DKs Intensities in Ten Cities! [Winner=TX AG 90]

[Dukasaur]

Four people seem to have lost their passports, so only 16 of us will hop aboard a non-stop flight and zoom to Hong Kong. Sixteen, such a totally binary number! Of course we will have to play some 2, 4, and 8-player games!

show: games summary

show: game 1

show: game 2

show: game 3

show: game 4

show: game 5

show: game 6

Edit: Reason some of the above games had to be remade was because I accidentally invited whackamole instead of whakamole.

[arno30]

i don't think you've invited the "good" whakamole in 10080402

[Dukasaur]

i don't think you've invited the "good" whakamole in 10080402

That means I did the same thing in all his games (because I let the autocomplete do its thing), and all six will have to be remade.



Anyway, thanks for lettin me know... at least this way I was able to get the mistake fixed promptly.

[Dukasaur]

From my wall:

Amigo, sorry but I cant continue in your tournament. Very limited time for CC at this moment. Sorry.

by jricart
on Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:45 pm

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times:
I have no problem with people who want to quit. I totally understand that real life issues come up and people don't have time to continue. But please, please, PLEASE, let me know that you're quitting BEFORE the next round. Once games are created and people have been invited into them, it's a real pain in the ass to make substitutions.

Anyway, Faro and Shai were tied with 23 points each just below the cut line after Sydney. (see http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=315#p3451323) So Faro and Shai will have to play a tiebreaker on the Sydney map to determine which of them goes forward.

[Dukasaur]

I think the logical time to publish the Colour and Flavour task will be on the weekend, so that it will be within the original specs, more-or-less: Sunday Noon, Hong Kong Time, which I believe is 2300 Saturday night my time (EST, which is also CC time.)

[perchorin]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

[Dukasaur]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

Scroll up two posts...

[perchorin]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

Scroll up two posts...

ah sorry

[Dukasaur]

Colour and Flavour tasks for Hong Kong
The idea of having a choice of a hard task and an easy task seemed to be popular last time, so we'll go with it again!

The Challenging Task
In this task you will need to not only do some research, but you will also need to read what others have posted before you.

Four people seem to have lost their passports, so only 16 of us will hop aboard a non-stop flight and zoom to Hong Kong.

Non-stop flights from Sydney to Hong Kong are now commonplace, but this wasn't always the case. If you wish to attempt the challenging task, you will have a little research to do in airline history. Find out some facts about the history of this feat, and post it.

If you are the first to post, you will basically answer the following question: In what year did the first non-stop commercial flight between Sydney and Hong Kong take place? Add one or two more interesting facts, and make a decent coherent paragraph out of it. That's all, one decent expository paragraph: I am NOT asking for an encyclopedia.

If you are not the first to post, then you will have to build upon what the previous player posted, and add some more facts. There are many facts that it might be possible to dig up. What was the first aircraft type that was capable of making this flight? What airline was the first to offer this service? Who was the pilot on that first historic flight? How long did it take? How much fuel was required? Were there any problems? And so on, and so forth.

In order to score, you must come up with something interesting that no previous poster has mentioned. So, the sooner you post, the easier it will be. If you are the tenth or even the fifth poster, you might find the subject has been pretty much exhausted, and it may be really tough to find some interesting fact that nobody has mentioned yet, so get in there quickly!

Since the posters after you will have to find a fact that you didn't, it will be considered poor sportsmanship to exhaust the field with an encyclopedic submission that uses every conceivable fact. Remember, one paragraph is all I'm asking for, and it is more important that your paragraph be interesting and coherently written, than huge or exhaustive. One or two unique facts is all you need to produce; the way you make them sound interesting is the most important part.

The Easy Task
Although Hong Kong was for a long time a British colony, and English is an important trade language, most of the people speak Canton Chinese. It is estimated that only 38% of the population is fluent in English.

I'm sure everyone has seen wonderful translations like this one:

They float around the Internet in swarms, so it should be no trouble finding one. But can you find the funniest?

If you attempt the easy task, you must find the funniest bad Chinese-English translation imaginable, and post the image. Try to ascertain that it is from Hong Kong, but we will forgive you if it is from Shanghai. Just don't post stuff that is obviously not Chinese at all.

As before, the max score for the Challenging Task will be five points, but the max score for the Easy Task is being increased from two points to three. To score two or three points, however, you must really make the judges roll on the floor; most submissions in the Easy category will probably only get one point. There are 166 points available to be won in the Hong Kong games, so the judges' target for the C&F submissions will be to hand out between 16 and 25 points total. According to the extended deadline announced in Sydney, you will have seven days.

[Shai]

Made it through the tiebreaker - Goooo Sea Eagles!!!

[Dukasaur]

Made it through the tiebreaker - Goooo Sea Eagles!!!

Congratulations! And Shai advances!




Thank you for coming with us this far, Faro!

[GregDavidson]

Sign in a Hong Kong fitting room.

[Mageplunka69]

Starting in 1967-68 Aerolineas Argentinas' timetables showed no stop on their 707 between Madrid and Buenos Aires, 12 hours northbound and 12-30 southbound; if it actually was nonstop that was the longest-ever scheduled flight (by distance) until the 747SP entered service in 1976. Iran Air began its scheduled non-stop service between New York and Tehran using its newly acquired long-range Boeing 747SPs, completing the eastward journey in 11 hours and 15 minutes. Although the airline's plans for its non-stop Tehran–Los Angeles flight never materialized due to the Islamic revolution in 1979, such flight would have made a leap in the time and distance records (12,222 km – 7,595 mi – 6,599 nm). The Tehran–New York flight was suspended in November 1979.

In April 1976 Pan Am set a new record for longest non-stop scheduled flight with its New York–Tokyo route (10,854 km – 6,745 mi – 5,861 nm). In December of that year the airline set another record with Sydney–San Francisco, covering 11,937 km (7,417 mi – 6,445 nm). Both routes were flown by Boeing 747SP aircraft.

In May 1988 the first ultra long-haul passenger flight took off from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles, completing its journey in 13 hours and 41 minutes (12,189 km – 7,574 mi – 6,581 nm).

In modern day aviation, Singapore Airlines introduced ultra long-haul flights on 3 February 2004[1] to Los Angeles, and on 28 June 2004[2] to Newark from Singapore Changi Airport. These two flights hold the record for the longest commercial passenger non-stop flights in the world based on both time and distance. The route from New York City (JFK or Newark) to Hong Kong is the longest non-stop route in the world to have more than one daily flight, and to be served by more than one airline (three daily non-stop and one via Vancouver by Cathay Pacific[3] and 1 daily by Continental Airlines). The routes served between New York and Mumbai, and Hong Kong have the maximum number of airlines operating non-stop flights in the ultra-long-haul category. In terms of flight frequency, Emirates tops the list of ultra-long-haul flight operators, with seven flights operating from its Dubai base to Los Angeles, São Paulo, Houston, San Francisco, Sydney (EK412,EK414), Melbourne (EK406) and Brisbane (EK434).

On November 9, 2005, a Boeing 777-200LR, dubbed the Worldliner, completed the world's longest non-stop passenger flight, traveling 13,423 miles or 21,602 kilometers eastward (as opposed to a normal westward routing for that sector, which is much shorter at 9647 km) from Hong Kong to London, in roughly 22 hours and 22 minutes.[4] Aboard the 777-200LR were eight pilots including Suzanna Darcy-Henneman, Boeing's first female test pilot. Although the airplane seats 301, there were only 27 passengers aboard this flight. There were two Boeing executives; several Boeing 777 engineers; representatives from General Electric; and a dozen journalists from around the world.
Focke-Wulf FW 200 B Condor of Deutsche Luft Hansa (model).

This was not, however, the record for longest time staying aloft for an airliner. This debatable record is claimed either by the 1939 Berlin–New York non-stop flight of a reciprocal piston powered Focke-Wulf Fw 200 built for Deutsche Lufthansa (flight time 24 hours and 56 minutes) or by a Trans World Airlines Lockheed 1649A Starliner on the inaugural London–San Francisco polar route on 1–2 October 1957 (flight time 23 hours and 19 minutes). The L-1649A was the last of the Constellation series, and the ultimate piston-engine airliner in terms of range and endurance.[5] However, from 1943 to 1945 Qantas operated a weekly return flight from Western Australia to Sri Lanka with flight times from 28 to 33 hours. This was called The Double Sunrise service. The aircraft used was the Consolidated PBY Catalina.

[Dukasaur]

Google works both ways....

It's easy enough to take a line from a plagiarized entry, paste it into Google, and almost instantly get conclusive proof of the plagiarism.

[arno30]

i didn't know that. why are they translating so badly ?

[arno30]

i'll come back later for the challenging one !

[Mageplunka69]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Focke-Wulf_FW_B_200_Condor.jpg/250px-Focke-Wulf_FW_B_200_Condor.jpg

[perchorin]

This one made me laugh:

[Victor Sullivan]

Just checking in, don't mind me...



-Judge Sully

[Dukasaur]

My favourite was a menu item in a Chinese restaurant that translated (apparantly) as "Two kinds fish lips on plate."

That one made me laugh for years, but I haven't been able to find it recently.

[Dukasaur]

Deadline has passed. Please pass your papers to the front of the class...

[Shai]

I was about to go for gold, thought I'd put down the ticket price for the flight today...
But, the kids got whining, so I had to call it a day...

[arno30]

Ok guys, leave apart wiki and google, here is the true story of the first direct HK-Sydney direct flight.

You all know they are/were both british colonies. One day, Her Majesty the Queen woke up and decided she had enough of the greyness and dirtiness of London. So, after her croissant (I’m not gonna eat those beans for breakfast, am I ?) she started planning a round trip around the world. One condition: no way she’ll put her feet in a non-british soil, that’s for sure.

She heard about someone in London that wanted to do the exact same thing, Phileas Fogg, and to make her trip funnier and more exciting, proposed him to bet on who would go faster, the loser being forced to cross the channel to live on the continent, where dirty frog-eater people live too…
Phileas fogg, a convinced anti-royalist accepted the deal. He was sure he could do it in less than 80 days, something that noone never done before. So he was delighted in advance that he could get rid of this Queen and all her *$=”#@€ family... On her side, Her Majesty the Queen was thinking, I’m the Queen, nothing and noone can beat me.

And off they go. Both on a boat, but while Phileas Fogg went all around Africa to India, HM the Queen who secretly heard from the french (they for sure didn’t want her to lose her bet !) they were digging a canal in Egypt, went this way and took a big lead.
On a train across India while Phileas Fogg took an elephant, to finally arrive in HK.

Even if she was in advance, she didn’t want to take any risk and ask whether it was possible to find a direct flight to the pris… heu, Australia ? The aussie flying company in town heard about that and was wondering how they were going to move the “queen ass” without having to stop to refuel ?
“Let’s take a bigger plane, dundee ! yeah, and let’s fill it with as much fuel as we can, max !” (the aussies are clever). “Ok, but let’s leave some space for some beer too…” (and thirsty…). That day was born the Qantas flying company. No trace left from that plane, so we can’t have any technical precision about it.
The Queen loved the beer that make the 48h flight easy and asked to have some in Buckingham when she gets back.

Of course, back to London, the Queen won, Phileas Fogg went happily to France, changed his name into a French one (Jules Verne) and wrote his biography (as well as few other books). Australia opened to the world, discovered cricket and rugby and since then beat the british regularly at their sport. And export their forsters too…


Thanks dukasaur, this task wasn’t that challenging at the end.

[macbone]

In Hong Kong, youth and beauty are everything, and we have tons of advertisements everywhere for skincare products and cosmetic surgery. My favorite are the Medicare Breast Enhancement ads. =)

HK t-shirts are the best. They're often horribly misspelled, sometimes just random letters. A sampling of the coherent ones:

"Don't date me! I won't show up unless you are pretty." - worn on a 50-something dad.

"Enjoy your wonderful holiday in New York."

"More"

"Famine"

A shirt with a model on the front and Robert Frost's "I took the road less travelled and / That has made all the difference" on the back.

"No longer with stupid - girl in her 20s"

"I can be very scary," worn by an energetic little 5-year-old boy.

"Let me be your friends."

A Watchmen shirt with all the characters as cartoon rabbits. Bunny Rorscharch? Check. Bunny smiley face with blood dripping down? Double check.

Oh, and my favorite - "I'm so very unhappy."

[macbone]

And Perchorin, that Bible quote's straight from the King James. It doesn't get much more English than that. =)