Bonnaroo Simulation Team Draft

But why?

What if we don't want to make people's eyes bleed?

In past bonnaroo drafts, Pepe and I would argue about the goal of the game, and it was generally unclear. Are we drafting the best possible fesitval lineup or should we try to draft a Bonnaroo lineup as if we were actually booking Bonnaroo? Here is Pepe's lineup from last time:



Great fucking lineup in my opinion. But when I'm playing this game with the stated mission of booking a Bonnaroo lineup, I often wondered if Pepe and I were playing the same game. I didn't believe Portishead, Deadmau5, MBV could move tickets at a farm in tennessee with no history of booking a lineup like this. I would expect any of those names to land at 4 or maybe Portishead would be a 3. Underworld wouldn't be 2nd on their day. The lineup seems like a drastic departure to where Bonnaroo would be completely unrecognizable. BBNG is closing the second largest stage before a headliner (Which).

But Pepe's response was that, "nobody's lineup is close to being realistic for Roo and we are just voting on the lineup we like the most." Which was a valid response. And he's also said he'd be interested in trying a draft with a more clearly stated goal where we are at least all aiming at the same vagueish concept.

That does not mean we are all booking dogshit lineups. It just means that we have a slightly more clear goal for the game. You can't use the move to just book no headliners to be able to grab all the best subs without paying any sort of price. I drafted Travis Scott in this same draft because I made the mistake of waiting to long to get my third headliner. I could have just had Sigur Ros headline in that game if I wanted to. In this game it could be argued that booking Sigur Ros as a headliner is an objectively bad move. Though having them play late night would be a great thing. You couldn't effectively make that argument, or any argument outside of personal preference, in past drafts.

The Coachella draft added this element of, "wait I like all these rock bands but you booked no electronic tent at coachella? I'm probably going to dock you for that even though I like the artists on your lineup."

I know you've played previous drafts, so I'm not sure why this needs to be explained to you. But maybe this will help for people that haven't participated previously.

As a side note, I actually wanted to do a iii Points draft where we all tried to book Pepe lineups, but that idea didn't come to fruition and here we are.