The APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project

Dice shakers… most of us who play the tabletop version of APBA use them.  However, I’m wondering how many of us use the APBA-issued yellow dice shakers that come with the game.  Do any of you roll with different shakers or cups or perhaps modify the APBA shakers somehow?  Perhaps you use a custom-built stationary roller.  Or maybe you even have one of the original cardboard APBA dice cups made years ago.

I know in the Illowa APBA League, some of us use standard issue shakers, some have made their own (I received a couple from my industrious friend Brando that are quite nice) and others have used modified other cups to use as shakers.  I once even printed out a photo of my team’s franchise player, Albert Pujols, and glued it on to a dice cup just to instill fear into my opponents (it didn’t work).

The APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project is born

So to explore this further, I’d thought I’d try something different.  A multimedia project that involves you, the fans of APBA.  I’m calling it the APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project.  It simply involves you, the APBA fan, sending me a creative photo of your favorite dice shaker.  Once I get enough, I’ll put them all together in a graphical collage or gallery and post them for everyone to see.

The Process

1.  How will you send me your photo of your dice cup or shaker?

There are a couple ways you can do this.  If you are already a fan of The APBA Blog on Facebook, you can upload it to the fan page.  If you’re not on Facebook, that’s ok.  I’ve set up a form page that will allow you to upload a photo (note the form page accepts jpgs and gif files that are 2mb or less).

2.  If there’s a story behind your cup/shaker, let us know about it.  On Facebook, just leave your tidbit with status field the photo.  I’m also including a text field in the web contact form so feel free to let us know what story is behind it.

3.  Most importantly, feel free to be creative and humorous with your photos and/or stories.  Maybe take an action shot while rolling.  Or perhaps posing next to your favorite player’s card.  Also, I don’t mean to exclude the BBW guys so heck, if your computer keyboard/mouse is APBA-themed, include it!  Have fun with it.

Once a few weeks have gone by, I’ll most likely assemble the photos and stories  into a slideshow so we all can see it.  I will most likely put them all on the Facebook photo album as well as a SmugMug gallery.

This certainly isn’t a competition or contest. The idea behind this is just to have a little fun.  I honestly don’t know where this is going but I think I’m going to enjoy the ride.

I’m looking forward to seeing your photos!