{"id":211,"date":"2013-09-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/18\/the-famine-teams-district-12-mining\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:00:00","slug":"the-famine-teams-district-12-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/18\/the-famine-teams-district-12-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"The Famine Teams: District 12, Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jasper here!<\/b>  This is part twelve in a twelve-part series, looking at the teams who will be playing in <a href=\"http:\/\/thefaminegame.com\/\">The Famine Game<\/a> this fall!<\/p>\n<p>District Twelve is home to a whole lot of miners!  No, not minors, <i>miners<\/i>!  People who do <i>mining<\/i>!  You know, digging stuff out of the ground!  Like coal, or diamonds, or ancient alien artif&#8211;oh, <i>never mind<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Trivia question:<\/i> Two of the players shown below are working together on a puzzle hunt event scheduled for 2014!  Do you know who they are?  Scroll to the bottom of this blog post for the answer!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>12 Hangry Nerds<\/b><br \/>South Bay CA and Seattle WA<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJttrcQ-C6o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gJttrcQ-C6o\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/gJttrcQ-C6o<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>That person is wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Glass\">Google Glass<\/a>!  They may even have recorded part of this video <a href=\"http:\/\/throughglassohmy.tumblr.com\/\">#throughglass<\/a>!  I guess that is pretty cool, but cats don&#8217;t like wearing things on our heads.  I don&#8217;t even like wearing things around my neck!  Anyway, that training montage sure is something&#8211;all it&#8217;s missing is some 1980s rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll music!  I have every confidence that <b>Dan<\/b>, <b>Ederlyn<\/b>, <b>Francis<\/b>, <b>Richard<\/b>, and <b>Yuan<\/b> will be prepared for whatever challenges await them in the Capitol!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Coeds on Fire<\/b><br \/>SF Bay Area<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VZfJhRuR57A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VZfJhRuR57A\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/VZfJhRuR57A<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Hey, wait a minute!  These six people are actually <i>three couples<\/i>&#8211;two of them married, and the last engaged.  Now I&#8217;m just a cat, but going into a possibly life-or-death contest with your significant other seems like a terrible idea!  What are <b>Dale<\/b> &amp; <b>Linnsey<\/b> and <b>Wei-Hwa<\/b> &amp; <b>Trisha<\/b> and <b>Melinda<\/b> &amp; <b>Corey<\/b> thinking?  Well, maybe they just love each other so much they can&#8217;t bear to be separated for even a single weekend.  I suppose I can respect that!  Humans are weird.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all the Famine Game teams!<\/p>\n<p>If you have more free time, you can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLt3LMNj3uvJeDUaTZw6bffDLQWQ5OsMkh\">all the public Famine Game application videos<\/a>, including some teams who were not selected as tributes.  I feel bad for them, but on the bright side, they&#8217;ve got that whole weekend free to do other fun things!<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Trivia answer:<\/i>  YUAN NIU and COREY ANDERSON are the &#8220;lead coordinators&#8221; for next year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/puzzlepile.com\/2013\/08\/29\/dash-6-date-announced-recruiting\/\">DASH 6<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/Jasper.jpg\" alt=\"Jasper\" title=\"Jasper\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper here! This is part twelve in a twelve-part series, looking at the teams who will be playing in The Famine Game this fall! District Twelve is home to a whole lot of miners! No, not minors, miners! 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