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Splutschnik Rules Updated for v15.0

Welcome! This is Splutschnik, and it's happened fourteen times before today. For in uninitiated, Splutschnik is a pubcrawl, but it's also a team-based scavenger hunt. Unlike other pubcrawls, your team will have no directions to follow, no matching t-shirts, and no bartenders will be expecting you, except if they've already seen another team. Lower on this page, and at splutschnik.com/points, you'll find a list of items or events for which an uploaded picture will earn your team one point for each picture/video that you upload to the G+ page, with a limit of one occurrence per point, per bar.

You will be sorted into teams by John Kelly, and he will try to make sure that you're on a team with at least one person you know, and your team's captain will have the last word in where your team goes. In addition, your team's captain will be subject(by default) to the more unpleasant competitive aspects of the event.

Everywhere you go today will be on foot. No transit, cabs, hot air balloons, jetpacks, rollerskates, dirigibles, or other non-podiatric locomotion will be allowed. Though if you get a chance to ride a helicopter, you may take that. In addition, please try to take it easy out there. If anyone drinks enough that his/her stomach wisely rejects the voluminous amounts of alcohol they consumed, his/her team will be eliminated from consideration for points and prizes.

All teams will return to John Kelly's apartment at 8:30pm for pizza, beer, reverie, and awarded prizes.

Each point value listed below will earn your team one point when it's uploaded to its corresponding category on the private G+ community for this event, and captioned with #YOURTEAMNAME. Pictures/videos not uploaded and captioned properly, or that are timestamped with a time later than 8:15pm, will not be considered.

• We will meet back up at John's place at 8:30pm for beer, pizza, and prizes. Your team captain will know where that is, and will have John's number.
• The Quaff doesn't count for any points.
• Your team decides where to go at all times. There is no set route. Enjoy yourself. Explore.
• For your team to be able to count a bar in their score's totals, your team must meet two conditions. 1) Your whole team must be there. No scouts or outliers allowed. 2) Your team must consume a number of drinks equal to a number three fewer than the number of people on your team.
• You're getting around on foot. Walking, skipping, ambling, running, jogging, prancing, mincing, and handwalking are permitted. Buses, cars, bikes, skateboards, rollerskates, ice skates, badonkadonks, unicycles, hot-air-balloons, helicopters, zeppelins, jetpacks, and taxicabs are not.
• The drinking requirement is pretty low. This is not a drinking contest. If you get out of control, it's highly recommended that you take it easy for a few bars.
• Also in the vein of this not being a drinking contest, alcohol-related vomiting during the event, if John finds out about it, will result in your team's disqualification. Really folks, take it easy.
• Any bar in the Power and Light District after your first two doesn't count for any points or snipes. The Power and Light District is defined as the area inside the following four streets: 13th, Main, Truman, and Grand.
• You cannot re-enter any bar for points or snipes.
• If the number of players on your team changes(friends get off work, have to go to work, have some stupid wedding to attend, etc) your captain needs to send John a text with the change. "Missy McJubilee just joined team #4" or "Walter O'McGibbons has left team #2." Teams will be docked points for undocumented players and unreported departures.
• When your team grows or contracts, you have to adjust your drinking requirement.

The time-honored tradition of the snipe is being watered down this time, as it's gotten far too complex and ineffectual in the past. Your scoresheet says almost everything you need to know, but for posterity, a snipe is defined as the event of one team entering a bar when another team is already there. The team that arrives last gets points.

• Once a snipe has occurred, neither team may snipe the other until they have both sniped a different team, or have been sniped by a different team.