Mark My Calender

Madden Challenge 2004 hits Chicago, in the likely overcrowd Navy Pier on August 21st. This is going to suck – I’m guessing they’re using the same location and it was overpacked last time – and rule – COMPETITIVE VIDEO GAME PLAYING! what’s not to love – at the same time. We go all the way … Continue reading “Mark My Calender”

Madden Challenge 2004 hits Chicago, in the likely overcrowd Navy Pier on August 21st. This is going to suck – I’m guessing they’re using the same location and it was overpacked last time – and rule – COMPETITIVE VIDEO GAME PLAYING! what’s not to love – at the same time. We go all the way from SIX! days to have the game and prep to EIGHT! I feel for the people in Minneaplis and Green Bay, who get two and three days between the time the game hits stores and when their competition is.

In some respects, I think it is nice to have it early is a funnier contest, because the game you can’t poke around for shotcuts in a short time. You’re playing the video game against each other instead of trying to exploit the flaws in the video game.

It’s just when it’s so early that you may or may not get to play it that it becomes a problem; it’s no fun doing a Madden 2005 competition when you’re mentally playing last year’s version, since that’s all you know. I may have to get get a hold of NCAA just to get some practice in. I preorder Madden online, but I don’t have enough experience to know when it’ll show up.

We’ve been debating which teams to pick for a couple weeks now, without, you know, knowing actually how good they are, and haven’t gotten to a clear conclusion. Last year, I believe I had absolutely no passing ability, so I took the Bucs to make one side of the ball good. That pick this year would be the Ravens, but I have even less faith in their offense. I’m thinking, at the moment and don’t hold it against me, Patriots. I figure they’ll be the best and most complete team.

I expect to see about five hundered people playing Michael Vick. Which means playing against the option in NCAA will be even better practice.

Still 2 minute quarters (booo but kinda understandable). In the rules, they bury a note that $4 of your $10 guys to a 6 month trial subscription to EGM, and you can even get that $4 back if you send a bunch of photocopies. Money’s still going to charity this year (COMPETITIVE VIDEO GAME PLAYING FOR CHARITY! can it get much better?), though they don’t actually specify how much as they did in the past.

Remind me to steal/borrow a digital camera for this.

Crucial Rule Change of the Year To Annoying People: No one is allowed to stand in front of the TV while setting audibles or anything similar.

Crucial Rule Change of the Year for everyone else: It’s now a sudden death situation for tied at OT, as opposed to last year’s wacky (though dramatic) field goal contest.

Rule Most Sure To Not Be Enforced: No coaching allowed (people in the crowd telling the player what to do while playing)

(With this post, there are now more posts – though not all of them visible – on this blog than the CMLLBlog. I don’t know why that’s important. But I’m really not accomplishing much.)

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  1. I can’t stand the Pats’ playbook, personally. I’d go with Seattle – good running game, come-from-behind ability, and a decent D. Although I suppose Carolina’s a better pick if you’re going with the all-run-all-D-no-pass scenario.

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