2017 Newport Cup Applications Accepted Here!

[iacas]

This year, @mvmac and I are going to start what we think will become an integral part of the way we choose teams in the future.

Those of you with Newport Cup Candidate badges (and those who will ask to be given one the rest of this year), we're going to ask you to fill out a very simple survey.

How? With a video! This will help us (and your prospective teammates!) not only put a face to your name, but to learn a bit more about you than what we can discern from a username, an avatar, and what you have to say in your posts.

Here are the questions we'd like you to answer:

1. VLog a Par 3, Par 4, and Par 5. Talk as little or as much as you want. Narrate your strategy, describe the hole, tell us about your best shot ever there, whatever you like. Include your full pre-shot routine, but shoot from any appropriate angles that you like.
2. Pretend you just holed a bomb to win the Newport Cup for your team, and show us how you'd react: a fist pump, a leap into Poppy's pond… whatever.
3. Why do you deserve to be chosen to play in the 2017 Newport Cup?
4. What is your best competitive golf memory?
5. Describe your ideal Newport Cup roommate? What makes you a good roommate? Are you a night showerer or a morning washer? Do you snore? Do you require fifteen minutes of "hair prep" time?
6. When did you join TST, why, and what have you enjoyed about it since joining the most?
7. Tell us something about yourself that a prospective teammate or captain might not want to know. 
8. Describe your greatest sporting achievement?
9. Who is the person on TST - regardless of location - you'd most like to have on your team? Who is the person you'd least like to face on the opposite team? (You must choose different people.) Why?

Some basic rules:

• Production quality counts, but only for a little, and only to the point that it may demonstrate a little bit about how much you'd like to make the team. It's not a video production contest.
• Repeat the question (at least enough of it so we know what you're answering), then give your answer.
• Smile.  These videos should be fun - to make, to view, etc.
• Be creative. So long as it's not offensive, have fun with it and be creative. Just because there's a list of questions up there doesn't mean you have to just repeat them and answer them. Have your wife interview you. Shoot it Barbara Walters style. Whatever tickles your fancy.
• Elaborate. Entertain us. Don't just say "I'd like to have so-and-so on my team because he's a good player" or "My best sporting achievement is when I won the city ping-pong championship in 2003. That was fun."
• February picks are not exempt from this… but those of you hoping to be chosen in February have almost three weeks, so get on it.
• Upload and embed. Upload your video to YouTube (or Vimeo) and embed it here in this topic. Make it unlisted if you want, that's fine. Title it something like "@iacas's 2017 Newport Cup Application Video."
• Other rules may follow if necessary. We'll append them to this first post.

So… let's see 'em! Start planning and, for those of you with lower handicaps in particular, start filming your videos!

Please also add (in text, to your post here) this information and anything else we may need to know:

• Shoe size(s)
• Shirt size(s)
• Pant size

List the brand names for the sizes in case any adjustments need to be made.

Note: Not listed here but very important is the amount an applicant posts. We want to get to know people before we meet them at the Newport Cup. That's part of what made 2015 so successful - we already felt like friends because we already were, and we'd gotten to know everyone already. Someone with five to ten posts per week is unlikely to be chosen.

[mvmac]

Thanks for posting @iacas

This is going to be a lot of fun to watch the videos that come in. 

Paging my guys to make sure they see it.

1. @Golfingdad 
 2. @mchepp 
 3. @tristanhilton85 
 4. @Pretzel 
 5. @phillyk 
 6. @kpaulhus 
 7. @Wanzo 
 8. @DeadMan 
 9. @shortstop20 
10. @Denny Bang Bang 
11. @Club Rat 
12. @Yukari 
13. @Big C 
14. @Lihu

[Pretzel]

I'll get cracking just as soon as I can get back to playing. Sounds like it ought to be fun to both create and watch.

[iacas]

I'll page the guys currently on my list too (in no particular order):

1. @coachjimsc
2. @NCGolfer
3. @DaveP043
4. @jamo
5. @georgep
6. @JxQx
7. @jkelley9
8. @cipher
9. @jsgolfer
10. @saevel25
11. @bkuehn1952
12. @k-troop
13. @billchao
14. @jbishop15
15. @RandallT
16. @GolfLug
17. @CarlSpackler
18. @SavvySwede

Also note that I added some rules to the above.

 

[CarlSpackler]

Oh, this should be interesting. 

[GolfLug]

I'm gonna go ahead and give myself a head start by saying that I shower 2 times a day!..

[cipher]

Great idea @iacas and @mvmac. I will have to wait until the mid to late part of spring to even attempt to answer #1.  Hopefully that will be okay. 

[kpaulhus]

This is going to be fun. Ill try to make my video over the next week since the weather is going to be good

[JxQx]

That's a cool idea. I'll be sure to make one as soon as spring comes around and I can get out and play.

[NCGolfer]

Do I get extra reputation points for being first?  

I think I got everything...the celebration is a bit lame, so sorry about that.  Apparel info:

• Shoe:  9 (FootJoy)
• Shirt: Medium (All brands)
• Pants: 34/32 (Eddie Bauer...32 length for most pants.  30 for some others)

Still hoping my work travel doesn't interfere.  Will do my best to plan accordingly.

 

EDIT:  Adding Part 2...

 

 

[Abu3baid]

4 hours ago, NCGolfer said:

Do I get extra reputation points for being first?  

I think I got everything...the celebration is a bit lame, so sorry about that.  Apparel info:

• Shoe:  9 (FootJoy)
• Shirt: Medium (All brands)
• Pants: 34/32 (Eddie Bauer...32 length for most pants.  30 for some others)

Still hoping my work travel doesn't interfere.  Will do my best to plan accordingly.

Great Job!  Just one thing, I noticed that you only vloged one hole, I read it that it should be 3 holes.. maybe I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

1. VLog a Par 3, Par 4, and Par 5. Talk as little or as much as you want. Narrate your strategy, describe the hole, tell us about your best shot ever there, whatever you like.

Anyway, nice job and good luck.

[iacas]

6 hours ago, Abu3baid said:

Great Job!  Just one thing, I noticed that you only vloged one hole, I read it that it should be 3 holes.. 

It should be, yes.

I'll clarify, too, that though we prefer one video (or at least one post with the videos), @NCGolfer should be able to edit his post and add the Vlogged par 4 and 5 to his first post. And then post to let us know about the addition.

Thanks Dave.

[Wanzo]

On 2/10/2017 at 10:07 PM, NCGolfer said:

Do I get extra reputation points for being first?  

Great video!  @NCGolfer Where did you do to school?  That's a fun accomplishment.   I'll try to work on mine in the next couple weeks when the weather allows. 

[Denny Bang Bang]

@NCGolfer I'm glad you turned one in, because now I don't need to Google what a vlog is.  I now need to learn to make a video.

 

[NCGolfer]

17 hours ago, Wanzo said:

Great video!  @NCGolfer Where did you do to school?  That's a fun accomplishment.   I'll try to work on mine in the next couple weeks when the weather allows. 

Penn State-Behrend.  Small, D3 school in Erie, Pennsylvania.  I moved south for obvious reasons.  

On 2/11/2017 at 9:36 AM, iacas said:

It should be, yes.

I'll clarify, too, that though we prefer one video (or at least one post with the videos), @NCGolfer should be able to edit his post and add the Vlogged par 4 and 5 to his first post. And then post to let us know about the addition.

Thanks Dave.

Yup...my bad.  I'll edit the original post when i have a "Part two" or "Return of the Applicant" for us Star Wars geeks out there.

[coachjimsc]

Wish I had a little more time. I definitely have a better appreciation for all the film makers out there. My lighting sucks...lol.

Thank you to @NCGolfer for being the first one to post.

Shoe size: 9.5 (Under Armour), 8.5 (Footjoy)

Shirt size: M all brands

Pant size: 32 x 32

[Denny Bang Bang]

@coachjimsc There goes my montage idea haha.  Nice video

[coachjimsc]

4 minutes ago, Denny Bang Bang said:

@coachjimsc There goes my montage idea haha.  Nice video

Thanks @Denny Bang Bang Movie Maker wasn't too bad to use. Was time consuming however.