a lot of action...

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

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

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!

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

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)

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

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.