Yay @Talmanes

 

for real, my favorite new DM feature

Great to see you again, Talmanes. 

 

Players so far:

 

Cindy

Dar´Jen

Basel

Nikon

Talmanes

Nini

 

The rest of you have 4 hours to send me a PM. Tomorrow I will give you your countries.

On 2/8/2018 at 1:43 PM, Illian Tear said:

Ye I'm here. Not a huge fan of the olympics though

 

 

23 hours ago, Shad_ said:

I got pinged.

 

Yeah I'll do this.  If I forget to submit anything by the time the ceremonies start could you possibly send me a PM?

 

15 hours ago, Krakalakachkn said:

The downhill ski/snowboard obstacle/jump course

 

Reminder - if any of you want to play along (and srsly you don't have to do anything but collect points yay!) don't forget to send Niniel a pm, as per the OP.

 

if you need help with the answers she's looking for, lmk

I just watched the opening. Here is my very short review.

 

Magic animals, children singing, traditional dresses, fireworks, dancing, drums, Gangnam style ... what could possible go wrong? It was a fine opening but maybe a bit too long. (But really, every opening is too long.) The theme was peace and future technology. They showed some of the present technology in the show, which looked good. The hope for peace was of course showing when Korea entered as one country. Everyone has their own oppinions about that but it´s nice to see an effort to work together. 

 

Most countries´ athletes wore clothes that didn´t stood out much, Bermuda`s athletes being an exception in their shorts. There were many cute hats. I like the combination of red, blue and white so some of my favourite countries where Norway, UK and USA. I think it looks silly when everyone is trying to take pics with their phones. You are part of the Olympic opening, enjoy the moment! 

 

It´s strange to see "Olympic Athletes from Russia". I hope things will be better in the next olympics. It´s great to see the small nations with only one or two athletes. 

 

I almost cried when they lit the olympic fire. That is always my favourite part. :)

 

 

They are showing the Opening Ceremony here on TV and I'm getting to see bits of it; trying to multi-task.

 

I agree that it is great to see the small countries with the one or two athletes, but they are their to compete, just the same.

 

I just watched a recording of the kitten bowl.  I would enjoy a kittolympics.

I have updated the first post with players and countries. I have skipped Russia since Russia isn´t competing this year. It was my daughter who rolled the dices so blame her if it doesn´t go well for you. :D

 

 

 

And the first gold medal goes to Sweden!!! Yay!!! Charlotte Kalla is the queen!

Norway got three medals in todays cross country skiing. As a neighbour, who is obliged to hate Norway, I´m depressed. But as a participant in this game I´m feeling very happy. :D 

Sweden got a silver medal yesterday, and today Stina Nilsson won the gold medal. Wonderful! 

Germany is in the lead right now, followed by Netherlands and USA. 

Hey I have Germany!  Yay Germany!

:)

 

Sweden won two more medals today. It´s amazing!

USA doing worse than usual?

I've got the Netherlands, so yippee. (Cheers them on.)

 

Every time I try to catch some of the events in the evening, I seem to get it when it's skiing related.

I like skiing. More cross country than downhill though. 

 

I´ve watched some snowboard this week. I don´t know much about it, but wow, it looks so cool. It´s amazing what they can do.

Now Norway is in the lead. Yay me!

 

Medal Standings

 

 

Sweden has made a fantastic olympics this far. 4 gold and 3 silver. And I´m hoping for more. 

Is the us like throwing the games

I think they will get more medals soon. 

Wow! This was a great olympics for Sweden. We came in 6th place on the medals table and I think that is the best we have ever done. I will miss watching all the sports but I won´t miss waking up really early every morning. How did it go for your countries? 

And now to the points.  Each of us will get 10 points. Then we will get points depending on how well our countries will do. 12 points for the winner country, 11 for the second etc. 

 

Cindy - Germany 11 and France 5   26 points + 5 for advertising

 

Dar´Jen - Netherlands 8 and Belarus 3   21 points

 

Basel - USA 9 and Austria 4   23 points

 

Nikon - Switzerland 6 and China 2   18 points

 

Talmanes - Canada 10 and Poland 1   21 points

 

Nini - Norway 12 and South Korea 7   29 points

 

Well, it looks like I´m the winner.  Thank you all for joining me. 

Congratulations Nini! That's appropriate as you did all the work lol.

 

a Swedish lady I play an online farm game with was very excited about how well Sweden was doing this year. She was super excited about curling the other night. 

 

I... didn't watch any of it and I don't know how we did. Not a lot of people I know chanting USA USA these days so I'm guessing we've done better in the past.

Lol... Last place but still fun and super easy... Thanks for hosting it!

Thanks for hosting Niniel. That was a fun game. And made watching the Olympics a little more...personal...as I was rooting for my "countries".