Thank you all for joining me on this journey! I decided to explore starting a small sports-focused freewriting group here on Scorum and you all blew me away. Thank you!
If you're new to the concept, here is the official launch post with full details on this initiative.
Without further ado, let's get into week one of the contest.
Read the Entries!
I was not sure what to expect, but was very happily surprised to see several entries, and very strong entries at that. Here are the entrants and their posts:
- @Pete: https://scorum.com/en-us/other/@pete/snooker-a-sport-i-know-nothing-about
- @Sport-frei: https://scorum.com/en-us/baseball/@sport-frei/baseball-a-sport-i-don-t-understand
- @Akudozen: https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@akudozen/golf-a-sport-i-don-t-understand
- @Dexpartacus: https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@dexpartacus/22-may-96-time-has-stopped
- @Stanleyasokingz: https://scorum.com/en-us/other/@stanleyasokingz/the-sports-i-don-t-understand-cricket-baseball-rugby-etc
- @Mikey: https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@mikey/the-sport-i-don-t-understand-sports-freewrite-week-1
If you participated and I missed it, please comment below and I'll make it up to you. The week 2 post will be out later this week, so stay tuned!
My personal favorite was @akudozen's post on golf. Here's a sample (read the whole thing and show him some love here):
How do they calculate which golfer is leading?
Is it the speed of the ball, all the distance covered, all the number of times they hit before they get it into the hole?
Why is that stick call a club yet they have a silent fans.
Why do they have so many clubs, why not one or two at most.
Why are they always dressed like they are going for a picnic?
Why are they treated like Kings and Queens?
The Caddies carry the golf club bags, go ahead of them direct them to the right holes while some of the golfers drive around with a cart yet they go away with millions of dollars every year.
Have you seen them sweat like sportmen?
Why are the fans silence?
How about penalties for breaking rules?
Who controls the game...
So many unanswered questions
Prizes
As I mentioned in the launch post, I dedicated 100 SCR to each week of the contest and votes. For this first week, I wanted to truly reward each of the participants, who all worked hard on their posts. I decided to give each official entry a full upvote and will be sending each 50 SCR for participating. This will not happen every week of this project, but I am more than happy to reward those who have participated in this effort to add more content to Scorum, inspire new ideas, improve the quality of content, and bring new people into our community.
Payments are being sent right now!
Stay tuned for the next post, which will be for the topic "My Greatest Day As A Sports Fan." If you chose to write about this topic already (talking to you @dexpartacus), feel free to pick this past week's topic (the sport I don't understand).
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