Author Topic: Draft Towers (Read 320048 times)

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2080 on:** September 7, 2017, 11:20:21 am »

I'll play for the craic, my music taste is probably even worse than Klippity/Samie's though

That Ultimate Sports draft though...

tubby · « **Reply #2081 on:** September 7, 2017, 11:23:25 am »

For the music draft, are we assuming the artist we pick is at their peak and won't be doing shitty material from their latest album that didn't sell?

Betty Blue · « **Reply #2082 on:** September 7, 2017, 02:24:46 pm »

Quote from: tubby on September 7, 2017, 11:23:25 am

For the music draft, are we assuming the artist we pick is at their peak and won't be doing shitty material from their latest album that didn't sell?

Good question. I was thinking about this yesterday. I think either people could pick a best era for their musician/band or we could just go with a 'best of' scenario.

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2083 on:** September 7, 2017, 03:04:49 pm »

'Best of' makes sense....the shitty material from an artist's latest album shouldn't taint their other songs. Plus it's all subjective anyway, one person's 'shitty material' could be someone else's favourite song

Betty Blue · « **Reply #2084 on:** September 7, 2017, 03:29:40 pm »

Sound. That all makes good sense.

I reckon it might be good to set up a new thread to drum up interest now, as not everyone will check in here. Any thoughts on the name for the draft?

Maybe something like 'Ultimate Music Draft' is nice and simple. Could also add in the word 'live' to push that it's not just a hits draft.

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #2085 on:** September 7, 2017, 04:39:35 pm »

Quote from: Lfsea on September 7, 2017, 04:00:35 pm

I wonder if a few categories might be inserted to make it widely digestible and give it a small element of consistency so you can loosely compare.

Something along the lines of "a band that has had a 10m selling album" "a solo artist" "a girl group/singer" "has released an album since 2000"

That sounds good. I'm interested but would probably want to team up with someone for this.

Like an old NME ad, influences include Cradle of Filth, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Shampoo.

Betty Blue · « **Reply #2086 on:** September 7, 2017, 04:53:18 pm »

All discussion in here now:

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=336500.0

Samie · « **Reply #2087 on:** October 2, 2017, 11:26:44 pm »

Ultimate Sports Draft next?

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2088 on:** October 2, 2017, 11:28:45 pm »

Chocolate bars and sweets draft?

Crimson_Tank · « **Reply #2089 on:** October 2, 2017, 11:31:14 pm »

Quote from: Titi Camara on October 2, 2017, 11:28:45 pm

Chocolate bars and sweets draft?

Pass, I dont do sweets really. (parents were a dentist and dietitian)

Betty Blue · « **Reply #2090 on:** October 3, 2017, 12:07:47 am »

Quote from: Titi Camara on October 2, 2017, 11:28:45 pm

Chocolate bars and sweets draft?

IN

We could do a 'run your own TV channel' draft not unlike the film one. I also might run a second comic book draft.

Samie · « **Reply #2091 on:** October 3, 2017, 12:13:35 am »

Those Freddo's cost 50p now for fuck sakes.

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #2092 on:** October 3, 2017, 12:15:36 am »

Quote from: Samie on October 3, 2017, 12:13:35 am

Those Freddo's cost 50p now for fuck sakes.

Alright Peter Kay.

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2093 on:** October 6, 2017, 10:35:45 am »

Was there any consensus on what's next? Have to say I really enjoyed putting together my picks for the movie night draft and it brought about some decent chatter too.

Quote from: Samie on October 2, 2017, 11:26:44 pm

Ultimate Sports Draft next?

What's this? Picking sports? Picking athletes who compete in ultimate sports?

Quote from: Titi Camara on October 2, 2017, 11:28:45 pm

Chocolate bars and sweets draft?

Maybe this?

Something computer game related might be fun? 16 Bit games/characters? Arcade Icons?

TV Shows? Ultimate box set weekend?

Football? Struggling to come up with anything original...."greatest" Ev 11?

Motor Sports? Greatest drivers line ups?

Beer/Lager "Draught"?

Samie · « **Reply #2094 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:03:04 am »

Ultimate sportsmen/women/team stable.

red mongoose · « **Reply #2095 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:05:09 am »

We could do that book draft, but we should eliminate voting, because the voting in these is always fucked

Something like 8 books per person. Including at least:

1 non-fiction (any topic)
1 historical fiction/non-fiction
1 sci-fi/fantasy/horror series or standalone
1 crime/mystery
1 classic/canon

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2096 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:14:19 am »

Quote from: red mongoose on October 6, 2017, 11:05:09 am

We could do that book draft, but we should eliminate voting, because the voting in these is always fucked

Something like 8 books per person. Including at least:

1 non-fiction (any topic)
1 historical fiction/non-fiction
1 sci-fi/fantasy/horror series or standalone
1 crime/mystery
1 classic/canon

I almost made the suggestion about books but......................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2097 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:20:34 am »

Floated this one before, no harm in proposing it again:

The Cabinet Draft

Create a cabinet consisting of:
-   1 Prime Minister/President/King/Queen/Supreme Leader
-   1 Minister of Economy
-   1 Minister of Science
-   1 Foreign Minister
-   1 Minister of Defence/War
-   A few more categories I haven’t thought about yet

But the idea is that instead of making it a super boring political draft, you could pick any person from history. So you could have Klopp as Supreme Leader, Einstein as Minister of Science, Alexander the Great as Minister of War and so on.

tubby · « **Reply #2098 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:25:54 am »

In for the cabinet one, not really into the other suggestions.

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2099 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:37:04 am »

Anywhichwayicant · « **Reply #2100 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:38:01 am »

Samie · « **Reply #2101 on:** October 6, 2017, 11:47:23 am »

Go on then with KingLuis thing.

Klippity Klopp · « **Reply #2102 on:** October 6, 2017, 01:07:11 pm »

Lastrador · « **Reply #2103 on:** October 6, 2017, 03:29:13 pm »

I'm in for both the KL and the Mongoose suggestions.

Lastrador · « **Reply #2104 on:** October 6, 2017, 04:39:36 pm »

Still think Tubby's mixtape draft idea is a brilliant one btw.

Samie · « **Reply #2105 on:** October 7, 2017, 09:30:37 pm »

So...

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2106 on:** October 9, 2017, 10:48:24 am »

Quote from: KingLuis10 on October 6, 2017, 11:20:34 am

Floated this one before, no harm in proposing it again:

The Cabinet Draft

Create a cabinet consisting of:
-   1 Prime Minister/President/King/Queen/Supreme Leader
-   1 Minister of Economy
-   1 Minister of Science
-   1 Foreign Minister
-   1 Minister of Defence/War
-   A few more categories I haven’t thought about yet

But the idea is that instead of making it a super boring political draft, you could pick any person from history. So you could have Klopp as Supreme Leader, Einstein as Minister of Science, Alexander the Great as Minister of War and so on.

Time to get this moving I reckon.....

Here's the vast majority of our current cabinet, I've split it into those I'd suggest we draft on and those we leave out..

In The Draft
Prime Minister
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Secretary of State for Defence
Secretary of State for Education
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Secretary of State for Health
Secretary of State for Justice
Secretary of State for Transport

Out of The Draft
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Secretary of State for International Development
Secretary of State for International Trade
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

That would be 8 pics in total, more than enough. I'm also assuming we'd only pick real people? No fictional characters or people's alter egos?

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2107 on:** October 9, 2017, 11:11:31 am »

Happy to run this if there’s enough interest.

The idea would be to make it more of a “Great Persons” draft rather than strictly political, so I wouldn’t stay too close to the make-up of the actual cabinet as it is in real life. Picking a Secretary of State for Transport would be boring as fuck

Instead I’d have 8 Ministries which loosely correspond to subject areas where we can pick great people from history. So you’d have a Ministry of Defence/War, where you might want to pick a great general from history. You could have great artists/musicians in the Ministry of Culture, great scientists in the Ministry of Science, great diplomats in the Foreign Ministry, great sportsmen in the Ministry of Sport and so on.

The aim would be to create a cabinet that can lead your nation to glory

We can have write-ups explaining why you’ve picked each Minister, what their role would be, how they’d shape your nation etc.

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2108 on:** October 9, 2017, 11:19:56 am »

Regarding eligibility, I’d say we can pick anyone who we believe to have existed to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty. So no fictional characters, no alter egos, no myths and no legends. There’s bound to be a gray area, so any contentious picks can be discussed in the thread and hopefully we’ll reach a consensus.

One area which might be a bit touchy is religious figures. To avoid arguments I’d suggest that people are allowed to pick religious figures, but without relying on religious scriptures as evidence. So you could pick Jesus, but you’d be getting Jesus of Nazareth who gave teachings on Christianty, rather than Jesus as he appears in the Bible.

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2109 on:** October 9, 2017, 11:27:31 am »

Sounds good buddy. You wanna lay it all out (rules and regs wise) in a new thread, and we can get the signups going

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2110 on:** October 9, 2017, 11:30:15 am »

That said, Kimi Räikkönen as the Secretary of State for Transport would be hilarious!

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2111 on:** October 9, 2017, 11:39:19 am »

Quote from: Titi Camara on October 9, 2017, 11:30:15 am

That said, Kimi Räikkönen as the Secretary of State for Transport would be hilarious!

Super highways all over the place

I'll get the discussion thread up in a sec.

Titi Camara · « **Reply #2112 on:** October 9, 2017, 12:44:49 pm »

KingLuis10 · « **Reply #2113 on:** October 9, 2017, 01:00:37 pm »

Started doing the write up, then I got hungry

Knock yourselves out:

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=336858.0

Crimson_Tank · « **Reply #2114 on:** October 13, 2017, 08:37:18 pm »

Book Draft next?

Biography/Autobiography
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Childrens book
Young Adult book
Female Author
Non English (Translated work)
Book of Choice?

Sheer Magnetism · « **Reply #2115 on:** October 13, 2017, 10:30:34 pm »

Book draft's tricky because it takes a lot longer to get through a book than a film, so you're going to have too many choices where people can't make an informed decision because they haven't read it.

Personally, my choice would be the opposite of this one: a hate figure thread. Your six least favourite public figures on earth, to be marooned on a desert island together.

SP · « **Reply #2116 on:** October 13, 2017, 10:38:08 pm »

Quote from: Sheer Magnetism on October 13, 2017, 10:30:34 pm

Book draft's tricky because it takes a lot longer to get through a book than a film, so you're going to have too many choices where people can't make an informed decision because they haven't read it.

Personally, my choice would be the opposite of this one: a hate figure thread. Your six least favourite public figures on earth, to be marooned on a desert island together.

The current Tory cabinet.

L’enfer, c’est les autres

Sheer Magnetism · « **Reply #2117 on:** October 13, 2017, 10:57:27 pm »

There would be rules. One football figure allowed, one MP per party, no proven murderers.

Betty Blue · « **Reply #2118 on:** October 14, 2017, 11:00:43 am »

Quote from: Sheer Magnetism on October 13, 2017, 10:57:27 pm

There would be rules. One football figure allowed, one MP per party, no proven murderers.

Pretty sure whoever picks Hodgson wins.

Crimson_Tank · « **Reply #2119 on:** October 14, 2017, 03:39:35 pm »

Quote from: Betty Blue on October 14, 2017, 11:00:43 am

Pretty sure whoever picks Hodgson wins.

First one to pick would grab Trump or May and win handedly.