Game / activity
Rocky Mountain Mining
How this one works
Premise and rules
- our own ideas for a spinoff, sequel, or prequel to Rocky.
- A nugget is one noun, person, place, idea, quote, or literally anything you've pulled out of Rocky, either the film or the franchise. You'll describe that nugget and how it will be used to build your movie idea. You can present multiple nuggets and keep your highest scoring one.
- scale: 1 3; direction: Higher numbers are better; judges: The rest of us; current method: take the average of the two.; history: We'll start there, and then you can explain it before we rate the nugget. We're changing it now. We're going to blind rake it. Then you're going to describe it. Then we're going to adjust.
Recorded activity context
Title: Rocky Mountain Mining Activity premise: our own ideas for a spinoff, sequel, or prequel to Rocky. Rules: A nugget is one noun, person, place, idea, quote, or literally anything you've pulled out of Rocky, either the film or the franchise. You'll describe that nugget and how it will be used to build your movie idea. You can present multiple nuggets and…
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Title: Rocky Mountain Mining Activity premise: our own ideas for a spinoff, sequel, or prequel to Rocky. Rules: A nugget is one noun, person, place, idea, quote, or literally anything you've pulled out of Rocky, either the film or the franchise. You'll describe that nugget and how it will be used to build your movie idea. You can present multiple nuggets and keep your highest scoring one. Scoring mechanism: scale: 1 3; direction: Higher numbers are better; judges: The rest of us; current method: take the average of the two.; history: We'll start there, and then you can explain it before we rate the nugget. We're changing it now. We're going to blind rake it. Then you're going to describe it. Then we're going to adjust. Final winner decision: Ryan Participants: Kenny, Curt, Ryan, Danny
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Dani
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Final adjudication: And because you double-nuggeted it, you presented two nuggets, and you had a tie. I'm giving it to Danny. Danny gets the ultimate victory here.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Winner statement: Oh, so congratulations to Danny.
Preserved source round labels (1)
These overlapping source containers are not additional rounds or participant answers. Their recorded labels and excerpt links remain available here; their shared exchanges appear above.
Follow the round structure (1)
Recorded conversation
Activity description: shared highest nugget opportunity
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Question
Definitely start with the word. Then you're going to describe it.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
Curt, explain your nugget.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
Show us your nugget.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
But Curt's got a second nugget. Let's see if he can get over the hump.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Prompt term: dinner And so I propose a prequel that will explore this pivotal meal in Rocky's life and just how eating this supper made him come up with the nickname the Italian Stallion. There's no boxing. Response context: Oh, I invented that about eight years ago when I was eating dinner.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Important beats: For like 90 minutes. He's just babbling until he goes, yeah, Italian Stallion. The idea of an entire monologue where he keeps almost taking a bite and then just not because he's got more to say. Until the final moment. I think it's an Italian meal. I was picturing spaghetti.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Prompt term: wine bottle And I'm proposing not quite a sequel, prequel, but a simultaneous film. of following Rocky, now we follow the singing troupe. And this movie is about their rags to riches story where they go on some kind of sing-offs type competition show. Where they do a cappella singing to become heroes in their own genre.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Important beats: They probably, just like Rocky, didn't quite win the competition. I think they're the openers. So before the boxers get out there, they're doing a performance.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
What do you want to call that movie?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Francapella and the Winos.
Pitch title: Francapella and the Winos. Answer qualification: Francapella.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Prompt term: a boss It is, of course, about Gazzo. It's a funny, non-com workplace drama. It's watching Gazzo's crowd, and they're all going through regular office woes that we all deal with. But just slightly off camera, someone's getting thrown into a wood chipper and stuff. Answer qualification: I just think you picked the wrong setting. It shouldn't be an office. It should be on the streets.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Cuff and Link, Slow and Steady.
Prompt term: the turtle bowl Pitch title: Cuff and Link, Slow and Steady. This heartwarming animated series follows the low stakes secret lives of Cuff and Link over five decades while human drama unfolds outside of their class bowl championship bouts, family tragedies, financial ruin, and eventual fame. Cuff and Link navigate their own microscopic,…
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Prompt term: the turtle bowl Pitch title: Cuff and Link, Slow and Steady. This heartwarming animated series follows the low stakes secret lives of Cuff and Link over five decades while human drama unfolds outside of their class bowl championship bouts, family tragedies, financial ruin, and eventual fame. Cuff and Link navigate their own microscopic, hyperdramatic world inside the tank. Important beats: They form political alliances with feeder fish, fight off invasive tank algae, and offer a deadpan commentary on the strange human habits of punching things for money.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
I'm struggling to understand how much of it is their lives and what they're doing and how much is them witnessing Rocky's life.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
They witness Rocky's life and they go back to their own and have their own thing going on and then they comment at the end of every episode going, isn't it weird what that guy does? Exactly.
Choice: They witness Rocky's life and they go back to their own and have their own thing going on and then they comment at the end of every episode going, isn't it weird what that guy does? Exactly.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
Okay, but Dani, is this a show that you anticipate will run for 30 years or is this a show that is going to jump through time and keep advancing the age of Rocky? Also, like how many episodes a season?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Method: seasons: 5; years per season: 10; episodes per season: 10; years per episode: 1; format: animated
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Prompt term: no kissing sign I want to see a show set in Mickey's gym. And it is about two rival closeted gay boxers who are having a secret love affair over the course of the years of Rocky's career. It's heated rivalry, but with boxing.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Question
Which two boxers are they? Can you maybe describe the boxers or who they are? Anything about them?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Well, I guess Spider Rico is in the mix. I don't know any other boxers from this movie. If you want me to describe, I'm just going to describe the guys from Mickey's rivalry.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Scores: preview votes in source order: 2 2 3; adjusted votes in source order: 1 2 3; reported result: 6.5; method: take the average of the two. Result qualification: We'll see how we adjust averages later based on some of the other scores. Adjudication method: preview votes in source order: participant: Curtis; value: 2 participant: Danielle; value: 2…
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Scores: preview votes in source order: 2 2 3; adjusted votes in source order: 1 2 3; reported result: 6.5; method: take the average of the two. Result qualification: We'll see how we adjust averages later based on some of the other scores. Adjudication method: preview votes in source order: participant: Curtis; value: 2 participant: Danielle; value: 2 participant: Ryan; value: 3; adjusted votes in source order: participant: Ryan; value: 1 participant: Danielle; value: 2 participant: Curtis; value: 3; reported result preserved: 6.5 Voting: participant: Ryan; phase: adjusted; vote: 1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Scores: preview votes in source order: 2 3 2; reported preview: 7; reported adjusted: 9; reported result: 8 Voting: preview votes in source order: participant: Kenny; value: 2 participant: Ryan; value: 3 participant: Danielle; value: 2
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Scores: preview votes in source order: 3 3 2; reported preview: 8; reported adjusted: 6; reported result: 7; named votes: participant: Danny; preview: 2; adjusted: 3 participant: Kenny; adjusted: 2 participant: Curtis; adjusted: 1 Answer qualification: participant: Curtis; phase: adjusted; vote: 1; heard wording: I, one; raw transcript preserved: I won. Competitive scoring statement: Curt: 8; Ryan: 7; Kenny: 6.5
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Scores: preview votes in source order: 2 2 3; reported preview: 7; reported adjusted: 9; reported result: 8 Competitive scoring statement: currently puts you and Curt tied for the lead. Voting: preview votes in source order: participant: Kenny; value: 2 participant: Curtis; value: 2 participant: Ryan; value: 3
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Scores: reported preview: 9; preview votes in source order: 3 3 3; adjusted votes in source order: 3 3 1; named adjusted votes: participant: Danny; value: 3 participant: Kenny; value: 3 Adjudication verdict: You did the worst possible job with it, so sloppy execution. Voting: final one point voter: Ryan; winner adjudicator: Ryan; winner: Danielle