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Post by ~KB~ on Jul 9, 2024 19:40:54 GMT -5
Bonfire is a dry heat, you don't see me jumping into that. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/Tt92sbuFRpA4g/giphy.gif)
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Post by Vegas on Jul 9, 2024 19:45:52 GMT -5
I know you guys like to talk about your local weather at the start of these podcasts. I was just outside. You know how hot it is in Las Vegas right now? 122 degrees lol. I have seen 120 degrees here, but I don't think I have ever been outside in 122 degrees weather before today. YEAH.... but it's a 'dry' heat, and that makes a difference. I'd take 120 degrees and zero percent humidity, over 95 degrees and 90 percent humidity ANY day! I agree with you. I prefer 120 degrees here (especially when it goes with mild Winters) than the humidity I have experienced in the Midwest and the South. I remember the bad humidity in St. Louis when I flew there after Galacticon in July 2016. But at 122 degrees, it is definitely not hoodie weather here in Las Vegas right now.
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Post by ~KB~ on Jul 9, 2024 19:54:14 GMT -5
YEAH.... but it's a 'dry' heat, and that makes a difference. I'd take 120 degrees and zero percent humidity, over 95 degrees and 90 percent humidity ANY day! I agree with you. I prefer 120 degrees here (especially when it goes with mild Winters) than the humidity I have experienced in the Midwest and the South. I remember the bad humidity in St. Louis when I flew there after Galacticon in July 2016. But at 122 degrees, it is definitely not hoodie weather here in Las Vegas right now. I hear you amigo, 122 degrees is frying an egg on the sidewalk hot - no denying that! Dangerous too, with no humidity you don't sweat near as much and are more prone to heat stroke.
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Post by lk3185 on Jul 9, 2024 21:30:47 GMT -5
stepping out in the Connecticut humidity lately has been like hitting a brick wall.
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Post by Matt on Jul 10, 2024 10:17:19 GMT -5
Some really good ideas here! I REALLY missed having the trivia contest, that’s one of the highlights for me. The panels are what they are I guess. Definitely agree about going back to the days of picking your own wrestler! I also would like to see varying “theme” GWF tourneys: I don’t care if it’s 2139.5 right now, why not have a tourney with just guys from 2095 (insert whatever other year here) for nostagia’s sake.
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Post by Swarm on Jul 10, 2024 10:59:59 GMT -5
Some really good ideas here! I REALLY missed having the trivia contest, that’s one of the highlights for me. The panels are what they are I guess. Definitely agree about going back to the days of picking your own wrestler! With enough planning before the Con and spot planning at the Con I think this is extremely doable. If you’re someone planning to attend the Con, you have months or weeks to plan for who you’ll want to use in any given tournament. You could even bring your own cards. Say you bring 5-10 GWF cards (any era), a small stack of LOW cards and a small stack of indie cards of wrestlers with you to GCON to choose from when your turn is up. There might be rare occasions where someone chooses a wrestler nobody has on hand at the Con, but I bet more often than not we’d be fine. Then when you lose in a tournament, you immediately go and draw your number for the next tournament while the winners play on. This acts like a real draft with the losers now having the best chance to draw a good number. This eliminates the mad rush to grab numbers 30 people at a time like we do now. This would also keep things moving at a good pace with everyone regularly involved with something fun whether it be playing matches or figuring out who you want to use in the next tournament.
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Post by Tournament Master on Jul 10, 2024 14:53:22 GMT -5
I only remember 1 tournament in the past 25 years where people drew numbers for their own wrestler. It was a Legends tournament around 2013 or so and it was a logistic mess tracking down people with the right numbers in the Sheldon House. I could see doing 1 such tournament, but certainly not all like that as we would get absolutely nothing done.
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Post by Pete on Jul 10, 2024 15:04:46 GMT -5
There's more room to get lost in the Sheldon House, and I guess in the JCC as well. I think that'd be less of a problem in a place like the hotel conference rooms we use in other places.
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Post by TTX on Jul 10, 2024 15:19:18 GMT -5
We did it at least twice because I won an Indy tournament with Jay Briscoe when we picked them.
The other main issue to me is having people pick wrestler A "Taken" wrestler B "taken" wrestler C "taken" until they're at their 5th or 6th choice.
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Post by Pete on Jul 10, 2024 15:23:23 GMT -5
We did it at least twice because I won an Indy tournament with Jay Briscoe when we picked them. The other main issue to me is having people pick wrestler A "Taken" wrestler B "taken" wrestler C "taken" until they're at their 5th or 6th choice. That's why you have a predetermined list of guys like in the Infinity Challenge tag tournament I talked about. The cards were all laid out on the table and you just picked the ones you wanted, in sequence. Or if you're going to use Gallery cards like I suggested, have names on a sheet to cross off or put your name next to. Of course, this was 30 years ago and tournaments "mattered" more--for the Greek Gods-Polarity finals, instead of everyone going off to talk to each other, most of us gathered in the solarium to watch.
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