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The Game:
You will be setting up an imaginary food festival which begins the evening before a four-day holiday weekend. Visitors will pay a single entry fee to get access to unlimited food and beverage for the entire weekend. Each country that you draft will receive a tent in the festival grounds. Several qualified native (and multilingual) cooks will prepare a variety of dishes that are commonly associated with their country. The menu will be large enough to include items from each major region of the country. It may include breakfast items, main courses, sides, desserts, cocktails, and anything else that you can think of. All native fruits and other ingredients will be available. Beer, wine, coffee, tea, etc may be imported as well if it's culturally significant -- though no premium brands of alcohol. Good mid-range brands, but nothing that would break the bank. The quality of the facilities will be adequate for all types of cooking, and the food will be similar to that of an above-average restaurant in the native country. Portions will be small so that visitors can sample as much as possible. As the event manager, you may discuss your ideas with the cooks, but ultimately they are free to make their own decisions about how to best represent their countries. Generic entertainment will be provided so that people stay throughout the duration of the festival.
The Judging:
Players and spectators will rank each participant's festival in terms of which ones they would most like to have in their hometown. More information about casting ballots will be provided when it's time to vote.
The Rules:- Research: Allowed and encouraged.
- Trades: You are allowed to trade future picks as well as countries you've already drafted. It's allowable to end up with a different number of total picks as a result. You are allowed to discuss trades by private message or in the draft thread. It is assumed that all trades are being made in good faith. Voters may be unimpressed if two friends make a clearly lopsided deal.
- Time limits: Eight hour clock, and each player can also set a fixed six hour sleep period where it pauses for them. If the clock runs out, you are skipped. You don't lose your pick, and you can make it as soon as you return, but in the meantime the players behind you will be taking their turns, and you might lose a country you intended to draft. To prevent this from happening, send your pick by private message to the person behind you so that they may post it for you if you know that you will not be around when it's likely to be your turn. You're expected to be ready when it is your turn as much as possible to keep the game moving along. If you have a partner, your team is expected to make a selection when either member comes online.
- Voting: All players are required to submit a ballot. To avoid ethical dilemmas, players will omit themselves on their own ballot. Spectators may vote. It is not permissible for players to contact non-players to ask them to vote, or to try in any way to influence the voting by any means other than through posts in the draft thread. Votes from spectators will only be counted if they are from bona fide POG members, at the discretion of the game mod. To vote, rank each entry (except your own) from best to worst. Assuming 10 players, first place will receive 9 points and each subsequent place will receive one point fewer. Voting will be done by private message and ballots will remain private. Players are expected to vote in good faith rather than try to sabotage the strongest competitors.
- Undrafted countries: Players and spectators may not mention any countries yet to be drafted. This includes conversations made by private message to discuss trades. Granted, we have a closed set of possible draft items, so this is less of a concern than in most draft games, but I think it's best to keep the rule in place anyway.
- Spectators: Anyone is free to post in this thread. You may comment on the picks that have been made and make general observations. Please don't try to give suggestions or directly influence people's picks. Indirect influence is likely to occur and that's fine. Just be sensible about it.
Draft Order and sleep periods:
1.
Bloobird 8 pm - 2 am
2.
NotGonnaLie 4 am - 10 am
3.
filthyvermin 9 am - 3 pm
4.
kokiri
5.
eyebooger 12 am - 6 am
6.
iamnotawerewolf 12 am - 6 am
7.
sugabat
8.
(Mrs) well named 12 am - 6 am
9.
soah 5 am - 11 am
10.
Gadarene 12 am - 6 am
This is a snake draft. We'll go top to bottom in odd-numbered rounds and bottom to top in even-numbered rounds.
Spreadsheet:
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Last edited by soah; 07-02-2017 at 02:27 PM.