Time for a tourney?

[idigrust]

Let's here some ideas for our next Best of 64 can tourney !

[Flat_Top]

Foreign cans. Could have brackets, Canadian, Europe, Central America, and Australia/Asia

[mtracy64]

Non-OI flats.

[OhioCanGuy]

Non-OI flats.

I second this idea.

[H8UF]

How about a Bock tournament; O/I, non-O/I, cone, crowntainer and the Gentleman Bock gallon!

[hemmings]

Could Non-I/O's get IRTP and Non IRTP divisions so they meet in the championship?

edit- Saw H8UF is on this forum too... ahem... Go Gators!

[Wrestling Nut]

Just spit balling here but I don't see why flats, or OIs, or cones, or whatever specialty should be done. I prefer something more broad based. In lieu of being outside we can use our cans to get us there. So here goes....

Since so many cans have graphics on them, how about a four seasons type bracket. 16 summer cans in bracket A, 16 spring in B, autumn in C, winter in D. Type of can is irrelevant. Gallons, tabs, flats, whatever, they just get sorted and placed in a bracket. That way each season will be represented in the final four.

I'm not certain how to distinguish a summer scene from a spring one but we'll figure that out. Hey, maybe its just me but that's my $0.02

-Brad

[Beverlx]

Could Non-I/O's get IRTP and Non IRTP divisions so they meet in the championship?

edit- Saw H8UF is on this forum too... ahem... Go Gators!

@hemmings
Go Gators!

[stringsx24now]

How about an advertising piece (sign, bag, ashtray, etc) with the proviso that it has to show/feature a beer can?

[idigrust]

How about an advertising piece (sign, bag, ashtray, etc) with the proviso that it has to show/feature a beer can?

I like that one - Breweriana Featuring Beer Cans.

[pinnacle-project]

How about an advertising piece (sign, bag, ashtray, etc) with the proviso that it has to show/feature a beer can?

That's a winning idea. I hope people vote for this idea.

[Beverlx]

Uh -- what's the vote about, though? Are we voting for the

-- rarest?
-- most attractive?
-- item we'd most want to own?

Last year (I think) we had an ugliest can contest. It was agonizing -- I see St. Urho's in my dreams -- but nobody needed instructions.

I would like to see a Best Retro Can competition.

[idigrust]

Uh -- what's the vote about, though? Are we voting for the

-- rarest?
-- most attractive?
-- item we'd most want to own?

Last year (I think) we had an ugliest can contest. It was agonizing -- I see St. Urho's in my dreams -- but nobody needed instructions.

I would like to see a Best Retro Can competition.

Retro Can idea is good, I think the Breweriana one would be best looking, Not based on value. Like if you had 64 items in front of you and and no idea on value, the coolest one , best looking, the one that makes your big toe shoot up into your boot !

[Summitcan]

Aminals ! - what is the best animal can ?
1 -Birds
2 - wild - deer , tigers , er badgers etc
3 - domestic - cows ,dogs ,cats , horses etc
4 - fish
(birds , fish winner vs land walkers winner)

[Summitcan]

Oops I forgot about the Greatest Of All Time , odds on favorite , so ...

Domestic winner vs Wild winner

1 - Domestic - horse dog cat cows mules etc (everything but goats)
2 - Goats
3 - Wild - deer tigers badgers (land walkers)
4 - Fish and Bird

Im guessing we can fill the goat bracket

[josh]

Bock vs Ale
Choose a favorite Bock, then a favorite Ale
Then toe to toe

[hemmings]

Why do we just have to have 1 tourney? Lets do Bock v Ale while we all scour the world for Breweriana with cans in it for the next one....
Can we agree up from the BockAle Jspout from Philly can not be the winner.... no matter what MT says!!!!

[H8UF]

Could Non-I/O's get IRTP and Non IRTP divisions so they meet in the championship?

edit- Saw H8UF is on this forum too... ahem... Go Gators!

@hemmings
Go Gators!

Ugh!!!!! These Gator guys!!!

[hemmings]

Dear H8UF, Suh, I regret to inform you but it appears vandals or your enemies have defaced the logo of that most excellent Spearman can.

[mtracy64]

My thought of doing non-OI's was designed around the idea of creating a larger group of potential winners than we'd have if the Bock OI's and cans like Class and Tiger were included. I thought it would be less predictable and more interesting.

As for the Ortlieb's Bock Ale - I'd vote for it if the criteria was "can you want to upgrade most", but I wouldn’t vote for it as rarest or best looking.

Marc

[Beverlx]

Oops I forgot about the Greatest Of All Time , odds on favorite , so ...

Domestic winner vs Wild winner

1 - Domestic - horse dog cat cows mules etc (everything but goats)
2 - Goats
3 - Wild - deer tigers badgers (land walkers)
4 - Fish and Bird

Im guessing we can fill the goat bracket

There was an entire chatroom about filling the goat bracket last weekend.

[willssoda]

I say we have a vote to see what the tourney is?

Line up the catagories and most votes win
Seasons
Animals
OI’s
Etc

[oldindiapaleale]

How about an all Cone Top tourney?
Open to low-pro hi-pro j-spout crowntainer quart pint US Canadian foreign irtp non-irtp etc.
Maybe 4 open regions of 16, so that the final round could have 2 quarts or 2 crowntainers battle it out.
Also have nominees from actual cans in collections not just pictures from the USBC.
Vote winners from "favorites" instead of toughest or rarest.

[menke]

The Ortlieb's would be in the Bock side. Insane Federal labeling laws require anything over 5% I think to NOT have the word 'beer' anywhere on the label. You buy a nice Oktoberfest and the label says ALE in small letters because it can't be 'beer,' though I'd gladly trade you a Samichlaus for a sixpack of session IPA any day.

Anyway, they wanted to make a bock beer but couldn't call it that. hence the ale. If you were trying to make an ale that was bock, we'll that's technically impossible. My .02. Plus, the goat kind of seals the deal.

[ConeAddict]

Are there 64 different sets? I would think so once you included 70's stuff like Iron City, Schells,Frothingslosh, Andy's, bicentennials, those Huber brewery cans, etc but 64 is a big number. This may one of those things where we already know the final 8 or 4 though.

[MI-Cans]

@ConeAddict
As someone with an affinity for set cans, I'd like to provide the following info.

There are at least 62 defined Flat Top Sets. This is based on the @Beercanpete article.

FLAT TOP SET LIST.pdf

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I had a rough list of Tab Sets for my own use. There are 109 or more possible sets. Even if you remove the 2 can groups, you still have 91 possible sets of three cans or more.

TAB SET CAN LIST.pdf

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The definition of a set is arbitrary and totally up to the collector.

(MI-Cans)

[ConeAddict]

That's crazy, I had no idea there were so many. Some of those tabs I wouldn't count and for a tourney I would count longs runs of different but same sets like Schmidt cans only once but there are still plenty. Seems worthy of a tourney, if nothing else for the fun of gathering pictures of complete sets where possible in one thread.

[Rand]

I would like to throw another note of support out there for Breweriana that features a can.....That could get really interesting!. If not that, then lets just do cans with the name of the can below the center :-)

[pinnacle-project]

I would like to throw another note of support out there for Breweriana that features a can.....That could get really interesting!.

I still like this one best.

[Rand]

I would like to throw another note of support out there for Breweriana that features a can.....That could get really interesting!.

I still like this one best.