Shadowbourne wrote:OK, so today I was sorting through a closet of my old crap, and I happened to stumble upon a stack of "Calvin & Hobbes" treasuries. Of course, I ended up spending over an hour and a half reading through the books, and in my reading came across the game of Calvinball. Calvinball, of course, is the game which Calvin and Hobbes frequently play, the only rule being that you can never play with the same rules twice. This led me to thinking: would it be possible to hold a Calvinball tournament on NSSports? A quick search of the forum has revealed that there have been several attempts to hold a Calvinball tournament, although the last was over 3 years ago. There would be one obvious problem with holding a Calvinball tournament: it would be almost impossible to scorinate. However, I would be willing to try my hand at scorinator, and hopefully, there are some others who would be, too. I have found a workable set of rules here. So, NSSports, how do you feel about holding a Calvinball tournament?
Earlier this year, I started a thread devoted to the potential creation of a Calvinball tournament on NSSports. We actually got as far a playing a match, and even set up signup and results threads for the inaugural season. However, several key members of the "Calvinball Disregulation Treehouse" ending up leaving NS due to RL issues, and the league eventually died out.
Several days ago, I ended up watching a trailer for an upcoming documentary on the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, and my interest in an NS version of Calvinball was renewed. It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the reboot of Calvinball on NS. The first international tournament will be christened "The Watterson Bowl", and will consist of 8 nations.
Scorination will be completed in the following manner:
Each matchday, there will be three sports that will be combined to generate the score of each match. Each sport will count for a certain percentage of the final score. For example, matchday one might be scorinated in the following fashion:
20% Baseball
50% Football
30% Korfball
In addition, one random character will be added to the score of each team in order to replicate the randomness of Calvinball scores in the strip.
Each sport will represent a certain IC aspect of the match. For example, the "baseball" score might represent the number of free throws made while jumping up and down on a pogo stick and singing "The Pogo Stick Song". The "football" score might represent the number of baskets scored while hopping backwards on one leg and making dolphin noises, and so on for each sport that is being incorporated into the final score of the match.
RPs will be graded on creativity, and may be no longer than 450 words. I chose to include this rule to promote the idea of quality over quantity and to prevent people from posting 1,000-word long RPs that are mostly fluff and take forever to get to the point. RPs short be entertaining and consise.
I will start the tournament as soon as 8 nations have signed up. If you do choose to sign up, I request that you do your best to remain as ative as possible and try to RP for most if not all of your matches.
If you have any questions or critiques, please feel free to ask them below or shoot me a TG.
Will all that out of the way, let's get started!
Sign-Ups (8/8)
Shadowbourne
Hessington Island
Nassau-Hessen
Paradystopia
San Jose Guayabal
Albaie
New Wolfopolis
Super-Llamaland
