CANCEL BOWL

The Greatest Irregularly Held Guerilla Trash Tournament in Eastern Massachusetts

Back in 2000, several (well, at least two) summer trash tournaments were announced but eventually cancelled. Somewhat irritated by this, I announced the first ever Cancel Bowl, to be held at Boston University, where I was working at the time.

Since then, Cancel Bowl has been run once or twice a year (depending on interest and question availability) either at BU or at Babson College, where I also used to work. Its small size has made it a cozy, informal affair where, hopefully, a good time is had by all.

Given that I was running these things with little to no dedicated staffing, Cancel Bowl has always been a guerilla event, meaning that there is no central editing and that teams provide staffing as needed. More often than not we’ve used packs from another event (thanks again Iowa, UTC, and Georgia!), and on at least one occasion I wrote several packs, many thematic in nature (with continued apologies).

Not sure what else to say about this, other than if you see that there’s a Cancel Bowl going on, feel free to drop by.

RESULTS

I don’t have all of them, but I’ll put in placeholders for links like I may actually come up with them someday. Don’t hold your breath, though.

Mark Coen’s Cancel Bowl 2000

Mark Coen’s Cancel Bowl 2001: Shave My Poodle!

Cancel Bowl 3: Savory Mimetic Paradigms While U Wait

Cancel Bowl 3.75: Minding the Gap

Cancel Bowl 4: Still the One With the Whales

Cancel Bowl 4.25: aka Helping to Send Charlie’s Kids to Summer Camp

Cancel Bowl 5: Assignment Commonwealth Ave.

Cancel Bowl 6: Hair of the Leprechaun

Cancel Bowl 7: You Will Find True Love on Bastille Day **MOVED TO JULY 21, 2007! SIGN UP NOW!**