Previously on Adam Riff™:
There was an idea… To bring together a group of disparate people… To see if we could create something more…than a year-end list.
12 people select 10 things they loved from 2019 without any overlap, creating a "best of 2019" list unlike any other.
This year, selections will be posted in quasi real time.
THE LEAGUE
In randomly-generated snake draft order:
Molly
Scorbunny / Pixar / Cosmi's Deli's Chicken Cheesesteak (Philadelphia, PA)
Jon Y (me)
Grookey / Star Wars / Plan Check's Southern Fry (Los Angeles, CA)
Adam
Scorbunny / Star Wars / Hattie B's Hot Chicken Sandwich (Nashville, TN)
Jon B
Sobble / Star Wars / Highline's Buffalo style Crazy Train (Seattle, WA)
Aaron
Grookey / Marvel / Fuku's Knockout Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich
Stan
Scorbunny / Pixar / The Commodore's Hot Breast (Brooklyn, NY)
Russell
Scorbunny / Marvel / O'Charley's Carolina Gold BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Logan
Grookey / Disney / Any Buffalo chicken sandwich
Ben
Scorbunny / Marvel / The NoMad Bar's Chicken French Dip (Las Vegas, NV)
Drew
Sobble / National Geographic / American Sardine Bar's Fried Chicken Sandwich (Philadelphia, PA)
Jon T
Sobble / Marvel / P.G. Clucks' Classic Sandwich (Toronto, ON)
Jeff
Grookey / Pixar / Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Alright.
With the first pick in the 2019 Draft, Molly selected…
R1 • Molly
1. Hustlers
R1 • Jon Y
2. Parasite
R1 • Adam
3. Perpetual Grace LTD
R1 • Jon B
4. Watchmen
R1 • Aaron
5. Avengers: Endgame
R1 • Stan
6. Fleabag
R1 • Russell
7. Damian Lillard ethers Russell Westbrook and Paul George in the NBA Playoffs
R1 • Logan
8. Marriage Story
R1 • Ben
9. I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson's "The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me" and "Focus Group" Sketches
R1 • Drew
10. Succession
R1 • Jon T
11. Baby Yoda
R1 • Jeff
12. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
R2 • Jeff
13. The Highwomen
R2 • Jon T
14. The Irishman
R2 • Drew
15. Barry: "ronny/lily"
R2 • Ben
16. Chernobyl
R2 • Logan
17. Euphoria
R2 • Russell
18. Midsommar
R2 • Stan
19. Waves
R2 • Aaron
20. Lizzo
R2 • Jon B
21. Pen15: "Community Service"
R2 • Adam
22. What We Do in the Shadows
R2 • Jon Y
23. The Other Two
R2 • Molly
24. Megan Thee Stallion and "Hot Girl Summer"
R3 • Molly
25. The other hot priest: David Acosta (Mike Colter) on Evil
R3 • Jon Y
26. Ramy: "Strawberries"
R3 • Adam
27. Aimee-Leigh and Baby Billy – "Misbehavin' (1989)"
R3 • Jon B
28. Booksmart
R3 • Aaron
29. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
R3 • Stan
30. Russian Doll
Me smoking with my friends who said we’d never touch a drug in our lives pic.twitter.com/myi9LzhAQq
— Epoman 👾 (@EpomanClassics) October 18, 2019
R3 • Russell
31. Paul Rudd: "Hey, look at us"
R3 • Logan
32. Marvel vs. Scorsese
R3 • Ben
33. Lil Nas X
R3 • Drew
34. Lamar Jackson (specifically Lamar in outfielder shades)
R3 • Jon T
35. Knives Out
R3 • Jeff
36. Control
R4 • Jeff
37. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in Dolby Cinema
R4 • Jon T
38. Brienne getting knighted on Game of Thrones
R4 • Drew
39. Broad City's series finale
R4 • Ben
40. Megan Rapinoe and the United States women's national soccer team
This shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class. pic.twitter.com/yKo8WccnC9
— chris person (@Papapishu) May 20, 2019
R4 • Logan
41. This shot is brilliant and should be shown in any film class
R4 • Russell
42. South Side
R4 • Stan
43. James Holzhauer breaks Jeopardy!
R4 • Aaron
44. Maggie Rogers
R4 • Jon B
45. Us
R4 • Adam
46. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Game devs: "But do people *want* to play evil characters?"
Untitled Goose Game: pic.twitter.com/7zIMBVrpLr
— Morgan Lockhart (@missdoomcookie) September 23, 2019
R4 • Jon Y
47. Untitled Goose Game
R4 • Molly
48. Dolly Parton's America
R5 • Molly
49. "It's ……….Rebekah Vardy's account"
R5 • Jon Y
50. Transit
R5 • Adam
51. The piano man scene in Under the Silver Lake
R5 • Jon B
52. Tuca and Bertie
R5 • Aaron
53. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
R5 • Stan
54. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
R5 • Russell
55. Tyler, the Creator – IGOR
R5 • Logan
56. "This Life" by Vampire Weekend
R5 • Ben
57. Deadspin
R5 • Drew
58. The tribute to The Sting in Spider-Man: Far from Home
R5 • Jon T
59. Woman Yelling at a Cat
R5 • Jeff
60. Veep's series finale
R6 • Jeff
61. AEW Dynamite
MAGIC GOT ME DYING. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/S4zOBPa8e2
— House of Highlights (@HoHighlights) April 10, 2019
R6 • Jon T
62. Magic Johnson's resignation press conference
R6 • Drew
63. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
R6 • Ben
64. Tom Brady's sixth Super Bowl ring
R6 • Logan
65. Long Shot
R6 • Russell
66. Homelander, Queen Maeve, and the passengers of flight 37 from The Boys
R6 • Stan
67. The Farewell
R6 • Aaron
68. Schitt's Creek
R6 • Jon B
69. Hail Satan?
R6 • Adam
70. The Tampa Bay Lightning tying the record for wins in a season and getting swept by the 8th seed Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
R6 • Jon Y
71. Trader Joe's Plantain Crisps
R6 • Molly
72. "Unlike Agholor"
R7 • Molly
73. The Bob Newhart episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
R7 • Jon Y
74. YBN Cordae
R7 • Adam
75. Tesla Cybertruck
R7 • Jon B
76. Ready or Not
R7 • Aaron
77. Céline Dion, fashion icon
R7 • Stan
78. Emile Mosseri's score for The Last Black Man in San Francisco
R7 • Russell
79. Tekashi 6ix9ine's snitch-a-thon
R7 • Logan
80. Kombucha Girl
R7 • Ben
81. "Con Altura (feat. El Guincho)" by ROSALÍA and J Balvin
R7 • Drew
82. Sophie Turner sending it on the jumbotron and Juuling on the set of Game of Thrones
R7 • Jon T
83. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Janitor Always Mops Twice"
R7 • Jeff
84. Jenny Lewis at the Ryman Auditorium
R8 • Jeff
85. Mindhunter
R8 • Jon T
86. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
R8 • Drew
87. The moon rover sequence in Ad Astra
R8 • Ben
88. My decade-long obsession with Jeffrey Epstein becoming worthwhile
R8 • Logan
89. "White Claw Summer"
R8 • Russell
90. When "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica drops in Triple Frontier