Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Things They Should Invent: torch extinguishing as an olympic sport

I'm having so much fun with this olympic torch extinguishing thing that I've decided it should be an olympic event

The rules are simple: every time the torch gets extinguished, the person who extinguishes the torch gets a point for their country.

Countries don't field their own torch extinguishing teams, instead anyone in the world can play. There's no official time and place, anywhere the torch happens to be is fair game.

There's some kind of points handicap for the country where the torch is located at any given time, to mitigate any home field advantage.

The IOC is required to to increase security around the torch au fur et a mesure que it is extinguished. Security people aren't allowed to extinguish the torch, and inside cooperation from security people is seen as just as unsporting as steroid use.

At the end of the olympics, the country with the most points wins. It's that simple!

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