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QUADRAGOCON 2021!! LET THE GAMES CONTINUE!!!!

2021-06-18 · challenge / punishment · Hank, John · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, guest or collab, on location, community lore, civic or action cta

Together again, about two years late, John and Hank hold Quadragocon 2021, a fourteen-event contest of endurance and skill from push-ups and a LaCroix chug to collage art and cup stacking; it ends in a draw, and they ask viewers what to do for their Tuesday collab.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; the first quadrennial Quadragocon six years ago and why the second is two years late

  • ★★★ John recalls that six years ago they held the first quadrennial Quadragocon, tests of endurance and skill meant to recur every four years for the rest of their lives. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says that through their own laziness and a global pandemic they are about two years late with the second quadrennial Quadragocon. (playful) — 00:00:00 · COVID-19 pandemic

00:00:29 — Strategies and reality-TV confessionals; rock toss, rock skipping, timed events

  • ★ John says his strategy is to put as many endurance events as close together as possible, because he knows he has more endurance than Hank. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • ★ In a reality-TV-style aside Hank says he doesn't feel good about it and doesn't think he has it in him, which is okay, but it is his brother, so he would like to win. (playful) — 00:00:29

00:02:20 — Collage art, John needing cup stacking for the draw, the draw

  • ★ John says he had a rough day because Hank introduced events he has no expertise in, and he needs cup stacking to get the draw. (playful) — 00:02:20
  • ★★★ John announces the contest is a draw, so they won't know for sure who the real Quadragoconian is for another four to six years; Hank adds that everyone besides them is the real winner. — 00:03:09

00:03:23 — The real winner, the ask for Tuesday's last collab video, a sprint outtake

  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to tell them what to do for their video on Tuesday, their last collab video, the third in a row, to make up for lost time. — 00:03:23

In the description and comments

  • ★★★ The description lists the 14 events: John won push-ups, horseshoes, LaCroix chug, big rock toss, NYT Mini crossword, cookie mouth and cup stacking; Hank won sprint, frisbee knock, rock skipping, kayak race, fishing game, marshmallow toss and collage art. — video description · The New York Times
  • ★★ The description says the 2015 contest was meant to repeat every four years but didn't, and this one has a couple of repeated events, with the same outcomes, and many new ones. — video description

Humor (dominant)

  • The brothers turn the contest's name into a verb for the day ahead — 00:00:29

    “we are gonna quadrag the heck out of this day.”

  • Filming each other, one brother critiques the other's camera angle — 00:01:16

    “I think it's a real disservice to the landscape to show your face from below when you could be showing the landscape.”

  • After the draw Hank tells John who the real winner is — 00:03:23

    “Everyone besides us.”

  • After a sprint in the outtake, John admits he doesn't usually run that fast — 00:03:23

    “That’s the fastest I’ve run probably since the last quadragocon.”

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Mentioned

Central: Quadragocon

Also: COVID-19 pandemic · reality television · sport stacking

Only in the description or credits: Andrew Huang · LaCroix · The New York Times

Also centred on Quadragocon: QUADRAGOCON 2015 - WHO WILL WIN! · ONE TAKE JOHNNY · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment

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