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Hi! It's Seth again. I'll be brief. Next Wednesday, we're doing a Scorigami Part 4 screening in New York City. After the screening, I'm going to host a little on-stage Q&A conversation type thing with Jon and Alex.

I'll be doing the question-asking, but-- not to brag-- I already know these fellas and watched them work on this project. I want to make sure I'm incorporating your interests.

So let's do that! You're receiving this message because you subscribe to Top Secret Base at the uppermost ("Top Secret Agent") tier. If you've got a question you'd like Jon and Alex to discuss on stage, leave it in the comments here. If your submission 1. is good and 2. is not annoying and 3. fits into the time and topic, I'll bring it with me to the stage.

And just as a reminder: The whole conversation will be recorded and posted here, so even if you can't make the screening, you could still submit a question and see it asked.

That's all! Hope to see you Wednesday, and if not, I'll see you on the web.

Comments

CallMeAhh

To Jon: How did you come up with the concept of scoregami? Sorry if this is asked and answered, I haven't kept up with Scoregami as of late

Adam Foote

For games before, like, 1960, did you have trouble confirming scores or how they happened? I can't imagine there were multiple newspapers printing some of these Washington Glee Club and Providence Steam Roller scores

Andrew Ross

Do you think any of the lower-scoring Scorigami blanks will ever be filled in, or that we'll ever see a 0-0 or 2-0 final score again? Seems unlikely, but never is a long time…

BeeSneeze

Have you ever considered doing Scorigami for non-NFL leagues? (College football, CFL, European league, etc.). What do you think would be the main differences to NFL Scorigami?

Timur M

One question and one talking point: 1) Outside of Scorigami, how is progress on 50007? I understand that it's in the publication process right now but I am curious to hear why Jon and company decided to switch purely to paperback form (if that's even what it'll be) and what you can reveal about the creative process behind it thus far. Also, was there any particular reason for the cancellation/postponing of 20021? Please don't feel rushed by this question, I'm very patient with release dates :) 2) Just wondering if the college football hypothetical 2-1 scorigami scenario will be mentioned in Part 4 lol (0-0 in 3OT, kickstarted by an offensive 1-point safety followed by a 2 point try to win the game, which I am 80% sure is technically possible).

Horace 'Jack Dudebrother' Hogan

Scorigami for other sports will be difficult since they generally can or must score one point at a time as a regular event. But are there other interesting -gamis to be had? Maybe Statigami with basketball and just stripping down the stats into numbers, like the Tony Snellionaire game (28m, 0 0 0, 0 0 1, with the 1 being a foul), or a Top Scorigami pitting high scorers against each other?

alex moore

It’s not necessarily a scorigami question as much as one for the pair of you about the process, how do you two go about choosing a topic? Like do you have a pile of ideas lying around or is it a strike of inspiration that draws you into action?

alex

well here are 2 things i've accidentally stumbled across along those lines that i'm fond of: • https://stathead.com/tiny/PFA5y in the nba up thru 3/11/22, there'd only ever been one 15-21/8-8 game, then just on 3/12/22 there were 2 • https://stathead.com/tiny/xjCdq there are only 2 all-time instances of an nba player logging 25+ minutes whilst taking 0 shots, grabbing 0 boards, and dishing 0 dimes, and those masterpieces were both authored by jan '11 joel anthony -alex

Chris

Thanks so much for doing this. I’m so psyched for it. A global question. I (and others) feel that Jon Bois and all of you are the story-tellers of our generation. How exactly do you tell so many stories so engagingly, from scoragami to the Reform Party? What exactly goes into your process that makes me care so deeply about whether a pitcher I’ve never heard of throws a no-hitter?

Evan

Contrapunkt? Contrapunkt! Real question: does Jon do the music selections primarily or is the whole team involved?

Khush Wadhwa

Jon, first off, thanks for inspiring me to make a mini-doc for a European history class in the style of Chart Party because it was the best style of documentary I knew. I wanted to ask: where do you derive your narrative style from (the random similes, the deep imagery, the random jokes)? School, media, conversations, etc.

Khush Wadhwa

How was the process of making Scorigami different in 2016 different from this new series? Was either more fulfilling to make?

Khush Wadhwa

How did the duo of Jon Bois and Alex Rubinstein come to be? How did things change after y’all started working together?