Design Your Own Olympic -athlon

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, you’ve heard of the pentathlon and the biathlon. Not to mention the decathlon. Here’s your chance to create your own -athlon.

General Rules

  1. You have to have “events.” They can be anything. But something like “See a psychiatrist” would not be an event. Knitting would count, so would wittling. Breaking through pervasive ennui would not count.

  2. It should have a general theme, i.e., the winner of the the Decathlon is supposed to be the best athlete in the world. What does the winner of your -athlon represent?

Here is my personal decathlon, designed to recognize the ultimate athlete: Someone who has developed their mind, body and spirit to it’s maximum potential.

Event 1: Marathon. Your standard 26 miles
Event 2. Weightlifting. Who can lift the most?
Event 3. Chess Tournament. I don’t know if there’s a scoring system for chess or not, but we’d have to create a complicated system where certain pieces are worth certain amounts, and you get points for number of moves, etc.
Event 4. Archery.
Event 5. Figure skating. I was tempted to make this golf or tennis, but figure skating would be much more difficult.
Event 6. Mountain climbing.
Event 7. Karate Tournament
Event 8. Forensics. A philosophical discussion.
Event 9. High Jump. You can’t call yourself a great athlete without some sort of jumping around.
Event 10. Wrestling.

All right then. What’s yours?

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Mame-a-thon - Highest combined score from a number of classic arcade games.

  1. Donkey Kong
  2. Pac Man
  3. Defender
  4. Dig Dug
  5. Missile Command
  6. Bezerk
  7. Space Invaders
  8. Galaga

Bar-a-thon

  1. Pool
  2. Darts
  3. Golden Tee
  4. Trivia Master
  5. Shuffleboard

Note: With chess, you’d probably have to award different points based on a win, draw, or loss. For example, a player sacrifices his queen on move 20 because he has mate on move 21. If you stop the match on move 20, the player loses. If you stop the match on move 21, he wins.

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Iron Stomach Competition

You have to eat, in their entirety, each and all of the following:

  1. 1 McDonald’s Big Mac
  2. 1 Carl’s Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger
  3. 1 Wendy’s Chicken Strips salad
  4. 1 Del Taco quesadilla
  5. 1 Taco Bell seven layer burrito
  6. 1 order Jack In the Box bacon cheddar potato wedges
  7. 1 48 oz. drink consisting of equal parts Coke, Barq’s Root Beer and Mr. Pibb
  8. 1 order large KFC cole slaw

First person to consume all of it wins. Winner proves that fast food is not harmful to your health. :wink:

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Heh, I thought you said Mime-athon, which I would also like to nominate. I can’t think of many events, though, since I know so very little about miming. Here’s a start:

  1. Escape from a box
  2. Stub your toe
  3. Ride a rollercoaster
  4. Eat something unpleasant
  5. Die a spectacular death
  6. Strike a pose and hold it
  7. Thank the academy
  8. Walk in a really strong wind

Umm, that’s all I’ve got. Mime pros, feel free to add to/modify my list.

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Hey, you can have an Octothlon.