I was originally planning to do more frequent coverage of “The Game” but there was a setback when we left our scoreboard to Luzern in the midst of a party. Plus that I’ve been a slacker.
The Game was originally an idea by Samuli to encourage members of our band to do stupid stuff during live sets. The idea grew to a battle between bands when we presented the idea to Ritual. When we could see the drive for competition in some of the members of Ritual have (that’s you Julian), some of us probably had second thoughts at that point…
The general idea of The Game is to perform certain moves during live shows. The moves are from a list gathered by attending parties. You get one personal point by succesful completion of a move. A move can be assessed by both bands after show if needed. You can get combo points for combining moves.
Then in the end all individual points are combined to get the points for a band. The band with more combined points will win. The losing band members will have to tattoo the name of the winning band on them.
We have now managed to get a photo of our scoreboard on our email. We are yet to go through it and add points gathered after losing the scoreboard, so I don’t really know the current situation. Right in the beginning Ritual was definately in the lead, right now it might be a little bit more even. I’m not keeping my hopes up though, being the pussies we are. And I already know where I’m having the tattoo, just to be sure…
I’ll let you know the end result sometime soon, it’s only two shows to go. And at least for archiving purposes I will also document all the points you can make, and what points individuals performed on what show.
Illustration by Eetu Blomqvist
