I will be the final arbiter of what counts as alive--it is my game and my blog. I MAKE THE RULES!!
Ok, enough of that, what are these rules, oh fantasy Lost league commissioner for life?
- I will create a list of eligible characters (see further below). On Tuesday, the folks in the league (just wait a second) will take turns picking their players via the comments section of the Tuesday blog (as Lost is not showing a new episode apparently).
- Draft order--once I have the names, I will randomly select them to create an order and then post the order of the picks to be made by Tuesday morning. The draft will be snake like, with the order being 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 .....
- With eight players, I think five rounds of the draft make sense.
- The draft will commence Tuesday evening since we will all have free time that night, but will go on until the following Tuesday if necessary.
- For each player who is alive at the end of the finale, you get five points. If a person you choose is the winning Candidate, you get ten points.
- If the two realities both end up existing and neither one has a superior reality-ness to it, then we will count points for the characters in both realities. Hint: choosing folks who are already dead in one reality may not be the best strategy, but could provide for some sleepers in the later rounds of the draft. That is, you are then betting on which reality trumps if there is trumping.
- If one reality clearly trumps the other, then we will count only the trumper and not the trumped.
- If there is much confusion about this, we can debate this after the finale. I can be persuaded (bought?).
- If a character can only be deduced to be alive due to omission (that their destiny is not clear by end of the finale), then a character that is assumed to be alive earns one 2 points (for instance, probably Jack's ex Sarah).
- Zombies do not count as alive, but Zombies with a heart of gold do (Siyad counts as alive again if he shows any free will, which we think he already did but are not completele sure).
- I was tempted to include negative points for folks who are killed but that would change the strategy for some folks towards risk aversion (drafting secondary characters with arcs that are likely to be boring) and turn this into a death pool, rather than the life-affirming life pool it is.
- The stakes: the winner gets to send me text that I must post on my blog as a blog post, not just a comment. It can be their take on Lost and its finale, it can be a brutal critique of any or all Spew posts, it can be a personal vignette of how I embarrassed myself somewhere in this reality, it can make fun of me in ways that I have not yet imagined (or in ways that I have already imagined), etc.
- And if the winner is someone I actually interact with in real life on a occasion, they get a free beer (not wine, just beer, sorry Wendy) or, in honor Desmond, Scotch, and so does the second place person.
- Signing up: The first eight people to sign up via comments to this post are in.
- Who is fair game (as listed in wikipedia):
- Richard Alpert
- Kate Austen
- Juliet Burke
- Boone Carlyle
- Ana Lucia Cortez
- Michael Dawson
- Mr. Eko
- Daniel Faraday/Widmore
- Nikki Fernandez
- James Ford
- Desmond Hume
- Sayid Jarrah
- Jin-Soo Kwon
- Sun-Hwa Kwon
- Frank Lapidus
- Charlotte Lewis
- Ben Linus
- Claire Littleton
- Walt
- John Locke
- Smokey
- Charlie Pace
- Paulo
- Hurley
- Shannon
- Jack
- Libby
- Miles
- Ilana
- Aaron
- Leslie Artz
- Cindy the flight attendant
- Emma (kid #1 that Cindy is attending)
- Zach (kid #2 that Cindy is attending)
- Rose
- Bernard
- Vincent the dog
- Alex Rousseau
- Karl, Alex's boyfriend
- Dogen
- Lennon
- Jungle Boy that scares Smokey
- Ethan
- Goodwin
- Tom Friendly
- Eloise Hawking/Widmore
- Charles Widmore
- Pierre Chang
- Alvar Hanso
- Roger Linus
- Penny Widmore
- Charlie Widmore, Penny and Desmond's child
- Matthew Abaddon
- Naomi
- Zoe
- Anthony Cooper
- Kate's Mom
- Nadia
- Jae Lee
- Cassidy Phillips
- Sarah Sheperd (Jack's ex)
- Helen Norwood
- Liam, Charlie's brother
- Hurley's mom
- Hurley's dad
- Jacob (the big kahuna)
- I am open to modifications/adjustments as recommending by players and non-players like.
I'll go in on this, but I'll be abroad during last few episodes including season finale and won't get back home until May 30 (leaving May 13), at which time I'll have to frantically catch up on Hulu. So I won't be able to check into the Spew until after I catch up...
ReplyDeleteThe key is getting your draft in. And it sounds like that should not be a problem.
ReplyDeleteHey Steve:
ReplyDeleteMy Wife Ali and I want to play as one team (we both are die hard followers, but she is more fanatical than I am).
Sounds like a plan. You guys are in as a team. Of course, then you will need to name your team. But I leave that to you.
ReplyDeletein.
ReplyDeleteI'm answering for Wendy - she's in too!!!!
ReplyDeleteLol, thank you Beth. Yes, I'm in! :D
ReplyDeletep.s. And I'll settle for scotch, btw ...
ReplyDeleteIsn't #8 supposed to be DANIEL (not David)?
ReplyDeletebtw since we watch on Hulu I don't know what time Lost is usually on, what times does this start on tuesday?
ReplyDeleteThe draft will start 9pm Tuesday evening, Eastern Daylight time. If you cannot be online, you can provide with a list of your preferred draft picks (make it long enough) and I will put in the most highly-ranked candidate that is available for each of your turns in the draft.
ReplyDeleteI will post instructions for the draft when I put out the order, later today if I can get one more email.
I want IN!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry, my name is Ben Robinson, I was a student of yours two years ago in POLI 244.
ReplyDeleteBen,
ReplyDeleteWe have a complete league of ten, but if the mystery player drops out, then you are in the game.
Okey Dokey! Thanks for the Healthy Scratch...
ReplyDeleteSteve - give Ben my spot because I just booked a shoot this week (I'm a photographer) and I'm not sure if I'll be in a zone that receives internet. Ben - you better DO WELL and make me proud!
ReplyDeleteBeth, I'm a student at McGill... What better things do I have to do during exam period than to kick butt at a Lost fantasy league that two of my former professors are participating in! Hehe...
ReplyDeleteHere's to EXAMSSSSSSSSS!
Thanks Beth for your generous donation of a spot!