TD 195: The Beautiful Game

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Must have been one heck of a bachelor's party.
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Alright, after having been absconded to the Nashville area, I'm back and actually able to post updates.

7. The Olympic Games still hold a men's soccer tournament every year. Currently the teams that are fielded are made up of players under the age of 23, with three overage players allowed. Curiously, Brazil, who has qualified for every World Cup, has yet to win an Olympic gold medal in soccer.

Q: Name any country that's won the Olympic gold medal in men's soccer. (18 answers)

Since for a long time the Olympics were amateur only, it only makes sense that quite a few answers here are those with "amateur" teams. And you've given us:

SPAIN - 4 points
mennoknight, CheezeWhiz, dnbguy, xxaaaxx

ARGENTINA - 4 points
Leander, chalupabatman786, MarkBarrett, Paulsaysthought

FRANCE - 4 points
CrunchyTaco, zakharov, Bamaman, amorris525

NIGERIA - 4 points
tjconn728, dklee12, ihavejeoprosy, goforthetie

GREAT BRITAIN - 2 points
geolawyerman, mitchparov

ITALY - 2 points
Turd Ferguson, jepkid97

MEXICO - 1 point
CoachP

Not given to me were:

Canada, Belgium, Uruguay, Sweden, Hungary, USSR, Yugoslavia, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Cameroon

And there's going to be a very painful neg in there as FIFA considers "Germany" to trace through West Germany, and not East Germany. Negs are worth 9 here.

BRAZIL
gamawire, Paucle, JoshuaRQI

GERMANY
econgator, dott888

GREECE
DadofTwins

UNITED STATES
jjwaymee

And that puts the scores at:

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8. Every continent has their own continental championship. Here in North America, that's the Gold Cup. The Gold Cup has been contested 12 times between teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Only North American teams have won it - Mexico six times, the United States five times, and Canada once.

Q: Name a CONCACAF member (other than Canada, Mexico, and the United States) who has competed in the Gold Cup at least once since the inaugural tournament in 1991. (15 answers)

If I had to guess, sheep are going to be Costa Rica and Honduras, given they're in the World Cup this time. What say you?

COSTA RICA - 6 points
Leander, DadofTwins, mitchparov, jepkid97, dnbguy, ihavejeoprosy

HONDURAS - 6 points
econgator, CheezeWhiz, MarkBarrett, Paulsaysthought, CoachP, dott888

PANAMA - 5 points
geolawyerman, CrunchyTaco, tjconn728, Turd Ferguson, JoshuaRQI

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - 3 points
zakharov, jjwaymee, xxaaaxx

JAMAICA - 2 points
gamawire, mennoknight

BELIZE - 2 points
Paucle, goforthetie

MARTINIQUE - 1 point
chalupabatman786

NICARAGUA - 1 point
dklee12

CUBA - 1 point
Bamaman

GUADELOUPE - 1 point
amorris525

What didn't you give me?

Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Normally I'd say here that a neg was worth 11... but guys, for once, we have no negs! Great job! What's that make the score?

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9. The United States are wearing red jerseys at this World Cup. This is the first time we've seen the Yanks in red at the World Cup since June 15, 1998, a 2-0 loss to Germany. (Incidentally, current USMNT coach Jürgen Klinsmann scored for Germany in that game.)

Q: Name any nation that has worn a predominantly red jersey for at least one game in any of the last three World Cups (2002, 2006, 2010). (21 answers)

Guessing the sheep are Spain and Ghana (since they wore them against us). What do we have?

SPAIN - 7 points
DadofTwins, Turd Ferguson, MarkBarrett, CoachP, dnbguy, Bamaman, xxaaaxx

NORTH KOREA - 3 points
CrunchyTaco, zakharov, chalupabatman786

SWITZERLAND - 2 points
geolawyerman, amorris525

POLAND - 2 points
CheezeWhiz, dott888

PORTUGAL - 2 points
mitchparov, Paulsaysthought

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - 1 point
tjconn728

ENGLAND - 1 point
econgator

PARAGUAY - 1 point
jjwaymee

IRAN - 1 point
dklee12

CHINA - 1 point
ihavejeoprosy

SOUTH KOREA - 1 point
goforthetie

What didn't you give me?

Denmark, Turkey, Costa Rica, Belgium, Tunisia, Angola, Czech Republic, Ghana, Serbia, Chile

Negs are worth 12, and who got one?

RUSSIA
Paucle, jepkid97

GERMANY
gamawire

CROATIA
mennoknight

JAPAN
Leander

MEXICO
JoshuaRQI

And four out of the five are wearing red jerseys this year, so not a bad idea. What're the scores?

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10. The film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl features a wonderfully done sketch depicting a football match between two teams of philosophers - Germany versus Greece.

Q: Name any philosopher who was supposedly on the pitch at the start of this alleged game. (25 answers)

Note there's 25 answers and not the logical 22. Still I say the sheep will be Socrates. Who is it?

SOCRATES - 5 points
mennoknight, tjconn728, econgator, Bamaman, amorris525

PLATO - 3 points
gamawire, Paucle, jepkid97

IMMANUEL KANT - 3 points
Turd Ferguson, MarkBarrett, Paulsaysthought

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE - 3 points
CoachP, dnbguy, ihavejeoprosy

GEORG HEGEL - 2 points
Leander, CrunchyTaco

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER - 2 points
geolawyerman, xxaaaxx

MARTIN HEIDEGGER - 2 points
DadofTwins, CheezeWhiz

ARISTOTLE - 2 points
chalupabatman786, mitchparov

SOPHOCLES - 1 point
jjwaymee

And you didn't say...

Gottfried Leibniz, Griedrich Schelling, Franz Beckenbauer, Karl Jaspers, Karl Schlegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Epictetus, Empedocles of Acragas, Plotinus, Epicurus, Heraklitus, Democritus, Archimedes, Confucius, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas

And that leaves negs for 10. And they go to...

ZENO
dklee12, goforthetie

DAVID HUME
zakharov

SOREN KIERKEGAARD
dott888

THOMAS HOBBES
JoshuaRQI

And this could lead to a shakeup! Scores, please?

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Is the reveal for this TD going to be completed any time soon?
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I'm anxious to see the results too, but at least he's updating it, albeit slowly. Better than no updates at all.
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I think the world cup will end before this td
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amorris525 wrote:I'm anxious to see the results too, but at least he's updating it, albeit slowly. Better than no updates at all.
So, it's basically a soccer game.
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econgator wrote:
amorris525 wrote:I'm anxious to see the results too, but at least he's updating it, albeit slowly. Better than no updates at all.
So, it's basically a soccer game.
Method acting.
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It could be worse. To my recollection there are three TDs (35, 38 and 68) yet to be finished, even though their creators are still posting on this board. (Two of them are even participating in this contest!) TD35 was posted in 2009. :)
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TD 68 was mathematically impossible to score.

I made the scoring system so that a player's best and worst answers (out of 5) dropped. But what made an answer "best" and "worst" changed as players had answers dropped, then added back, then dropped again.

So that game simply ended with no winner.
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DadofTwins wrote:TD 68 was mathematically impossible to score.

I made the scoring system so that a player's best and worst answers (out of 5) dropped. But what made an answer "best" and "worst" changed as players had answers dropped, then added back, then dropped again.

So that game simply ended with no winner.
Ah, I forgot that detail. Sorry for trying to give you a hard time. :)
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DadofTwins wrote:TD 68 was mathematically impossible to score.

I made the scoring system so that a player's best and worst answers (out of 5) dropped. But what made an answer "best" and "worst" changed as players had answers dropped, then added back, then dropped again.

So that game simply ended with no winner.
Did the points of the other players change as well when an answer was dropped?
You could have decided to use the "pre dropping" points, and just drop the best and worst answer before the drops of other players are factored in. Obviously you would then have to disregard the fact that, in the end, it might not be their best or worst answer that gets dropped.
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I've never even come close to winning before.

Can we please get this done?
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"Beautiful Game" my ass. Twenty guys run up and down the field for ninety minutes like ants on amphetamines, and no one can score.

Then they concede that no one can score, give up playing soccer altogether, and go to a different game to "settle the game." As if a baseball game or a football game were a scoreless tie after regulation and they "settled it" by a home run derby or a field goal kicking contest. Again, wake me when it's over.
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John Boy wrote:As if a baseball game or a football game were a scoreless tie after regulation and they "settled it" by a home run derby or a field goal kicking contest. Again, wake me when it's over.
I dunno... a field goal kicking contest would be great if they made the whole o-line participate. :lol:

Home run derby not so much...St Louis would hate it. Hmm...actually...
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John Boy wrote:"Beautiful Game" my ass. Twenty guys run up and down the field for ninety minutes like ants on amphetamines, and no one can score.

Then they concede that no one can score, give up playing soccer altogether, and go to a different game to "settle the game." As if a baseball game or a football game were a scoreless tie after regulation and they "settled it" by a home run derby or a field goal kicking contest. Again, wake me when it's over.
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John Boy wrote:"Beautiful Game" my ass. Twenty guys run up and down the field for ninety minutes like ants on amphetamines, and no one can score.

Then they concede that no one can score, give up playing soccer altogether, and go to a different game to "settle the game." As if a baseball game or a football game were a scoreless tie after regulation and they "settled it" by a home run derby or a field goal kicking contest. Again, wake me when it's over.
Don't know why I'm responding, but there were just 8 goals scored in one game yesterday. Your second sentence is already incorrect, and so I stopped reading.
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I'll try bumping this one last time
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