March Madness, Geek Force Five Style
Every year in March, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) holds tournaments to decide the national champions in both men’s and women’s basketball. This year, Geek Force Five, in association with the entirely fictional (for now) National Collegial Geekery Association (NCGA), is proud to announce the 1st Annual Geek Force Five Tournament. And you, my friends, are going to help us select the participants.
Here’s how it’s going to work. We’re going to scour the Internet over the next few days to determine the top 16 obsessions in four categories—Movies/TV, Games/Tech, Comics, and Music—and, while we’re doing that, you’re going to submit your picks via the GeekOut box in the sidebar of GeekForceFive.com. At some point early next week, once we’ve tallied all of the votes, we’re going to fill in the big bracket you see here. And then, our obsessions do battle!
For each matchup, we’ll create a page where you can vote to determine the winner. The winner of each matchup moves on to the next round, and so on, and so forth, until we’ve crowned our champion.
Make sense? Good! Let’s go. If you have questions (or if you want to tell me what a genius I am for thinking this up), drop ‘em in the comments.
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Bethany says:
You’re a genius!
unclephil says:
i think you should definitely include the following:
twitter
facebook
myspace
obsessing about obsessions
star trek
star wars
the beatles
elvis
gravityland (someone should be obsessing about it and if they’re not they should)
the financial decline of the western world
the wizard of oz
geek force five
u2
phish
the watchmen (and how crappy the movie was)
LOST (i mean gimme a break-not the nell carter show, i mean GIVE ME A FRICKEN BREAK ABOUT LOST ALREADY!)
guitar hero and rock band (i guess it is for those who dont play a real instrument)
wii fit
dr.who
cinema suicide
ruby on rails (if i knew what it was about i too would obsess about it)
mogulus
and i am sure i will have more by the end of the week
Brendan says:
You’re a genius. Brilliant. They should apply this idea to College Basketball. Seriously, It’s that good. :)
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Brendan says:
Questions:
Movies & TV: Do you want eight of each?
Comics: Do you want: Titles, Characters, Storylines? Any/All of the Above?
Game & Tech: Any kind of game or only electronic?
Music: Do you want: Bands, Albums? Either?
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Brendan says:
For that matter, what about comic masters/creators? Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, Jim Lee, Claremont, Bendis, Leob, Sale?
E. Christopher Clark says:
@Bethany - Thanks! I’m glad that everyone is acknowledging this.
@UnclePhil - Awesome suggestions. Many of those may end up on the list.
@Brendan - I think any/all of the above is the right answer for each of these things. In comics for example, I think that the X-Men as a franchise/concept could stand toe-to-toe with Claremont as a creator. I think there are people who are equally obsessed with both.
In Movies/TV, I think we could end up with a powerhouse creator like J.J. Abrams, whose done a bunch of things, squaring off against a Whedon, or even, eventually against one of his own shows like LOST.
The idea, as I imagine it, is something so awesome and ridiculous that we all have a blast reading it for a couple weeks. That’s my only goal: that people have fun.
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