Home Theater in the Olympics, what would the games be?

Obviously, there has to be a dB sound challenge as to who can raise the SPL level the most, with the least amount of watts used.

Cool idea, David! I'll trow out the first hammer:

Sub Bass Clean and Press

Score points for: lowest frequencies with least amount of distortion; volume at lowest frequencies; articulation and richness.

Other speaker categories might have to be judged more like figure skating because they can be fairly judged only in qualitative terms.

Find the Harmony One Remote in a couch then its a family relay handing the remote off like a baton jumping over coffee tables to the finish.

who can cause their house to collapse first by blasting subwoofers while watching movies

Sub ball bearing vertical challenge.

Small 1lb ball bearing placed in the center of sub resting free air on the ground. Feed the sub a 240V wall socket for a burst of power.
Highest achieved vertical wins.

Must be all commercially available or mass produced subs available to the public. Performance enhancing coils and/or other aftermarket components would bring shame to the host country...

Wonder if most competitors would in fact be from China?

Advanced Denon Receiver setup. Best time to set up a 7.1 surround system, including renaming and level matching inputs. Would probably work across most if not all brands but I have experience with Denon.

I'd definitely try out for the long distance marathon! Wonder how many days can I park my rear in my HT recliner with minimal breaks? I've done extended LOTR trilogy, but that's nothing. Think I could get through entire collection of Lost, BSG, or X-Files. Avoiding nodding off is the challenge.

Speed install/set up. Competitors walk into a room with a bunch of equipment and have to install it. The first person to have a HT up and running wins.

Subwoofer shotput.

Closest landing to the sweet spot- sub tossed while sitting at the MLP.

Let's see those guys schlep around a 150lb sealed sub

Just few that come to mind....

1. Green Glue Squirt. Who can suck up Green Glue from a bucket using the approved applicator and squirt the most by volume, weight and distance within an allotted time? An accuracy component for scoring is being considered for 2016.
2. Framing Fix. Who can frame a wall, have it "judged" (inspected) to be inadequate, tear it down and rebuild it the fastest?This event is, of course, open to interpretation by the "judges," particularly the Russian and French Judges.
C. Don't Shoot Yourself In the Foot Competition. Who can run in the most 16d nails with a framing nailer without shooting themselves in the foot. Nails to the head score extra points and nails through the roof of your mouth earn triple points. Nails in the hand are minus points (too easy to try to run up a score).
4. Is it live? Touch the black wire and find out! Loads of laughs (Oops, I mean EXCITEMENT) seeing who jumps the highest!
5. Post It Marathon. Who can post the most repeated questions without searching the forums first? This event is being considered for replacement in 2016 by the Head Slapping contest.

Fishing cables down a wall challenge.

How about brightness in cost range. How about most depth in a 3d vgideo. Best lag input for video games. All spilt by cost cause we all know a 70000 dollard projector would beat the stuff I can afford. Best home made screen

Bad Blu Ray Discus

Most kinds of beer in the fridge..

Most construction completed before wife realizes what you are doing.

How about a heptathlon: Black levels, lumens, 3d ghosting, contrast ratio, picture size, response time, refresh rate

How about a speaker tossing contest?
So for example people from Sweden would have to toss a Genelec and someone from Britain would have to toss a B&W.... Some American dude tossing a Polk...

Be awesome!

There would be no contest for this. Danley would win. They would also win in the category of making the heaviest cabinets in the world relative for their size.

Best multichannel soundtrack created in X amount of time with a X concept in mind. Categories would include Best Dolby Surround mix, Best 2.1 mix, Best 4.0 (Quad) mix, best 5.1 mix, Best 6.1 mix, Best 7.1 mix. Oh yeah and the sample rate would have to be 48khz with a bit depth of 16 Audiophiles would cringe. The final would be burned onto a Blu-ray disc in DTS-HD High Resolution (not master audio) with the lowest bit rate set (2046kbps). Oh this would be a nerds joy AND it would probably shock allot of people, er I mean audiophiles who need everything lossless (nothing against lossless but Im all for a lossy track that sounds great than a PCM track that sounds crap, IE: We Were Soldiers DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 vs Delta Farce or Dirty Dancing's original 7.1 PCM track :O)

Fastest Home Theater Setup graded on quality. You'd have 30 minutes to set the systems up, calibrate, etc. It would be tested using Tron Legacy, Super 8 and other epic 7.1 master pieces.
Edited by nateo200 - 7/23/12 at 9:08pm

Scheimpflug challenge

Find a good movie within 5 hours.

CRT Put (shot put): See who can "put" their beast of a CRT projector the farthest from a standing position.

Just re-read the title.

HT Building in the Olympics...

Ummm, how about this.

Choose a very high end speaker design (think something like Focal Grand Utopia or anything else ridiculous from here).

5 Man teams.
Set timeline (i.e. - 3 Days or other depending on complexitity) to complete as much of the build as they can.

Teams judged on:

Build Accuracy (as close to the original copy as possible)
Audio Accuracy (as close to the original copy as possible) (i.e. - use the OEM as left speaker and built speaker as right in a 2 channel setup and have judges assess)
Build Cost (lowest cost wins)

Obviously this wouldn't be a non-stop action packed thriller 100% of the time, but as with all of the other build shows out there, the highlights could be edited into making a pretty entertaining segment...

DVD skeet shooting...

Blu-ray disc ring toss. Dont worry we'll round up all the non-TrueHD Superman, non-remastered 5th Element Blu-ray discs so it won't hurt as much

To build the most unsafe chair and sit in it. Just to get the feel of the risers that haven't been built yet!