Circle of Death may refer to:
Circle of Death (also Kings, king's cup, donut, jug, oval of fire, or ring of fire) is a drinking game that uses playing cards. The player must drink and dispense drinks based on cards drawn. Each card has a rule that is predetermined before the game starts. Many houses have their own variation of rules.
In this game, players perform actions associated with each card. Sometimes, rules on the cards "reveal interesting things about the participants."
Usually, cards are shuffled and dealt into a circle around either an empty cup or a full can of beer (or a shot/cup of spirits or wine). Each player takes turn drawing cards, and the players must participate in the instructions corresponding to the drawn card.
This game is highly open ended and all of the cards can signify any mini-game, the rules and the card assignments are normally confirmed at the start of the game. Depending on house rules, the game either ends when the last rule card has been pulled, or when the king's cup has been consumed; or when the cards are placed on top of the king's cup the game is over when the cards fall off, the one that knocked them off must consume the king's cup. Alternatively, the game may be played using a beer can with cards placed between the top of the can and the opening tab. The game ends when the beer can opens from the leverage of the cards.
A circle of death tie is a tie that occurs in round robin competitions when the records of three competitors are identical, and furthermore the head-to-head record of all three is 1-1 (i.e. one win and one loss).
For example, consider a four-person round robin with teams A, B, C, and D. If A beats B, B beats C, C beats A, and A, B, and C beat D, then all three of A, B and C have a 2-1 record (two wins and one loss) overall, and a 1-1 record against each other. These teams have equivalent win-loss records, and some other form of tiebreak (such as the total number of points scored) must be applied to break the tie.
The circle of death tie can be exciting yet infuriating, since all three competitors involved are usually very close in skill, yet only one can win the tiebreak.
The name "circle of death" comes from the fact that when the head-to-head records are compared, we find that A has beaten B, B has beaten C, and C has beaten A, and so we are back where we started.
Once placed upon a group of repeats
Those individuals make my time so unworthy and impressed
How silent you are than the lights
Discovering what could only hide for so long
After and a week you know that we'll be gone
We run this game and we need to escape
I'm over that way of communicating
Over and around
Everyone is anyone
I could say I can wait but what would that mean?
Where would I be?
Are you still listening to me?
Oh, tethered heart of the words you've grown to starve
The world is overrated where you are
Very simple, unimpressed
And we're growing up so fast
Now the lights
Discovering what could only hide for so long
After and a week you know that we'll be gone
We run this game and we need to escape
I'm over that way of communicating
Over and around
Everyone is anyone
I could say I can wait but what would that mean?
Where would I be?