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[MO] Co-ordinating the Multiverse Olympics
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 		Ariadne's most recent blog post says:
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Eli says sunrise is the traditional running time at the site of the Olympics, so our team in Beijing will be competing around 5:30 AM on August 24. That means our North America, South America, and Australia/New Zealand teams will be running at pretty normal times. But our European team and any other Asian team will be running very early in the morning, or late at night. Let's plan now for a good space and an amazing team who can compete with us! Remember to email me and our amazing honorary coach Edwin Moses (ftwmcdSPLATgmail.com) so we can start to put our Worlds Championship roster in place,


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 		I've tried to. Recruit people for an Olympic labyrinth team in Munich, that is. But since I'm no Chariton, all that I achieved were annoyed and irritated looks. *Sigh*.

Crying or Very sad

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Eli says sunrise is the traditional running time at the site of the Olympics, so our team in Beijing will be competing around 5:30 AM on August 24.

That means, if Team Shanghai represents Asia, they will have to get together before 5:30, but will public transportations carry them so early?

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konamouse wrote:
Typically the men's marathon ends at the stadium shortly before the closing ceremonies. I'm imagining some Lost Ring Labyrinth running happening in the middle of the grass. That would be very interesting. With the vast majority of the viewing public having NO IDEA what it is (and probably just assuming it's a dance routine).


Well that fits right in with our early mantra of hiding the secret in plain site.

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 		So, that's Wellington and San Francisco for sure... do we have any confirmation for the other cities?

Is Japan participating or is Beijing representing Asia?

Will there be one in England or Germany or other?
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lhall wrote:
Is Japan participating or is Beijing representing Asia?

Noriko wrote in her blog that an Asian city other than Beijing will run on Aug 23/24. As far as I know, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo have run a human labyrinth.

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 		OK, so here are my three questions (my apologies if they have already been answered):

1. How will we accurately coordinate the "go" signal? Synchronised watches? Mobile phone? Web casts? Magic combo of all 3?

2. When do we press "stop" on the stop-watches - when the runner has reached the end of the labyrinth, or when they are actually out of it? By that I mean, when they are parallel with the edge of the inside OR outside wall? Confused

3. Does it matter which way the labyrinth is "facing"? Clockwise or anti-clockwise?


Oh! And What the heck did "and when you are ready, look to Delphi" mean?

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 		Double post! (my very first... sigh)

I've noticed that quite a few teams (including us) are struggling for numbers
Canzonett wrote:
I've tried to. Recruit people for an Olympic labyrinth team in Munich, that is. But since I'm no Chariton, all that I achieved were annoyed and irritated looks. *Sigh*.

Crying or Very sad


I thought perhaps the Charitons of the world might have some tips and tricks to share?

Through trial and error, I have found that one way to get people to come and play with us, is not to tell them anything about The Lost Ring - it just weirds them out and makes them think I'm even geekier than they suspected. I've just started telling them that we're playing a really fun, outdoor game, and that we'd really love to see them there. When they actually turn up we tell them that it's part of a "crazy story" and that we can send them some links if they like, but they normally don't want to hear about the wider game.
If that fails, the national pride thing seems to work well "C'mon, if you don't come, NZ will loose to Australia!"
A white lie, but they'll never know, so it's all good!

Anyone else have any suggestions?

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 		Tell them they'll lose to San Francisco. Because you know, that might actually be true (OHSNAP)

Razz

seriously though, I've realized that it's very difficult and to do it I've had to spread the word EVERYWHERE. Tell EVERYONE you know because chances are you'll only get 1 or 2 from every community you seek out.
Example: I invited every person I know who lives in the Bay Area, and of all those people (barring those I met through the Lost Ring), I got:
1 person who is into the game but hasn't been able to follow recently and can't be on the Olympic team
3 or 4 people who are interested in the Lost Sport and practicing with us but can't be on the Olympic team
1 person who wants to be on the Olympic team, knows nothing of FtLR, and can't come to most of the practices. To boot, I haven't seen him in like 3 years.
And then we nabbed a couple people through Jane, and there was a lot of us to start with (seven) plus each person's buddy, since by now most of us are bringing someone along Razz

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_june wrote:
I've just started telling them that we're playing a really fun, outdoor game, and that we'd really love to see them there. When they actually turn up we tell them that it's part of a "crazy story" and that we can send them some links if they like, but they normally don't want to hear about the wider game.
If that fails, the national pride thing seems to work well "C'mon, if you don't come, NZ will loose to Australia!"
A white lie, but they'll never know, so it's all good!
Word. That's what we realized worked best too, during the few training sessions we got to go through in France. People that aren'st as extreme as we are just don't care about the wider story : just tell them what they need to know - X number of walls, 1 runner, off you go !
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_june wrote:
OK, so here are my three questions (my apologies if they have already been answered):

1. How will we accurately coordinate the "go" signal? Synchronised watches? Mobile phone? Web casts? Magic combo of all 3?

2. When do we press "stop" on the stop-watches - when the runner has reached the end of the labyrinth, or when they are actually out of it? By that I mean, when they are parallel with the edge of the inside OR outside wall? Confused

3. Does it matter which way the labyrinth is "facing"? Clockwise or anti-clockwise?


Oh! And What the heck did "and when you are ready, look to Delphi" mean?


Ok, I have some proposed solutions to my questions:

1. We set a timer somewhere on the internet, when it hits 0.00, we start the run! Does anyone know how to set one of these up?

2. I reckon we go for stopping the time when the runner becomes parallel with the inside wall. I've pasted a wee image below - what do you think?


3. Doesn't matter, you still end up running the same distance.

And I have no clue why we're supposed to be looking to Delphi.

Does this all sound reasonable?

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_june wrote:

3. Does it matter which way the labyrinth is "facing"? Clockwise or anti-clockwise?


I would think so...does the Codex mention anything about the Olympic-sized labyrinths being left-handed or right-handed (for which is which, see this site: click me!)? Codex chapter 4 just says the worlds have to agree on a latitude and longitude for the center of a synchronizing labyrinth, but doesn't mention direction. The picture on Codex chapter 5 though (which mentions "The labyrinth for the Olympics") has a 7-circuit left-handed labyrinth (matches june's drawing above) and probably should be taken as official. I didn't look at any other pages of the Codex, though.

_june wrote:
Oh! And What the heck did "and when you are ready, look to Delphi" mean?


I wonder if that is supposed to refer to the omphaputer. In the second trailer, the page that Eli Hunt found in that statue years ago--the one that began, "When you are ready to receive data, look to Delphi"--is shown tucked inside the New Atlantis book that Ariadne handles and which we know contains the notes Eli found that led him to the IP address of the omphaputer. He found the note and the book notes in separate places, but perhaps he put two and two together and figured it out. The omphaputer very much is our Oracle; it gives us a window into what is happening in our world (the tying of the omph knots and the appearance of the net lines) as well as what is happening across the worlds (training times and RUN GRAPH data).

_june wrote:
Ok, I have some proposed solutions to my questions:

1. We set a timer somewhere on the internet, when it hits 0.00, we start the run! Does anyone know how to set one of these up?


I've got an idea: agree on a time zone and a time to use that refers to this site: http://www.time.gov/

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 		Like this?

http://timeanddate.com/s/vbt

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 		Nice!

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DavFlamerock wrote:
Like this?

http://timeanddate.com/s/vbt

Nice, except who cares about 3:30? Very Happy

(2:30pm PDT is when we start--or at least meet to perhaps start at 3:00)
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