Please restrict posts in this thread to announcing watch parties only so that it makes for an easy reference without paging through lots of off-topic comments. That said, I will occasionally update this original post to include parties that people list below or those sent out by the Alumni Association.

Quote:Austin
Liberty Bowl Watch Party
December 31, 2013 • Third Base-Downtown, 1717 W. 6th St. • 2:45 p.m.

If you can't make it to Memphis to see the Conference USA Champion Rice Owls take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the Liberty Bowl, come out and join other members of the Austin Rice community as we cheer on the Owls at a watch party.

ETA more parties:

https://online.alumni.rice.edu/default.a...entID=1851

Quote:Atlanta
Taco Mac At Prado
5600 Rosewell Rd., suite M-003
Atlanta, GA 30342
Join our Facebook page

Austin
Third Base Downtown
1717 West 6th St.
Austin, TX 78703
https://www.facebook.com/ARA.Austin

Bay Area
Green Sports Bar
2239 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Cincinnati
Oak Tavern
3089 Madison Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45209

Chicago
Delux Bar & Grill
669 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, Il 60642
https://www.facebook.com/groups/136070096073/

Colorado
The home of Cindy Lindsay '73
1133 Timber Lane
Boulder, CO 80304
Requested $5 donation to cover food (Memphis BBQ) and drinks.
RSVP to Cindy Lindsay '73

DC
Penn Social
801 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
We'll be watching on the HUGE screen!
https://www.facebook.com/RiceAlumniDC

DFW
Picasso's Pizza & Grill
12300 Inwood Road #116
Dallas, TX 75244
Happy Hour Specials will be available!
https://www.facebook.com/dfwricealumni

Houston
Buffalo Wild Wings
Rice Village
2525 Rice Blvd
Houston, TX 77005
Event Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/75460483...pe=regular
Los Angeles
BJ's Brewhouse in the Westfield Century City Mall
10250 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Kickoff is at 1 pm
https://www.facebook.com/groups/222664304413447/

New Orleans
Location TBA
For updates and questions check back here or
contact Jason Bigelow '01

New York
Manchester Pub
920 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
https://www.facebook.com/events/1382822171938344/

Portland
Macadam Bar and Grill
5833 SW Macadam
Portland, OR 97239
Family friendly location
Contact Karen King '83 to RSVP

Raleigh/Durham
Carolina Ale House
3911 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd
Durham, NC 27707
RSVP to Joseph Blocher '01
http://www.meetup.com/Rice-Owls-of-the-R...h-Triangle

San Diego
The D Street Bar and Grill
485 S. Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA 92024

Silicon Valley
Britannia Arms Almaden
5027 Almaden Expressway (near Hwy 85 exit)
San Jose, CA 95118
RSVP to AlmadenMike Ross by Dec. 30

Dallas
Liberty Bowl Watch Party

Quote: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:38:02 -0600
Subject: [DFW-Owls-L] DFW Rice Liberty Bowl Watch Party (Tuesday Dec 31st, 2013, 3:00 PM)
To: dfw-owls-l <dfw-owls-l@mailman.rice.edu>

Hi everyone,

Come out and cheer for your Rice Owls as they play in the Liberty Bowl. The Rice DFW alumni group will be having a watch party at:

Picasso’s Pizza & Grill
12300 Inwood Road #116
[Google Map]
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Picasso's...11&iwloc=A

(972) 503-3300

Happy Hour Pricing.
Tuesday, Dec. 31st, 3:00 PM

The event link:
http://facebook.com/events/1466600516899830
if you have any questions or want to share the info with others.

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Check it out: there are watch parties all over the place. The master list is at:
https://online.alumni.rice.edu/default.a...entID=1851

The collector of information is LaCresha Lamb <llamb@rice.edu> in Alumni Affairs. Thank you, LaCresha!

Host cities as of 12/20:

Atlanta
Austin
Bay Area (really San Francisco)
Cincinnati
Chicago
Colorado (Boulder)
DC
DFW
Houston
Los Angeles
New Orleans
New York
Portland
Raleigh/Durham
San Diego
Silicon Valley (San Jose)

What's missing? How about:
Boston
Florida
St Louis
San Antonio
Seattle

And how about London? Lots of Owls there, and why not have the telly on as you ring in the new year?

Updated above. thanks for the reminder.

DFW's party is firmly in D and is nowhere near FW. I've been trying to get a friend to take on FW.

Houston facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/75460483...pe=regular

(12-20-2013 06:04 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  Check it out: there are watch parties all over the place. The master list is at:
https://online.alumni.rice.edu/default.a...entID=1851

The collector of information is LaCresha Lamb <llamb@rice.edu> in Alumni Affairs. Thank you, LaCresha!

Host cities as of 12/20:

Atlanta
Austin
Bay Area (really San Francisco)
Cincinnati
Chicago
Colorado (Boulder)
DC
DFW
Houston
Los Angeles
New Orleans
New York
Portland
Raleigh/Durham
San Diego
Silicon Valley (San Jose)

What's missing? How about:
Boston
Florida
St Louis
San Antonio
Seattle

And how about London? Lots of Owls there, and why not have the telly on as you ring in the new year?

Kansas City has been added:
https://online.alumni.rice.edu/default.a...entID=1851

As for Houston, that could well be the biggest watch party in Rice history.

By the way, Rice Public Affairs is officially asking Rice fans at the watch parties and other events to share their photos and (especially) videos from the events in progress.
Public Affairs has a team that will be collecting the inputs in real time and making them available as broadly as possible.

Here are the input instructions:

Quote:Watch party participants can upload video and pictures to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ with #RiceFight

The Public Affairs staff will then be able to find it and retweet it and/or add it to their Storify project:
http://storify.com/riceuniversity/ricefight

In addition, any tweets tagged with #RiceFight will show up on Rice's Liberty Bowl Central page here:
http://news.rice.edu/55th-autozone-liber...l-central/

I just tried this myself and it works!

(12-23-2013 05:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  By the way, Rice Public Affairs is officially asking Rice fans at the watch parties and other events to share their photos and (especially) videos from the events in progress.
Public Affairs has a team that will be collecting the inputs in real time and making them available as broadly as possible.

Here are the input instructions:

Quote:Watch party participants can upload video and pictures to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ with #RiceFight

The Public Affairs staff will then be able to find it and retweet it and/or add it to their Storify project:
http://storify.com/riceuniversity/ricefight

In addition, any tweets tagged with #RiceFight will show up on Rice's Liberty Bowl Central page here:
http://news.rice.edu/55th-autozone-liber...l-central/

I just tried this myself and it works!

How cool. And "making them (Rice watch party inputs) available as broadly as possible." That's good. Do we have a London watch party? I read a post asking that question. It isn't too late to send a few emails. Tokyo? Sydney? Singapore? Delhi? Istanbul? Paris? I know we've Rice alums in Paris-- and I mean Paris, France, George.

I assume the game will be about 3 hours long. If so, what are the maximum number of watch parties that one person could physically attend if he or she was interested in breaking the Rice record for number of bowl game watch parties attended during one game? Could a Houston-Austin-Dallas triple be possible? Seems too far, if I recall (barring a weather delay in the game, of course). I could do LA-San Diego, but that's only two. Hmm… No chance of a San Antonio party? Maybe Houston-Austin-San Antonio is the way to make three; unless Orange County Owl gets motivated in the OC, then there's a SoCal trinity for the taking...

Anybody watching in Phoenix-Scottsdale?

The Atlanta party was pretty well attended at the same location for the C-Usa Championship game. Will be driving to Memphis myself, but for anyone in Atlanta that can't, it's well worth going to watch at Taco mac with fellow Rice alums!

(12-23-2013 05:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  By the way, Rice Public Affairs is officially asking Rice fans at the watch parties and other events to share their photos and (especially) videos from the events in progress.
Public Affairs has a team that will be collecting the inputs in real time and making them available as broadly as possible.

Here are the input instructions:

Quote:Watch party participants can upload video and pictures to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ with #RiceFight

The Public Affairs staff will then be able to find it and retweet it and/or add it to their Storify project:
http://storify.com/riceuniversity/ricefight

In addition, any tweets tagged with #RiceFight will show up on Rice's Liberty Bowl Central page here:
http://news.rice.edu/55th-autozone-liber...l-central/

I just tried this myself and it works!

BUMP! Reminder to watch party hosts and attendees: please post (especially videos) frequently during the game using #RiceFight. Rice Public Affairs will be following it, and ESPN is on the alert as well. It would be really cool to have some watch party video make onto the TV broadcast!

Speaking of video, I humbly suggest that video of people around the country singing the attached little jingle just might catch ESPN's eye. While I realize I can be fairly accused of self-aggrandizement, my suggestion is based on some real consideration.
- First, video clips of fan groups singing a common song are shouting a common cheer are tailor-made for splicing together into a wrap-around highlight clip.
- Second, the fact that the suggested jingle is a well-known holiday tune rather than a Rice-specific melody will probably make it more appealing to ESPN. I suspect ESPN's thinking would be that the audience will recognize the tune and think "Gee, isn't that neat?", whereas the recognition of any Rice-specific tune is essentially non-existent.
-Third, "Deck the Halls" is quite frankly an easier tune than any of Rice's songs, and there are almost certainly more Rice fans who can successfully carry the tune and meter of "Deck the Halls" than who can carry the fight song or alma mater.

To maximize the chance of ESPN picking it up, each site should probably post their videos before the game if possible, and no later than midway through the first quarter.


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Quote:A New Year's jingle for the Rice Owls
To the tune of "Deck the halls"

Fast away the season passes,
Fa la la la la, la let's go Rice!

Hail the Owls, ye lads and lasses!
Fa la la la la, la let's go Rice!

Celebrate their season glorious,
Fa la la, la la la, let's go Rice!

Cheer them to their bowl victorious!
Fa la la la la, la LET'S GO RICE!

New Orleans watch party info in case anyone is "stuck" in New Orleans for New Year's:

Bruno's Tavern
7538 Maple Street
New Orleans, LA 70118

I'll be there around 2:30.