Big Days.

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:

1. Weight-Loss Challenge (short-term): Whoever has lost the most pounds between today & late June (when Tim & Jen will be in Wisconsin).
2. Cocktail Challenge - Each contestant makes a cocktail and the other contestants judge the others' cocktails.
   
3. Weight-Loss Challenge (long-term): Whoever loses the highest percentage of their body weight between now & Christmas Day.
4. 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.