Annual Barcrawl Suggestion - Game of Thrones

Accalon

*TO BE CLEAR AND AVOID ANY CONFUSION THIS IS A SUGGESTION THREAD AND NOT AN OFFICIALLY ORGANIZED EVENT (yet)*


Drinking Game of Thrones


Over the last several years we've managed to put on one of the largest barcrawls in Seattle and it's something I look forward to each year as an essential part of my PAX experience! There's nothing quite like romping through Cap Hill in Wizard caps and gowns chanting and singing. :whistle:

However, I feel something of this awesomeness has begun to outgrow it's previous Harry Potter ensemble, with Houses filling close to or over 100 last year. Trying to cram 100+ people through 1 bar 1 hour can be a real drag at times. There needs to be a way to expand the crawl into more organized groups of smaller numbers; we would really take over the hill.

EDIT: The 2011 4th Annual Tri-wizard Drinking Tournament is a go so no changes this year on that crawl.

I think Game of Thrones would be a perfect new theme to take a crawl! It gives us several more houses to expand into with all the diversity and charisma of our beloved Harry Potter houses. Oh and it's awesome. I mean you've seen the show right? If not, you need to go change that right now!

For Houses I was thinking

• Stark
• Lannister
• Baratheon
• Greyjoy
• Tully
• Arryn
• Targaryen
• The Night's Watch

Each would have their own Lord and/or Lady and any other fun titles. We could even crown a House King of the Seven Kingdoms for raising the most money for Child's Play.

Well I think this is a great idea and I want to know if there's any support in it. Let me know what you think or even which house you'd choose!

PAX is coming.

If you want to know more about the houses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_houses_in_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire

This is Quiz to see which house you belong in, it's not the best, but it's something.
http://www.gotoquiz.com/in_which_game_of_thrones_house_do_you_belong_1

Neelix

I like how you posted a pic of yourself in your Tyrion Lannister costume, Ryan.

Ser Seadub Knightfalcon, bannerman of the House of Arryn and the Vale, is in!

Liger

I, Liger, of the house Targaryen will be in attendance! Although I may be a bit late. My steel horse fears the waters between work and downtown.

EDIT:

Neelix wrote: »

I like how you posted a pic of yourself in your Tyrion Lannister costume, Ryan

LMAO

Shaddz

I, Shaddz of the Night Watch (I really have no idea what the Night Watch is yet, I've only just finished the first episode) wish to partake in the night's shenanigans!

I hope I'm not in a BAD house... I would've hated to be in Slytherin!

CatBoy

the "campers" have to claim "the Nights Watch" for we are the keepers who watch over *bar is up in the air for we don't know which one will be"the wall"*.

tr0tsky

CatBoy wrote: »

the "campers" have to claim "the Nights Watch" for we are the keepers who watch over *bar is up in the air for we don't know which one will be"the wall"*.

No, sorry. The Canadians are the Night's Watch...or perhaps we're the Wildlings? Because we live in the frozen north beyond the wall.

Jenny_Spaghetti

I'd go with Targaryen and put hubby (Maetrix) in Stark.

Liger

IDEA!!! Anyone who shows up to PAX the next day with a hangover has to say they got a crown of gold.

Accalon

Have a designated bar for Castle Black from which brothers of the Night's Watch could not leave. If they're found abandoning their post at another bar they have to take an "execution" shot.

tr0tsky

Accalon wrote: »

Have a designated bar for Castle Black from which brothers of the Night's Watch could not leave. If they're found abandoning their post at another bar they have to take an "execution" shot.

Alternatively, the Night's Watch are the people who are accompanying the crawl but not drinking.

Liger

tr0tsky wrote: »

Accalon wrote: »

Have a designated bar for Castle Black from which brothers of the Night's Watch could not leave. If they're found abandoning their post at another bar they have to take an "execution" shot.

Alternatively, the Night's Watch are the people who are accompanying the crawl but not drinking.

OR members of the Night's Watch can be sent to other bars with neighboring kingdoms to recruit new members.

Shaddz

Actually I think Tr0tsky has something there, Liger.

Make the designated sober people the "Night Watch", and they get a cool badge as a thank you.

Mystral721

Shaddz wrote: »

Actually I think Tr0tsky has something there, Liger.

Make the designated sober people the "Night Watch", and they get a cool badge as a thank you.

They are good at dealing with the undead, which describes most of the people near the end of the crawl.

Liger

I like it. Night Watch, protecting us all from The Others.

Accalon

Wouldn't each house have the equivalent of the Kingsguard who protect their Lords and citizens?

ProjektSoul

Sounds like a fun idea! Still debating on a house as I watch more of the series, but I'm leaning more and more towards House Tully. "Family, Duty, Honor"

zerzhul

not commenting on the main idea itself, but as far as the size goes, there was success for the East crawl by simply splitting up each team into two 50 person groups to create the 8 groups you speak of, so it's not like the 4 houses for HP is an actual limitation on organization.

Jediknightkarl

Does this mean its not going to be the 4th Annual Triwizard Drinking Tournament? =(

CaptainTapole

Fear not, that is in the works right now as we speak.

This is just a mere suggestion for next year's Prime and there after.

Ilyea of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, has spoken. :P

Heleor

Are you volunteering to host and organize this? Have you spoken to Atlus?

TNTrooper

A Lannister always finishes his drink.

Binkley

Night Watch should totally be the muggles / non-drinkers!

I do think this is a dynamite idea though, and you can have hilarious quotes like "A Lannister always pays his tab" and "The things I do for *insert alcohol/drink here*."

Yeah I think I gotta roll House Lannister. Jaime is totally the Char/Graham of the Game of Thrones Universe!

TOGSolid

However, I feel something of this awesomeness has begun to outgrow it's previous Harry Potter ensemble, with Houses filling close to or over 100 last year. Trying to cram 100+ people through 1 bar 1 hour can be a real drag at times. There needs to be a way to expand the crawl into more organized groups of smaller numbers; we would really take over the hill.

For this year's Triwizard, why not split each house into grades? The heavyweight drinkers could roll in one group (seniors, or whatever the Harry Potter universe calls it) and then have the lighter drinkers roll in another group?

I dunno, just an idea.

I'll have to take that quiz later, I don't watch TV so I have no idea who any of these houses are.
(Before anyone mentions the books: I'm balls deep in WH40k books to read so GoT is waaaaaaay on the backburner)
EDIT: According to the quiz I'm in House Targaryen. Whatever, as long as it's a match for all that Slytherin dominance from last year then I'm good to go!

afipanic

This all looks interesting to me, and I have always wanted to read those books as well.
Question is, do I need to know all the lore etc. to participate? Because I have no problem reading the books before PAX.

I am newer to the community and PAX and just want to be in everything as much as possible.

The quiz said I am House Stark. Seems fitting to me!

Sageheart

Aw, and I was sooo looking forward to hitting up the new Harry Potter area at Universal Studios to stock up on bar crawl stuff!!!

Oh well, I took the quiz and it says I belong in House Stark so sign me up!

Winter is Coming... and it wants to get DRUNK!

zerzhul

I think this is causing some serious confusion from what I can tell.

This thread is NOT this year's barcrawl thread, it is merely a suggestion thread for barcrawls.

TOGSolid

zerzhul wrote: »

I think this is causing some serious confusion from what I can tell.

This thread is NOT this year's barcrawl thread, it is merely a suggestion thread for barcrawls.

Perhaps a thread title change would help? Since it's merely a suggestion thread, then I'd like to kinda push my idea of just splitting each house into two drinking grades.

Atlus Parker

Let's put this to bed right now.

This year's bar crawl theme is The Fourth Annual Triwizard Tournament

This thread was made without consulting me at all and now you see the harm as people are getting confused.

Two months before PAX is not the time to suggest a theme change. People have already been hard at work preparing for this year's bar crawl. And in the event the theme changed I can guarantee you that it would not be Game of Thrones.

zerzhul wrote:

not commenting on the main idea itself, but as far as the size goes, there was success for the East crawl by simply splitting up each team into two 50 person groups to create the 8 groups you speak of, so it's not like the 4 houses for HP is an actual limitation on organization.

This right here. Plans have been in place since the last Triwizard ended to better handle the crowds. These changes were implemented at this year's Pokecrawl and worked beautifully.

In summation, this year's theme is not changing. The time for this discussion is after the bar crawl. Expect actual information within the next week or so as I continue to get my ducks in a row.

Go Gryffindor!

TOGSolid

Atlus Parker wrote: »

stuff

Fantastic news. Should this thread go ahead and get locked then?

Go Gryffindor!

Not on my watch!

Moe Fwacky

Yeah to avoid confusion it's probably for the best.

Moe Fwacky

Because of apparent outcry on twitter, I'm unlocking this thread now. If anybody has any problems with that, too bad.

Accalon

Thank you Moe.

Atlas, you've always put on a great and well organized event. This was a suggestion and I'm disappointed you reacted so negatively.

Everyone else!! I've liked the ideas I've heard so far and apparently this has SOME support so let's not try and silence the citizens of PAX just yet.

PAX is coming.

SmallLady

first..

I actually really like the GoT idea. However, I really do think that a suggestions discussion should wait until after pax.

At this point atlus & his gnomes will have the planing well underway for the crawl, and things like button designs could already be done.

Offtopic: every tweet about pax until pax is here should be #paxiscoming

zerzhul

One of the key advantages things like HP and Pokemon have as themes is very widespread appeal and knowledge. I could very well be wrong, but I think there are still a large number of people that probably don't even know what GoT *is* (regardless of like or dislike). It's also possible that something doesn't need to be so iconic to be a successful theme for a large event, but it's something to consider... maybe as a point of "timing" given that it's fairly new as far as potential reach goes.

zerzhul

SmallLady wrote: »

Offtopic: every tweet about pax until pax is here should be #paxiscoming

^5

MonkeyConQueso

Suggestion then: Either A) let this thread die and re-post after PAX Prime this year, or change this thread into a poll for suggestions on what next years PAX Drinking Tournament should be (Game of Thrones, Pokémon, Harry Potter, DC/Marvel, Rocko's Modern Life, ... ?)

At the very least, maybe the thread title should be Annual Barcrawl Suggestion 2012 - ****. Just to avoid possible confusion (don't see how this thread was confusing, except at a quick glance).

E: Apparently I spel gud.

eye-shuh

I have never watched Game of Thrones, but from the picture I'm guessing I can bring a nerf sword and fit, which sounds good to me.

Subnote: As much fun as I've had at Triwizard (which is a lot, mind you), it is does not have a patent on drinking at PAX. If someone wants to go off boozing with another group, well, that's what they'll do. There wouldn't have been any confusion about this replacing the Triwizard if people had read the OP thoroughly.

EDIT: I realize it is a thread about changing the theme of Triwizard, just seems like people are freaking out about going up against the Triwizard Gods. :P

Atlus Parker

Accalon wrote: »

Atlas, you've always put on a great and well organized event. This was a suggestion and I'm disappointed you reacted so negatively.

I'd still like to know how having a thread locked that is causing actual confusion is a negative reaction.

SmallLady wrote:

first..

I actually really like the GoT idea. However, I really do think that a suggestions discussion should wait until after pax.

At this point atlus & his gnomes will have the planing well underway for the crawl, and things like button designs could already be done.

This. I don't just put things together overnight. Planning for the next bar crawl actually starts day after the current one ends. So the time for feedback is then. Not two months prior to the next one happening.

zerzhul wrote:

One of the key advantages things like HP and Pokemon have as themes is very widespread appeal and knowledge. I could very well be wrong, but I think there are still a large number of people that probably don't even know what GoT *is* (regardless of like or dislike). It's also possible that something doesn't need to be so iconic to be a successful theme for a large event, but it's something to consider... maybe as a point of "timing" given that it's fairly new as far as potential reach goes.

And this. At this point GoT is nowhere near as prolific as any other nerd friendly franchise. Unless it manages to blow up in a big way it won't be ingrained in our culture the way Harry Potter, Pokemon, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, etc are. Again I ask, why was no one asking for a GoT theme before it was turned into a TV series? Where was the interest then?

eye-shuh wrote:

I have never watched Game of Thrones, but from the picture I'm guessing I can bring a nerf sword and fit, which sounds good to me.

Subnote: As much fun as I've had at Triwizard (which is a lot, mind you), it is does not have a patent on drinking at PAX. If someone wants to go off boozing with another group, well, that's what they'll do. There wouldn't have been any confusion about this replacing the Triwizard if people had read the OP thoroughly.

EDIT: I realize it is a thread about changing the theme of Triwizard, just seems like people are freaking out about going up against the Triwizard Gods.

And people are free to make decisions accordingly. I'm not stopping anyone from running off and playing Son of Barad-Gur. Funny choice of words in your edit btw.

Edit: Apparently there is no longer a :roll: emoticon.

akjak

I did kind of like the idea, but I do already have my "costume" for TWDT

That said, if this ever comes about my group and I will be "taking the Black," as we're from Alaska and the Wall is as North as it gets (well...)

Accalon

MonkeyConQueso wrote: »

At the very least, maybe the thread title should be Annual Barcrawl Sussgestion 2012 - ****. Just to avoid possible confusion (don't see how this thread was confusing, except at a quick glance).

I think this is a good idea, and as soon as the Official Tri-Wiz thread goes up there won't be any issues.

If this is something we want to do this year, would there be interest in doing another crawl somewhere else or should we shoot for 2012?

Accalon

Atlus Parker wrote: »

I'd still like to know how having a thread locked that is causing actual confusion is a negative reaction.

Because locking a thread is not the solution, as is obvious at this point.

Atlus Parker wrote: »

Again I ask, why was no one asking for a GoT theme before it was turned into a TV series? Where was the interest then?

This is true. So what? Season 1 on HBO has been a huge success with several seasons to come. It's fresh and new with boundless potential. I don't see how that makes it exempt for discussion as an option either as a new theme for the crawl, or a new crawl in and of itself.