I live in a student house with 4 other guys, so there are few evenings where a game of FIFA is not played. This being the case we all started to tire of the lack of incentive to do well. This led to us running an in-house league in our first term (which I won!). However this required a lot of effort coordinating games, recording results etc. and we are all pretty lazy, so a new idea was required for our second and third term.
Inspired by the FIFA drinking game, we decided to introduce forfeits depending on how many goals someone loses by. These forfeits are as followed (and accumulate):
- Lose by 3+ goals: Congratulate your opponent and shake their hand.
- Lose by 5+ goals: A lap of the house applauding and cheering for your opponent
- Lose by 7+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponent for wasting their time, that is then displayed in a public place (i.e. the fridge)
- Lose by 10+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponents parents, apologising to them for wasting their child's time.
However we wanted to spice things up a little more, so to each one of these forfeits a cash penalty was attached; 50p, £1, £1.50 and £2 respectively. This suddenly made every game more tense and competitive, with money being collected, ready to pay towards end of exam celebrations. We have collected roughly £40 in our house pot so far, with that amount growing by the week, by doing nothing different to what we would normally do. So if you are looking for a way to save some money, play FIFA!
My house should consider doing this, although I think less Fifa gets played at the moment than used to be.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your poll is unsatisfactory - I don't just listen to one genre of music when revising - it should be done using Borda count instead of simple plurality voting.