[QUOTE=jasong;306709]One thing which would be interesting is to take a game from a scifi show or movie and try to turn it into a real game. [/quote]
The running man (book version)?

Was watching another round of the world's top male gymnasts getting nipped in the bum by the London-arena pommel horse ... and it brought to mind the scene in [i]Monty Python and the Holy Grail[/i] where Arthur and his band of silly English kniggits encounter The Killer Rabbit: [i]"That's no ordinary rabbit..."[/i]

In your heaviest Scottish accent, repeat after me: [i]"That's no orrrdinarry pommel horse...it's currrrrsed, ah tell yew..."[/i]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;306722]The running man (book version)?[/QUOTE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk"]The Long Walk[/URL].

[url=rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/asia-brings-the-color-to-an-otherwise-drab-olympics/?ref=world]Asia Brings Drama to an Otherwise Drab Olympics[/url]

One of the NoKo female lifters was in the finalists group of the women's 48kg class I mentioned a few days ago. As with the Chinese swimmer, I congratulate them on their success, assuming it was fairly earned.

I admire the South Koreans' competitive drive, but in reply to their press whining about alleged anti-Korean bias, I offer 3 short words (a name, actually):

Roy Jones Jr.

Until that shameful incident is rectified, you have zero right to complain about "biased" judging. Zero.

[QUOTE=sonjohan;306720]Good, then you can make the rules up. (so you always win :smile: )[/QUOTE]Well the description that was given was enough to start out.
3 teams
hexagonal field
a large heavy bag (weighing enough that it requires multiple individuals to move it)
2 classes of participants (negotiators/directors and the bigger, stronger carriers)
Bag starts in the center of the field.
Teams attempt to score points be dragging the bag across their own goal line. Opponents try to stop them.
2 points for dragging the bag across your main (unshared) goal line.[SIZE="1"]
See illustration
[/SIZE]1 point to each team for dragging the bag across their shared goal line (the line that joins their main goal lines.)
Play is either timed or a set number of rounds are played.
The winning team is the one with the most total points at the end of play.

that is bad, as two teams can ally together and they will always win by dragging the bag to the shared line. I would make that a penalty line, the two teams lose one point each. :smile: now the third team has a counter strategy if the first two teams ally, but this is also not fool proof. Designing good games is harder then factoring.

[QUOTE=LaurV;306800]that is bad, as two teams can ally together and they will always win by dragging the bag to the shared line. [/QUOTE]Then they would tie. The negotiators plan the play with possible allies.

Best camera work of last night for me was the underwater cam tracking one of the men's 50m freestyle finalists, showing that he swam the entire distance without taking a breath.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;306841]Best camera work of last night for me was the underwater cam tracking one of the men's 50m freestyle finalists, showing that he swam the entire distance without taking a breath.[/QUOTE]

Uggghhh... the underwater camera work on the shooting/archery events has been terrible.

Forgot to mention -- I normally dislike the gymnastics coverage because of the excessive hype and outright network [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182682/London-Olympics-NBC-furor-accused-creating-suspense-womens-gymnastics-final.html]fakery[/url] used to create artificial "suspense", but the [i]Matrix[/i]-style rotating camera system that's been used to show slo-mos on the vault is way cool. (I don't know if that is owned by the Olympic hosts or is NBC-proprietary.)

Also not a fan of the water polo, but thought I'd keep fans of that sport [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182391/NBC-airs-water-polo-wardrobe-malfunction-Shocked-viewers-players-breast.html]abreast of recent happenings[/url].

[QUOTE=ewmayer;306841]Best camera work of last night for me was the underwater cam tracking one of the men's 50m freestyle finalists, showing that he swam the entire distance without taking a breath.[/QUOTE]

That's usual, all Top guys don't breathe at all, that's 21-22 secs. It's the same as the 100 m in athletics (9-10 secs).