Please be specific. No 'tighten up the ruck rules to make the game faster' vagueness. I want one specific rule that would make a positive impact
One thing I noticed about this whole show was how readily people wanted to integrate this into their normal lives. Buying fancy expensive masks, making social media posts about being unwell or announcing having their vaccination. It felt less like a pandemic and more like the latest cultural craze, like Pokemon Go or the Ice Bucket Challenge. It came watercooler talk. Actually scrap that, it became like sports. Sports spectating where we're all cheering for their respective teams. And everyone just wants to win the lowest case numbers. In a perverse way it's as if they want it. As if they enjoy it.
"Did you see how many cases today?""This state is doing better.""Which vaccine did you get?""Lockdown starts at 6pm"
How are you all not tired of hearing the words "pandemic/corona/covid/vaccine". I'm uninterested in your global sports event. I'm not a fan. Unsubscribing. Just leave me the fuck alone unless you have something interesting to talk about. If it wasn't for my girlfriend I literally wouldn't know when these "lockdowns" are. What kind of person takes those government announcements seriously? Seeing grown adults take this shit seriously. Walking around in broad daylight in sparsely populated areas wearing a mask is frankly pathetic. My respect for the general public has greatly diminished.
Anyone know when/if they are opening up sports stadiums to spectators again? Info seems slim, and I can’t imagine why it hasn’t happened yet.
I wrote this for a friend recently, and felt like i'd share it here because it's probably the most valuable thing i've ever learned. In the words of a professor that's a major role model of mine- "Mathematics isn't a spectator sport", and that advice single handedly saved me as a student my freshman year.
Prior to calculus 2 I honestly never felt like I had to put much work into school. I just kinda showed up and did the bare minimum but somehow did well. My calc 2 class was pretty standard for what it was- a kind of "baby analysis" class that covered integrals, sequences, and series using the infamous 8th ed Stewart's Calculus textbook. That class was the first time where my previous strategy of just showing up didn't work- I was scared, uncertain, and confused, because it was a situation I had never dealt with before. I remember having a 1:1 meeting with the professor, and they essentially told me that I had a good intuition, but wasn't doing enough hands on work with the material to actually master it. A few days after that 1:1 meeting, I ran into another professor and during our chat he brought up a quote that i'll never forget- "mathematics is not a spectator sport." I remember the next day pretty fondly- I had been told by my calc professor that I needed to work on computing limits, and was given a 50 question practice sheet. I did every single problem on a massive whiteboard, and changed the color of marker I used after every 5 problems. When I stepped back from the board and took a picture, it honestly was one of my proudest moments- because I had actually taken the advice from those professors and done something with it. After that I did almost every practice problem in the textbook for sequences and series- for anyone who's worked through Stewarts, you'd know that there are A LOT of practice problems. It was honestly overkill, but my grade began to climb drastically after I started doing all those practice problems. My professor was very generous in that we could retest any of the material once per week, and by using that opportunity, my grade went from a 63 to a literal 100 in calc 2.
At the end of the day I still don't always use this sort of approach, especially in proof based courses where worked examples aren't as abundant, but I definitely use this "siege tactic" when the going gets rough- and it's probably the most important thing i've taken out of my time as a student.
Now for the people in the back, Birth is not a spectator sport!
It seems I'm reading a post daily about in laws or other people demanding to be present for the birth. This is not 18th Century Europen Royalty where people wanted to check the Queens baby wasn't swapped at birth, as the birth mother you get the final say in who is present at your birth.
Please don't feel pressure from your partner or family who demand you must have xyz present. If you don't feel comfortable with someone being there, remember ' no' is a complete sentence. You don't need to justify your decision. You will be at your most vulnerable and deserve to be as comfortable as possible which includes deciding who is present. If you're afraid someone will just show up, tell the nurses and they're happy to run interference.
After watching the Rouge Invitational and the Games this year I'm convinced Crossfit's biggest failing is it's poor TV & spectator appeal.
The sport is excellent but its really hard to watch and have any idea who is winning or what rep an athlete is up to. I know there is an attempt to have a live score board/rep counter but it can't always keep up, and sometimes doesn't even work at all. While I can see who is leading a race when they get to the a piece of gear, I close to no idea who will get off say the GHD first or what rep or cadence a particular athlete is up to.
For me having the direct comparison between Strongman events at the Invitational showed how much cleaner and more exciting simple events that any spectator can keep up with are to watch. I can clearly and easily see how hard and athlete is working as well as tactical decisions they are making.
Also, the 5 Strongman events over the weekend had 5 different winners. With the victory coming down to the last event. That is super exciting. Crossfit seems to have a bit of a problem where single athletes just dominates the sport, Froning, Smith, Toomey and now probably Medeiros are all unbackable winners.
Bit of a rant I know. The decline in CFs popularity is largely due to a few specific people in management however if the sport had a better TV appeal...... ah one can dream. Any one remember GRID?
More or less what it says on the tin. Players found a little fighting arena and want to put an NPC friend of theirs in to 1v1 the champion.
I've put in a gambling system and whatnot but as they approsch I realized that I don't really wanna cut it short with a summary and like 1 dice roll, but I also don't want them to feel bored during. I've suggested they participate but they love this NPC a lot. (Plus none of them are very Melee Stronk types and prefer to get NPC friend or to hire muscle for that)
So I'm trying to think of things for them to have agency in this little event that they want so bad. I'm open to any suggestions.
EDIT: Your suggestions and advuce have all been really great! I think I personally have enough, but feel free to keep posting advice in case someone else comes here with the same dilemma I had!
How hard is it to pitch in and help?
