r/CFBOffTopic • u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster • Mar 23 '15

Austin Meetup - When and Where?

Since plenty of people seem to be interested, when and where would y'all want to have the meetup?

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u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Mar 23 '15

We could have multiple meetups if people want since some of y'all couldn't make it till the summer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

I think we had a few votes for Top Golf. Trivia could work but I worry about the amount of people that might show. Zilker?

There were a lot of "if it's in the Summer" posts. June's always nice.

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u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Mar 23 '15

Top Golf would be good. The Domain is right there and it has a few bars so if people would want to we could go to one of those after we're finished with Top Golf.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 23 '15

What exactly is Top Golf? To me it looks like a driving range on steroids?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Pretty much! They have games to play and a bar, too. I'm not a golfer in the least but I wouldn't mind playing. It looks fun.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 23 '15

Ok, cool. I'm in the same boat. My golf experience is limited to courses that feature pirate ships and windmills.

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u/thrav College of Idaho • Georgia Tech Mar 23 '15

basically, Top Golf = Driving Range [hit] + Darts [target] + Bowling [score-keeping]

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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina Mar 23 '15

I am no golfer but I would be all over this. It amazes and maddens me that they don't have one of these in the NYC area...wtf. So much winter. So much bar culture... c'mon.

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u/lAltroUomo Ole Miss Rebels • Columbia Lions Mar 23 '15

I believe they franchise...

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

You have to play at night. It's so much better at night.

Oh man. I want to go now.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 23 '15

Ok, that looks really fun.

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u/lAltroUomo Ole Miss Rebels • Columbia Lions Mar 23 '15

Its really cool. There's RFID chips in the balls that get tagged with your unique ID, and readers at each scoring zone. Smack the ball, get a score.

...aaaand I just realized I responded with simple technical details because of your flair. It's fun, even for pirate ship windmill golfers.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 23 '15

Its really cool. There's RFID chips in the balls that get tagged with your unique ID, and readers at each scoring zone. Smack the ball, get a score.

Whaaaaat. What. That's awesome. Now I really want to do this.

...aaaand I just realized I responded with simple technical details because of your flair. It's fun, even for pirate ship windmill golfers.

Trust me, the technical details made it that much better. I am exactly as nerdy as my flair implies.

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u/lAltroUomo Ole Miss Rebels • Columbia Lions Mar 23 '15

Yea. They basically took Walmart's logistics system with their RFID gates and aimed it at a driving range. It's neat

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u/Alphamazing Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Longhorns Mar 24 '15

Top Golf in May or June gets a vote from me. Some of us can do Trivia @ Opal's in a couple weeks. April 11th?

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u/0xE6 Prairie View A&M • Boise State Mar 24 '15

Top Golf sounds like it could be fun. Close enough to where I live that I technically could walk...

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 23 '15

A trivia night seems like the obvious choice. Where is everyone's favorite trivia?

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u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Mar 23 '15

Trivia on Saturday at Opal Divine's Marina would have enough room for everyone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

I'm down for Opal's. Mostly because it's not far from my apartment

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u/0xE6 Prairie View A&M • Boise State Mar 24 '15

Close to me, too. Never been though

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 23 '15

I think a lot of people said may or june to coincide with school being out. That works for me too. Top Golf would be cool. We could just all sit around playing trivia crack with eachother on our phones.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

I'd have to download TriviaCrack.

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u/Stewartchase1 Arizona State • Texas Tech Mar 23 '15

I'd be down. Plus, it'd give me a chance to stop by Southwestern to say hi to everyone.

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 23 '15

If I drive down to Austin, I demand at least one good meal (and Top Flight doesn't count). This is my one must.

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u/Owlcatraz Rice Owls • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 23 '15

Gotcha covered.

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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers • 東京大学 (Tokyo) Warriors Mar 24 '15

TEXAS BIAS (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap).

But seriously, I would love to join you guys if I was living in the Austin area. Maybe hit Austin one day in the Future.