• Stat Box Stories Introduces the Bowl Blitz Invitational

    As some of you may already know, Stat Box Stories is a great community site that uses NCAA Football 12, Madden NFL 12, NHL 12, and FIFA 12 to play games, record statistics, post video highlights, and tell the stories of games played every week. With Bowl Season beginning next Saturday, December 17th, Stat Box Stories is trying to rally some interested guest writers to the cause of trying to create statistical write-ups of all of the Bowl Games for this 2011-2012 season.

    If you have yet to read a write-up over at the blog site, here is the most recent example of work done using NCAA Football 12: the Army-Navy Game. Here also is the link to the guide for guest writers--Write a Guest Story--to give you some idea of what is looked for from guest contributors. Our own psuexv here at The Gaming Tailgate actually contributed the first guest story for the site this week, which you can read here: New York Islanders at Pittsburgh Penguins in NHL 12.

    Continue on to learn how to help write a guest story for Stat Box Stories for any of the great bowls this postseason and to sign-up.

    If you think you might be interested in contributing a Bowl Game write-up for publication at Stat Box Stories, consider the following guidelines below and then comment on this post with the game you would like to play:
    • Bowl Games in NCAA Football 12 can be played on whichever difficulty you like, so long as you specify it.
    • Bowl match-ups should be played in the designated bowl (obviously), and try to replicate the time of day for the bowl game.
    • Quarter lengths on the blog so far have been 7 minutes, but as long as you're playing at least 5 minute quarters you'll be fine.
    • Even if you use named rosters, the write-ups and statistical tracking should reference the player's position and number as though you were playing the game right out of the box. It takes a little bit of extra work when you're collecting the information--trust me, I do it every week--but it's not difficult.
    • If you sign up to do one of the Bowl Games, it must be completed and submitted before the game is played in real life so that it can be posted before the game.
    • Submissions will be emailed to paakaa10@gmail.com.


    For the list of bowl games looking for volunteers, visit this post.


    If Stat Box Stories can get a write-up and statistics for every single Bowl Game, they will consider awarding a prize for the guest contributor whose game result (final score) most closely matched the actual result of the game in real life. In the event of a tie, the tie-breaker would be whichever game had the closest offensive yards for each team in the game compared to the real-life statistics.

    If there are any questions, please comment and paakaa10 will try to answer them; otherwise, sign up for the game you're interested in playing, and good luck!
    Comments 126 Comments
    1. cdj's Avatar
      cdj -
      I'll take the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
    1. psusnoop's Avatar
      psusnoop -
      I'll take the Chick-Fil-A Bowl game if it's still available.
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv -
      Quote Originally Posted by Paakaa10 View Post
      We need to add a title for you here at TGT; instead of "Donator", it could be "Bowl Blitz Invitational MVP"! Thanks man!
      LOL, I've got nothing better to do. It's not like I'm sitting on BF3 and haven't really played it yet.
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers -
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      LOL, I've got nothing better to do. It's not like I'm sitting on BF3 and haven't really played it yet.
      You can say that again.
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv -
      Give me the Gator Bowl if nobody wants it.
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Thanks to cdj and psusnoop for coming to the rescue and keeping the dream of getting all 35 Bowl Games done alive! Really appreciate the time you all are taking to help with this project.
    1. steelerfan's Avatar
      steelerfan -
      I'll take the Cotton Bowl.
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Awesome; thanks to psuexv (Gator Bowl) and steelerfan (Cotton Bowl) for their volunteerism as well!
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers -
      I'll do SMU / Pitt in the BBVA Compass Bowl
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Loving all of the Bowl Games that are getting picked up today; can't update the table since I'm at work right now, but I'm looking forward to filling in all the names later tonight. You guys are awesome!
    1. steelerfan's Avatar
      steelerfan -
      Quote Originally Posted by Paakaa10 View Post
      Loving all of the Bowl Games that are getting picked up today; can't update the table since I'm at work right now, but I'm looking forward to filling in all the names later tonight. You guys are awesome!
      Everything is claimed, right?

      Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers -
      Quote Originally Posted by steelerfan View Post
      Everything is claimed, right?

      Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
      Pretty sure. I think the Cotton Bowl was last to be claimed.
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv -
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      Pretty sure. I think the Cotton Bowl was last to be claimed.
      That seems to be correct
    1. steelerfan's Avatar
      steelerfan -
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      Pretty sure. I think the Cotton Bowl was last to be claimed.
      You claimed the BBVA Compass Bowl after that.

      Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers -
      Quote Originally Posted by steelerfan View Post
      You claimed the BBVA Compass Bowl after that.

      Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
      Then that's it I missed your original post. I was going off of the chart.
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Finally home and updated the chart; thanks so much to everyone who has pitched in! We have people set for all of the 35 Bowl Games now, so if everyone comes through the project will end successfully!
    1. morsdraconis's Avatar
      morsdraconis -
      Awesome!

      Now I don't have to feel bad for not being able to help...
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv -
      Quote Originally Posted by morsdraconis View Post
      Awesome!

      Now I don't have to feel bad for not being able to help...
      You should still feel bad
    1. Paakaa10's Avatar
      Paakaa10 -
      Three more entries are now on the site, and today they're all guest entries as I took a day off to recuperate before getting ready to do two entries tomorrow:

    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers -
      Who saw that coming with Baylor and Washington last night o_O