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[StartOrien]

FYI -

I do believe that the Pub Draft will return. Working out specs w/ Rondo, and figuring out a way I can rig it so I win.

For newbies this was a draft we did last year where essentially you try to draft the best pub possible. Categories are beers, entertainers, etc. Fun time. Kick off your shoes n' relax your feet.

UPDATE:

What's up nerds,

After long debate, me and Rondo (with some help from IP) have hammered down some of the details. This will serve as somewhat of an all purpose message. Please do your best to read this as I think a lot of questions will be answered in here.

Again, the Pub Draft is a draft where you make selections to make your ultimate Pub possible.

Every pub starts off with the essentials (tables, chairs, TV'S, stereo system, food, etc), and the space is as small or large as you'd like.

CATEGORIES

6 Beers
3 Specialty Drinks
3 Entertainers
1 Activity
1 Specialty Food Item
1 Bar Tender
1 Patron
1 Bouncer
1 City/Town/Island

A few things on categories -

ON THE MATTER OF SIX BEERS -

We did heavily discuss either going to breweries (if you select Budweiser you get bud light, bud select, etc.) but at the end of the day decided to go to 6 beers after Rondo made a good point; one of the best parts of last year's draft was being able to go to the liquor store with a list of new beers to try out. The brewery/label idea certainly would've added 'urgency' but at the end of the day new beer lists win out.

ON THE MATER OF 3 SPECIALTY DRINKS -

This year we are assuming that all bars have the same selection of house liquor. I've got the Admiral Nelson's Rum, you've got the Admiral Nelson's Rum, We've all got the Admiral Nelson's Rum.

Specialty drinks will be shots or mixes with a specific liquor. If I select Jameson as a specialty drink, it can't be picked again (even in a mix)

ACTIVITIES -

This must be a material purchase. And to insure that, and make things uber black and white every activity must be purchasable on Amazon.com . You must provide a link with the selection. So if you want darts to be your activity you need to provide me to a link of a dartboard on amazon.

It doesn't necessarily have to be the same model. But I figured we needed a way to make this a little more open and shut than it was last year.

RULE REMINDER -

You are able to select ONE (or zero) dead or fictional character as either your bouncer, bartender or patron. You can not select a dead or fictional person as an entertainer.

ENTERTAINER -

This is your entertainment. You can select a comedian, artist, band, magician, etc. NO MIMES THOUGH

ONE OTHER NOTE -

There was a suggestion to not be able to select anyone you picked last year for those of us returning for a second season. I'm going to say you're allowed to make return picks, but give caution that it'll kind of ruin the fun for yourself if you're too repetitive.

THE SCHEDULE

We will be opening this up MONDAY, JULY 9TH. It'll run for two weeks, weekends off.

7/09: 2 Rounds
7/10: 2 Rounds
7/11: 2 Rounds
7/12: 2 Rounds
7/13: 2 Rounds
7/16: 3 Rounds
7/17: 3 Rounds
7/18: Presentations
7/19: Presentations
7/20: Awards that everyone should take VERY seriously

PRESENTATIONS

The presentations is a Yelp review that you make to show off support for your bar. I've attached one of IP's from last year for an example (though I'd reccomend putting your 'roster' at the bottom) -

The Stagger Inn, Or, 'How I Got My Nose Broke At An Awesome Bar'

I had just broken up with my girlfriend of three years just two weeks before I ventured into 'The Stagger Inn' for the first time. As you can imagine, it was still an open gaping wound. She said it was about personal growth, and space. I said it was about a certain friend she had met at the gym who had an exotic name and artificially bronzed skin. Rico..Chico...I don't know. Something like that. %*@#$.

I had made sure that my outfit was one becoming of an eligible bachelor, because although I am 23 year old and very mature for my age, I have no idea how 'the kids' hook up anymore. I gave that harlot the best years of my life, and what do I have left? Picking up morally casual women at the bar while I try tentatively to pick up the broken pieces of my life.

As I entered the bar I noted the study but worn wooden paneling that encompassed the place like the warm, secure, lover's embrace I once knew. The bar wasn't packed, but for five pm on a Tuesday, it was comfortably inhabited. I sidled up to a bar-stool and took a look around.

The bar area was cozy, a sturdy hardwood construction from the imagination of a young James Joyce. Unlike my tortured soul, the atmosphere was far from dour. A man in the late-prime of life tended bar efficiently, a smug grin efficaciously hiding the hard intensity behind his dark eyes. His glance caught mine and he walked over, asking me in a Manchester accent (I know, because my ex and I spent 2 weeks abroad in the UK) what it was that I wanted. I told him about how I was having a problem filling the hours since Stacy had left me for whichever ex-member of Menudo she was currently dating. I explained that I had been trying to fill the gap with various substitutes; booze, NCIS: Los Angeles, old episodes of Night Court, writing fan-fiction about Judge Reinhold's life, none of it had worked.

The bartender looked at me, and asked 'You know what you can do?' I shook my head, and his hand flashed out like some sort of cobra, striking my at the bridge of my nose. 'You can act like a man,' he said after. He walked away from me and I looked around the room to find quiet sniggers of contempt and furtive glances to greet me. Soon though, the offending bartender came back. In one hand he held a rocks glass with two fingers of dark liquor, while in the other hand he held a pint glass with a dark midnight colored brew, topped by a white frothy head. He set them down in front of me, than tossed me a bar-rag to stop the bleeding on my nose.

'Drink that', he said, pointing at the rocks glass, 'then that' he said, pointing at the pint.

I left the bar sometime around closing, right around when my nose started to really puff out. My female companion didn't seem to mind. I've been back every night since, highly recommended. Great beer selection, best whiskey on earth, and I think at some point Flogging Molly played, but that might have been the jello-shots.

AWARDS

Favorite Beer Selection
Favorite Specialty Drink Selection
Favorite Entertainment
Favorite Staff (bartender, bouncer, patron)
Favorite Food
Favorite Overall

Something that worked REALLY well last year was submitting 3 superlatives with your selections. Here's an example from last year:

Bar most likely to be a mafia money-laundering scam:
The Rusty Nail - I mean, the place isn't even finished yet. Who drinks everclear straight up at a bar anyway?

Bar where I'm most likely to be spit on for wearing peasant clothes:
The Plagiarist and Apologist - Now THAT is a pretentious tap list. (Honorable mention: The Stagger Inn)

Bar most prone to regular fistfights:
Shecky's. Every single person on the staff hates people. The sign on the door might as well say "Misanthropes only, please."

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[ChampKind]

FYI -

I do believe that the Pub Draft will return. Working out specs w/ Rondo, and figuring out a way I can rig it so I win.

Off topic, but my pub draft suggestions:

- Everyone gets basic rail mixers, tvs, sodas, tables, etc. Anything you'd find at a Houlihan's or Shenaniganz comes standard except for your beers, food, and specialty drinks.
- 6 beers you draft are labels, not specialties or single brews. So if you draft Budweiser, you get Bud, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Dry, etc. Everything with that name on the label is yours, eliminating the need to get super specific. Your taps are unlimited. That should add a little more suspense to the picks and up the number of brews that can get stolen by someone picking ahead of you.
- Specialty drinks include specialty brands of liquor. Anyone can pour you a whiskey, but who is serving up Blanton's on ice?
- Everything else stays the same, because that was a lot of fun.

[Rondo2287]

FYI -

I do believe that the Pub Draft will return. Working out specs w/ Rondo, and figuring out a way I can rig it so I win.

Off topic, but my pub draft suggestions:

- Everyone gets basic rail mixers, tvs, sodas, tables, etc. Anything you'd find at a Houlihan's or Shenaniganz comes standard except for your beers, food, and specialty drinks.
- 6 beers you draft are labels, not specialties or single brews. So if you draft Budweiser, you get Bud, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Dry, etc. Everything with that name on the label is yours, eliminating the need to get super specific. Your taps are unlimited. That should add a little more suspense to the picks and up the number of brews that can get stolen by someone picking ahead of you.
- Specialty drinks include specialty brands of liquor. Anyone can pour you a whiskey, but who is serving up Blanton's on ice?
- Everything else stays the same, because that was a lot of fun.

Ya we have been working on some tweeks many of which you touched on.  Don't worry it will be back and better than ever.

[StartOrien]

FYI -

I do believe that the Pub Draft will return. Working out specs w/ Rondo, and figuring out a way I can rig it so I win.

Off topic, but my pub draft suggestions:

- Everyone gets basic rail mixers, tvs, sodas, tables, etc. Anything you'd find at a Houlihan's or Shenaniganz comes standard except for your beers, food, and specialty drinks.
- 6 beers you draft are labels, not specialties or single brews. So if you draft Budweiser, you get Bud, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Dry, etc. Everything with that name on the label is yours, eliminating the need to get super specific. Your taps are unlimited. That should add a little more suspense to the picks and up the number of brews that can get stolen by someone picking ahead of you.
- Specialty drinks include specialty brands of liquor. Anyone can pour you a whiskey, but who is serving up Blanton's on ice?
- Everything else stays the same, because that was a lot of fun.

Really love most of these suggestions. Kinda what I was thinking for a few but have been struggling to word with clarity.

I don't know about the label though, cuz my concern is that I'm not exactly sure when we call it a day. If memory serves me correctly, Budweiser's arm in the beer business goes pretty far into other brewing companies.

1 Budweiser
1.1 Bud Light
1.2 Bud Light Platinum
1.3 Bud
1.4 Budweiser Select
1.4.1 Budweiser Select 55
1.5 Bud Ice
1.6 Bud Ice Light
1.7 Budweiser Brew Masters' Private Reserve
1.8 Bud Dry
1.9 Bud Silver
1.10 Bud Extra
1.11 Budweiser/Bud Light Chelada
1.12 Budweiser American Ale
1.13 Budweiser NA
1.14 Bud Light Lime
1.15 Bud Light Golden Wheat
1.16 Budweiser 66
2 Michelob
2.1 Brand variation
2.2 Marketing
3 Shock Top
4 Busch
5 Rolling Rock
6 Natural
7 Land Shark Lager
8 Malt liquors
8.1 King Cobra
8.2 Hurricane
9 Others
9.1 Tequiza

Craft Distribution Alliances

Goose Island Brewery
Kona Brewing Company
Fordham Brewing Company
Old Dominion Brewing Company

[ChampKind]

FYI -

I do believe that the Pub Draft will return. Working out specs w/ Rondo, and figuring out a way I can rig it so I win.

Off topic, but my pub draft suggestions:

- Everyone gets basic rail mixers, tvs, sodas, tables, etc. Anything you'd find at a Houlihan's or Shenaniganz comes standard except for your beers, food, and specialty drinks.
- 6 beers you draft are labels, not specialties or single brews. So if you draft Budweiser, you get Bud, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Dry, etc. Everything with that name on the label is yours, eliminating the need to get super specific. Your taps are unlimited. That should add a little more suspense to the picks and up the number of brews that can get stolen by someone picking ahead of you.
- Specialty drinks include specialty brands of liquor. Anyone can pour you a whiskey, but who is serving up Blanton's on ice?
- Everything else stays the same, because that was a lot of fun.

Really love most of these suggestions. Kinda what I was thinking for a few but have been struggling to word with clarity.

I don't know about the label though, cuz my concern is that I'm not exactly sure when we call it a day. If memory serves me correctly, Budweiser's arm in the beer business goes pretty far into other brewing companies.

1 Budweiser
1.1 Bud Light
1.2 Bud Light Platinum
1.3 Bud
1.4 Budweiser Select
1.4.1 Budweiser Select 55
1.5 Bud Ice
1.6 Bud Ice Light
1.7 Budweiser Brew Masters' Private Reserve
1.8 Bud Dry
1.9 Bud Silver
1.10 Bud Extra
1.11 Budweiser/Bud Light Chelada
1.12 Budweiser American Ale
1.13 Budweiser NA
1.14 Bud Light Lime
1.15 Bud Light Golden Wheat
1.16 Budweiser 66
2 Michelob
2.1 Brand variation
2.2 Marketing
3 Shock Top
4 Busch
5 Rolling Rock
6 Natural
7 Land Shark Lager
8 Malt liquors
8.1 King Cobra
8.2 Hurricane
9 Others
9.1 Tequiza

Craft Distribution Alliances

Goose Island Brewery
Kona Brewing Company
Fordham Brewing Company
Old Dominion Brewing Company

Right. That's all InBev, I believe. For clarification purposes, you'd just be taking the name on the bottle, so if you took Bud, you'd get all of section 1, but not all the labels produced by their overhead companies. Michelob would be on the table, and if you took it, you'd get all of section 2, etc.

In short, it might be owned by Bud, but unless it says "Bud" on the label, it doesn't count for draft purposes.

[StartOrien]

Right. That's all InBev, I believe. For clarification purposes, you'd just be taking the name on the bottle, so if you took Bud, you'd get all of section 1, but not all the labels produced by their overhead companies. Michelob would be on the table, and if you took it, you'd get all of section 2, etc.

Ah, then I like it. I like it a lot.

[ChampKind]

Right. That's all InBev, I believe. For clarification purposes, you'd just be taking the name on the bottle, so if you took Bud, you'd get all of section 1, but not all the labels produced by their overhead companies. Michelob would be on the table, and if you took it, you'd get all of section 2, etc.

Ah, then I like it. I like it a lot.

I like YOU. Looking forward to the combination of time wasting and drink prognosticating that the draft will bring. Alright, enough off-topic banter from me. Enjoy your draft, fellas.

[Rondo2287]

Im super pumped about the pub draft this time around. Should be a good time.  Even though my country music bar got no respect last year.

[Edgar]

Im super pumped about the pub draft this time around. Should be a good time.  Even though my country music bar got no respect last year.

For some reason Pandacracy is still watchable from the moon

[Rondo2287]

Im super pumped about the pub draft this time around. Should be a good time.  Even though my country music bar got no respect last year.

For some reason Pandacracy is still watchable from the moon

And their Raw Bar and Sushi are still giving people food poisoning

[ChampKind]

Im super pumped about the pub draft this time around. Should be a good time.  Even though my country music bar got no respect last year.

For some reason Pandacracy is still watchable from the moon

People aboard the international space station look down to earth and see a giant panda face looking back at them, and then smile in the comfort that they are not alone.

[Rondo2287]

Im super pumped about the pub draft this time around. Should be a good time.  Even though my country music bar got no respect last year.

For some reason Pandacracy is still watchable from the moon

I will say that your dance floor was pretty intimidating

Also awesome that you can still find this on google image search

[indeedproceed]

Gotta say, I think the pub draft worked great last year. I'm not really a fan about the proposed changes for beer selection (I think that worked well), but here are the only changes I would make:

1) You cannot select anyone or anything you did last year. You can pick something/somebody someone else picked, but nobody/nothing you did.

2) Addition of a barfly category. One patron who is there all the time.

3) TV/Internet/Dancing are at every bar, as are speed racks (cheap liquor). So while one bar might specialize in premium tequila, everybody serves Sauza.

4) Irish whiskey, scotch, bourbon, are different categories (last year they were just 'whiskey' and carried me to the win), and this extends out to other kinds of liquor/drinks. Without getting too specific, and while trying to keep things from getting too repetitive, monopolies on stuff should be kept to a minimum.

[StartOrien]

3) TV/Internet/Dancing are at every bar, as are speed racks (cheap liquor). So while one bar might specialize in premium tequila, everybody serves Sauza.

Something we came up with to avoid some of those issues is that any 'activity' needs to be purchasable on amazon.com. So if you want your bar to be the only bar that offers darts you've gotta be able to purchase a dartboard on amazon.  

So if you want your activity to be an escort service you better be able to find a lady of the night on amazon.com

[StartOrien]

Do we have an idea when the Cblog Draft is going to be?