TDOS Draft to End All Drafts - Round 20

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D-Mass

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Nope...not my students. It's a pic from a NY Times article. Figured putting a pic of my own students was a bad idea. Besides, I have middle-schoolers...they'd be rolling around on the ground.

And kids point at computer screens...usually touching them so hard they cause a visible distortion in the image. One of my pet peeves...
 
pdxKingsFan

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My first pick, and probably a universal theme that ties everything together...

Rock 'n' Roll
An obvious first pick since the words alone are a euphemism for the act that presumably brought all of us here. Yeah its music, but so much more. Like the title of one of my favorite comps, its Loud, Fast and Out of Control. Its a way of life. Its wreckless, aggressive and in your face. From the wild 50s, to the garages in the 60s to the punks in the 70s and 80s, to the revivalists of the modern eras, there's a traceable lineage to those early riffs and the first time anybody overdrove an amp. Its rock n' roll baby, and its here to stay.


 
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SacKings7

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Noooooooooo, the internet was my pick :mad::mad:

Well, I'm gonna go off the top of my head here now, because I don't have a list made. My 1st pick:


All the draftees from the Hot Babes draft (excluding Paris Hilton) :D

*Photos available upon request
 
Bricklayer

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SacKings7 said:
Noooooooooo, the internet was my pick :mad::mad:

Well, I'm gonna go off the top of my head here now, because I don't have a list made. My 1st pick:


All the draftees from the Hot Babes draft (excluding Paris Hilton) :D

*Photos available upon request
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Hey now, while I do not wish to be uncharitable, especially on a topic on which I was so intimately involved, how exactly is that "one favorite thing", even by the ridiculously broad standards of this draft so far? Can I just claim "all the pretty girls in the world" as my next pick? We're only going to need about 2 rounds in this draft before we've divied up the entire planet. :p
 
SacKings7

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Bricklayer said:
Hey now, while I do not wish to be uncharitable, especially on a topic on which I was so intimately involved, how exactly is that "one favorite thing", even by the ridiculously broad standards of this draft so far? Can I just claim "all the pretty girls in the world" as my next pick? We're only going to need about 2 rounds in this draft before we've divied up the entire planet. :p
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I was little concerned that wouldn't be allowed actually. But after seeing "science" and "rock and roll" taken I figured that it would be ok. I can pick again if anybody else has a problem with it.

P.S. I left you Paris Hilton :p
 
GoGoGadget

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Bricklayer said:
Hey now, while I do not wish to be uncharitable, especially on a topic on which I was so intimately involved, how exactly is that "one favorite thing", even by the ridiculously broad standards of this draft so far? Can I just claim "all the pretty girls in the world" as my next pick? We're only going to need about 2 rounds in this draft before we've divied up the entire planet. :p
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According to pdx's original vision of this draft there is no topic too broad (though I might argue if someone were to just draft "everything" in one pick), which is the reason that same/similar items are able to be drafted in different configurations. SacKings7's drafting of the Hot Babe Draft girls doesn't take those girls off the table completely; they are all still available to be drafted individually or as a part of some other group/theme. Just as AleksandarN's drafting of the internet doesn't rule out the possibility of someone else taking a website.

To use your hypothetical (rather than spoiling other ideas), "all the pretty girls in the world" could still be drafted. However, if SacKings7 felt that directly infringed on his pick, he could challenge and possibly go through arbitration (leaving the decision up to VF21, who has graciously accepted the job of impartial arbiter).

Pdx can of course chime in if this is incorrect, but I think it's easiest to think of this draft more in terms of wishlists than an actual physical universe in which these things can only exist on one island at a time. The challenge system exists because we would like to see lists unique enough to make voting possible, but the fun of the draft is in seeing everyone's creativity and personal taste.
 
pdxKingsFan

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GoGoGadget said:
According to pdx's original vision of this draft there is no topic too broad (though I might argue if someone were to just draft "everything" in one pick), which is the reason that same/similar items are able to be drafted in different configurations. SacKings7's drafting of the Hot Babe Draft girls doesn't take those girls off the table completely; they are all still available to be drafted individually or as a part of some other group/theme. Just as AleksandarN's drafting of the internet doesn't rule out the possibility of someone else taking a website.

To use your hypothetical (rather than spoiling other ideas), "all the pretty girls in the world" could still be drafted. However, if SacKings7 felt that directly infringed on his pick, he could challenge and possibly go through arbitration (leaving the decision up to VF21, who has graciously accepted the job of impartial arbiter).

Pdx can of course chime in if this is incorrect, but I think it's easiest to think of this draft more in terms of wishlists than an actual physical universe in which these things can only exist on one island at a time. The challenge system exists because we would like to see lists unique enough to make voting possible, but the fun of the draft is in seeing everyone's creativity and personal taste.
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Totally within the original concept. I would say that Brick's example is borderline but that if someone wanted to just pick "girls" or "women" that is also entirely within the concept. Or they could pick any other list of women, including one of the individual draft entries.

What I don't like about Brick's example is that you could use this as a too easy way to intrude on other picks. For example I have selected Rock n Roll. Anyone else could pick a band or a specific genre of Rock n Roll music. But I don't think we would want to allow someone to pick "Good Rock n Roll".
 
Bricklayer

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Totally within the original concept. I would say that Brick's example is borderline but that if someone wanted to just pick "girls" or "women" that is also entirely within the concept. Or they could pick any other list of women, including one of the individual draft entries.

What I don't like about Brick's example is that you could use this as a too easy way to intrude on other picks. For example I have selected Rock n Roll. Anyone else could pick a band or a specific genre of Rock n Roll music. But I don't think we would want to allow someone to pick "Good Rock n Roll".
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I'm just wondering why anybody is ever going to pick a single example of anything as long as vast generalizations or sets will do and there is all kinds of overlap. Even setting aside SacKings Hot Babes girls, I could just as easily say "all the pretty girls NOT in the Hot Babes draft" rather than just picking a favorite one.
 
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VF21

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Suggestion? Instead of playing what if or wondering why, perhaps it would be easier just to wait and see if it happens and deal with it then?
 
SacKings7

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Bricklayer said:
I'm just wondering why anybody eis ever going to pick a single example of anything as long as vast generalizations or sets will do and there is all kinds of overlap. Even settign aside SacKings girls, I could just as easily say "all the pretty girls NOT in the Hot Babes draft" rather than jsut picking a favorite one.
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Yeah even though I generalized my last pick, I'm not gonna be doing that too much with the rest of my picks
 
pdxKingsFan

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Bricklayer said:
I'm just wondering why anybody is ever going to pick a single example of anything as long as vast generalizations or sets will do and there is all kinds of overlap. Even setting aside SacKings Hot Babes girls, I could just as easily say "all the pretty girls NOT in the Hot Babes draft" rather than just picking a favorite one.
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The whole idea was picking concepts and things that don't fit into one easily draftable category, and just give you the leeway to be as creative as possible. It also assumed some general amount of anarchy.
 
Bricklayer

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You know, when I saw my crappy draft position in this draft I thought I was not going to get this. But when I noticed that every single drafter picking above me was a man -- in fact so far as I can tell every single drafter other than GGG in this one is a man -- I knew there was a real chance. Because as many a woman will tell you: men are dumb.

So I pick:


Chocolate

For food, for drink, hell, I may even bathe in it as long as I have all of it.
 
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Jespher

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So remember that guy everyone was worried would pick the really broad things and be all inclusive? That was me :). With my first pick in the drafts to end all drafts, I thought I'd go for a real doozie of a first pick, therefore I select:

Life



Not the cereal, but life in any form, in any time, on this planet and otherwise. Life has so many wonderful forms and features from humans to horseflies, dinosaurs to dandilions, protists to pigeons, aliens to elves, vegetation to viruses, and fruit to fungus. I don't know where I'd be without it, and it's mine, all mine :D!!!
 
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pdxKingsFan

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Good pick, but I'm pretty sure the rest of us still get to live :)

I'm actually a big fan of Bozz's simplicity. By ommiting any description whatsoever he pretty much gets a two for one with an activity and a food item. Well played sir.
 
VF21

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Bricklayer said:
You know, when I saw my crappy draft position in this draft I thought I was not going to get this. But when I noticed that every single drafter picking above me was a man -- in fact so far as I can tell every single drafter other than GGG in this one is a man -- I knew there was a real chance. Because as many a woman will tell you: men are dumb.

So I pick:


Chocolate

For food, for drink, hell, I may even bathe in it as long as I have all of it.
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You win...
 
SLAB

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For the first pick in the good draft I choose...



The Weather.

If I want it overcast, 75 degrees, with a slight wind, so it is!

If I want a Hawaiian torrential downpour, so it is~!

A vicious thunderstorm that has no effect on me?
So be it!!!


The weather is what I want it to be.
 
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