[Deadly]

So, uhh, what's the plan?

[Demko]

The plan is, get everyone who's involved in this game un-banned by Pun first.

[Deadly]

I guess I missed an afternoon full of banning, somehow...

[ALL CAPS]

I'll finalize things soon. I think we've got all we need to get things started. I'll give it 'til the end of the week for stragglers and we can start the draft next monday.

[Deleted]

I'm definitely in.

And just to throw a late amalgamation of ideas out there:

-Each Punster can see 4 movies every time period.
-Each movie seen ("ticket bought") gives $1million to the Punster who chose it (eliminating the worry about "ties" and "split votes").
-$500million budget makes people really think about which movies to take and not take.

[Deadly]

Eh, I like 750 as the budget. There's no rule saying you have to spend all of it, but it still only allows you to go on a spending spree on a few $100+ million movies.

[Deleted]

I would be fine with that price point, as well.

And I should also make it known that I am seriously considering a movie studio filled only with some of the WORST movies ever made.

[BTR]

Jan 27, 2009 13:02:22 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

I would be fine with that price point, as well.

And I should also make it known that I am seriously considering a movie studio filled only with some of the WORST movies ever made.

Well, if you already have the camera, your home sex tapes should top out at a budget of $7.95 each, maybe more if you get the PPV porn double feature.

[Deleted]

Not very nice of you to lump your mom into the "worst movies" category, Jeff.

[BTR]

Jan 27, 2009 13:36:45 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

Not very nice of you to lump your mom into the "worst movies" category, Jeff.

Just because the critics don't like it doesn't mean that it's "bad."

[ALL CAPS]

Hurry up and list them on IMDb and get them out in theaters and they'll count!

[creepy]

I don't think I'm going to be doing this anymore. I'm out.

[OpTard]

¿por que?

[creepy]

I don't remember limits being on any other non-sports drafts. Draft limitations seems odd. If Solly wants only Will Smith big budget movies and BTR only wants Indie Thinkers than why should it matter? And I stopped reading a few of the pages, but a 500 million or 750 million cap with US inflation? I guess that could work.


I'll play because I don't think Sam Peckinpah movies would cost that much.

[OpTard]

it's drafting with a salary cap. it's one of the things that makes an actual sports draft challenging. it makes the draft an actual game and not just a random picking of things.

[Byrntrigan]

So are we still starting on Feb 2?

[ALL CAPS]

Yes.

$750 mil cap.
No inflation.
24 rounds.
IMDb as primary resource.

[Deleted]

We doing a random initial draft order, or set by the order of who said "I'm in"?

Alternating-round reverse-order picks just like the TV Network Showdown?

And are we drafting in the order we are going to "release" the movies? Or are we just drafting 24 movies then setting our release schedule once the draft is over?

[ALL CAPS]

I'll have to generate a random draft order. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this, I'd appreciate them.

The draft will be conducted in the same way we did the TV draft, including setting up your list after wards, and a few rounds of voting after that... using the format that Lucky and Ziggy outlined.

On the day of the draft I'll edit the first post to include all the rules, participants and draft order.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Try this, Brad.

www.random.org/lists

[BTR]

Jan 30, 2009 10:35:03 GMT -5 ALL CAPS said:

I'll have to generate a random draft order. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this, I'd appreciate them.

For each participant, etch his/her name on an individual rock. Swallow all the rocks. The draft order is how you poop them out; the most difficult stone to pass gets the first pick.

OR

Make a grid on a sheet of paper with each participant's name written in a box. Take the list over to your wife. Punch your wife in the face. Whichever person has the most tears on their name gets to go first. If there are no tears, you must hit like an Angstgirl.

OR

Find a hat. Write everyone's names on individual sheets of paper. Put the papers in a hat. Take the names out of the hat. Write down the order. That is the order in which the names will be put back in a different hat: a sombrero. Put random accent marks and tildes over the names on the paper and place them in the hat in the correct order. Shout "Ole!" and dance around the hat to a mariachi song. Punt a chihuahua into a bowl of tortilla chips. Shake the hat. Pour out the contents of the hat. The names have magically turned into a butterfly. The butterfly will whisper the draft order to you (make sure to write it down!) and will fly away into the night, only to be eaten by a bat. Sad.

[Byrntrigan]

Do you do acid?

Can I have some?

[Habs]

I say go with the rock thing

[Byrntrigan]

Yeah, but can we really trust that?

He'll have to video tape it...

[Deleted]

Jan 30, 2009 10:49:49 GMT -5 BTR said:

Find a hat. Write everyone's names on individual sheets of paper. Put the papers in a hat. Take the names out of the hat. Write down the order. That is the order in which the names will be put back in a different hat: a sombrero. Put random accent marks and tildes over the names on the paper and place them in the hat in the correct order. Shout "Ole!" and dance around the hat to a mariachi song. Punt a chihuahua into a bowl of tortilla chips. Shake the hat. Pour out the contents of the hat. The names have magically turned into a butterfly. The butterfly will whisper the draft order to you (make sure to write it down!) and will fly away into the night, only to be eaten by a bat. Sad.

This just made me spit out some beef stew onto my keyboard. EXALT!