Meeting 21 August 2023

Snakessssssss – all tied up

Six of us convened at Como for Matt‘s first outing as games host – El Presidente himself was absent due to a bout of gout, his thumb badly swollen and causing a great deal of pain at the slightest touch. Steve was also missing, called out to attend to a power outage just before the meeting. He sent his apologies and remarked that at least he was getting well paid.

The main game Snakesss went well – Matt picked it because it sounded interesting. The game scoring was in small numbers – in each round players scored either 0, 1, 2 or 3. Despite playing about 14 rounds this resulted in multiple duplicated scores, and for possibly the first time in SBGA history there were ties for all placings – Matt and Louise tied for 1st, Tara and Nicole tied for 2nd and Genelle and Rob tied for 3rd. Two quiz-offs were used to decide the final placings; Matt, Louise and Nicole in that order. There followed the usual mayhem in Ride ’em Cowboy which had a much more varied scoreline. Poor Genelle was caught using two hands on her first ride, and was thrown off on all her other turns. There were a large number of “buck offs” – at one point we counted eight in a row. Nicole started off in fine style with a 260 point ride followed immediately by Louise with 245, but then the rot set in. At one point Tara was bucked off on the first square out of the starting gate! Rob won despite completing only one ride, but it was the best of the night worth 450 points – he was thrown from his mount on two of his other rides, and ran out of time on one (damn that Reverse square). Nicole was beaten into 2nd place by only 10 points with Matt 25 points behind in 3rd place. Sadly, Tara and Genelle both WHP.

The big scoreboard shows Louise well in front 135 points clear of a buch of three – Tara, Rob & Matt, then a 125 point gap to the rest of the field.