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

[Dukasaur]

And now, the overall interim scores in Chicago (1 game left to finish):

GreenBaize leads, with TX AG 90 hot on his heels!

[Dukasaur]

Here's a better view of the same file, without the cut-off headers.

[WorldCup4James]

Nicely done macbone!!

[Teflon Kris]

A General Achievement Medal has been awarded to Most Expressive Excursionist, macbone.

[Dukasaur]

Yes, I know the final game ended, but I am just soooo crazy busy right now.

I will get New York started as soon as I can.... Sunday at the latest I hope, but if I get an early day off work before then I'll do it sooner.

[Dukasaur]

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

I think all of us already knew what this scoreboard was going to show.

TX has rocketed to the top. Geko stays behind and runs for Mayor of Chicago.

TX, GB, GD, arno, and perch will fly to New York. Flight leaves around this time tomorrow! Congrats to our finalists!

[Dukasaur]

There was a white plane. Without a roof. Also, it had no rudder, so steering was tough. The steering wheel didn't work anyways, so it didn't really matter. In fact, there was no steering wheel at all. There were no seats. There weren't really places to put the seats, since there was no floor. The most ridiculous thing at all was that this white plane had no wings. It also didn't have a fuselage, and no point at all, so it was only white in theory. It didn't have an engine, or passengers, or a pilot. Let's just get to the real story:

Actually, there isn't a story either. I have been deliberately wasting your time.

I didn't originally like this story very much, but it has grown on me over time. It's starting to crack me up more and more every time I read it...

[Dukasaur]

Grand Finale, New York: It's been called the Big Apple, Gotham, and the Capital of the World. New York is no longer the world's biggest city, it's no longer the world's wealthiest city, and it no longer has the world's tallest building. But at one time or another it was all of those things, and more besides. It's still the headquarters of the United Nations, the home of the world's biggest and most important stock exchange, one of the world's busiest harbours, one of the world's great art museums, not one but several of the world's greatest universities, and many other distinctions. Its unique concentration of political, financial, and cultural influence means the title "Capital of the World" is not hyperbole. And here at last, after a tour of great cities across four continents, you have come to prove your greatness.

The gloves are off! There will be no team games; this is the grand finale, winner take all.
Each player will participate in:
One 5-player Automatic Nuclear Adjacent Sunny Standard game
(Game 11126020)
GregDavidson
GreenBaize
TX AG 90
perchorin
arno30

One 5-player Manual Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game
(Game 11126023)
TX AG 90
arno30
GregDavidson
perchorin
GreenBaize

One 5-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Sunny Standard game
(Game 11126024)
arno30
GregDavidson
GreenBaize
TX AG 90
perchorin

One 5-player Manual No Spoils Chained Foggy Standard game
(Game 11126031)
perchorin
GreenBaize
GregDavidson
arno30
TX AG 90

(Each of the above will score 4 points to the winner, 3 points to the 2nd place finisher, and so on.)

One 5-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Sunny Terminator game, scoring 1 point for each kill, and 1 bonus point to the winner.
(Game 11126133)
arno30
GreenBaize
GregDavidson
perchorin
TX AG 90

One 5-player Automatic Flat-rate Chained Foggy Assassin game, scoring 5 points to the winner.
(Game 11126138)
TX AG 90
GreenBaize
GregDavidson
perchorin
arno30

Only 3 points will be awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus on this round.
Maximum possible: 28 points

Colour and Flavour task will be posted at noon today!

[Dukasaur]

I guess it would be a good idea to post the faded scores, so everyone knows exactly how far uphill they have to struggle.

TX AG 90 finished Chicago with a score of 57, which fades to 43
GreenBaize finished Chicago with a score of 54, which fades to 41
GregDavidson finished Chicago with a score of 46, which fades to 35
arno30 finished Chicago with a score of 45, which fades to 34
perchorin finished Chicago with a score of 43, which fades to 33

[Dukasaur]

The Colour and Flavour task for New York is fairly simple and I hope you will enjoy it:

If you were running this tournament, what would you make the New York C&F task?

That's it, that's all. What would you ask your opponents to do if it was up to you?

You have one week. Points cap for New York is only 3 points for C&F.

[GregDavidson]

tell us about your best and worst experiences in NYC

[TX AG 90]

Welcome to New York! What better way to get to know the land and it's peoples than through alcohol.

For the New York Colour and Flavour, you must design a Manhattan Pub Crawl. You may choose a theme, for instance - Pajama Pub Crawl, Toga Pub Crawl, Santa Suit Pub Crawl, etc. You must hit, but are not limited to Little Italy, China Town, Greenwich Village, and Tribica. You may map out bars, pubs, clubs, and/or restaurants - as long as they serve alcohol. Because we don't want any drinking and driving, transportation must be included. Party Buses are ideal, but feel free to be creative. You must also choose a hotel for everyone to stay at, a caterer to provide breakfast when we drag in, and a beverage company to sponsor our soiree.

[perchorin]

I would ask everyone to describe their journey through the tournament thus far, from beginning to (near) end. But to make it fit the theme you would have to describe your journey as if it was an episode of "Sex and the City"
We have five finalists:
TX AG 90

GreenBaize

GregDavidson

arno30

perchorin

and our absolutely fabulous host
Dukasaur


We would all be on whirlwind fashion tours of cities around the world, kicking out those who aren't sexy enough along the way until we came back to New York where the only real people live anyway.

[arno30]

(that's a cheap C&F dukasaur ! )


hi all ! Welcome to NYC !

Even if you have never physically been to New York city, everyone visited it "virtually" through movies, books, music etc... what is your idea of the city or what do you think it looks like, and what would symbolise the most your idea (can be an event, a building, a person etc).

at this point, my guess is pub for TX and girls (sex ?) for perchorin.

[Dukasaur]

Submissions are now closed.

[Victor Sullivan]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of assorted orientations! It's that time again! But what? What is this? Can it be? The last C&F task?! I mean, it seems like we've been slugging through this tournament awhile, but it's almost too terrible to think that the fun should end! But it must, it must...

Without further ado, the scores for the final C&F task............


















Placing 3rd with a score of 1 point...

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Placing 2nd with a score of 2 points...

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And the winner of the final C&F task with a score of 3 points is...

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Congrats to everyone! And a special congrats to our Expressive Excursionist - macbone! It has been an honor to judge your C&F entries

Cheers,

Victor Sullivan
C&F Panelist

[Dukasaur]

And the winner of the final C&F task is...

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And by "winner", he of course means "3 points"...

[Dukasaur]

At this time I would like to take a moment to thank all of our illustrious panel of judges,

Victor Sullivan
Bruceswar
Nagerous
Gilligan

Thank you all very much for your time and effort!!!

[Victor Sullivan]

And the winner of the final C&F task is...

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And by "winner", he of course means "3 points"...

Shhhhhh...

At this time I would like to take a moment to thank all of our illustrious panel of judges,

Victor Sullivan
Bruceswar
Nagerous
Gilligan

Thank you all very much for your time and effort!!!

The pleasure is mine; it was an honor

-Sully

[nagerous]

Thanks, was very enjoyable to help judge the tournament

[TX AG 90]

Thanks Judges!

You are all Wise Men!

[arno30]

yep, thanks for your time !
was a pleasure to participate to the C&F, and to play the games !
cheers !

[Dukasaur]

(that's a cheap C&F dukasaur ! )

You're right, it was. May was just a brutal month for me, and I just didn't have it in me to create something better. I didn't want to delay the tournament, so I did something quick. Still, although it might have been a quickie, I think it was an appropriate way to wrap up.

Now that things in R/L have slowed down for me a bit, I am prepared to do some penance. I will therefore complete the task that Greg set for us:

tell us about your best and worst experiences in NYC

I've been to NYC a few times when I was little, but I've only been there once as an adult. All my best and worst experiences are therefore encapsulated in a single trip.

We went down to NY in March or April of 1983; there were seven of us jammed into a single Ford LTD. Most of us didn't know each other; it was a semi-random assortment of friends of friends of friends who somehow all got assembled for this trip. We all dropped in to a friend's apartment in an old building at 163rd and Broadway, which was to be our base of operations for the first two days. That night, we increased our ragtag band with some more friends of friends, and went for a wander downtown. We were going to go up the Empire State Building, and then afterwards go to see Lou Reed.

We got off the subway at some Midtown stop, a fair distance from the ES Building so that we could see some other interesting sights along the way. Well, we saw quite a few neat buildings, but what we saw most was Liquor Stores. Coming from Canada where Liquor Stores are a government monopoly and there is about one for every 50,000 people, it was a whole new world to see what the free market does with Liquor Stores. In NYC it seemed there was one on every corner. So we just had to sample something at each one. We didn't have any glasses or mix, obviously, so we bought sweet liqueurs that could be drunk without mix, stuff like Bailey's and Creme de Menthe and Triple Sec and Amaretto. We bought one small bottle at each store; passed around between ten or twelve people there would only be enough for everyone to have one or two good swigs. By the time we got to the next corner the bottle would be empty, so we'd drop into the next Liquor Store and buy another!

The thing about sweet liqeurs is that they're deceptive; you don't realize how much you've had until it's too late. Our march across Midtown was only an hour or so, and yet by the time we got to the Empire State Building we were thoroughly trashed, and starting to get disoriented.

I found myself on the elevator with a girl named Katrina that I had only met that day. I had been one of the Elite Three who had a drivers' license and earned a spot in the front seat of the LTD, and she was one of the Subhuman Four non-drivers condemned to the back seat, so we hadn't even spoken to each other until the March Across Midtown, but the more alcohol we got into our systems the more we seemed in love.

On the elevator we started sucking face, and then just like a movie cliche, she started moving downward, kissing my chest, then my belly, and finally arriving at the Demilitarized Zone. Oh my God! I'm about to get fellatio in one of the greatest landmarks on earth, a thousand feet above street level, in the elevator going to the top of the Empire State Building!

We had gotten separated from our friends before entering the elevator, and we were surrounded by old people. (Well, we were twenty at the time. You know how it is. When you're twenty everybody over thirty seems really old.) Some of them looked amused, but a few looked horrified. Katrina's hand was firmly wrapped around my penis, but she hadn't yet found the opening in my underwear, so there was still a layer of cloth between her skin and mine. My animal brain desperately, desperately wanted her to continue, but my rational brain was telling me that we were going to get arrested, and being arrested in a foreign country, even for a minor offense, can be a total nightmare.

I don't know where I found the strength, but I won the battle of wills with myself and I pushed her away. To this day I wonder if maybe I'm too rational for my own good. Maybe I should have let things proceed. Either way, it was an elevator ride I'll never forget.

The rest of that night was a spectacular ride in its own right. Falling-down drunk, seperated from our friends, knowing only the address but not the name or phone number of the person we were staying with, we got on subway train after subway train, always somehow getting to the wrong destination in a comedy of errors. (For instance, in one of the few examples that I remember clearly, I confused 163rd and Broadway with 163rd and Grand Concourse, a navigational error that brought us to Yankee Stadium. At another point my navigation was bad enough that we ended up on Coney Island.) It was almost dawn when we finally made it back to base, having had a semi-conscious tour of most of New York.

Anyway, that was my best time in New York, ever! My worst time? The next morning, having sobered up, Katrina showed no interest whatsoever in my penis, and it took three months of persuasion to get her to finish what she had started. That happened in Gravenhurst, Ontario, but it's a whole other story.

[TX AG 90]

Epic!

BTW, I would have been one of the amused old guys, not one of the horrified.

[perchorin]

After reading your story Duk, I feel totally robbed that I didn't win the last C&F task. That's nothing if not a Sex and the City episode!