On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via > agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < > > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > > I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can > > either do the FRC tournament as we have done in years past, or something > > completely different. I made a proto-Tournament for an Arcadia-style game > > about a year ago. Don't know if the Agoran Community would be interested > in > > something like that, but it's a possibility. > > > > > > There's been a lot of list traffic recently, so I apologize for > bringing > > yet another thing up. If the H. Herald does not have time to coordinate a > > Birthday Tournament, I, as the Speaker, would be fine setting things up. > > > > > > To the rest of the public, what do you think? What sounds fun? Let's > > talk. > > > > > > -- > > > Trigon > > > > Thanks for the offer, but I am happy to handle it as usual. I’ve been > > knocking around a few ideas, but I don’t have any particularly good ones > > yet, so I’m very open to ideas. The only thought that I’ve had that I > > thought was even worth sharing was some sort of academic tournament > either > > as a NaNoWriMo-style event for writing scholarship about Agora or as a > > strai competition for producing the best scholarship. > > > > > > I see that R. Lee has proposed Flabby Bird. I don’t plan to run any > > tournament in that format because it would require significant activity > > off-list. > > > FRCs are always popular. I mention them because they and blitz nomic (that > was before my time) are the only birthday tournaments that I know of that > haven't totally flopped. It seems that Agorans like nomic, and the way to > get them involved is to create more nomic rather than something else. We've > done FRCs the last two years; maybe a blitz nomic? > > -Aris > original ideas are always good, surely there's something else kind of nomic-like -- >From R. Lee
