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11-18-2012, 07:54 PM
The Eyes on Final Fantasy Events Committee Presents
Would I Lie To You?
Welcome to Would I Lie To You?, the game where fantastic facts and fatuous fabrications come together.
For those of you who are neither in the UK nor British-TV-watching anglophiles, the general idea is this: In each round, our players will be PM'd a statement to read out in-thread. It will either be a true fact provided by the player before the round starts, or a complete lie they've never seen before. It is then up to the player to defend their statement. The opposing team will then be given 24 hours to ask questions of the liar to determine whether their statement is fact or fiction. If they guess correctly, their team is given a point, if they guess incorrectly the statement-reader's team gets a point.
The game will be divided into 2 teams of 3, each with a team Captain who will be responsible for entering the deciding vote for their team. The Captain has the final decision--He (we'll use the male pronoun for now) can either take the advice of his team or overrule them like an idiot if either he's sure he's right or it would just be more entertaining.
An example of how the game is played on television:
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As a regular player, you not only have to be able to lie convincingly when it's your turn on the hot seat, but you have to have a finely-honed bulltrout detector to determine when the other team is lying to you.
Unlike the television version, the Possession and This Is My segments are just not doable in a format, so there will be 5 rounds of quick-fire lies. In rounds 1, 2, 4, and 5, a team will be selected and each player on that team* will have to read a statement for their opponents to guess. In Round 3, the presenter (That's me) will read a statement and both teams will have to guess, with points being awarded for a correct guess, but no penalties delivered for an incorrect guess.
*On the show, it's one player per round, but we will have six players and four rounds of lies. In my version, nobody escapes the hotseat. Nobody.
In the event of a tie at the end of Round 5, the presenter will select a player at random to read a tie-breaker statement.
As the presenter, I will be the one deciding which statements are read. The team captains also have the option of submitting lies for their teammates; if the captains do so, the presenter must make a reasonable attempt to use those lies. Captains are not required to write lies--that's the presenter's job--to do so or not is part of their captainly strategy.
At the end of the game, the captain of the winning team becomes the presenter for the next round, and his two teammates become the captains for the next round; after round 1, I will send all of the true statements I've received from applicants to my successor presenter.
Rounds will continue until interest in the game wanes, at which point, at the EC's discretion, play will be suspended for a reasonable waiting period (say one year). The last presenter should record who their successor is and keep their list of true statements.
Presenters may choose to deliver the lies they've written to their successor or not, at their own discretion.
The Events Committee has been kind enough to provide us with our initial captains:
In one corner, we have Jiro, the Master of Mendacity
Opposing him will be Rantz, the Baron of Bulltrout
How to Apply
Simply PM me with five true statements about yourself before December 5. I will choose the 4 players with the best (read: most likely to be entertaining in a live game) true statements and tell the team captains who will be playing. The team captains then PM me back with who they want on their team. If I can oblige them, I shall, but if both captains ask for a given player, I assign that player to a team at random.
Now, in Round One, I will be the one making up lies, but remember that in future rounds, the true statements you provided will be delivered to the next presenter, so you may be selected to play with a presenter who will write totally different lies for you.
Play begins December 13th; by that time the massive amount of activity that's been going on lately at EoFF should have abated somewhat. It also gives you all lots of time to think of 5 interesting true statements about yourself--a lot more time than I'm giving myself to come up with convincing lies. Also, even if you don't make the cut for Round 1, your answers will be retained for future rounds, so don't hesitate to apply.
If you think of a good true statement after applying, just PM the current presenter (right now that's me, remember) with your new statement and which previous one you want it to replace.
I think I've covered everything I said to the EC, but I could be mistaken and an EC member can feel free to chip in. I'm also available to answer questions about the game in this thread.
If you're planning to apply, I'd also like you to post that you're doing so in this thread so that other players have an idea of who they'll be up against. In fact, for this round I'm going to make it a requirement. PMs from applicants who have not posted their candidacy in this thread will be disregarded. Future presenters do not have to follow this rule.
There are no secret rules or anything that the EC saw that aren't being revealed here, so all forum members of any stripe are eligible to play.
Would I Lie To You?
Welcome to Would I Lie To You?, the game where fantastic facts and fatuous fabrications come together.
For those of you who are neither in the UK nor British-TV-watching anglophiles, the general idea is this: In each round, our players will be PM'd a statement to read out in-thread. It will either be a true fact provided by the player before the round starts, or a complete lie they've never seen before. It is then up to the player to defend their statement. The opposing team will then be given 24 hours to ask questions of the liar to determine whether their statement is fact or fiction. If they guess correctly, their team is given a point, if they guess incorrectly the statement-reader's team gets a point.
The game will be divided into 2 teams of 3, each with a team Captain who will be responsible for entering the deciding vote for their team. The Captain has the final decision--He (we'll use the male pronoun for now) can either take the advice of his team or overrule them like an idiot if either he's sure he's right or it would just be more entertaining.
An example of how the game is played on television:
zxPtccb51D8
As a regular player, you not only have to be able to lie convincingly when it's your turn on the hot seat, but you have to have a finely-honed bulltrout detector to determine when the other team is lying to you.
Unlike the television version, the Possession and This Is My segments are just not doable in a format, so there will be 5 rounds of quick-fire lies. In rounds 1, 2, 4, and 5, a team will be selected and each player on that team* will have to read a statement for their opponents to guess. In Round 3, the presenter (That's me) will read a statement and both teams will have to guess, with points being awarded for a correct guess, but no penalties delivered for an incorrect guess.
*On the show, it's one player per round, but we will have six players and four rounds of lies. In my version, nobody escapes the hotseat. Nobody.
In the event of a tie at the end of Round 5, the presenter will select a player at random to read a tie-breaker statement.
As the presenter, I will be the one deciding which statements are read. The team captains also have the option of submitting lies for their teammates; if the captains do so, the presenter must make a reasonable attempt to use those lies. Captains are not required to write lies--that's the presenter's job--to do so or not is part of their captainly strategy.
At the end of the game, the captain of the winning team becomes the presenter for the next round, and his two teammates become the captains for the next round; after round 1, I will send all of the true statements I've received from applicants to my successor presenter.
Rounds will continue until interest in the game wanes, at which point, at the EC's discretion, play will be suspended for a reasonable waiting period (say one year). The last presenter should record who their successor is and keep their list of true statements.
Presenters may choose to deliver the lies they've written to their successor or not, at their own discretion.
The Events Committee has been kind enough to provide us with our initial captains:
In one corner, we have Jiro, the Master of Mendacity
Opposing him will be Rantz, the Baron of Bulltrout
How to Apply
Simply PM me with five true statements about yourself before December 5. I will choose the 4 players with the best (read: most likely to be entertaining in a live game) true statements and tell the team captains who will be playing. The team captains then PM me back with who they want on their team. If I can oblige them, I shall, but if both captains ask for a given player, I assign that player to a team at random.
Now, in Round One, I will be the one making up lies, but remember that in future rounds, the true statements you provided will be delivered to the next presenter, so you may be selected to play with a presenter who will write totally different lies for you.
Play begins December 13th; by that time the massive amount of activity that's been going on lately at EoFF should have abated somewhat. It also gives you all lots of time to think of 5 interesting true statements about yourself--a lot more time than I'm giving myself to come up with convincing lies. Also, even if you don't make the cut for Round 1, your answers will be retained for future rounds, so don't hesitate to apply.
If you think of a good true statement after applying, just PM the current presenter (right now that's me, remember) with your new statement and which previous one you want it to replace.
I think I've covered everything I said to the EC, but I could be mistaken and an EC member can feel free to chip in. I'm also available to answer questions about the game in this thread.
If you're planning to apply, I'd also like you to post that you're doing so in this thread so that other players have an idea of who they'll be up against. In fact, for this round I'm going to make it a requirement. PMs from applicants who have not posted their candidacy in this thread will be disregarded. Future presenters do not have to follow this rule.
There are no secret rules or anything that the EC saw that aren't being revealed here, so all forum members of any stripe are eligible to play.