By John Walker on July 2nd, 2012 at 4:00 pm.
Oh good gracious, Rezzed is this week. Friday and Saturday, in fact. And if the line-up wasn’t already flipping impressive enough for you (playable Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Prison Architect, Natural Selection 2, Xenonauts, Skulls Of The Shogun, and tons more, along with speakers like Peter Molyneux, Randy Pitchfork, and RPS’s very own game jam), it just got one hundred and seventy three thousand times better. Yes, we’ve waited until almost the last moment to organise announce the greatest event of them all: The 5th Annual International Rock, Paper, Shotgun Indie Mud Wrestling Championships.
This will take the form of a panel game quiz show thing, quizmasterhosted by me, Earth’s John Walker, with two teams made up of Adam “Newboy” Smith, Andrew J “Spilt Milk” Smith, Alec “Not Called Smith” Meer, and David “Smudged Cat” Johnston, for possibly around 35 minutes of what might not be the most sensible of competitions. Perhaps not including mud wrestling.
Yes, sure, it’s at 11am on Saturday, when you’ll all have headaches from staying up too late on Friday, giggling and eating so many fizzy cola bottles. But if you missed out, and then heard about it afterwards, you’d be inconsolable.
Tickets are only £12 for the day on Saturday, or £20 for Friday as well. Which is pretty bargainous. Buy some! And included in that price is one big hug from me.
02/07/2012 at 16:04 Didero says:
So many people are going to hold you to that.
I wish I could make it, but England’s a bit far for an unemployed student, even if I am right next door in The Netherlands.
02/07/2012 at 20:57 BlackestTea says:
I’m in the exact same situation. Bummer that, really. Have tonnes of fun over there, though!
02/07/2012 at 16:10 SpinalJack says:
I’m gonna take you up on that hug John!
02/07/2012 at 20:50 StormTec says:
Are you going to hug John Walker without me??
02/07/2012 at 16:10 Solivagant says:
Mr. Walker I will hold you to that hug.
02/07/2012 at 16:14 lynn_kraken says:
How nice or not nice do you smell anyway?
02/07/2012 at 16:15 John Walker says:
I think that would very much depend on how far into the day the hug takes place.
02/07/2012 at 16:23 Kyrall says:
Does this mean you produce your own fragrant perfume, so that you smell gradually nicer as the day goes on?
02/07/2012 at 16:30 John Walker says:
Precisely.
02/07/2012 at 17:17 Meat Circus says:
He is a “Scented Jonathan”.
02/07/2012 at 18:36 lynn_kraken says:
As a safety measure, I will settle for saying hi and smiling. But I’ll sure enjoy the show of sweaty men hugging.
03/07/2012 at 03:39 AbacusFinch says:
Similar to a self-entitled giant fart of a human.
02/07/2012 at 16:16 MOKKA says:
Reading those posts when you can’t come is like delibaretely cutting your own arm.
02/07/2012 at 16:56 Maldomel says:
I never thought typing with my feet would be so easy though.
02/07/2012 at 16:20 Jason Moyer says:
Randy Pitchfork!
Also, damn you Atlantic Ocean.
02/07/2012 at 16:56 djbriandamage says:
I’d like to see him in a cage match versus Erik Wolfpaw
02/07/2012 at 17:49 Phantoon says:
Erik will win as long as he gets in close, for he has… Wolf Paws.
02/07/2012 at 18:33 soco says:
I second that ire for the Atlantic Ocean.
Maybe next year I’ll make a week vacation out of it and finally visit England. Or at least several of the Brighton pubs.
02/07/2012 at 21:45 thecat17 says:
Wrestlevania: Have you ever considered changing the last letter of your surname to a K?
[Randy’s face goes blank.]
[Alec embarrassedly explains that half the internet ritually typos his name as Randy Pitchfork].
[Laughs]. I’ve never heard that before! I’m very surprised. [Laughs again. Alec continues to blush.]
02/07/2012 at 16:29 Shortwave says:
I take it this won’t have any online stream?
02/07/2012 at 16:33 LieutLaww says:
hmm Brighton is only down the road from me wonder if i should head on down after work both days.
02/07/2012 at 16:37 Hodge says:
Yes! Video, at least of the big name speakers and the game show thingy, would be wonderful for those of us who can’t make it, .
Or maybe you could do audio recordings and make them the next batch of shotcasts.
02/07/2012 at 16:40 Gap Gen says:
I am reminded of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqntg6407c8
02/07/2012 at 17:40 John Walker says:
I’m there, too! I’m on stage, hidden behind Craig and Paul Barnett talking across me.
02/07/2012 at 19:26 Hodge says:
The whole thing’s on there in three parts, so we can see you properly. Though sadly we still can’t smell you.
02/07/2012 at 16:43 nutterguy says:
Nooooo, I’m only going on Friday. *sadface*
02/07/2012 at 16:57 Bobka says:
I wish I didn’t live a several-hundred-Euro plane ride away, and wasn’t in the middle of writing my Bachelor’s thesis. I really, really hope that Rezzed is a smash hit; it’ll be good for PC gaming to have its own show. Good luck fellas!
02/07/2012 at 17:01 Kemuel says:
This just makes me even more sad that I won’t be able to get time off work. =(
02/07/2012 at 17:30 HothMonster says:
If you can fly the Brighton Centre to the Great Lakes region I will buy two tickets. If you can put some kind of holographic live recreation in the United Center I will by 1.5 tickets.
02/07/2012 at 17:49 tehfish says:
This sounds gloriously silly :D
I’m looking forwards to it!
02/07/2012 at 18:14 lowprices says:
So… no indie dev mud wrestling then? Got my hopes up for nothing.
Sigh.
02/07/2012 at 18:40 McDan says:
Why does it have to be Brighton. Curses, missing this will be one of my biggest regrets this year.
02/07/2012 at 19:15 Lynchbread says:
Everyone check out the Ground Branch Kickstarter, we need to get this funded. It’s made by the people who made the original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, we must fund this.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/670743543/ground-branch
02/07/2012 at 21:01 Dances to Podcasts says:
You’re not helping.
02/07/2012 at 22:51 Torgen says:
Will someone just ban him already? He’s as bad as the Chinese shoe bots.
02/07/2012 at 23:08 felisc says:
also people need to buy more celery. Poor underrated vegetable.
02/07/2012 at 21:54 Belsameth says:
Man! I wish I could go. All the other stuff doesn’t interest me, especially prison Architect, but this!
I demand a PPV Live steam!
03/07/2012 at 00:22 sinister agent says:
Unfortunately I will be being be be being be hung over for this. Also skint. Have fun all, but not so much fun that I’m too envious. Have some fun.