Event 1

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?

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

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).