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| by Dubya - Sun 26th Mar 2006, 5:43pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| There should be links to the relevant games! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by crippled - Sun 26th Mar 2006, 6:04pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Is the 'coxing game' the game that was on the boat race website last year (I think Muppet from 99s designed and wrote it)? That was a great game. Obviously not as good as bumpIT though... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by RTT - Sun 26th Mar 2006, 9:19pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
crippled said: Is the 'coxing game' the game that was on the boat race website last year I was thinking of the one where you had a little stick boat that you had to steer through a map of the first half of the bumps course. Tim Granger wrote it I think.And Dubya, I looked for links but most of them seem to be unavailable now (plus obviously I didn't want to be held responsible for ruining another generation worth of degrees....) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by psychadelic radioactive cupcakes - Sun 26th Mar 2006, 10:49pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oh yes I remember that game, it was quite fun. The one I was thinking of though was on the boat race website last year. There were fictional Cambridge and Oxford squads and you chose to be Cam or Oxford (not really a choice, obviously), and you had to pick crews for different outing types in the days leading up to the race. Then you picked your final crew and crew order and gave them a race plan. The game produced your time and winning/losing margin, told you if and when you'd blown up, and there was a leaderboard with the winning times. I haven't explained it at all well or done it any justice, but it was a really neat game and a good procrastination tool. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Neil - Mon 27th Mar 2006, 12:11pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What about the game on the Boat Race website in 2001 where you had to get the 'Who do you support?' vote up to 100% for Cambridge? Probably my finest result as lower boats' captain... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by dw229 - Tue 28th Mar 2006, 9:53pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neil said: What about the game on the Boat Race website in 2001 where you had to get the 'Who do you support?' vote up to 100% for Cambridge? Probably my finest result as lower boats' captain... That was a great game. Didn't someone write a script that submitted votes whenever the percentage dropped? :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by back when I was still young... - Tue 28th Mar 2006, 10:26pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dw229 said: That was a great game. Didn't someone write a script that submitted votes whenever the percentage dropped? :) Equally effective but not quite as elegant was the coin-stack-on-the-return-key method. This basically submitted votes continuously at a rate of about one every ten seconds, but did render the computer otherwise completely useless for the duration of the poll. :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Even I was young then... - Wed 29th Mar 2006, 8:35am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neil said: What about the game on the Boat Race website in 2001 where you had to get the 'Who do you support?' vote up to 100% for Cambridge? Probably my finest result as lower boats' captain... And one of my proudest moments as a member of this club. Having discovered, I think on the weekend before the race, that this poll could be manipulated, I e-mailed the club expecting people to do as I had done and just spend a few minutes hitting enter to log some entires. Fairly quickly, we were doing well - up into the eighties or so. I think it was either Chris Ingram or Andy P who then wrote the script that kept the poll topped up in the high nineties percent (I think it was decided that putting it to 100% would look too artificial!).On the Wednesday night before the race I was at the CUBC dinner (at which they have a few old blues, the press, and hangers on like the Hon Sec) at which someone who was from the Boat Race organisation (Dr Treharne Jones, I think) sat on my table and complained that they had needed to take the poll off the site. Mission accomplished... (Richard Stokes was also there and gave me a knowing look.) They put a new poll up the following year which couldn't be adjusted so easily. (Sorry, this has to be one of the biggest name dropping e-mails of all time. But being Hon Sec was great!) By the way Neil, the "no parking" signs are back for this year's boat race... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
