Wars: Only Fun When Yarn and Nerds are Involved. Uh-huh.

Am  “make love not war” kinda person.  Since that is a rule, there’s bound to be some exceptions.  Otherwise rule not valid.  Imho.  So.  We have: Star Wars, World of Warcraft and now also: Nerd Wars.  Wieeeee!  Will warn you in advance that there is rather large chance that this post will be filled with giddiness and happy squeals galore. Squeal!

Not sure everyone is familiar with the Nerd Wars concept.  Will be so kind as to enlighten you.  Albeit only because kinda want people to reach the end of this blog post.  Apparently that can be problem.  People occasionally lose track when reading.  Am completely ok with that.  Really.  No mockery whatsoever intended.  95% of time will lose track when writing.  So.  Well.  Anywayz.  Nerd Wars. 

Nerd Wars is a big tournament between – surprise! -  nerds of all categories on Ravelry.  Maybe we should say geeks.  Argh.  Details.  For the Emmentalishly Challenged among us: Ravelry is world’s greatest crafting website.  Or just world’s greatest website, but suppose that depends on the eye of the beholder.  Or eyes.  Beholders have many eyes.  On sticks!   And occasionally a bikini tan line.  Wonder if the beholder is based on the phrase “eye of the beholder”.  Who invented beholders?   Definitely food for thought.

Speaking of food for thought.  Made yummy apple pie yesterday.  But… how odd is it when  first thought at people not being where they should be at any given time is not “hey, someone is late!” but “Hmmm… am I that early or did we switch to some kind of parallel universe where today is actually yesterday and shouldn’t be here at all today.  Oh drat!” Right.  Nerd Wars.

At the moment we’re having the 6^th Nerd Wars Tournament (Oct. 1^st to Dec 28^th).  Each tournament consists of three rounds, every round lasting 28 days.  Every round has six challenges in the categories: Giving Geeks, Technical, Scientific, Nerd Culture, Geek Pride and Intellectual.  The categories have themes, so it’s op to the Nerdy Warrior to craft something related to the theme, and – if possible – link it to your team.  Apart from that you can make a dissertation, huuuuge project that will take you three months to complete.  Huuuuge also in eye of the beholder.   My huuuuuge project will be a pair of socks.  Permission to feel underwhelmed.  But socks are huuuge to me.  Sock maybe not.  Socks.  Yeah.  Definitely.

Noticed the Nerd Wars thingie well over a year ago when just joined Ravelry.  But didn’t dare to enter.  Then I saw recruitment thingie from Team Epic in WoW group and found myself signing up.  One sign up for Team Epic coming up!  Easy.  WTF.  Have to list THREE team preferences?  Argh!  Am not good at choosing.  Well, ok, depends.  When it comes to shoes or so am excellent at choosing.  Clear picture of desired shoe in mind.  Enter shoe store.  They either have the imagined shoe.  It fits.  Yay, paytnxbai!  They don’t.  Ktnxbainoshoescrap.  But picking a team?  Well, Team Epic (all things RPG) was kinda obvious.  But then.  Hmmm.  Hey! Mythology.  Ooer, Precious (LotR).  Space Alliance!  Iron Throne!  Hellmouth! Not sure how many teams there are.  A lot.  So ended up with Iron Throne and Mythology for spare choices. 

Then the waiting began because teams would be assigned on the 28^th of September.  Agony!  Was assigned to Team Epic (yay!), which meant I wasn’t assigned to Team Iron Throne or Mythology (unyay).  Odd combination of yay and unyay.  Though the yay sounded louder.  YAY.   In any case,  told self I’d just switch teams in next tournament (hadn’t even started this one) to solve this horrible dilemma.  But.  Boohoo.  Blubber.  Am already completely attached to Team Epic.  So… Argh!  Not sure if will be able to abandon them next Tournament.  WTB parallel universe so can be on two teams at once. 

After two weeks of Nerd Wars am complete and utter addict.  So much fun!  And only making things was planning to make anywayz.  Finally got an ami from my WoW char.  At last!  Happiness!  Gleedom!  Squealorama!  Really love how it pushes me to think creatively.  Um.   Not sure if really needed that.  Well, this is more than just thinking.  This is thinking and doing something with it.  Or something.  Entered the Wars thinking I’d go for one or maybe two challenges every round, but somehow ended up with four submissions already.  And the other two are underway since those were planned (and have same deadline as round 1).  Melting the cube!  Wieeee!  Not sure will be melting cube every round.  Meaning of cube melting can be derived from context.  Creative thinking!

So.  Yay for Nerd Wars.  And lots of yay for Team Epic.  YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

Did warn you.  And now.  Apple pie.  Noms.