baby. We'll have to check with Andy to figure out lottery ticket availability in Alabama, but assuming he is able to buy them at home, then Saturday's Powerball drawing will also be a SeegerOlympic drawing. Everyone gets a ticket, then the person with the most right numbers. Tiebreaker will be closest to the correct Powerball number. Play along at home (note: anyone winning Powerball jackpot as a result of reading this blog is, by law, obligated to donate 2% of all Powerball revenues to the SeegerOlympics... With the money we'll buy a nicer trophy, play some events at more exotic locales & buy more liquor. (so it's non-profit).

It is now Andy's pick.

It's Good

2006-11-23T17:46:00.000-06:00

The Seeger Olympics rolled along this Thanksgiving day, as all 5 competitors are in Clinton for the holiday. Brooke called a field- goal- kicking competition, which necessitated a trip down to the Cougar Dome. We played three events down there (the next two chosen by andy & jen). Our warm-ups were a bit embarrassing, but when the competition started, andy started off strong, nailing two of three. Jen & Brooke failed to make the kicks, but tim came up and hit all three. Joel was the last to go. He kicked his first one and it hit the bottom crossbar, and bounced in. His next kick was low and to the left (he took his eye of the ball), then his third one went deep through the uprights. Tim won the event.

Andy picked a punting competition. Joel & Tim literally exactly tied with their first kicks, and they had a punt-off. Tim's kick was impressive, back farther than his first had been, and joel miss-hit his next punt. It almost rolled for the length, but tim won it again and went up by two in the overall game. Jen next selected a cart-wheel competition. Andy actually went over the top, then joel looked very impressive, but flubbed the landing. Brooke opted for a somersault (thus immediately being eliminated), jen then nailed one perfectly & tim kind of did one, sort of. Jen was awarded the win by the distinguished panel of judges, Jim & Emily.

In other news, joel won a MS Solitare match against andy and extended his skunk-y lead. Should be an exciting weekend of events.

Turn Your Radio On

2006-11-05T10:56:00.000-06:00

Brooke & joel competed in yet another event, resulting in the tying up of their two-way competition. Brooke selected (granted, with a bit of pressure applied by joel) “the radio game” as their next event during a far-too-long car ride from Omaha to Clinton. Joel is generally terrible at the radio game, mostly because he thinks and reacts much slower than the average human. Brooke skipped out to a lead by possibly correctly identifying a song as a Goo-Goo Dolls piece (joel subsequently guessed Gin Blossoms & Foo Fighters & while we’re not 100% sure it was the Goo-Goo Dolls, it didn’t seem hard enough to be fighting foo & it was far too recent to have been a Gin Blossoms song)… Joel had a couple close misses, including an instrumental piece that may or may not have been “Octopus’ Garden”, then Joel scored by identifying David Sedaris’ voice on NPR. (note: there is some disagreement as to whether identifying a non-song item on the radio, but I’ve long argued that it should be allowed). We listened to the end of the piece about death & then continued on. The game was tight, with brooke jumping ahead, then joel catching up, until joel nabbed two in a row, winning on correctly identifying Dire Straits as the singers of “Money For Nothing”. While there were several questionable calls (possible non-titles as answers and the dreaded Phil Collins or Genesis question), the point went to joel who came back to tie the brooke v. joel games & now has the next selection. Should be an exciting weekend in SeegerOlympic matchups.

In other SeegerOlympic news the poetry contest judges have been finalized (and all but one told that they are involved). The poems will all be sent to the Commissioner, Shane, then anonymized and forwarded to three judges, Mom Seeger, D-Force & Eric. A rubrick is still to be released, but the format is decided.

Toss Up

2006-10-23T07:11:00.000-05:00

An exciting weekend in Seeger Olympic Play. Jen extended her lead in the Joel /Tim / Jen games & joel kept pace with tim in their one-on-one competition.

On Friday night we three competitors had dinner at Jim & Pam's house and got in a few events between dinner, child-wrangling, and (grand)parenty-chit-chat. Joel & Tim played a game of the as-yet-unnamed hand-slapping balance game (SeegerOlympic blog contest boys, girls & hamsters... the game is played by two people standing in front of each other about a foot apart and push forward against the other player's hands trying to unbalance the other player... the winner is the last one not to take a step... OK, so the contest is to name this game. 3 finalists will be selected by the competitors, then we'll have a vote on this website. Winner will be awarded a brand new, and probably unused rice cooker. Please post entries to the comments section), which joel won. Joel & tim & jen then competed in a quarter-rolling contest. Joel started out with an impressive roll, most of the way across the room. Tim's started well, but turned left suddenly and hit a piece of furniture. When jen made her play, however, she showed her true skills & blew both the other competitors away. A big win for jen, who retained first place, extending her lead. Tim then devised a ball tossing game, a variation on the frisbee game where if it touches you, you need to catch it. Joel took a 2-0 lead in a game to 3, but tim successfully came back to win.

On Saturday more events were played between joel & tim, but the overall result was tim retaining his one match lead... Tim won paper football after joel won his first ever game of Ker-Plunk, the game that takes just a minute to play, but a lifetime to set up... Joel also won a ball-kicking game where the other player served as keeper, with the living-room as a goal. Tim won a ball-kicking golf-type game. In the end, each player had more wins, but the state of affairs was unchanged.

Jen also hinted at a tim v. jen event that she won, but i haven't scored it here, yet, because it was unconfirmed.

Point that thing someplace else

2006-10-15T14:48:00.000-05:00

Tim took over the lead in the Joel vs. Tim competition last night with back to back darting victories at the Rose & Crown Pub. After a round of Beefeater & Tonic for joel & a Guinness for Tim we played a game of 301 (joel's selection) followed by a game of Gotcha!, a 301 variation where players can send each other back to zero by hitting exactly the same score as another.

Tim won 301 fairly soundly, fairly trouncing joel. Another round of drinks was ordered, tim switching to a Colorado Bulldog & joel sticking with the gin and tonic. The game of Gotcha! that we played next seemed a bit tighter at the beginning, though tim jumped out to an early lead due to actally being better at darts. Tim failed to close out the end of the game and joel came back, eventually passing him and closing in on 301... Tim was able to hit joel's exact score, however, and send him back to zero, paving the way to his eventual victory as joel scrambled to catch up.

Well played games by tim & an excellent evening in SeegerOlympic competition.

a lot of action...

2006-10-10T00:05:00.000-05:00

Last night, Sunday the 8th of October, there was a lot of SeegerOlympic action going on. Leads changed and changed back & new threats emerged. Sadly, there was almost too much that went on to be able to discuss it all in one entry (if fellow competitors want to {and can figure out how to} add their own descrpition of any events i pass over, please do).

The major movement happened in the five-person overall competition. Tim briefly tied up with brooke at 3 points - a - piece with a victory in the Seeger Weight - loss Challenge, successfully dropping 6 whole pounds, but then Brooke went back up, by standing on one foot longer than any of the other competitors could. By the end of the night, though, tim had tied up again with a huge victory in the standing broad jump.

The evening was full of competitions between a wide array of combinations. With games ranging from indoor soccer-style games (all of which joel won) to balloon games to how fast you can pull someone's sock off (Jen & Kris, take note). The zerbert match between Joel, Brooke & Jen was completed, with joel winning 3-0-2, respectively). Anyway, a lot of scoring changes, so take note.

Pucky comic relief

2006-10-07T23:29:00.000-05:00

A rare evening occured this Saturday, when all five of the Seeger-Olympics competitors were together in one room. While only one event was completed, it was an epic battle, ranging all night and all over the... table.

We played andy's air hockey tournament, with each competitor playing against everyone else. The top two in round 1 (round robin) played for the championship. Joel, Tim & Andy were the early leaders, each beating brooke & jen, but tim was able to defeat both of his brothers (andy 3-0 & joel 3-2) to come out of round 1 as the clear favorite. Joel defeated andy & went on to play the final match against tim (this time, to 10 instead of the 3-point mini-matches we'd played up to this point).

Tim & Joel were neck & neck, pretty well trading points, with joel going up two, then tim tying & going up one, then tying again. It was 6-6, when Tim took over the game, scoring 4 straight points to win the event. Tim comes closer to the overall lead with this rare 5-person event victory. The weigh-out for the Seeger Weight Loss Challenge is tomorrow evening, so another point will be awarded then. Jen is next to select an event & brooke's poetry-writing event was clarified a bit, with the judges being named as David Tillotson, mom/ Hope Seeger, and Eric Friedericks. Shane will receive all the poems (at the due date yet to be determined) and distribute them anonymously to the judges.

In other SeegerOlympic news, joel currently holds a 2-1-0 lead over jen & brooke (respectively) in the 'zerbert' name that tune challenge (played to 3). Joel correctly identified "The Farmer in the Dell" & "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" to take the lead.

Also, Andy won a game of Trivial Pursuit : Millenium Edition, after Joel missed a potentially winning pie-question. Andy won with the correct answer Francoise Mitterand (though he was unable to produce the French leader's first name). Brooke passed out after accruing 4 pies.

Poet Lariat

2006-10-03T11:00:00.000-05:00

Brooke has declared the next SeegerOlympic Event will be... A poetry-writing competition. All submissions will be judged by a blind panel (that is not knowing whose poem is whomse, not actual blind folk). Judges and timeline and rubrick will be determined, but she has selected, which turns the pick to Andy.

And i will also announce Andy's choice - assuming he is sticking with it - as he told it to me. An Air Hockey competition where each competitor will face each other competitor and the overall winner gets the point. Play at your leisure, though, of course, the joel & brooke basement currently houses an air hockey table.

More details to come & competitors can update their event selections in the comments or with another entry (see your inboxes again to figure out how to register & blog your own entries).
And now, the selection turns to Jen for the 5-person contest.

Yahtzee!

2006-08-28T07:31:00.000-05:00

Brooke jumped out to a slight lead in the joel vs. brooke games... Joel selected a game of Yahtzee! and thought he had it wrapped up when he rolled five 5's, but brooke took the game back into her own hands, then successfully scored the very rare 2nd Yahtzee (an obscure rule i didn't know about), sealing the game.

Brooke went on to win an incomplete game of dominoes (chickenfoot, in fact) as we watched the Emmy's, but she didn't want to declare it a SeegerOlympic event, so her lead remains one point.

NOTE: An earlier scoring update has also been changed. The Brooke v. Joel v. Andy contest began w ith a Tim selected event, naming the business that was formerly situated next to Brewsky's, an event which Brooke won.

Swim Race

2006-08-13T00:00:00.000-05:00

Today Brooke and i went to the beach. As true Seegers, we took advantage of the natural terrain and played a couple SeegerOlympic Events. First i ill-advisedly chose a swimming race, which brooke soundly defeated me at, because i just dog paddle. But then Brooke showed equally bad judgement choosing a foot-race through the water. She was convinced that my height gave me the unfair advantage to win the race (because less of my body was logically being held back by water), but i'm convinced it was my natural, remarkable ability.

So, two events down in Joel v. Brooke & it's all tied up.

Event 2 (&3&4&5&6&7)

2006-08-09T00:45:00.000-05:00

Event 2 happened back during the World Cup, actually, and was won by Tim. It was picking the first team to score in the U.S. / Ghana match at the end of round 1, with the tie-breaker being the minute in which the goal was scored. Both Tim & Brooke chose Ghana to score first, but Tim picked the earlier time, so he won the point.

Last night (Tuesday) we played a series of events.

Event 3 was to see how many reverse crunches we could do consecutively. Brooke won the event soundly, doing 100 in a row. Jen came in a rather close 2nd at something around 60. Andy, Tim & Joel all collapsed after 30 or fewer each.

Event 4 was selected by Andy & was the great Seeger Weight-Loss Challenge. When Andy is next in Omaha (early October) each of the competitors will re-weigh themselves. Whoever lost the most weight will win the point.

Jen then chose a round of UNO as event 5, which Joel won, scoring his first point of the competition.

Next, Joel created a ball-rolling event for event 6 in the living room, using various child playthings and a small bucket. Balls (and the disc) were given various point values for scoring based on difficulty of getting them in the bucket. Joel scored first with only 2 points (out of a possible 32). Tim & Andy both scored 0, then Jen got 5 and looked to be the winner until Brooke, with zero points, rolled the disc in from across the room scoring 10 points.

Tim then devised Event 7. Handing each of us a random book off the shelf, we each scoured the book in search of the word "very." First one to find it won the event. The Five People You Meet in Heaven seems not to use the word very, so Brooke won the event (though i can't remember with which book).

The Scoring System

2006-08-08T16:51:00.000-05:00

After much deliberation (and some procrastination posting about the results of the deliberation) a finalized scoring system has been adopted by we the competitors of the SeegerOlympics.

Participants winning an event involving all five of us will be awarded one point (so far, only tim) and each other incarnation of the SeegerOlympics will result in a single point for the overall competition... So, joel v. brooke is for 1 point, joel v. tim v. brooke is 1, jtba olypics is one, etc... I have no idea how many points that will throw into the mix, but it will be substantial...

So that's how we roll... Updated scores soon to come.

Event 1

2006-06-28T19:36:00.000-05:00

To start off year 4 of the SeegerOlympics joel selected a throwback to the first ever SeegerOlympic event. Predicting the winner of the U.S. / Czech Republic World Cup match, the final score and the first U.S. goal scorer. Sadly, every one of us chose the U.S. to win (though joel did predict a tie until the last moment, when he changed his prediction). At first, the points seemed to have gone to Brooke, who predicted a 1-0 win for the U.S. Eventually though, it was realized that there was a 4-way tie for the winner, being a total of 4-goals off for the winner. Although the decision is still a bit under discussion, the discrepancy is due to the fact that there was no terribly clear difference on the first tiebreaker. In one sense, brooke's 1-0 prediction gives the U.S. a 1 goal spread, whereas the game ended up 3-0 against the U.S., so in the end brooke's score would have been only 4 goals off (-1 + 3). On the other hand, though, the U.S. scored 1 goal & Czech Republic 3, so brooke was 1 off for the U.S. & 3 off for Czech Republic. Several competitors chose a final score of 2-1, which were 2 off for the U.S. & 2 off for the Czech Republic, both amounting to a total of 4 goals off in their prediction. Anyway, pending the dispute, no points were awarded in the first event of the Year 4 SeegerOlympics.

How boring.

Scoreboard?

2006-06-27T14:58:00.000-05:00

In the past 3 years of SeegerOlympic competitions, scoring hasn't been much of a problem. With just 3 competitors we were able to play events and simple chalk up a hatch mark for each victory.
Now with year 4, though, and two more competitors, a complication has arisen. Getting all 5 of us together at once, and able to compete in an event of someone's choosing may prove fairly difficult.

One suggested solution is that competitors are awarded 1 point for each individual they defeat, so in events involving all 5 competitors, the winner gets 4 points. This idea, though, would necessitate sub-rules, possibly such that each sub-set of players competing in events can only make up only half as many points as there are available from all 5-person events.

So, as of right now, we 5 have played two events (one ending in a tie, and one in a victory for Tim), making the total number of points up in the air 8. So, if, for example, jen and joel were to compete in an event one day, we could only play up to four games (making the maxiumum score for either player 4, half of 8). If tim, brooke, and andy played some events, they could only play 2 at this time (winning 2 points each, total of 4). While this scoring seems complicated, it's not andy's year to keep score, and i now have a master's degree. So, it should be fine. Please comment with further suggestions, though (we could just have a low-scoring competition, with fewer chances & an extra point awarded for each sub-group {joel vs. tim, joel vs. andy vs. tim, etc).

Year 4 Begins

2006-06-26T20:39:00.000-05:00

The SeegerOlympics enters its fourth year (endlich) with a boing. Thus far two events have been selected with only one of them awarding any points. Several changes abound in this, the fourth year of the SeegerOlympics. First off, there are two new competitors. Jen and brooke have decided to compete for the coveted Dick Koch trophy this year. With the added players, there has been talk about complicating the scoring system, but nothing official has been decided. Thus far, all that we are sure of is that joel selected the first event, which nobody won, and tim chose the second, which he won himself. More on scoring (and the first two events) later. For now, welcome to the new blog. The blog will be a rather open forum, with any of the competitors able to submit (as well as some guest commentators, perhaps {such as the Commissioner}) and we will try to have a running tally on the side. Comments are, of course, welcome as are event suggestions. (Submitted events will be played pending a 3-out-of-5 vote by the competitors).