A YouTube channel draft has been attempted and a grab bag draft to do with recommendations has been postulated in pub and I wanna draft stuff...

It's been a while since we've done a draft and there are some POG regulars who probably have never drafted before so I'd better flesh out the rules a little bit more fully what "Wanna draft? Signup below"

Each person who signs up picks a category. For example it could be "Marvel Superhero" or "Sandwich Filling" or "TV Theme"

Let's imagine that 10 people have signed up which would mean we have 10 categories and 10 players. Each player would draft (pick) from 9 categories (all but their own).

The list of players is randomised and that creates the order in which people draft things. When it's your turn you can pick from any of the available categories and the draft carries on until everyone has their 9 picks.

A lot of people don't care about scoring and winning drafts but here's how the scoring/winning works for people who do: Everyone judges and ranks the picks from their own categories with a couple of sentence write up for each pick. Rankings turn into points and the points are summed to find a winner.

What happens if someone takes forever over their pick?

You generally have a "clock" which is a amount of time to pick and if you over run the time then the next in line can pick. You can make up any missed picks at any point you get back to thread. This keeps the game running and the only real penalty you suffer is perhaps someone picks what you were about to pick.

How long is this clock? How will I know when it's my turn? What if it's the middle of the night and I miss my turn? That's not fair!

Whoa whoa, calm down. A clock is around 4 hours and you'll know it's your turn when someone PMs you that it's your turn (always PM the next in line when you make a pick)*. Everyone picks a sleep window of, I'm gonna say, 6 hours when their clock isn't running. That way even if your turn arrives just as you go to bed you'll still have 10 hours to make your pick which is more than reasonable.

Some other things:

-If we have a large amount of players then we can split this into 2 threads and you might be asked to judge more categories to make the scoring system a little less variable and the reveals a little more fun.
-If you don't want to draft but want to judge all/some categories then that's cool
-You can sign up with "category pending" as your status so that you can reserve your slot and still have time to think of a good category
-Try to make it clear with your category what sort of thing you're looking for. We've had problems in the past with things like Category: Alcoholic Drink Pick: Beer Is that too vague? Is the person who picked the category looking for something more specific than that? It can lead to disagreements and general reduction of fun, so be specific even if that means writing a paragraph next to your category
-No talking about undrafted items Category: Sandwich Fillings Pick: I'm gonna go with Ham but I was really close to picking Turkey!
-No hinting at what's a good pick if it's your category to judge, but chat away at the merits of a pick if you're not involved with the judging of it.
-Try to make categories diverse for fun. If someone choose the category 90s Pop Songs then you coming in with 80s Pop Songs is definitely not a good idea. The drafting world is so diverse that you probably wouldn't need to have another music category (although you could if yours is different enough)

*potential filthyvermin caveat

Anyway signup below

Players	Category
xander biscuits	PENDING

In, category TBD

In, category: Solo Exercises (i.e. team sports, and even tennis not allowed.) I can be clearer if needed

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Category also tbd

In. TBD

Best city to live in when you're between 25 and 35

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let me think about a category

Science fiction or fantasy television series that debuted prior to 2000.

In with "Bucket List Sporting Event to Attend".

A valid entry would be something like "The Academy Awards".

"The 1971 Academy Awards when The Godfather won Best Picture" would be invalid as it's too specific.

"TV and Film Awards Shows, including The Oscars, The Emmys, The Golden Globes, and Sundance" would be invalid because it's too general.

Category: scientific discovery made 1900 or later.

Example: physics is too broad, Newton's second law is too narrow. Newtonian mechanics would be good.

I have a second category, if anybody is totally stuck for an idea you can PM me

I'll be in if I can think of a good category.

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Category: cool wikipedia pages

They can be as short or as long as you want, but if there is only like 1 paragraph of interesting content hidden inside a big ass article, it will not score well. It should make me want to continue reading.

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Players	Category
xander biscuits	Sub 15 minute educational YouTube
zurvan	Scientific Discovery Post 2000
Doctor Zeus	Solo Exercises
iraisetoomuch	Best city to live in between 25 and 35
filthyvermin	TBD
Eric	Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV pre 2000
bolt2112	Bucket List Sporting Event
eyebooger	TBD
D1iabol1cal	Cool Wikipedia pages
SuqAta8	TBD

My Category: Sub 15 minute educational YouTube video

A video that scores well will be informative, interesting, entertaining, new to me, shorter than 15 minutes and available to watch in my country on YouTube.

What is your country Xander?

UK

In cat tbd

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Best Single Episode in A Television Series

If you've never seen it, will you make an effort to watch it?

My category is discovery post 1900, not 2000

Yeah I noticed that, but I'm a phone now. Will sort it when I get to a computer

Yes. I'll watch the episode at least. If I like it, it will giving me something new to watch.

I want to go travelling post-COVID, so I'll take the category Best Cities to travel to. When we actually draft I'll put some ideas up to give you all what I aim to do on my holidays, eg I don't drink booze or partake in 420-friendly activities.

I will then attempt to travel to them all, however, this may take a number of years.

I am assuming all drafts are one round drafts?