NationStates Jolt Archive

Let's say the Presidency, from now on, was no longer to be determined by who could stupefy the most people into voting for them by spouting off lame rhetoric everyone's heard eight bazillion times already.

Let's say that instead, a ladder form of competitive games were to be set up, such that nearly anyone can play, but only a few rise to the upper levels. Finally, you have just two contestants squaring off in some sort of arena.

Let's say that this is just one game.

AND that it's not any game already in existence, like jousting or pie eating. Instead, you have to come up with your own rules for this game that help make sure the winner will be a better ruler than the loser would have. Test anything from strength to mind, so long as it's a game, and everyone can bet and comment on it while watching it on TV.

What would your game be?

The Running Man!

Flipping coins and calling heads or tails.

That way the US gets the luckiest man or woman as their president, and a lucky president means a lucky country.

Hmmm interesting, I would say a nice spin on the Olympics would be fun:
1. The Reporter dash; avoid all contact with cameras and journalists whilst running the 300 metres from the exit of a brothel, to the door of an indiscrete black BMW 3-series.

2. The Vague-tathalon; try to answer all questions about a subject without actually saying anything specific about the subject at hand, only to ensure us of the same thing the last person in power offered us and didn't supply us with.

3. The Button Press; Contestants are given a big red button marked with "danger do not press, WMD" and are told not to press it, he who last longest without pressing wins, he who presses it first has to take the fall for blowing up some harmless country and millions of civilians.

4. Following the Leader; Contestants are required to follow th mna of high status infront of them at waist height all day, in a bid to prove they are good at foreign negotiations.

5. Oil-spin; Candidates are to find a country with a large supply of oil, lay rights to it, and defend it is theirs to pump and sell, dispite any lawful claim of the rightful owners. The winner, is rich and can buy and sell the locals, the loser has to pay compensation..or inevitably set fire to the supply chanting "if i can't have it you can't"

Even though I detest the US's actions over time e.g. Vietnam war, Iraq etc.......Weapons of mass distractions......

Anyway, it is the government that's at fault, not the people of the US.

most people in the US are AGAINST the current "war on terror"

God hopes that Kerry wins for the sake of many people around the world.

(unless Bush riggs another election)

Even though I detest the US's actions over time e.g. Vietnam war, Iraq etc.......Weapons of mass distractions......

Anyway, it is the government that's at fault, not the people of the US.

most people in the US are AGAINST the current "war on terror"

God hopes that Kerry wins for the sake of many people around the world.

(unless Bush riggs another election)
Actually, God is on Bush's side, remember? ...but bin Laden's too... [/sarcasm]

Flipping coins and calling heads or tails.

That way the US gets the luckiest man or woman as their president, and a lucky president means a lucky country.

That sounds reasonable enough to me.

Snark hunting:

All those wanting to become President are arranged into groups of two and allocated an area of the ocean in which to hunt. The person who manages to catch a Snark wins. Anyone that catches a Boojum is the loser. The actual competition can be organised as either a league or knock-out system.

In the meantime, having tricked all the wannabe politicos off into the oceans of the world, the rest of you can get on with running the country.

We should just pick a bunch of guys to represent each state, the more populous states getting more representatives, and they pick our president for us...oh wait...