chasmmi Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) With the winter (and fall and spring) season this (and next) year unusually cram packed full of interesting, exciting or intriguing films, both content and box office-wise, I wanted to dedicate one SOTM question to the films that got released just a little too soon to be eligible for the full game at hand. I like my SOTM questions to get a little crazy and a little risky at times, but I want to kick off with something veering on the simple side, so here goes... Consider the following 4 films: The Martian Sicario The Walk Pan Consider the following 4 criteria and grades: Final Total Gross at end of game A+: 5% A: 10% B: 15% C: 20% D: 25% October 16th 3 day weekend total A+: 3% A: 6% B: 10% C: 15% D: 20% Difference in total gross from Goosebumps' total gross as of October 25th A+: 6% A: 12% B: 18% C: 25% D: 33% Number of weekends in release until its first sub $200k weekend A+: 1 w/e A: 2 w/e B: 4 w/e C: 6 w/e D: 8 w/e In this question you can choose to either pick one film OR one criteria. If you pick one film, you must make a prediction for that film for all for criteria given If you pick one criteria you must predict how all 4 films will do for that criteria. Therefore your prediction will either look like: Pan - Total Gross 900M, Oct 16th w/e gross 47k, Difference from Goosebumps $45 W/E it drops below $250k number 5 or Total Gross Martian - 5M The Walk - 745M Sicario - $25k Pan - 9M Scoring: Scores will be awarded as follows: For every A+ Grade: 8000 pts For every A Grade: 4000 pts For every B Grade: 0 pts For Every C Grade: -4000 pts For Every D Grade: - 10000 pts If every grade is B or above: 5000 bonus added to total If every grade is A or above: 10000 bonus added to total If every grade is A+ or above: 18000 bonus added to total I will dedicate the next post in this thread to answering any questions anyone has if this is more confusing in other peoples' heads than it is in mine Deadline is Oct 15th 11:59pm (same as preseason deadline), Stating Abstain is worth 2000 points Not posting any prediction or wish to abstain will mean a loss of 2000 points Have fun Edited October 5, 2015 by chasmmi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 Any confusion will be answered in thread with the answers stickied here as a handy go to guide, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkelf Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) So, uh, "...but I want to kick off with something veering on the simple side..." you mean they're going to get more complicated as we go on? Yikes. Plus, my first impression is that this kinda has pain written all over it, though I may change my mind as I think about it. Abstain Edited October 5, 2015 by Wrath 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 So, uh, "...but I want to kick off with something veering on the simple side..." you mean they're going to get more complicated as we go on? Yikes. Actually in all honesty this is quite a complicated sotm on the scale of 1 to autoabstain. Some future questions may be more dangerous than this one, but they won't be as complicated in general. (For the record, i actually think it's deceptively easy to geta positive score in this one ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 (edited) (For the record, i actually think it's deceptively easy to geta positive score in this one ) I agree. Now that I've had time to think about it, I'm probably going to go for it in one of two ways (haven't quite decided yet). But the question is pretty daunting at first glance. Edited October 6, 2015 by Wrath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 But the question is pretty daunting at first glance. That's the beauty of it, scare the masses into foolishly abstaining and reap the benefits of all those lovely bonus points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Abstain for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) Total Gross: The Martian: $215m The Walk: $16.5m Sicario: $53m Pan: $43.8m Edited October 15, 2015 by MovieMan89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeKaye42 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Wait did MovieMan89 do it correctly cause if so thats really easy u just type those 4 films total gross at the end of the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Wait did MovieMan89 do it correctly cause if so thats really easy u just type those 4 films total gross at the end of the game What he did was correct yes. However you cannot wait till the end of the game as the deadline to answer is Thursday evening at midnight when the thread gets locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 (edited) For the weekend until sub-200k criteria: we count limited weeks for The Walk and Sicario too, correct? Edited October 10, 2015 by WrathOfHan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 10, 2015 Author Share Posted October 10, 2015 For the weekend until sub-200k criteria: we count limited weeks for The Walk and Sicario too, correct? yes, Whatever number BOM has as its number of weeks in release in its gross charts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Number of weekends in release until its first sub $200k weekend The Martian: 15 The Walk: 6 Sicario: 10 Pan: 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAJK Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) Do I need to have done all my pre-season stuff before I do this? I'll post my answer for now but if I can't yet just let me know Total Gross: The Martian - $213M The Walk - $19.1M Sicario - $48.1M Pan - $43.5M Edited October 13, 2015 by DAJK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 Do I need to have done all my pre-season stuff before I do this? I'll post my answer for now but if I can't yet just let me know Total Gross: The Martian - $213M The Walk - $25.1M Sicario - $48.1M Pan - $53.5M No problem at all. Of course this now enters you into the game, so if you forget to get the main preseason questions done in time, you will finish the game with a stupendously low score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcf26 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Abstain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Guy Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Abstain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakskidz Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) The Martian 255M Sicario 40M The Walk 25M Pan 55M Edited October 13, 2015 by avi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeKaye42 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 The Martian 250M Sicario 60M The Walk 40M Pan 95M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
