Holiday Specialtacular: Winter Games 2018

lets get a piece of that radical rock

What a season, what a season!

"We will be here as long as we need to be"

Fucking tell them Dan. Fuckin tell em.

I'm ready and, in case anyone forgot, Ben is seriously tall

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Advice for potential tournament organizers at 1:12:45

Ben: "We should do the next losers match before we go back to winners."

That is what you should never do in a double elimination bracket. The winners final should always be played first. This is done to prevent the loser from the winners final to have to place twice in a row, coming from a loss.

@hassun: that reminds me, whatever happens to Steve (Lemon) after his internship after the WM days?

Why does Dan sound so blown out?

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This is most excellent, you guys.

@mightyduck: I actually have no idea.

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Watch out for the Toei cops, they will turn this tournament down.

2:22 this guy can fly! Love Ben's reaction hahaha

This is already killing me. This is definitely my favorite new Christmas tradition.

Man the Jeff/Abby matchup is CRUEL

SSX3!!!

Driver: San Francisco is the best open world driving game.

Blindfolded skittles is a really good trick.

Some of these game/matchup combos were pretty lackluster - a lot of one person being good/decent and the other having no idea what they were doing, which is fine in moderation but there was a little too much of it for my taste. Still, it was all worth it in the end.

Skittles bit was fantastic. Really enjoyed this in general as with last year's.

This was fun, and it’s easy to do year over year and keep being fun vs doing the sketches (which has a greater chance of being bad)

But still great time overall, Dan is a treasure

I feel like I heard somewhere that all skittles colors taste the same. So that blind taste test was especially great/dumb/great.

@iammigz: They definitely don't.

@iammigz: You might be thinking of Trix?

Green apple Skittles are machinations of the devil and the lime ones were my childhood taken away from me

@danryckert@iammigz Skittles actually DO all taste the same. However, they have different fragrances, and our brains are used to processing scent and taste together. I was really hoping one of the two competitors would have tried smelling the skittle, because that would have made it much easier.

Source

@mister_snig: It's more or less all of that? We associate more by color and smell and so the 'flavors' of a lot of these candies are total bullshit.

They left the "guess the number" ticket from last year on the trophy, that's great.

The Driver multiplayer mode legitimately seems like hilarious fun.

@danryckert: Did some quick googling and sorry, Dan, seems like Science is slightly against you on this one.

I guess the only REAL way of settling this is by having more blind taste tests in the studio ;)

@mister_snig: Right! It was Trix & Fruit Loops that I was thinking about. But it turns out skittles also fake their taste, too

Omg Jeff just bodied Abby lol

Anyone else have an ad play before the video? Hmmm . . .

Every time they mention either Driver San Ffrancisco, Homefront or GameFfly, I have to re-listen to this legendary moment of the Bombcast. Giant Bombcast - Vinny and Driver San Francisco =D

@mightyduck said:

He works for Slack now and I think got married this year.

https://twitter.com/stvrmrz

Skittles all taste the same and they are terrible in taste. That competition was whack.

Ben in the Big Dogs Snuggie gives me life.

Oh cool!

"Skittles are like M&M for trash people." -Jeff Gerstmann

Ho ho ho!

Jeff with Scientific Calculation and guessed the POGS real close

EDIT:

Dan: Back off [Ben]. This is going to the wall

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Dan: SHIT

this was a lot of fun!

Beautiful sweater, Dan.

edit: "Are you all Gokus" "Oops all Gokus". perfect

I'm dying at Jeff during the SKittle

A taste test contest using candy that actually all taste exactly the same where the only identifiers are colors with two people who are colorblind is... really something to watch.

Great show, thanks!

Update: This is still weird for me to watch.

Don't feel bad Jeff I also have problems tasting red.

This is probably my favorite GoTY feature by far. Great work, guys!

The folding on Vinnys sweater is... unfortunate ?