Six of us convened at Como for Matt<\/strong>‘s first outing as games host – El Presidente<\/strong> 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<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main game Snakesss<\/em> went well – Matt<\/strong> 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<\/strong> and Louise<\/strong> tied for 1st, Tara<\/strong> and Nicole<\/strong> tied for 2nd and Genelle<\/strong> and Rob<\/strong> tied for 3rd. Two quiz-offs were used to decide the final placings; Matt<\/strong>, Louise<\/strong> and Nicole<\/strong> in that order. There followed the usual mayhem in Ride ’em Cowboy<\/em> which had a much more varied scoreline. Poor Genelle<\/strong> 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<\/strong> started off in fine style with a 260 point ride followed immediately by Louise<\/strong> with 245, but then the rot set in. At one point Tara<\/strong> was bucked off on the first square out of the starting gate! Rob<\/strong> 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 <\/strong>was beaten into 2nd place by only 10 points with Matt<\/strong> 25 points behind in 3rd place. Sadly, Tara<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong> both WHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The big scoreboard shows Louise <\/strong>well in front 135 points clear of a buch of three – Tara<\/strong>, Rob <\/strong>& Matt<\/strong>, then a 125 point gap to the rest of the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading “Meeting 21 August 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}