## Source discovery: music venues, outdoors & sports, festivals & seasonal

Verticals searched (per rotation, avoiding the last 4 days' nightlife,
food, sports, bookstores, comedy, theater, breweries, cycling,
drag/nightlife, arts, beer, ICS feeds, trivia, Eventbrite organizers,
community centers, night market coverage): live music venues (general,
Ballard, Capitol Hill), outdoor summer events, running/5K races,
cycling group rides, festivals & holiday markets, farmers markets,
roller derby, rugby, disc golf, dance venues, outdoor movies, running
clubs, and a handful of one-off niche checks (zoo/aquarium concerts,
ice rink, REI events).

This city's candidate list is extremely well-trodden (383 existing
files) — nearly every music venue, farmers market, running club, and
festival surfaced by these searches was already `added`, `candidate`,
`blocked`, or `notviable` in prior cycles (Tractor Tavern, Sunset
Tavern, Vera Project, Substation, Sea Monster Lounge, Egan's Ballard
Jam House, Century Ballroom, Reverie Ballroom, Rat City Roller Derby,
Washington Hall, Columbia City Theater, Jazz Alley, Victory Hall,
Seattle Frontrunners/Running Club recurring runs, all neighborhood
farmers markets, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Georgetown
Carnival/GBA, Seattle Parks & Rec Trumba feed, PAX West, Cider Summit
Seattle, Seafair — confirmed still accurate, no changes needed).

- ❌ Not Viable: **Cyclists of Greater Seattle (COGS)** — Wild Apricot
  (RSS feed exists) — `https://cyclistsofgreaterseattle.wildapricot.org/events`
  — sampled upcoming rides are almost entirely Eastside/regional
  (Kirkland, Snoqualmie, Portland), not Seattle-focused
- ❌ Not Viable: **Tilted Thunder Roller Derby** — Squarespace —
  `https://www.tiltedthunder.org/events` — `?format=json` on `/events`
  is an empty static page (not a real events collection); confirmed
  bout venue (Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe WA) is ~30 miles
  outside Seattle
- ❌ Not Viable: **Joyeux Bazaar** (Alliance Française de Seattle
  Holiday Market, formerly "European Holiday Market") —
  `https://www.afseattle.org/cultural-center/joyeuxbazaar2025/` —
  single annual event with no stable date pattern or venue year to
  year (2024: Dec 14 @ Good Shepherd Center; 2025: Dec 6 @ Washington
  Hall) and no ICS/API feed
- ❌ Not Viable: **Seattle Erotic Art Festival (SEAF)** — WordPress
  (static) — `https://www.seaf.art/schedule2026/` — single annual
  multi-day festival (May 1–3, 2026), hand-formatted static schedule
  text, no structured feed
- ❌ Not Viable: **Kraken Community Iceplex** (Northgate public
  skate/drop-in calendar) — third-party "DASH" rink-booking widget
  requiring account login to view session details; recurring drop-in
  slot times shift weekly, poor fit for either ripper or recurring-YAML
  models
- ❌ Not Viable: **REI Seattle Flagship Store — Classes & Events** —
  platform unconfirmed (fetch inconclusive); `us-wa-seattle` filter
  spans multiple Puget Sound REI stores, not flagship-scoped, and most
  listed activities are paid registration classes rather than free
  public events
- 🔄 Status fix (no change, re-confirmed): Reverie Ballroom
  (`docs/source-candidates/reverie-ballroom.md`) re-checked —
  `/events?format=json` still `itemCount: 0`; remains `status:
  candidate`, re-evaluate once the venue's public (non-rental)
  programming goes live

No new 💡 candidates cleared the quality gate this cycle — every
venue/org surfaced by these searches was either already tracked or
failed on Seattle-focus, structured-data, or single-annual-event
grounds. Per the skill's directive not to force low-quality matches,
none were added as `candidate`.
