A reminder of the picks:

Player	3p board games	Youth/YA authors	Documentaries	Ways to kill	Sporting Record	90s TV shows	Vacation cities	Serial killers	Marvel Heroes	Ancient Civs	Fast Food	Alcoholic drinks	Rock keyboardists
eyebooger	----------	Bill Waterson	Jesus Camp	Burning at the stake	Test avg of Donald Bradman	Seinfeld	Barcelona	Pedro López	Storm	Maya	Arby's	Dark & Stormy	Keith Emerson
Borninabin	Carcasonne	----------	A class divided	Knife in throat	Ashima Shiraishi climbing a 5.14d at 13 y/o	Pokemon	Venice	John Lynch	Black Panther	Sumerian	McDonalds	Fruit Liqours	Richard Wright
rtspurs	Trivial pursuit	Roald Dahl	----------	Crucifixion	Wayne Gretzky 2,857 total points	Father Ted	Paris	Jeffrey Dahmer	Spider-Man	Greeks	KFC	IPA	Ray Manzerac
filthyvermin	Axis and allies	JK Rowling	The Cove	----------	Kobe avoids jail for rape	Buffy x2	Landaa Giraavaru	Obama	Wolverine	Nez perce	Mother Nature	Champagne	Bo Koster
xander biscuits	Scrabble	RL Stine	Night and Fog	Throw them into a volcano	----------	Twin Peaks	Rome	The Green River Killer	Captain Marvel	Aztecs	Taco Bell	Beer	Rick Wakeman
True North	Agricola	Mark Twain	OJ: Made In America	Bury them alive	Nolan Ryan strikes out 5,714 batters	----------	New York	Jack the Ripper	Thor	Persia	Chick-fil-A	Tequila	Tony Banks
JMurder3	Gloomhaven	CS Lewis	I Am Not Your Negro	Kicked in balls by beautiful woman until they fall off a cliff	Cal Ripken's 2,632 games streak	Simpsons	----------	Tsutomo Miyazaki	Deadpool	Rome	Five Guys	Rum	Derek Sherinian
BiteMeFish	Pandemic	Shel Silverstein	Tim's Vermeer	Strangulation	Wilt scores 100	Fresh Prince	Phuket	----------	Professor X	China	In-n-Out	Vodka	Jordan Rudess
eleanor60	Cards against humanity	John Green	Man on Wire	Ice Stabbing	England world cup final goals and hattrick	Friends	Marrakech	Harold Shipman	----------	Olmec	Chipotle	Soju	Elton John
e_holle	Empire Builder	Franklin W Dixon	In Search of the Trojan War	Induce suicide	Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak	The X-Files	Saint-Tropez	Zodiac	Hulk	----------	A&W	Wine	Jerry Lee Lewis
iraisetoomuch	Catan	Tolkien	How to Survive a Plague	Drowning	Cy Young 511 wins	Saturday Night Live	Cancun	Luis Garavito	Captain America	Kush	----------	Whiskey	Dave Greenfield
D1iabol1cal	Dominion	AA Milne	The King of Kong	Scaphism	Phelps 23 Olympic golds	NewsRadio	London	Ted Bundy	Iron Man	Egypt	Qdoba	----------	Jon Lord
CrimsonFox	Arkham Horror	Dr Seuss	Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage	Decapitation	Kareem Abdul Jabbar 38,387 points	Frasier	Orlando	Ed Gein	Rocket Raccoon	Indus Valley	Wendy's	Cider	----------

How the scoring works:

The main judge's top rank gets 48, decreasing by 4 for each subsequent rank.

The four secondary judges' top rank gets 12, decreasing by 1 for each subsequent rank.


In-thread game: Predict the top 3 drafters in order.


Also in-thread game: Name the top 3 most polarising draft picks (ie one judge ranked it very high and another ranked it very low).


Anyone can play the above games, and comments/critique is open to all in every aspect of this thread, aside from the judges revealing their ranks prematurely.

Zomg!!

Hype

Polarising draft picks: whatever categories filthy is judging

But at a guess, I'll say Seinfeld.

London maybe

fyi

Player	3-player board games	Writers of youth/YA books	Documentaries	Satisfying ways to kill an enemy	Sporting Record	90s TV shows	Vacation cities	Serial killers	Marvel Hero/Heroines	Ancient Civilisations	Fast Food Chains	Alcoholic drinks	Rock keyboardists	Left to judge
eyebooger														0
Borninabin														0
rtspurs														0
filthyvermin														0
xander biscuits														0
True North														0
JMurder3														0
BiteMeFish														0
eleanor60														0
e_holle														0
iraisetoomuch														0
D1iabol1cal														0
CrimsonFox													Judge	1
Left to judge	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Okay, seeing as D1iab is the only one to attempt the games, let's start with his category!

Alcohawlic Dranks

This was noted as a trainwreck early; partly my fault for rushing the start of the game, partly D1iab's for picking such a vague category, and partly everyone else for making such terrible picks!

D1iab
spurs
eb

Beer
Buried Alive
Dr. Seuss

I don't feel confident about any of these things, but don't feel like thinking about them.

Polarizing: beer

Heh yep, was a real group effort!

So where are the big points going in this category and what did our main judge have to say...

Excited to see how well shots of rum do

ETA: not bad!

Spurs
Diab
irtm
Top three

Looks like eyebooger used some inside knowledge here

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And our secondary judges:

iraisetoomuch says:

I understand the criteria that Diab is going to use to judge this, and I’ll make that a part of it as well, but I’m going to go my own route a bit also.

1 Wine: Wine wins it all. If you’re willing to look, there’s a wine for everyone. From a deep flavorful Cab Franc to a light crisp Chard, you’ve got options. Pairs well with many types of food, socially acceptable, ages well, and can be easy drinking. The best part about wine is that most people can't tell the difference between expensive wine and cheap wine. Everyone is an expert if they want to be.

2
Beer: Beer has it all from a flavor standpoint. You want coffee? Chocolate? Peanut butter? No flavor? Whiskey flavored beer? Bacon flavored beer? It’s all there. Points for that. But beer is generally worse for your health than wine, and had a certain negative stigma with many. Points for variety, affordability, ease of access, overall volume.

3
Vodka: This is where I will disagree with Diab on how we are ranking these things. Vodka on it’s own is very blah. Neutral, marginal, and just generally ok. But when mixed soda, juices, and other liquor you can make some great drinks, that don’t offend the pallet too much. That’s what most people are looking for when they buy Vodka. This coupled with the fact that even cheap Vodka still tastes reasonable makes it a strong option.

4 Whiskey: Despite my personal love for Whiskey, I know it can be harsh to some people. I’m going to temper my personal love for Whiskey with the general consensus to lack of excellence and leave this at number 4.

5 Rum: Easy drinking, a variety of flavors from light to dark (ugh), cheap, expensive, and everything in between. Rum is good, and even better during the summer outside. It is the basis for many mixed drinks, and has great sales volume across the country and world.

6 IPAs: I love IPAs. Complex flavor, rich notes, but they are often strong and powerful. As far as general appeal, they fail pretty greatly. There is a strong ‘love “em or hate ‘em” mentality. As a result, they cannot ever top the list.

7
Tequila: On it’s own, Tequila is pretty bad. Esp with lower quality tequilas. But when mixed into a Margerita, it gets significantly better. Add a touch of salt and you’re set for the pool. Loses points for actual taste, gains points for ease of drinking of summer time fun.

8 Cider: Cider is fine. I haven’t nothing against cider, and if I was given one for free, I’d drink it. But I will never order a cider, never seek it out, and would likely trade with someone to drink most anything else that is available.

9 Champagne: As a drink it self, it’s pretty sweet (I know it varies), light, often a touch fruity, and very easy going. When mixed 1:1 with Vodka (it was a weird New Years, don’t ask) it can be one hell of a drink and will knock you on your ass promptly. But aside from ‘Special Occasions’ I have literally never bought Champagne and I probably never will. I believe that the only reason that the Champagne industry still survives is that it has become common place at special events because it’s cheap and easy to drink.

10 Soju: Soju loses points here mostly because just have never tried it. It sort of falls victim to obscurity, but I’m sure it might be a good drink. Seems like its essentially unregulated Vodka.

11 Fruit Liquors: Fruit liquors have their place in the world. On their own, they are far too sweet, and I would never sip on them, but they can be used to mix. If this was a ‘essential thing you might need in a bar’ this would rank higher but here it just falls short.

12 Dark and Stormy: No, just no. This drink is everything that I do not like about drinks. Ginger beer is terrible, dark rum is bleh, and lime should not go into a mixed drink. Do not even get me started.

Oh, it was that 3-headed goat game! Forgot all about that.

That's a first and last for Dark & Stormy from our first two judges:

Player	Alcoholic drinks	D1iabol1cal	iraisetoomuch	eyebooger	rtspurs	filthyvermin	Total
xander biscuits	Beer	44	11				55
eyebooger	Dark & Stormy	48	1				49
iraisetoomuch	Whiskey	40	9				49
CrimsonFox	Cider	36	5				41
rtspurs	IPA	32	7				39
True North	Tequila	28	6				34
JMurder3	Rum	24	8				32
e_holle	Wine	20	12				32
Borninabin	Fruit Liqours	16	2				18
BiteMeFish	Vodka	8	10				18
filthyvermin	Champagne	12	4				16
eleanor60	Soju	4	3				7

Next up to judge is eyebooger with a predictable top rank and a hot take:

I'll go with "Dark & Stormy" for that polarizing draft pick game.

I agree with rtspurs' ranks almost completely:

1	IPA	I'm just ranking these in the order I would most likely want them straight at any given time. IPA is my drink of choice.
2	Whiskey	Whiskey is the only spirit I drink straight these days apart from rare occasions. I often have it with coke so maybe should rank it lower but the other picks are mostly terrible so it can go here.
3	Beer	Beer, beer, beer. I love beer. I love certain types of beer. Many types. Not the types most people do though unfortunately, so it suffers as a result.
4	Wine	Pick something more specific and this could jump to second. I enjoy a nice red at times. This pick suffers from including rubbish vinagery white wine I've had too many bad nights on.
5	Cider	I never drank cider until I lived in Australia, must have been the weather. It can be nice with ice while sitting in the sun. I don't live anywhere near the sun at the moment.
6	Dark & Stormy	Never had it. Sounds nice though.
7	Champagne	If I wasn't a borderline alcoholic I would say we are going into the territory of drinks that I might refuse if offered. I've enjoyed this more being poured over my head after winning big matches than ever drinking it.
8	Fruit Liqours	Sure, this is easier to drink than what is below it as its probably only 20% alcohol.
9	Soju	I've had this in Asia, and I've had sake too. I can't differentiate between the two now. I remember they were both very drinkable when I was already drunk and rotten when I was sober.
10	Rum	Pick Captain Morgan and coke/fanta and this shoots right up the list. This ranks lowly as I don't really drink straight spirits anymore, and unfortunately I've tasted Bundaberg rum so ya, its pretty bad.
11	Vodka	Vodka straight? Puh
12	Tequila	My arch enemy. I had a litre of this when I was 20 and went to work the next morning where I was supposed to be training in a new employee. I spent the first 4 hours puking in the toilet and she had the worst first day ever trying to run a bookies shop on her own. Even the smell of the stuff makes me gag now.

TIL spurs used to live in Australia.

Gin is my arch nemesis. Got super sick off it as a teenager and haven't been able to drink it since.