Musical Chairs World Championship Is a Real-Life Game of Thrones

Fred Smith, the founder and commissioner of the World Musical Chairs Federation, has set an ambitious goal for himself, and his sport. Smith, a short, balding and -- he says -- “beautiful,” man, recently left a career as a corrections officer to make the childhood game of musical chairs a worldwide sport. “This is what I plan to do with the rest of my life,” he said in all seriousness. As if that weren’t ambitious enough, he hoped to draw 8,000 people to the World Musical Chairs Championship. Why? Well, why not?