As you may know, I am running a "Pogcathlon" where players can play as many different competitions as they want & earn points for their success in each one.

A Grab Bag Draft is a drafting game wherein each player picks a category they would like to judge. Those will be the things that the players draft. It is a snake draft wherein you are trying to get the best overall things.

How the exact scoring will work will depend on the # of entrants, how many drafts I split this up into, etc., but in general players will judge their own category, & will get to select other categories that they are also interested in judging. The primary judge's scoring will be worth about twice as much.

Here are the example threads:

1st Grab Bag Draft signup

1st Grab Bag Draft Game Thread

2nd Grab Bag Draft Game Thread

The 3rd set of threads where there were 2 separate games & the judging was completely cross-game is what I have mostly in mind for this assuming sufficient interest:

Sign-up

Draft A

Draft B

Reveal Thread

Anyway, people got a bit burned out on these I think, but they were a ton of fun imo, & the categories can be as interesting as your imagination will allow.

So sign up here, & also choose a category when you can. Will try to limit overlap, & separate people with similar categories out into separate games if possible, so the sooner you sign up for a category, obviously the more likely you are to get it.

Game will probably start in a few weeks.

I'm in.

In

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

Yup

in

Just a reminder to everyone who's in'ing that you can also pick your categories at your leisure on a 1st come/1st served basis.

bolt2112 - category TBD
PokerCrazy94 - category TBD
xander biscuits - category TBD
iraisetoomuch - category TBD
Priptonite - category TBD

Category: Most useful kitchen item ("item" is defined somewhat broadly)

in, category = fictional villains (non-cartoon)

If that's too deep, I can restrict it

In. Category = pies.

Will this be restricted to things that are reusable, as opposed to things that are discarded after use?

I cant see the abuse potential atm with having little to no restrictions. So probably not.

My category will be guitar solos.

in

In, category is worst professional sports franchises

In, category Iconic Photographs.

LolRedSox obv

In. Will think of a category later.

Category - World Cup football players (soccer for you American folk )

Can't really say I understand this one.

Are we drafting teams or players or venues or specific games or.....?

Oops my bad, edited it.

Players

Evil Companies for me.

Players as they played in the WC, or players whole careers as long as they happened to play in a WC at some point?

Players as they played in the WC

Over all time, or currently existing?