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Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jun-27-2016 17:56

In just under six weeks, the 31st Summer Olympics and the 15th Paralympics will occur in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Athletes from over 190 countries around the world will gather to compete in some 35 different overall sports over a period of about 3 weeks.

Many people have commented recently that they would like to see some more activities taking place here on Sleuth. A few of us creatively evil types were wondering if we put together a series of activities for people, would y'all be interested??

We are looking for at least 8-12 people, of all experience levels; both hunters (treasure, casework, and Arch Villain) and writers will be needed. People will be competing in a team format. We're probably looking at Subbed players for now, but we're working on having at least two activities (not necessarily part of the teams, but supplemental to them) that will be exclusive to UNSUBBED players. All of these activities will have an Olympics theme.

So. Any takers?? ;-)

Please let us know below.

Thank you!!
Breit

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Sep-9-2016 18:36

One thing I have suggested to breit, is to have a whole games, or a section of the games, where people could compete for their actual native / adopted country of origin. So there'd be a VH section and I'd compete for Australia, Ms Helen would compete for GB and Badass might compete for the US (adopted) or 'insert appropriate European Country of origin here...' Sure in some events US might get gold, silver and bronze, by weight of numbers, but that's all very Olmpiccy too.

It might give people who don't want to commit to a whole 6 weeks or so, an opportunity to join in for an event or two. Andd give you leeway for those writing comp's, which are almost 'specialty' comp's.

Mortimer Maze
Mortimer Maze
Old Shoe

Sep-9-2016 22:40

excellent idea with the countries competing to each other.We get to know ourselves better that way.
Also, speculate to the maximum the options Sleuth is offering for sleuthing and include as many events as possible of finding (pages, plans, shoes, etc).
If all players in a team have already started a nemesis, or even if not, an event for the Olympics could be - get as many clues as possible as a team for nemesis hunts- that way everybody can start this nemmy thing and experience the thrill of travelling and getting those clues.
Or, get treasure hunts for factions, in a specific order. Play with all options Sleuth has to offer.
And leave writing for a writing contest - there you have another idea for a contest on Sleuth (best biography written for an adversary, writings from the killer point of view, etc).

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Sep-10-2016 00:30

I think given the small player base doing it by country would defeat the feeling of having an overall team, as some people would be literally the only people from their country competing. It'd also be a pain for the relay events. Maybe you'd have to slap some of the lesser represented countries into groups?

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Sep-10-2016 03:51

I have dual citizenship (Belgian/American) and I was born in Romania so with a bit of a stretch I could represent Romania as well. Paired with Devi and Mortimer we'd have a Romanian team. Especially if we make Murray Arty honorary Romanian :)

I like the idea of representing countries but we don't have the numbers like in the good old days. We could always let players choose which country they would like to represent of course. If three Americans and an Australian would like to be the Mongolian Olympic team, why not?

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Sep-10-2016 16:50

I was more thinking of people not being in agencies as in the previous format. So there would be just a section for standalone players wanting to represent a country. Teams are great and they worked so well, and it should definitely be done again, but my idea is more a individual / lone wolf thing.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Sep-11-2016 01:01

You don't need to be in an agency to be in a team. You might be competing by yourself, but as soon as you apply a person's country to the competition they are in a wider team.

Sultry De Mon
Sultry De Mon
Con Artist

Sep-11-2016 08:37

Sounds interesting. I am wondering without agency teams, how would treasure hunts be handled? The scavenger hunt I could see a work around, although it would be a nightmare for the person keeping track.
Maybe a little programming ingenuity that could add a new way of treasure hunting?

Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Sep-12-2016 14:54

I don't mind little writing challenges like writing a detective bio for example. However during the Olympics we had to do big writing challenges alongside the actual hunting and it was just too much pressure.

That being said I loved the scavenger hunting/treasure hunting/villain hunting etc and would happily do those again in whatever form they take.

I also didn't like being visited by the judges (no offence judges). It felt like there was an expectation to have done more to the agency and with everything else we had done we just didn't have time.

I'd like to see firm rules in place next time so that we avoid any confusion because that just wasn't fun at all. Also the scoring being based on who finished first is a little unfair because timezones have to be taken into account.

I love Squirrels idea of competing for our own countries that sounds like fun In response to not having as many players as we used to.....well lets get some more ;)

Lastly someone mentioned having scavenger hunts integrated into the game....I think this is a fab idea :)

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Sep-23-2016 17:35

I appreciate all the comments and suggestions. (I apologize for not responding sooner; I've been sick with a bad case of the flu and vertigo. Yuck.) Anyway. We will be taking all of these remarks into consideration when we put together the next Games. Some things we will use, some we prob'ly won't be able to.

There are a couple of things I would like to say. People have mentioned doing this as individuals. I'm not sure that that is possible, because the only hunts that are really viable for individuals are AV hunts (treasure hunts are only possible for agencies right now, and scavenger hunts for individuals sound like a nightmare even to my ears). Also, I know a lot of you weren't happy with all the writing tasks, but a large part of Sleuth is dependent on writing. And I planned one of the hidden objectives of the games to be to get you guys to try some things that most of you don't normally do. We probably won't do as many writing things next time around. But I can pretty much guarantee, there WILL be some writing stuff. We will also try and revisit this suggestion brainstorm, and put up a lineup of rules and expectations that everybody will be expected to follow.

Again, thank you, everybody, for all your help. I hope all of you had a good time in these games. We'll see you in Winter, 2018. ;-D

Breit

DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Oct-11-2016 13:04

Question. Are those intros ever getting published?

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