Game / activity
USA versus USSR fact battle
How this one works
How it works
- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- At the end,
- we'll also award a bonus point for the most outrageous true fact presented during the game.
- If the vote ends along party lines,
- the A-Rai will serve as the final judge.
- and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,
- along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
Scoring
- If your statement is true,
- you are in one point,
- So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.
- You also get Vitt a point.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded exchanges
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Cleveland is the birthplace of the first tricolor stoplight.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Detroit installed the first,; the first three color four-way traffic light.; the addition of yellow amber caution light happened six years later in Detroit.
- Answer qualification: I am doing research because I don't believe you.; I still think I'm right.; That's what I was taught as a child, and I will stand strong in that till my death.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Action
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- Scoring mechanism: Oh, we're supposed to do which one was most outrageous every round.
- Answer qualification: For the record, the most outrageous last round was the persistent lies of Katie about the electric traffic lane.
- Final adjudication: There has to be two truths in a round, and so far we have not had that.
- Point awarded: False
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Final fact-battle result
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- Winner statement: And Curtis, you won.
- Score checkpoint: Curtis: 3, Ryan: 2, Katie: 2, Vitaliy: 1
- Winner declaration: And Curtis, you won.
Follow the round structure (3)
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
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- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- Team Cleveland can only present facts about Cleveland.
- Team world can present facts about literally anywhere that isn't Cleveland.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Akron is the rubber city.
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- Important beats: In the world encyclopedia,; S has the largest book.; You have to do one that counts.
- Adjudication verdict: TRUE
- Adjudication: Historical manufacturing hub in the 20th century.; It has an enduring legacy,; and it says global production scale.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I think Japan has the most robot butlers in the world.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It's saying China leads the deployment.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm going to say that the Great Lakes Christmas Sale is the best Christmas beer.
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- Answer qualification: you want me to say Great Lakes Christmas Sale is the best Christmas ale?
- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Result qualification: It does note it's subjective.
Round context
- Team Cleveland can only present facts about Cleveland.
- Team world can present facts about literally anywhere that isn't Cleveland.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
It will present a fact about the Soviet Union.; The rest of us will present a fact about 1980s America.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The American Sasquatch is a cryptid that could beat any Soviet cryptid,
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- Important beats: If the cryptids of the world had fought a Cold War, the Loch Ness Monster would have beat the ass of any Soviet cryptid that exists.; You just had to pick an American cryptid.; Fucking Sasquatch.
- Answer qualification: No.; Oh, I feel especially good, because I just looked it up.
- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It cited lack of physical evidence.; And then it says it can't tell how big a Sasquatch would be.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Then go with, like, music in America in the 80s was better than in Russia in the 80s.
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- Answer qualification: Soviet Union, not Russia.
- Result qualification: It's not saying Soviet was better, just that it's not subjectively worse.
- Final adjudication: Objective metrics do favor American 80s music.
- Point awarded: True
- Score effect points: 1
- Initial adjudication: false as initially reported
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Action
I think you should force it to make a choice.
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- Answer qualification: It's not saying Soviet was better, just that it's not subjectively worse.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
In America, you drive car.; In the Soviet Union, car drive you.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Automobiles in the Soviet Union operates using standard mechanic controls.
- Point awarded: False
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'll say that Rocky won the Cold War.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It says there's actually complex geopolitical factors.; It also pointed out this is a fictional narrative.
Round context
- Point awarded: Americans
- It will present a fact about the Soviet Union.
- The rest of us will present a fact about 1980s America.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
In this one, all facts must be about the Native Americans from your respective state.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
That Native American peoples from Ohio built burial mounds and they are shaped like giant snakes.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: The famous snake-shaped structure in Adams County, known as the Great Serpent Mound, is an effigy mound, you dummy.
- Answer qualification: I am at OhioTraveler.com and they say Native American effigy mounds and Indian burial mounds dot Ohio's landscape.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
The Serpent Mounds are a burial ground in Southern Ohio.
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- Adjudication: Sorry, they're effigies.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm going to say the Ohio Native Americans lived in teepees.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: They had longhouse wigwams.; Teepees were great plains dwellings.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
And I'll say that Pennsylvania was dominated by the Sui-X people.; So I'm putting P-A is dominated by the Sioux, which is definitely how you pronounce that.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Those guys are native to the northern Midwest.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Northern Ohio was settled by the Erie tribe.
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- Answer qualification: I don't know if it's northern or northeastern.
- Adjudication verdict: TRUE
- Adjudication: It's the historical homeland.
- Result qualification: You won for Ohio.; And more importantly, you won for Curtis.; You also get Vitt a point.
Round context
- Winner statement: You won for Ohio.
- Answer qualification: You also get Vitt a point.
- In this one, all facts must be about the Native Americans from your respective state.
- You cannot use a Google.
- You can only use a Google to prove that A-Roy was wrong and unsuccessfully.
- Score checkpoint: Curtis: 2, Ryan: 2, Katie: 1, Vitaliy: 0
- Winner declaration: You won for Ohio.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Scoring mechanism: If your statement is true,; you are in one point,
- Scoring method: So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.; You also get Vitt a point.
- Adjudication method: and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,; along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
- Answer qualification: We've decided that going forward, it just has to make a choice.
- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- At the end,
- we'll also award a bonus point for the most outrageous true fact presented during the game.
- If the vote ends along party lines,
- the A-Rai will serve as the final judge.
- If your statement is true,
- you are in one point,
- So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.
- You also get Vitt a point.
- and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,
- along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
- Curtis wins with 3 points; Ryan and Katie finish with 2 each, and Vitaliy with 1.