Relevant to most of Team Rubber anyway….
I personally went and voted last night, and even dragged my house mate down with me kicking and screaming.
Anyway, the Lib Dems won as you can read here on The Guardian.
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Team Rubber FC in top-of-the-table clash
Alex Pitkin - November 19th, 2008After an impressive, undefeated start to the season (2 wins and a hard-fought draw), Team Rubber FC are set to step out against the current league holders on Thursday night (Nov 20).
‘Brucey Boys’ are also unbeaten (3 wins) but a win for Rubber would put them ahead and in at least second place, cementing their deserved status as one of the league’s teams to beat.
Current league table for you statisticians out there:
Goals goals goals!
Team Rubber enters the football world
Alex Pitkin - November 5th, 2008Team Rubber now officially have a 6-a-side team!!
Select members of Rubber have been playing for a renegade team for a couple of months and have now successfully mutinied and taken over!
With direct orders from the boss to win, we’re doing it right so far (see league image below). Watch this space…
Keep abreast of the Team here: http://tinyurl.com/6p4tx3
Goals Goals Goals
Ways to make somethings better Issue 2 – Bikes!
Alex Pitkin - August 14th, 2008I’ve always been a big fan of human powered transport but I’ve recently switched my allegiances from my trusty skateboard to a shiny bike. I always used to think the skateboard ruled all as I carved down hills and smugly strolled up steep hills saving embarrassing sweaty arrivals at work and pubs.
Then I tried a mate’s bike and realised that:
- I can get everywhere so much quicker (rain or shine) on a bike;
- Bristol is great for cycling
- you can get the Government to pay for some of your new bike.
Point 1 is clearly obvious as there are many restrictions on skateboarding, and walking is just slow and boring.
Point 2 is more currently relevant. Bristol was voted the first cycling city in the UK recently by the all-knowing government, giving us some money to spend on making cycling better around the city and some essential feel good points.
But what can £100m buy you in the drive to improve cycling in a whole city? Well maybe one of these cycle lifts would encourage some people to cycle, but they would probably stop soon after the lift or their bike broke down. Instead, Bristol have asked the public what they think we should do. A novel and inspired idea I feel and it looks like the growing consensus is “more cycle lanes” for all; another few debates there I think.
If anyone feels inspired to get a bike then point 3 is almost certainly relevant. Already, three members of the Team Rubber family have used and (lawfully) abused the cyclescheme offering that the government has allowed. It’s brilliant, you get a beautiful bike plus accessories at about 40% cheaper than in the shop, and you can pay it off monthly. Just don’t fall off….
Rubber Teamers on Flickr
Alex Pitkin - August 14th, 2008Got sent some links through from our arch-nemeses ‘Bristol Sifty’ with some pics of them on Flickr competing in the Bristol Media football tournament.
So I went in search on the Bristol Media Flickr pool of photos for some of our warriors. Fortunately there were no professionally taken team photos for Kirk to ruin, but there were some others:
We posed.
We played.
We got supported.
…and we didn’t get through. It was a big sack of fun though.
Free weekend fun in Bristol?
Alex Pitkin - July 29th, 2008No money required and absolutely no burning piers….
Ways to make somethings better Issue 1 – Naps
Alex Pitkin - July 4th, 2008Power-napping is good, especially if it’s an art form, or a precise science…
Check out a definitive and excellent guide – something for Rubber towers to implement?
Personally I thought the ‘REM’ phase was more of a ‘passing out on the sofa at a mate’s house’.
Penny football defeats nuclear spectroscopy!!
Alex Pitkin - March 20th, 2008When the Euroball game was first conceived in the dark doldrums of the Team Rubber creative dungeons we decided to Google ‘Euroball’ and see what we got.
Apparently Euroball is “a European collaboration to build a gamma-ray spectrometer for nuclear spectroscopy“. Obviously, with all of Team Rubber’s prolific experience in the area of spectroscopy and viral marketing, we were confident that this was an incorrect definition. Euroball is quite clearly a magnificent penny football game pushing the boundaries of mouse dexterity.
Ok so we wanted to make a successful game that promoted JVC, and Euro 2008, and got our Euroballers instantly addicted, and promoted friendly rivalries between friends and countries, BUT none of these now compared to the task of defeating those pesky nuclear physicists.
So, we set about our main goal, and now, to mark the 100-day birthday of the game, I am pleased to announce our complete and total success! From now, when anyone searches for Euroball they will find the one and only online penny football game.
(Our other goals aren’t doing too badly either)
Well done Euroball team!
Boating News! JVC Euroball Mini Maker is live!
Alex Pitkin - November 30th, 2007
(Boats are smaller than ships)
You can now create your very on EuroballMini that you can embed on your MySpace, blog or anywhere that you can Flash, like your Facebook profile.
JVC’s EuroballMini is Euroball’s challenging little brother. It is a shrunk-down version of the table football-based Euroball game and let’s you try to compete with your friends (indeed, any viewers of the widget) for the quickest time to score 10 goals.
It is fully customisable so you can write your own challenge message and tweak the colours to match your page!
Your embed code will look something like this:
<embed allowScriptAccess=”never” allowNetworking=”internal” saveEmbedTags=”true” src=”http://rubberbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/euroballMini.swf?UID=1059″ width=”304″ height=”304″ wmode=”transparent”></embed>
Get your own one now at: http://www.jvcfootball.com/euroball/mini_maker/.
Shipped by: Rubber Republic.
JVC’s UEFA Euro 2008 Euroball
Alex Pitkin - November 27th, 2007JVC asked Team Rubber’s Rubber Republic to produce a viral campaign to celebrate their sponsorship of UEFA Euro 2008 (TM).
Euroball is what was delivered.
The game is an online adaptation of a rainy-lunchtime classic: penny football. Staged across an international selection of tabletop ‘pitches’, Euroball gives players a chance to represent their country as they shove coins goalward against the clock.
There are also loads of UEFA Euro 2008(TM) tickets being given away to the top players, so get shoving at http://www.jvcfootball.com/euroball!
Shipped by: Rubber Republic.
