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Topple The Czar

2008-04-10T23:59:42Z

Daisylind:

This booth was KGB's second [[booth]] ever and its first victory. It won first place in the Independent category, but was very stressful and expensive for the organization to build. It sure was beautiful, though.

The booth was a recreation of Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, and was topped with colorful onion domes. The interior was fully drywalled and painted, and contained original painted artwork. The game was exciting and difficult, and consisted of trying to knock down a succession of dolls using tennis ball "bombs". The prizes for fully completing the game were authentic Russian "city pins".

Official booth chair was [[Andrew Shurak]], who was usurped by [[Steve Gifford]] and [[Tom Strong]].

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Image:Kgb-booth-czar-bomb.jpg|A Bomb
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[[Category:Booth]]

The Hunt for Red October

2008-04-10T23:57:23Z

Daisylind: New page: '''Booth 1991 - The Hunt for Red October''' Playfully known as "The Hunt for Red Fucked-over", this years Booth is one of the least favorite ones. We think it came in close to dead last (...

'''Booth 1991 - The Hunt for Red October'''

Playfully known as "The Hunt for Red Fucked-over", this years Booth is one of the least favorite ones. We think it came in close to dead last (except we beat a couple groups who wrote "Booth" on a cardboard box.) Booth chairs were [[Eeyore]] (who dropped out in favor of the Presidency in the spring) and [[Tom Strong]]. Whoops. Coincidentally, this was the year KGB dissolved it's Booth Committee (an act that didn't last).

Land the Plane in Red Square

2008-04-10T23:56:43Z

Daisylind: New page: '''Booth 1989 - Land the Plane in Red Square''' This Booth won the Chairman's Choice award. The booth chair who led us to victory was Barry Brummit (many thanks to former KGB president...

'''Booth 1989 - Land the Plane in Red Square'''
This Booth won the Chairman's Choice award. The booth chair who led us to victory was [[Barry Brummit]] (many thanks to former KGB president [[Michael Gelman]] for providing us with this information).

Peter and the Wolf

2008-04-10T23:54:41Z

Daisylind: New page: KGB's 1995 Booth was chaired by Amy McGovern, but mostly designed by Eric Moore and Matt Andrews. The carnival theme that year was Cartoons, and we did Peter and the Wolf. The ...

KGB's 1995 Booth was chaired by [[Amy McGovern]], but mostly designed by [[Eric Moore]] and [[Matt Andrews]]. The carnival theme that year was Cartoons, and we did Peter and the Wolf. The game was originally intended to be a laser -based auto scoring shoot the wolf type thing, but the electronics never got finished. So what ended up happening was that we used the laser and visually determined hits on the targets. We also went over time on building, and so ended up being disqualified from competition, even though we still finished and operated the booth.

Kremlin

2008-04-10T23:53:48Z

Daisylind: New page: The '96 carnival theme was Board Games, and as it happens there is an old Avalon Hill board game called 'Kremlin'. As this was Brian Nagy's first time chairng booth, he decided to stick wi...

The '96 carnival theme was Board Games, and as it happens there is an old Avalon Hill board game called 'Kremlin'. As this was Brian Nagy's first time chairng booth, he decided to stick with just re-using the 'barn' that KGB built a few years ago, and has kept since, and just change what went on top. The game was a simple, but surprisingly popular bean bag toss, and we ended up getting 3rd place.

Baba Yaga's Hut

2008-04-10T23:52:16Z

Daisylind: /* External Links */

KGB's 1998 [[Booth]].

Chairman: Bryan Nagy

Won first place in the Independent division.

Baba Yaga's Hut, aka Booth Obsession '98, won us the first place trophy for the second time in KGB's illustrious booth career, and was a drawn-out, two year plan. It was chaired (and some say spiritually possessed) by [Bryan Nagy].

== External Links ==

Via Bryan Nagy:

* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bnagy/booth.html Memoir]
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bnagy/booth98designs.html Blueprints]
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bnagy/booth98pictures.html Photos]

[[Category:Booth]]

Sputnik

2008-04-10T23:51:29Z

Daisylind: New page: '''Booth 2000 - Sputnik''' Named in a playful take-off of the Carnival theme "Around the World", this Booth was chaired by Dan Hook. The last iteration of the venerable KGB Barn, this...

'''Booth 2000 - Sputnik'''

Named in a playful take-off of the Carnival theme "Around the World", this Booth was chaired by [[Dan Hook]]. The last iteration of the venerable KGB Barn, this Booth took fourth place in that years' competition. Note that the winning Booth was made mostly out of papier-mache and featured a stunning attention to detail that brought us such crowd-pleasers as penguins living in Alaska. (The Bitter Bus would like to deny all responsibility for the preceeding comment)

The Rats of NIMH

2008-04-10T23:49:38Z

Daisylind:

The Rats of NIMH was KGB's Booth entry in 1999, which was themed "Children's Literature." Although originally placing Second in the Independent category, we were later bumped to third place due to a judging miscalculation.

Although not entirely a Russian themed story (Peter and the Wolf had been taken before), we did manage to give the rats a sort of communist/socialist theme.

The structure of the booth was simple, re-using the basic parts from booths from years previous. It was a simple one room structure with steps and a two doorway entrance/exit. The exterior was a rose bush, with the interior emulating an outside scene of a farm field at night. In the middle was a tree and a small plot where a small diorama of rats and objects were placed, and the game was to use a pulley /magnet system to lift a stone "house" to rescue the rat family.

It was co-chaired by Daisy Church, who oversaw Art Direction, and Karen Adams, who designed the game and structure, with lots of help from John-Eric Hoffman, who oversaw construction. We had many, many hard-working KGB-ers who pitched in to help and make it a great looking booth.

The Rats of NIMH

2008-04-10T23:19:16Z

Daisylind: The Rats of NIMH was KGB's Booth entry for the Independent category to Carnival in 1998

The Rats of NIMH was KGB's Booth entry for the Independent category to Carnival in 1998, which was themed "Children's Literature." Although not entirely a Russian themed story (Peter and the Wolf had been taken before, and nobody seemed keen to do it again), but I think we managed to give the rats a sort of communist/socialist theme to them.

The structure of the booth was simple, re-using the basic parts from booths from years previous. Basically, it was a simple one room structure with steps and a two doorway entrance/exit. The exterior was supposed to look like a rose bush, with the interior emulating an outside scene of a farm field at night. In the middle was a tree and a small plot where a small diorama of rats and objects were placed, and the game was to use a pulley /magnet system to lift a stone "house" to rescue the rat family.

There were three Booth chairs that year; Daisy Church, who oversaw Art Direction, Elaine, who designed the game and structure, and John-Eric Hoffman, who oversaw construction. We had many, many hard-working KGB-ers who pitched in to help and make it a great looking booth, but we lost out (honestly... I can't even remember if we placed? Anyone? I think we might have placed third, but then might have had some sort of judging mistake and had it taken by Fringe, but I'm not sure), resulting in much sadness and a long running "Bitter Bus" joke that ran it's course for a few years afterwards.

Daisy church

2008-04-10T23:07:25Z

Daisylind:

Daisy Church was Sergeant at Arms for 1998 and maybe 1999. She's not sure about 1999 so much. It's all such a blur now, you know? She also co-chaired KGB's Booth entry in 1999 ("Children's Literature"), which was themed Secret of Nimh. She was very sad when KGB lost out to ASA's Winnie the Pooh themed booth with the crap blue tarp roof and sucky luon floors.

She remembers chairing booth that year as some of her most favorite KGB days, and still shouts out her love to all the KGBers who gave their time and energy into making that year's booth into something great and special.

Her other accomplishments in KGB include painting the chicken legs and wood texture on Baba Yaga's hut for Carnival 1998.

She was involved with KGB from her freshman year (Spring 1998) through her junior year (Spring 2000).

Daisy Church

2008-04-10T23:06:41Z

Daisylind:

Daisy church

2008-04-09T17:25:49Z

Daisylind:

Daisy Church was Sergeant at Arms for 1998 and maybe 1999. She's not sure about 1999 so much. It's all such a blur now, you know? She also co-chaired KGB's Booth entry in 1999 ("Children's Literature"), which was themed Secret of Nimh. She was very sad when KGB lost out to ASA's Winnie the Pooh themed booth with the crap blue tarp roof and sucky luon floors.

She remembers chairing booth that year as some of her most favorite KGB days, and still shouts out her love to all the KGBers who gave their time and energy into making that year's booth into something great and special.

Her other accomplishments in KGB include painting the chicken legs and wood texture on Baba Yaga's hut for Carnival 1998. She was also briefly romantically involved with Chuck "Timebomb" Werner, and is primarily how she became involved with KGB to begin with, but that story is for another time and place.

She was involved with KGB from her freshman year (Spring 1998) through her junior year (Spring 2000).

Daisy church

2008-04-09T17:24:51Z

Daisylind: Removing all content from page

1998 Officers

2008-04-09T17:22:42Z

Daisylind:

[[President]] -- [[Chuck "Timebomb" Werner]]

[[First Vice President]] --

[[Second Vice President]] --

[[Recording Secretary]] -- James Raskob (1st semester), Margaret "James" "mid" DeLap (2nd semester)

[[Corresponding Secretary]] --

[[Treasurer]] -- [[John Meier]]

[[Sergeant at Arms]] -- [[Daisy Church]]

[[category:Officers]]

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Daisy Church

2008-04-09T17:22:33Z

Daisylind: New page: Daisy Church was Sergeant at Arms for 1998 and maybe 1999. She's not sure about 1999 so much. It's all such a blur now, you know? She also co-chaired KGB's Booth entry in 1999 ("Children's...

Daisy Church was Sergeant at Arms for 1998 and maybe 1999. She's not sure about 1999 so much. It's all such a blur now, you know? She also co-chaired KGB's Booth entry in 1999 ("Children's Literature"), which was themed Secret of Nimh. She was very sad when KGB lost out to ASA's Winnie the Pooh themed booth with the crap blue tarp roof and sucky luon floors.

She remembers chairing booth that year as some of her most favorite KGB days, and still shouts out her love to all the KGBers who gave their time and energy into making that year's booth into something great and special.

Her other accomplishments in KGB include painting the chicken legs and wood texture on Baba Yaga's hut for Carnival 1998. She was also briefly romantically involved with Chuck "Timebomb" Werner, and is primarily how she became involved with KGB to begin with, but that story is for another time and place.

She was involved with KGB from her freshman year (Spring 1998) through her junior year (Spring 2000).

Daisy church

2008-04-09T17:19:40Z

Daisylind: Daisy Church was Booth Chair in 1998 and Sergeant at Arms in 1999

Daisy Church was Sergeant at Arms for 1998 and maybe 1999. She's not sure about 1999 so much. It's all such a blur now, you know? She also co-chaired KGB's Booth entry in 1999 ("Children's Literature"), which was themed Secret of Nimh. She was very sad when KGB lost out to ASA's Winnie the Pooh themed booth with the crap blue tarp roof and sucky luon floors.

She remembers chairing booth that year as some of her most favorite KGB days, and still shouts out her love to all the KGBers who gave their time and energy into making that year's booth into something great and special.

Her other accomplishments in KGB include painting the chicken legs and wood texture on Baba Yaga's hut for Carnival 1998. She was also briefly romantically involved with Chuck "Timebomb" Werner, and is primarily how she became involved with KGB to begin with, but that story is for another time and place.

She was involved with KGB from her freshman year (Spring 1998) through her junior year (Spring 2000).