Stan Con: Football is coming home

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This Stan Con, we’re organizing a casual football (soccer) game, to be held on Thursday the 22nd between the conference and dinner. All are welcome – and encouraged ! – to play. This is a casual game. The winner gets NOTHING, except for GLORY… which is EVERYTHING!!!

I’ll send out more details as I get them, but here are the basics. Only short cleats, please, no cleats ok – I myself will likely wear my futsal shoes. Please, no carelessly aggressive plays, there’s no point getting injured over a pick up game. No slide tackles, except if you’re trying to take the ball from @paul.buerkner. We have a candidate field, and we’ll make sure the player density is not too high (both to improve the quality of the game and avoid injury-causing clusters). I’m trying to set up goal line tech and VAR but no promises here. You will have time to shower before dinner.

See you all on the field!

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Thank you everyone for playing. Check out these pictures on @avehtari’s tweet.

Someone took the ball after the conference. There was a bit of a misunderstanding: the ball belongs to the Stan community, and I intended to take it back to New York. Not a big deal, but to whomever took the ball, please bring it to the next Stan Con, since we plan to have another game. Thank you!

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My fault. I told some local participant to take it (after we all forgot it on the lawn)

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(after we all forgot it on the lawn)

Fair enough. I’m sure it’s in good hands.

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This ball should be easily identified: it has an imprint of my face on it.

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Thanks for linking the tweet. Love the “uniforms”.

I’m happy to spot you the cost of a new football for the next StanCon! But if you let me buy it, you might get the wrong shape.

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