One of the secrets to Slytherin's success (I'm featured in the picture drinking from the cup) was to have 4+ people in charge, and to discuss as much as possible ahead of time. I'm glad a lot of people had fun, and I hope even those who didn't have the best time come back and help us make the event even more successful next time.
I was very disappointed in the chapel. Next year, if they don't have more than two servers, I think we should devise a back up plan. They were warned right?
This is my first time on the pub crawl, but wasn't Chapel full of epic fail last year? I say we drop them entirely. They can't seem to get this whole math thing figured out.
It was Gryffindors last bar, and when I tried to get a drink there were three people behind the bar. I'm not entirely sure what they were doing, since I didn't actually see them take anyone's order in the 20 minutes I waited. I didn't think I was THAT drunk - did anyone else have trouble getting their attention? I waved money around, and called out to each person that passed asking for water. Just water!
Eventually I gave up and walked away - someone presented me with booze later, but I have no idea how they managed to get the bartender's attention. There has to be some sort of code word, or special move.
I had a pleasant time sitting outside on the steps talking to my teammates. Well, shouting. I'm so loud.
I'm sorry that I offended some people. Life is not always perfect and I know this. My intent was to point out that all things were not Wine, Women and Song at this year's pub crawl. Maybe you (yes, you!) had a great time. That doesn't give you a lock on the "truth". Not everyone had a great evening.
I wasn't aware of the complete lack of leadership in our house until much later. The next day, actually, when I was able to compare notes with my girlfriend. As it was, I had my hands full with a much smaller group. I saw our little party teeter over the edge of sobriety and felt that something wasn't quite working right; I stopped drinking and started shepherding.
@juju: You are my personal hero! I've been in your shoes in the past. You did an AWESOME job! It is so totally NOT YOUR FAULT that our little group didn't have fun. In fact, most of -my- time (and a significant reason why I wasn't drinking/having fun) was spent watching over a small group of Hufflepuffs, myself.
@atlus: I'm aware of the "overcrowding" issue, and you're 100% correct that some of my complaints stem from that root cause. The rest could probably be lumped into the "lack of leadership" bucket. I'm glad that you were able to see my feedback in the light it was intended and I look forward to seeing what solutions you've come up with for the next crawl. We're going to make real effort to get out to Boston next year, so if you need some beta testers... :winky:
@trolls: How about you get a clue, take off those rose-colored glasses, and stop posting like spoiled crybabies? I didn't think it was important to whine about the several hours we spent camping a barstool next to our (disabled) Head of House. Instead of mindlessly drinking and ignoring the chaos around us, we were doing our part to help out in any way that we could. We put in enough effort trying to help our house that we were awarded with a very special shot glass. Image link
Having said that, we will be going into our next crawl with a bit more info than "meet here at this time" and expect others to lead the way. Had we known that were going to be expected to lead our own group, I'm sure we would have gone into this with very different expectations and had a much better time.
I was very disappointed in the chapel. Next year, if they don't have more than two servers, I think we should devise a back up plan. They were warned right?
They were warned ahead of time for sure. Tajah was very thorough. Personally I never had an issue getting drinks there. I know I downed 5-6 rounds there so maybe I monopolized one of the servers to the point where no one else could get drinks. While I certainly don't want to drop The Chapel as I said we're going to be needing more bars for next year I will have Tajah have a serious talk with them next year about whether or not they want our galleons.
Having said that, we will be going into our next crawl with a bit more info than "meet here at this time" and expect others to lead the way. Had we known that were going to be expected to lead our own group, I'm sure we would have gone into this with very different expectations and had a much better time.
"Meet here at this time" should be all the info you need but again Hufflepuff became the new Slytherin this year. That was not how it was intended.
I was very disappointed in the chapel. Next year, if they don't have more than two servers, I think we should devise a back up plan. They were warned right?
They were warned ahead of time for sure. Tajah was very thorough. Personally I never had an issue getting drinks there. I know I downed 5-6 rounds there so maybe I monopolized one of the servers to the point where no one else could get drinks. While I certainly don't want to drop The Chapel as I said we're going to be needing more bars for next year I will have Tajah have a serious talk with them next year about whether or not they want our galleons.
Yeah you experience seems to be the exception rather than the rule. I waited with a fellow Ravenclaw and two challengers in line for an hour. We go one person from the bar and then the line just stalled there. Then the announcement to leave was made. Never got our drinks. Heard this story multiple times from my housemates and other houses.
Wow I had no idea that things ended up so poorly for Hufflepuff, but I guess I should've guessed from the juju video segment at the end.
I'm totally willing to help out next time (I did pass out scorecards to some people at the beginning and in front of Clever Dunnes). I do have an iPhone (whoo GPS) and decent tolerance / can stop drinking (or not drink GASP) if I am in a leadership role.
But yeah overcrowding is becoming an issue, maybe we should consider charging a membership fee (% to Childs Play of course) to the houses and like picking bigger bars? Or maybe we can try to rent a place out? (I guess that might be prohibitively expensive.) I suppose if the PAX East test run goes well this will hopefully be a non-issue next year.
I also agree that Chapel is not a great bar. However, it was better this year than last year when the bartender swore at me and threw my change back in my face...but that is not saying much.
All the groups left from the pre-pax dinner like way fucking early (more than an hour early) but whatever, I guess that's fine. The thing is, I was keeping track of the time in relation to the actual schedule the whole time, and we were always around 30 minutes early. Not that that ended up mattering since we stayed at bars longer, people were milling about so it all worked out in the end.
I have to say Sumi and PunkJr did a great job as always. I had no idea who our head of house was, or if he was even there.
Linda's - Was awesome. The first bar is usually good. Getting to meet all the people, setting up, and pounding down all your stuff. I had great fun there and managed to snag a 5 hour energy off of someone (punk?).
The Elite/Clever Dunne's - I think we all know that this bar was way too fuckin' small, I didn't even go inside and just headed over to Clever Dunne's which was across the street. I had an awesome time there, did my challenge. Then a whole swarm of hufflepuffs showed up (because we had gotten there early) and I was somehow finagled to do the challenge 3 more times (damn you nomad, pinder, and twinkie :D:D). I don't think I paid for any of those, some random guy there bought jaeger bombs.
The Crescent - hell yeah this place awesome with the karaoke. I got a drink real quick here. It didn't seem like we were here that long, probably because I got held up at Clever Dunne's with the attack of the hufflepuffs.
The Chapel - Fuck this place. It was super packed. It appeared that they had 3 bartenders but it didn' seem like they were doing much as I waited about 35 minutes to get one drink and just got the hell out of there after.
The Met - This is my favourite bar on the route, I don't really know why, but I really like it. I managed to do a shot of something or other here and then went outside and got my hands on a PWNY! wooo (I don't remember getting this, I only found it in my bag the next morning)
I posted earlier in the thread about my adventure getting back to the hotel.
Also, I am totally down for being leadership of some sort next year. This year and last year I ended up being map guy anyway. I lurves it.
I found it just as fun as last year, although of course it was more crowded.
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Might as well give me recap/critique:
Linda's - Yeah, I missed the first stop completely. Was at the Rock Band 3 preview party at Jillian's.
Elite - Spent about 20 minutes outside and however long it took to down 3 rounds (had to play catchup) inside before heading to Dunne's. Spent the whole time at Dunne's wondering WTF was going on.
Crescent - Full bar "Bohemian Rhapsody" = awesome (although thank to PAX/RB3, it might be a while before I actually want to hear that song again). Not getting a drink because it was impossible to tell the difference between the drink line and people just milling about, especially since the place isn't all that big.
Chapel - Yeah, service here blew. Waited at least 20 minutes to finally get a drink, and in the process of waiting missed the call to move to the Met (I heard the siren, but I figured that was just to amp up Ravenclaw since those vile Slytherin were also amongst us).
Cafe Met - Definitely the best stop. Actually got served in a decent amount of time, could hear conversations. Got all my stickers and got my PWNY! Wound up escorting a Hufflepuff who for some reason tagged along with us to Barca to rejoin his group. Got a challenge coin and Dick's out of it, so it's a good trade.
Suggestion: 50 people per team max, no exceptions, end of story, etc. etc. Demand is obviously there for more, but the bars can't take them, and herding that people is a nightmare. To accommodate (and I don't make this suggestion flippantly, since this basically doubles the workload on the organizers) is having parallel crawls in different neighborhoods. Overcrowding is what made me ditch the Pokecrawl at the second stop, and I'm seriously considering skipping next year's TWDT (or joining the Enforcer campers) for the same reason.
Fake edit: Props to Sumi for handling the chaos best she could, especially after Sherpa went and got himself lost (which he told me after came to my department Friday).
Real edit: Sorry those of you in Ravenclaw who got lost, Magellan couldn't perform his duties, because, well, Rock Band 3.
I didn't wake up hung over, but I'm pretty sure I woke up still drunk.
Ditto.
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I woke up still drunk, proceeded to walk over to Charlie's to have breakfast with my wife, and started to feel horrible. Thankfully I made it home without any issues and took a nice long nap until noon. PAX was started for me around 1:30PM on Friday.
This being my first Triwizard, I think it went as well as it could for Hufflepuff. I had a hell of a time, even after seeing I spent $300 that night and I still don't remember leaving Barca.
Juju, you did an awesome job, because it is hard to corral a hundred drunks to one given point.
My suggestion for next triwizard is possibly make a death-eaters camp to split the groups up a little more. I know it is outside of the traditional "Triwizard tournament" theme, but maybe just having that 5th house could thin down the houses just a tad?
One problem I had with the Chapel was that they didn't know how to make any drink my !Ravenclaw challenger or I ordered. So we both got some blue shot of something for our DAtDA challenge and called it good.
Cafe Met was totally awesome because they had plush velvet chairs and were showing Prisoner of Azkaban, I felt like I was in the !Slytherin dungeon.
Btw, Maledicte I'd like to see that picture.
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I had an absolutely amazing time, but I will say some bars were unprepared. Cafe Met was amazing, they were themed and everything, and had a tiny bar, but had a bartender every 2 feet filling up the entire back of it. Chapel, like has been brought up here, was terrible about drinks. It seemed like they had 2-3 bartenders to serve the gigantic bar that was being hit by 3 sides. The place itself was pretty cool, dancing, lights, a lot of space(and i heard it had a bubble area that was closed, which sucked), but they need to hire like 7 more bartenders for that night to actually make the place bearable to drink at. Crescent wasn't too bad(I think I did cut in front of the line on accident. Sorry guys), Clever Dunns wasn't too bad either. Like I said though, Cafe Met had harry potter on the wall, and the harry potter themed shots..that was awesome.
Wait, Crescent had a line? I just walked up to the bar and got served immediately - the bartenders weren't really helping anyone either, so I don't THINK I cut...
Deadlysherpa was there, I was kinda a keener and was there early so I took on the job of handing out cards and buttons, but he definitely stepped in to help.
Also props to PunkJr who kept us on time and led us to each bar, things would have been so much more chaotic without his leadership or his bullhorn.
Deadlysherpa was there, I was kinda a keener and was there early so I took on the job of handing out cards and buttons, but he definitely stepped in to help.
Also props to PunkJr who kept us on time and led us to each bar, things would have been so much more chaotic without his leadership or his bullhorn.
Wooo!! I love that job! Our group is totally amazing, I wouldn't ask for any other house to help lead.
And Sumi, you & Sherpa ROCKED getting everyone taken care of, and the Pwnies were the best!
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Thanks! And speaking of Pwnies, if anyone missed out on getting one (whether you are from Ravenclaw or not) I'll have them up on Ebay so you can bid on them and I'll be giving any money raised to Childsplay. This should be happening in the next few days so keep an eye out for my post!
I didn't have as much trouble at the Chapel, but that's probably because I got caught up in conversation with Hufflepuff at Clever Dunne's while my house left without me. Then I accidentally went to the Slytherin bar before finally ending up at Chapel. By then the rush had died down and I was able to get my drinks with minimal fuss. I'm not mad at my house for leaving me - if I hadn't been confident I could reach the next bar on my own I would have just tagged along with Hufflepuff for the rest of the night. While I was sufficiently drunk to misread the schedule and head to Slytherin's bar first by accident I made it to the Chapel with no harm.
I chalk some of the problems at the Crescent to a communications error, I think. A bunch of people formed an orderly line behind the cashier (where one bartender was helping people), while another bartender served people standing around the bar on the other side. It was just silly... but people see a line and get in it. I wanted to go around to the bar, but my partner preferred to wait in the line, so wait we did.
Back on the subject of more leadership - (I'm going to keep calling possible lieutenants Prefects because I think it's funny - I'm not presuming you'll use my idea.) I don't even think all the Prefects need to be sober. I do think each house might want to have at least a couple designated sober people, but it's also possible for a few drinkers to have responsibility.
It WOULD be nice if the Prefects or other authority figures could get credit for the crawl with a smaller amount of drinks. I think most of us can function and lead effectively at four or five drinks: it only really becomes a challenge at seven to ten or more. Basically I'm saying that there's a grey area between completely sober and completely smashed, and I think that's where the sweet spot of fun and responsibility would likely lie.
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I was thinking that sober assistants would be house elves and as such wouldn't be taking their OWLs anyway.
Smart... but do people really want to be house elves? I know it has danger of bleeding over to the Pokecrawl, but maybe calling them Professors or Aurors would leave them with more dignity? I don't know, maybe everyone else is crazy about house elves.
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I was thinking that sober assistants would be house elves and as such wouldn't be taking their OWLs anyway.
Smart... but do people really want to be house elves? I know it has danger of bleeding over to the Pokecrawl, but maybe calling them Professors or Aurors would leave them with more dignity? I don't know, maybe everyone else is crazy about house elves.
If you don't want to be a House Elf, don't play the game.
I had 6 beers, 7 shots, and 2 double shots and I spent about $50.
Well, the thing is, I don't remember much after Elite, and when I drink, I like to buy drinks for a lot of people. So I am assuming I bought expensive ass shots. God knows how much I gave the cab driver to get my drunk ass back to the Ramada next to Top Pot on 5th. It was all worth it though in the long run. It only took 10 years I probably would have been shitting myself off my life
Drinking to get everyone ELSE drunk, now that's costly. I know *I* was well into three digits that night. Two $40 tabs, and $120 in cash blown through. And I think I paid with my credit card for a round at some bar? I'm hesitant to check, frankly.
I was thinking that sober assistants would be house elves and as such wouldn't be taking their OWLs anyway.
Smart... but do people really want to be house elves? I know it has danger of bleeding over to the Pokecrawl, but maybe calling them Professors or Aurors would leave them with more dignity? I don't know, maybe everyone else is crazy about house elves.
If you don't want to be a House Elf, don't play the game.
Well seeing as I don't drink very often and the pubcrawls are some of my best drinking experiences, I'm not too keen on taking a non-drinking volunteer position. Hehe.
I was operating under the assumption that it might be a challenge to find a decent number of sober volunteers. However, perhaps I am mistaken!
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And about those in leadership not drinking/drinking less, I think you've just got to be smart about it. I didn't finish the challenges and I didn't even attempt the last two (even though I wanted a patronus button so bad!) because I knew I had to be able to keep things organized until the end of the night. I don't regret it at all though, I still had a blast!
Maybe when you pick heads for next year Atlus, you might want to highlight that they probably shouldn't be drinking like fratboys. And anyone that intends to do copious amounts of drinking, should probably just join the crawl and let someone else make sure they don't pass out in a bush or run out into traffic or anything.
Chapel was my favorite bar last year, but it was the last one on the tour for Ravenclaw and we had thinned out quite a bit by then, so there weren't too many issues with crowds by then. This year we had two houses plus the campers (excellent choice there btw, whoever made it) and it was just completely overloaded. There's just no way it can handle the kind of volume we throw at it.
This year my favorite bar was Cafe Met (again the last r-claw bar... trend?), but I spent most of my time there outside breaking up fights between fellow ravenclaws and (presumably) non-geek drunks.
Also - I was pretty drunk by the time I left Chapel for Cafe Met, since I had decided to finish the night out there and then was convinced to carry on. But I still managed to lead a group of a dozen or so Ravenclaw stragglers along the path thanks to Google Maps. Smart Phones make drunken stuporing a lot easier.
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It was Gryffindors last bar, and when I tried to get a drink there were three people behind the bar. I'm not entirely sure what they were doing, since I didn't actually see them take anyone's order in the 20 minutes I waited. I didn't think I was THAT drunk - did anyone else have trouble getting their attention?
Eventually I gave up and walked away - someone presented me with booze later, but I have no idea how they managed to get the bartender's attention. There has to be some sort of code word, or special move.
I had a pleasant time sitting outside on the steps talking to my teammates. Well, shouting. I'm so loud.
I wasn't aware of the complete lack of leadership in our house until much later. The next day, actually, when I was able to compare notes with my girlfriend. As it was, I had my hands full with a much smaller group. I saw our little party teeter over the edge of sobriety and felt that something wasn't quite working right; I stopped drinking and started shepherding.
@juju: You are my personal hero! I've been in your shoes in the past. You did an AWESOME job! It is so totally NOT YOUR FAULT that our little group didn't have fun. In fact, most of -my- time (and a significant reason why I wasn't drinking/having fun) was spent watching over a small group of Hufflepuffs, myself.
@atlus: I'm aware of the "overcrowding" issue, and you're 100% correct that some of my complaints stem from that root cause. The rest could probably be lumped into the "lack of leadership" bucket. I'm glad that you were able to see my feedback in the light it was intended and I look forward to seeing what solutions you've come up with for the next crawl. We're going to make real effort to get out to Boston next year, so if you need some beta testers... :winky:
@trolls: How about you get a clue, take off those rose-colored glasses, and stop posting like spoiled crybabies? I didn't think it was important to whine about the several hours we spent camping a barstool next to our (disabled) Head of House. Instead of mindlessly drinking and ignoring the chaos around us, we were doing our part to help out in any way that we could. We put in enough effort trying to help our house that we were awarded with a very special shot glass.
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Having said that, we will be going into our next crawl with a bit more info than "meet here at this time" and expect others to lead the way. Had we known that were going to be expected to lead our own group, I'm sure we would have gone into this with very different expectations and had a much better time.
They were warned ahead of time for sure. Tajah was very thorough. Personally I never had an issue getting drinks there. I know I downed 5-6 rounds there so maybe I monopolized one of the servers to the point where no one else could get drinks.
"Meet here at this time" should be all the info you need but again Hufflepuff became the new Slytherin this year. That was not how it was intended.
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Yeah you experience seems to be the exception rather than the rule. I waited with a fellow Ravenclaw and two challengers in line for an hour. We go one person from the bar and then the line just stalled there. Then the announcement to leave was made. Never got our drinks. Heard this story multiple times from my housemates and other houses.
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I'm totally willing to help out next time (I did pass out scorecards to some people at the beginning and in front of Clever Dunnes). I do have an iPhone (whoo GPS) and decent tolerance / can stop drinking (or not drink GASP) if I am in a leadership role.
But yeah overcrowding is becoming an issue, maybe we should consider charging a membership fee (% to Childs Play of course) to the houses and like picking bigger bars? Or maybe we can try to rent a place out? (I guess that might be prohibitively expensive.) I suppose if the PAX East test run goes well this will hopefully be a non-issue next year.
I also agree that Chapel is not a great bar. However, it was better this year than last year when the bartender swore at me and threw my change back in my face...but that is not saying much.
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All the groups left from the pre-pax dinner like way fucking early (more than an hour early) but whatever, I guess that's fine. The thing is, I was keeping track of the time in relation to the actual schedule the whole time, and we were always around 30 minutes early. Not that that ended up mattering since we stayed at bars longer, people were milling about so it all worked out in the end.
I have to say Sumi and PunkJr did a great job as always. I had no idea who our head of house was, or if he was even there.
Linda's - Was awesome. The first bar is usually good. Getting to meet all the people, setting up, and pounding down all your stuff. I had great fun there and managed to snag a 5 hour energy off of someone (punk?).
The Elite/Clever Dunne's - I think we all know that this bar was way too fuckin' small, I didn't even go inside and just headed over to Clever Dunne's which was across the street. I had an awesome time there, did my challenge. Then a whole swarm of hufflepuffs showed up (because we had gotten there early) and I was somehow finagled to do the challenge 3 more times (damn you nomad, pinder, and twinkie
The Crescent - hell yeah this place awesome with the karaoke. I got a drink real quick here. It didn't seem like we were here that long, probably because I got held up at Clever Dunne's with the attack of the hufflepuffs.
The Chapel - Fuck this place. It was super packed. It appeared that they had 3 bartenders but it didn' seem like they were doing much as I waited about 35 minutes to get one drink and just got the hell out of there after.
The Met - This is my favourite bar on the route, I don't really know why, but I really like it. I managed to do a shot of something or other here and then went outside and got my hands on a PWNY! wooo (I don't remember getting this, I only found it in my bag the next morning)
I posted earlier in the thread about my adventure getting back to the hotel.
Also, I am totally down for being leadership of some sort next year. This year and last year I ended up being map guy anyway. I lurves it.
I found it just as fun as last year, although of course it was more crowded.
Linda's - Yeah, I missed the first stop completely. Was at the Rock Band 3 preview party at Jillian's.
Elite - Spent about 20 minutes outside and however long it took to down 3 rounds (had to play catchup) inside before heading to Dunne's. Spent the whole time at Dunne's wondering WTF was going on.
Crescent - Full bar "Bohemian Rhapsody" = awesome (although thank to PAX/RB3, it might be a while before I actually want to hear that song again). Not getting a drink because it was impossible to tell the difference between the drink line and people just milling about, especially since the place isn't all that big.
Chapel - Yeah, service here blew. Waited at least 20 minutes to finally get a drink, and in the process of waiting missed the call to move to the Met (I heard the siren, but I figured that was just to amp up Ravenclaw since those vile Slytherin were also amongst us).
Cafe Met - Definitely the best stop. Actually got served in a decent amount of time, could hear conversations. Got all my stickers and got my PWNY! Wound up escorting a Hufflepuff who for some reason tagged along with us to Barca to rejoin his group. Got a challenge coin and Dick's out of it, so it's a good trade.
Suggestion: 50 people per team max, no exceptions, end of story, etc. etc. Demand is obviously there for more, but the bars can't take them, and herding that people is a nightmare. To accommodate (and I don't make this suggestion flippantly, since this basically doubles the workload on the organizers) is having parallel crawls in different neighborhoods. Overcrowding is what made me ditch the Pokecrawl at the second stop, and I'm seriously considering skipping next year's TWDT (or joining the Enforcer campers) for the same reason.
Fake edit: Props to Sumi for handling the chaos best she could, especially after Sherpa went and got himself lost (which he told me after came to my department Friday).
Real edit: Sorry those of you in Ravenclaw who got lost, Magellan couldn't perform his duties, because, well, Rock Band 3.
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I woke up still drunk, proceeded to walk over to Charlie's to have breakfast with my wife, and started to feel horrible. Thankfully I made it home without any issues and took a nice long nap until noon. PAX was started for me around 1:30PM on Friday.
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In response to that, next year will (most likely) be slightly different.
I based the timing for the PPD on the year previous. I didn't think people were going to get seated and served quite as fast as they did.
I'll be taking all that into account for the next dinner.
Juju, you did an awesome job, because it is hard to corral a hundred drunks to one given point.
My suggestion for next triwizard is possibly make a death-eaters camp to split the groups up a little more. I know it is outside of the traditional "Triwizard tournament" theme, but maybe just having that 5th house could thin down the houses just a tad?
Cafe Met was totally awesome because they had plush velvet chairs and were showing Prisoner of Azkaban, I felt like I was in the !Slytherin dungeon.
Btw, Maledicte I'd like to see that picture.
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HOW THE HELL?!?!
I had 6 beers, 7 shots, and 2 double shots and I spent about $50.
Also props to PunkJr who kept us on time and led us to each bar, things would have been so much more chaotic without his leadership or his bullhorn.
Wooo!! I love that job! Our group is totally amazing, I wouldn't ask for any other house to help lead.
And Sumi, you & Sherpa ROCKED getting everyone taken care of, and the Pwnies were the best!
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I chalk some of the problems at the Crescent to a communications error, I think. A bunch of people formed an orderly line behind the cashier (where one bartender was helping people), while another bartender served people standing around the bar on the other side. It was just silly... but people see a line and get in it. I wanted to go around to the bar, but my partner preferred to wait in the line, so wait we did.
Back on the subject of more leadership - (I'm going to keep calling possible lieutenants Prefects because I think it's funny - I'm not presuming you'll use my idea.) I don't even think all the Prefects need to be sober. I do think each house might want to have at least a couple designated sober people, but it's also possible for a few drinkers to have responsibility.
It WOULD be nice if the Prefects or other authority figures could get credit for the crawl with a smaller amount of drinks. I think most of us can function and lead effectively at four or five drinks: it only really becomes a challenge at seven to ten or more. Basically I'm saying that there's a grey area between completely sober and completely smashed, and I think that's where the sweet spot of fun and responsibility would likely lie.
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Thank god you're keeping this canon.
Smart... but do people really want to be house elves? I know it has danger of bleeding over to the Pokecrawl, but maybe calling them Professors or Aurors would leave them with more dignity? I don't know, maybe everyone else is crazy about house elves.
Triwizard Drinking Tournament - '09 !Hufflepuff unofficial conscript, '10 !Gryffindor
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Care to repeat that in English, doctor?
I never finish anyth
...That was perfectly correct English.
If you don't want to be a House Elf, don't play the game.
Well, the thing is, I don't remember much after Elite, and when I drink, I like to buy drinks for a lot of people. So I am assuming I bought expensive ass shots. God knows how much I gave the cab driver to get my drunk ass back to the Ramada next to Top Pot on 5th. It was all worth it though in the long run. It only took 10 years I probably would have been shitting myself off my life
Drinking to get everyone ELSE drunk, now that's costly. I know *I* was well into three digits that night. Two $40 tabs, and $120 in cash blown through. And I think I paid with my credit card for a round at some bar? I'm hesitant to check, frankly.
Well seeing as I don't drink very often and the pubcrawls are some of my best drinking experiences, I'm not too keen on taking a non-drinking volunteer position. Hehe.
I was operating under the assumption that it might be a challenge to find a decent number of sober volunteers. However, perhaps I am mistaken!
Triwizard Drinking Tournament - '09 !Hufflepuff unofficial conscript, '10 !Gryffindor
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I effin love you.
And about those in leadership not drinking/drinking less, I think you've just got to be smart about it. I didn't finish the challenges and I didn't even attempt the last two (even though I wanted a patronus button so bad!) because I knew I had to be able to keep things organized until the end of the night. I don't regret it at all though, I still had a blast!
Maybe when you pick heads for next year Atlus, you might want to highlight that they probably shouldn't be drinking like fratboys. And anyone that intends to do copious amounts of drinking, should probably just join the crawl and let someone else make sure they don't pass out in a bush or run out into traffic or anything.
This year my favorite bar was Cafe Met (again the last r-claw bar... trend?), but I spent most of my time there outside breaking up fights between fellow ravenclaws and (presumably) non-geek drunks.
Also - I was pretty drunk by the time I left Chapel for Cafe Met, since I had decided to finish the night out there and then was convinced to carry on. But I still managed to lead a group of a dozen or so Ravenclaw stragglers along the path thanks to Google Maps. Smart Phones make drunken stuporing a lot easier.
Unless they happen to be FratlusParker.
I'm pretty impressed with how I held up this year...maybe I should step up :P
Groundskeepers? As in, keeping you off the ground?
I dunno. I'm stretching here. Maybe Aurors?
+++BRONYS BEFORE BROS!+++
I seem to vaguely recall handing you my phone after the last bar so you could lead us to ihop.
Clearly this is evidence of something. :P