This week's Race Sponsor Spotlight is being posted on a Thursday instead of its usual Friday date for a few reasons. One of them is that Coca-Cola is sponsoring both of the upcoming races this weekend, a company that I had already covered in the May Charlotte edition. To avoid redundancy, I decided to write about a specific time in Coca-Cola's NASCAR history that also relates to this Saturday's Cup race (making it more of a TBT or a Storytime than a Sponsor Spotlight).
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been rivals for a long time (see: /r/sodawars). Both companies have also been major players in NASCAR for years, sponsoring teams, drivers, and races. On one Saturday night, their rivalry flared up in interesting fashion: the 2004 Pepsi 400.
Entering the race, Pepsi was enjoying a 15-year relationship with the Daytona July race dating back to 1989. For the 2001 race, Pepsi sponsored Jeff Gordon; over the three Pepsi 400s from 2001 to 2003, however, Gordon did not have much success, finishing 37th, 22nd, and 14th.
For the 2004 edition, Pepsi decided to use the opportunity to promote Pepsi Edge, a new brand which contained Splenda as a sweetener, along with half the carbohydrates and sugar of a regular Pepsi. During the race, Fox aired two commercials for the drink featuring Stuart Scott and Rich Eisen. At the track on raceday, Pepsi provided 20,000 samples of Edge, along with 30,000 cans when the race ended.
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola elected to take the soda battle to the superspeedway, preparing to use the event as a means of promoting its own low-carb drink, Coca-Cola C2, which uses sucralose to sweeten it. The company scheduled six Harley-Davidson riders to ride around the surrounding area and pass out free samples of the drink. C2 merchandise sold during the weekend led to proceeds that were donated to the Victory Junction Gang Camp. Coke also purchased four full-page ads in NASCAR Scene that were wrapped around the cover of the July 1 issue; Daytona track officials, not wanting to anger Pepsi, removed the ads from the media center.
The Wall Street Journal described the effort of both companies as an attempt to appeal to "male consumers who normally shun existing diet sodas either because of taste o
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I'd prefer if it ended like how Flair interrupted Fozzy back in the day, a crazy bloodied old man tearing down the set
https://youtu.be/U9_NghUuGj4
I don't wish to appear to be bad mouthing this band(Pull Down the Sun), as I love them and they even describe themselves as deftones/gojira influenced; but this riff made me think i was listening to Battle-axe lol. Just wanted to share since the deftones influence is heavy. Maybe some of you will enjoy them as well.
Musical Episode: https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisHayner/status/1153023045277065217
Battle of The Bands Episode: https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisHayner/status/1153022735657758720
Prom Episode: https://mobile.twitter.com/azalben/status/1180855419775922178
Not to Mention;
Katy Keene Cross-Over Episode: https://m.eonline.com/news/1099203/katy-keene-is-heading-to-riverdale-for-a-crossover-before-it-premieres
Teased Throwback Episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/riverdale/comments/ee8c2u/i_live_in_fort_langley_bc_the_town_where/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf / “Np, as for spoilers. The lady who makes the jughead beanies is making ones for ahem a much much smaller head ;)”
Obviously it wouldnt happen because it would involve the same crews. but having a form of battle of the bands event would be sick.
Akali would be kicked out of both though, True Damage because they dont need her anymore, and KDA because they believe she was trying to leave them for a new band and are pissed.
at the very least they could give all the skins chromas of their new uniforms. it would be like a vs event. but for worlds
Bayside has removed the ability to view the vote results. I think they’re doing it to make it so that everyone feels like the pressure is on for them and will push for more genuine votes, not to say that’s a bad thing.
I think that if they would’ve required a YouTube video (just like a static image or a lyric video) it would’ve faired a bit better. You can still get bots to watch your video, but it’s harder because you have to watch the video for X amount of seconds before it counts as a view. Any other thoughts of how this could’ve been done better? It feels like a debacle at this point.
Edit: I hope Bayside reads this. This whole contest is a huge fucking joke and is putting a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. I’ve read more than a few comments across social media of people saying they’re done with Bayside, which sucks because they’re such a good band.
First of all if you are part of Steveos One shots: GTFO. You may not read further, I'm workshopping out next big thing so SHOO, no spoilers.
Hey DM's. I recently put my DM hat back on by running one shots. I can't commit to running a long term campaign, but every once in a while i want to run a session for forever dm's and friends. So here i am, inspired to build my own one shot from a silly idea i had while running tomb of annihilation a year or so back.
The premise: The Adventurers come across a Rock n Roll Necromancer deep in the jungle as her performers a ritual to raise an army of undead minions. He is on a stage basically blasting out death metal on a magic guitar with a band of ghosts and banshees backing him up, and the longer he plays the more undead monstrosities rise from the surrounding area. Fun little encounter where they can let loose to smash on some undead goons and disrupt the ritual by destroying the bands sound equipment.
Then i thought. wait, what if i turn this into a full on boss battle? Instead of chasing off the band and wrecking their gear they fight it out with the necromancer.
What if they were fighting because they were taking part in a Battle of the Bands...
Things blew up in my head from there. So here is my rough outline for the one shot, which will likely be a 3ish four hour sessions series.
All players are bard or have several levels in bard if they multiclass, this is for fun and flavor.
Start at level 10 with starting gear, 2000 gp, (2 uncommon magic items OR 1 rare magic item). They can spend gp on other magic items. Standard point buy.
The plan is for there to be three encounters total. Each encounter is a battle against an opposing band.
First is the music section of the battle, this is a series of skill checks that will be modified by player creativity. If they want to use major image to create a Giant Chimera to hop on stage and rock out with the band, thats a big boost to audience satisfaction. etc. I've established with my group its ok to get weird, wacky and creative with stuff in previous sessions, so i want to be able to have that behavior pay off here.
Help : I want to build a small system for this. Rather than just rolling performance vs performance and adding a few modifiers i would like to have it be a bit more interesting. I was thinking maybe having a couple of goals. One is audience satisfaction and the other is Morale of the opposing band. Make your audience happy and destroy the
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Small Talk - Aquarium vs. La Troienne - 7 Years
FREE $$$ - (Inaudible Noises) vs. Sundive - Aphrodite
Girl Colors - St. Anthony’s Fire vs. Dog Pact - Winter Song
The Birdwatchers - Understanding vs. kidcombo - View of Winter Trees
Mid-American - Slow Float vs. Elementary School Indie Rock Club - Takkun's Great Adventure
Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes - Swim Deep vs. The Wash - I Can't Know
ALMNC - N8 vs. Andrew Younker - Nervous To Exist Around You
Atomic Lips - Dive vs. sloth hooks - sinking
Winners from the last group:
Atomic Lips - Dive vs. Motel Guide - Samworth's Summer Journey
yakokoala - Bullet Trains vs. sloth hooks - sinking
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