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Deserted Island Historical Figures Draft
charlie:
The Goal: Pick the most interesting group of individuals from throughout history to join you on you on a deserted island for the rest of your life.
How this works
We go in turns one at a time picking people from history to be on our list. You can't take a person that has already been selected. When we're done we compare lists and everybody votes on which they like best. The fun is in seeing what/who interests the other pickers, and trying to pick people you want on your list before somebody else takes them.
Tournament Seeding (draft order in parentheses)
* drakkenkorin (6)
* micah (8)
* JaWiB (5)
* ober (4)
* Duwenbasden (3)
* kermi3 (1)
* charlie (2)
* axon (7)
* PJYelton (9)
Draft results by round
Draft results by person
I encourage anybody with even a little bit of interest to participate. The more people there are, the more fun it is. If you're worried about any of the details I'll help you through it. Just give it a go!
charlie:
You don't have to read all this, but if you have a specific question about how this thing works, look here...
Official Rules (Important rules in red.)
Participation
* All participants will declare their desire to participate by saying so explicitly in a comment in this thread.
* Anybody who asks to join the draft after it has begun can do so but must wait at least one full round before they can start choosing. Please feel free to join if we just started but you didn't sign up yet. The more the merrier.
Selection Rules
* The premise is that you're on a deserted island but with plenty of food and drink. You have no entertainment except for the companionship of a group of people selected from throughout human history to join you.
* You can pick anybody who you reasonably believe is/was a real person. For example, you can't pick Santa Claus, but you can pick Saint Nicholas.
* You cannot pick somebody from your private life. In other words, no picking your wife, kids, best friend, another ES poster, etc.
* Picking a person who isn't considered part of "history" (e.g. a famous actor/actress, athlete, or writer) is fine.
* Picking a person who is still alive is fine.
* Once a person is selected, nobody else can pick that person.
* Please PM me if you have a specific question about whether a person is eligible.
* Posting an image and a link to wikipedia or any other site with information about the person would be helpful (but is not required). The more information you post, including why you made your pick, the more interesting the draft is. Please post at least enough information to clearly identify who you are talking about.
Draft Specifics
* The draft order will be determined by random draw via http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm. I promise I won't cheat.
* The draft will be a snake draft, meaning that whoever has the last pick in one round will have the first pick in the next. For example, if we have six people they will pick like this: 1-2-3-4-5-6-6-5-4-3-2-1-1-2-3...
* There will be 12 rounds, meaning everybody gets 12 picks. This is open for discussion.
* Each person will have 24 hours to make their pick. However, Saturday and Sunday don't count (although you can still pick on the weekends if it is your turn). The 24 hours starts after the previous person's pick or after the previous person's 24 hours expires (whichever comes first).
* Simply posting the name of your selection in this thread is enough to count it as being selected.
* If your turn is approaching and you know you will be away from the internet, you can PM your selection to me or the person scheduled to pick after you. You can also simply announce that you will be away and that your 24 hours can be skipped as a courtesy.
* If your turn has been skipped, you may at any time make your pick for that turn. However, you cannot pick a person who has already been selected after your turn was skipped. If somebody else picked your person then you are out of luck.
Judging
* When the draft is complete, we will have a tournament style playoff of all lists. All ES members will be allowed to vote in each round of the playoffs.
* The draft participants will be seeded according to another run of the randomizer that created the draft order. Some people will likely end up with a bye in the first round based simply on the luck of the draw.
* You will have until a few days after the draft to make up any missed picks. Anybody with more missed selections than actual selections will not be eligible for the tournament.
charlie:
Round 1
* kermi3: Benjamin Franklin
* charlie: Jesus
* Duwenbasden: John Cleese
* ober: Winston Churchill
* JaWiB: Nikola Tesla
* drakkenkorin: Edgar Allan Poe
* axon: Khufu (Egyptian King)
* micah: Martin Luther
* PJYelton: Leonardo da Vinci
Round 2
* PJYelton: Galileo Galilei
* micah: Teddy Roosevelt
* axon: Pope John Paul II
* drakkenkorin: Marquis de Sade
* JaWiB: Richard Feynman
* ober: John D. Rockefeller
* Duwenbasden: Nero
* charlie: George Washington
* kermi3: Thomas Jefferson
Round 3
* kermi3: Queen Elizabeth I
* charlie: Albert Einstein
* Duwenbasden: Confucius
* ober: Thomas Edison
* JaWiB: Napoleon
* drakkenkorin: Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha)
* axon: Aristotle
* micah: Mark Twain
* PJYelton: Charles Darwin
Round 4
* PJYelton: Genghis Khan
* micah: Paul the Apostle
* axon: William Shakespeare
* drakkenkorin: Vlad the Impaler
* JaWiB: Archimedes
* ober: Charles Kettering
* Duwenbasden: Nostradamus
* charlie: Dalai Lama (current)
* kermi3: Alexander the Great
Round 5
* kermi3: Charles Dickens
* charlie: Socrates
* Duwenbasden: Attila the Hun
* ober: Kim Jong-il
* JaWiB: Plato
* drakkenkorin: Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
* axon: Isaac Newton
* micah: Hiram Percy Maxim
* PJYelton: Moses
Round 6
* PJYelton: Elvis Presley
* micah: Johannes Gutenberg
* axon: Julius Caesar
* drakkenkorin: Ramses II
* JaWiB: Johann Sebastian Bach
* ober: Gandhi
* Duwenbasden: King Arthur
* charlie: Michelangelo
* kermi3: Alexander Graham Bell
Round 7
* kermi3: Wilhelm Grimm
* charlie: Voltaire
* Duwenbasden: Bruce Lee
* ober: Christopher Columbus
* JaWiB: J. R. R. Tolkien
* drakkenkorin: Homer
* axon: Ernest Hemingway
* micah: Michael Lang
* PJYelton: Copernicus
Round 8
* PJYelton: Nefertiti
* micah: Louis Pasteur
* axon: Pablo Picasso
* drakkenkorin: Akhenaten
* JaWiB: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* ober: William Penn
* Duwenbasden: Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
* charlie: Jimi Hendrix
* kermi3: Annie Oakley
Round 9
* kermi3: King Leonidas I
* charlie: Nelson Mandela
* Duwenbasden: Robert Louis Stevenson
* ober: Steve Jobs
* JaWiB: Ernest Shackleton
* drakkenkorin: Jack the Ripper
* axon: Salvador Dalí
* micah: Constantine I
* PJYelton: Ernest Hemingway
Round 10
* PJYelton: Muhammad
* micah: Ishmael
* axon: Kazimierz Pułaski
* drakkenkorin: Rozz Williams
* JaWiB: Marie Curie
* ober: Andrew Carnegie
* Duwenbasden: Francisco Pizarro
* charlie: Harry Houdini
* kermi3: J. M. Cattell
Round 11
* kermi3: Daniel Boone
* charlie: Jim Thorpe
* Duwenbasden: Hammurabi
* ober: Pete Rose
* JaWiB: Freddie Mercury
* drakkenkorin: Pontius Pilate
* axon:
* micah: Andrew Moray
* PJYelton: Neil Armstrong
Round 12
* PJYelton: Barack Obama
* micah: Walt Disney
* axon:
* drakkenkorin: King Solomon
* JaWiB: T. S. Eliot
* ober: Larry Ellison
* Duwenbasden: Mel Blanc
* charlie: Cleopatra
* kermi3: Ted Kennedy
charlie:
kermi3
* Benjamin Franklin
* Thomas Jefferson
* Queen Elizabeth I
* Alexander the Great
* Charles Dickens
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Wilhelm Grimm
* Annie Oakley
* King Leonidas I
* J. M. Cattell
* Daniel Boone
* Ted Kennedy
charlie
* Jesus
* George Washington
* Albert Einstein
* Dalai Lama (current)
* Socrates
* Michelangelo
* Voltaire
* Jimi Hendrix
* Nelson Mandela
* Harry Houdini
* Jim Thorpe
* Cleopatra
Duwenbasden
* John Cleese
* Nero
* Confucius
* Nostradamus
* Attila the Hun
* King Arthur
* Bruce Lee
* Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
* Robert Louis Stevenson
* Francisco Pizarro
* Hammurabi
* Mel Blanc
ober
* Winston Churchill
* John D. Rockefeller
* Thomas Edison
* Charles Kettering
* Kim Jong-il
* Gandhi
* Christopher Columbus
* William Penn
* Steve Jobs
* Andrew Carnegie
* Pete Rose
* Larry Ellison
JaWiB
* Nikola Tesla
* Richard Feynman
* Napoleon
* Archimedes
* Plato
* Johann Sebastian Bach
* J. R. R. Tolkien
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Ernest Shackleton
* Marie Curie
* Freddie Mercury
* T. S. Eliot
drakkenkorin
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Marquis de Sade
* Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha)
* Vlad the Impaler
* Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
* Ramses II
* Homer
* Akhenaten
* Jack the Ripper
* Rozz Williams
* Pontius Pilate
* King Solomon
axon
* Khufu (Egyptian King)
* Pope John Paul II
* Aristotle
* William Shakespeare
* Isaac Newton
* Julius Caesar
* Ernest Hemingway
* Pablo Picasso
* Salvador Dalí
* Kazimierz Pułaski
*
*
micah
* Martin Luther
* Teddy Roosevelt
* Mark Twain
* Paul the Apostle
* Hiram Percy Maxim
* Johannes Gutenberg
* Michael Lang
* Louis Pasteur
* Constantine I
* Ishmael
* Andrew Moray
* Walt Disney
PJYelton
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Galileo Galilei
* Charles Darwin
* Genghis Khan
* Moses
* Elvis Presley
* Copernicus
* Nefertiti
* Ernest Hemingway
* Muhammad
* Neil Armstrong
* Barack Obama
charlie:
Ok, now is the time to discuss rule modifications, additions or deletions, and to declare your participation. This was originally micah's idea, I just made up rules based on how I thought it would work best to be run (and because I like to be rather open-ended about what people are allowed to pick). So if anybody has better ideas, and micah especially, please say so in this thread.
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