Mrs Wilson toppled from the top
After being either first or equal first for 5 of the last 7 meets, Gill has finally been toppled into 2nd place by Rob. When told the gap was 45 points her ominous comment was “Hmm, you’re still catchable”. Below I’ve published a photo (thanks Susan Fleming and Facebook) of the brand new Mrs Wilson on her wedding day – congrats from all of us. …and you’re not a cranky old school teacher.
Back in June Wayne surged ahead into third place, overtaking both Tara and Genelle. Sadly for him, that situation has reversed, both those ladies and Nicole have re-overtaken him back into 6th place. It might have had something to do with the fact that he was absent for an unprecedented third time this year due to Music Society rehearsal commitments. Note that there is a tie for 4th between Nicole and Genelle.
The scheduled main game Articulate! was not played due to being a teams event with an odd number of players present. In its place Gill chose Race To The Top which is a trivia-style game for up to 6 players, also a teams event but can be played solo. Rob as usual volunteered to go solo, but the consensus was to draw teams and let the draw decide who was the solo player. It turned out Genelle played alone and did well, coming 2nd all on her own. The winning team was Nicole/Rob with Gill/Mark coming third. The Tara/Louise team was unplaced, but Tara went on to win Pictureka!, leaving Louise in WHP territory. With no points since April, Louise could be heading for the Spoon, but there’s still time to improve on that state of affairs.
On August 14 we’ll be going to Oatley where Mark has picked a little known and little played El Prez game called Cosmic Control followed by Uno. As expected, Wayne has dropped off the board and rules for Cosmic Control. It is a dice rolling game along the lines of many others of this genre. Last time it was played (possibly the first time too) was 2013. Problems were encountered at that time and modifications have been made, so it is still sort of under development.
Gill’s wedding
