User blog:Leengard Ustan/GMG Preliminary Event

Alright, so while talking on Chat, I posed the question of what the Preliminary Event of our GMG would be.

Of the ideas we came up with, Phantom's and mine seemed to be the favorites. So, I'll write up the games and the rules for them and then you guys can vote on your favorite.

Phantom's idea:

Seek and Find

Four of the Five members of each team are hidden throughout Crocus and the fifth member has to find a member of their team, then find the next member and so on until they've found their entire team. The entire team then needs to cross the goal line together.

If the teams come across another team and both teams have at least two members, they may attack each other, but only to slow the other team down. Attacking a team with only one member will result in disqualification.

First 8 Teams to find all of their members and cross the goal line become a part of the official GMG.

My idea:

Triathlon Rally Race

A Triathlon is a three part race usually involving three different kinds of races, for the GMG the three races are a Three Mile Swim, a Three Mile Long Foot Race up a Mountain and a Three Mile Sled Race down the Mountain.

A Rally is where there are teams of runners who pass a baton to the next person who then runs to the next person on their team etc until the last member of the team crosses the finish line. For the GMG the first member of the team swims 1.5 Miles, passes the baton to the next member who swims the last 1.5 Miles and passes the baton to the team member who starts the Foot Race. Another 1.5 Miles and another baton pass. The fifth member of the team ends the race by sledding down the mountain they're waiting on.

While all of this is going on, there's no rule to prevent anyone from attacking anyone else so long as they're only attacking people who are on the same part of the race as them & have begun racing (i.e. no attacking anyone waiting for the baton to be passed to them.

First 8 Teams to reach the bottom of the 3 Mile Sled Race become a part of the official GMG.

Now, of course, the 8 Teams have already been decided, so this is more so we can make references to the Prelim and everyone making the same references and to give everyone something to write about for their The Day Before section. Finishing Order was also decided based on the number of votes they received when we were decided who would be a part of the GMG (see the order here, top is 1st bottom is 8th).

And, since I've given you two options, that can only mean one thing:

IT'S TIME FOR A POLL!

Which Preliminary Event do YOU want? Seek and Find Triathlon Rally Race