Here's draft order: argentine soccer fan nicephoras The Big Ticket Dirt McGirt blackjack DoyleG SoFla Metro CrewDust JeremyEritrea HerthaBerwyn dogface spejic GringoTex BudWiser Panfilo IntheNet ElJefe Matt in the Hat SoccerNutter peledre Excape Goat Two hour time windows to pick. Selections must be accompanied by photo and description. PM the next in line. Eat cake, bitches.
more questions: How many rounds? Or does it go until one of your picks kills you? Is somebody going to be a proxy? Photograph - so we are limited to people in the last 200 years?
Ok. Here is my first pick: Ooops! Wrong draft. Sorry. Let me try again. ADOLPH HITLER, Born in Austria but played for Germany (1889-1945) It's predictable, but I couldn't pick anybody else with the top pick. A despicable tyrant who used racism as a justification to murder and torture millions and is also mainly responsible for WWII. I think everybody knows about him. Here is what wiki has to say about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Nice has been PM'd
ASF is cheating. He will probably now declare himself the winner and close the thread using Godwin's law.
Well, I didn't ask for the first pick. I think now I can pick 9 chaste nuns who are risking their lives by helping ebola patients in Africa and still win. You're all playing for 2nd place.
I'll take your tyrant, and raise you Oh, I disagree. I think the second pick is just as predictable, and I would have made him my first pick (I think that guy was worse!)
I have a suggestion, to make this more interesting. Should we make a rule that we have to pick at least one tyrant who is still in power now? What do you guys think?
The nuns would get you the Hitchens vote. Don't be so sure, though. I'll bet that Nicephoras will be the only one with good choices beyond the third round, albeit ones that nobody has ever heard of.
Yeah, Nice's picks should be interesting, and I want to hear his analysis of everybody elses picks, as he has a very good knowledge of history. I PMd him, but he had mentioned that he was going on a trip to Egypt, so hopefully he got my PM. What I'm really looking forward to are ITN's picks. This should be fun.
Question: I pick after Dirt McGirt. We each have two hours. He went on the clock at 2:28 central. Do I have two hours after his two hours (i.e. 4:28 to 6:28), or two hours after he makes his pick? I ask because I'll be online for about another half hour, then off for a couple hours while I go running. If I have until 6:30, I'll be able to pick. If not, I'm in trouble.
If you have to go off line, you can send me a PM and I'll post your pick. I'll be around for the next four hours. You may want to send an alternate choice, in case McGirt takes your first choice.
Thank you, your excellency. With my first pick of the inaugural BigSoccer Tyrant Draft, I select: From the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong Height: 5'11 Weight: 175 Career stats: 40 million killed is a conservative estimate Other honors/awards: referenced in Beatles song, 1968
A great pickup at number 5, thanks to the no shows. With the 5th overall pick of the first round, blackjack selects: Josef Stalin (USSR)