This will be the last time this journal refers to our newest member as Matt the Rookie, as he has well and truly proved his talent for board games by winning the championship in his first year as a member. We think he is only the 3rd player in 40 years to do this – the others are Nicole <\/strong>and Rob<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a balmy night at Como as we gathered to play Smart Ass<\/em> and Greed<\/em>. The main game was won by Rob<\/strong> after a late run – Tara<\/strong> and others were already 2\/3 of the way to the finish before he got past the dreaded “Kick Ass” near the start, then got Kick Ass another couple of times near the finish as the leader bunch were getting ready to cross the finish line – in fact the final Kick Ass square was heavily patronised. Tara <\/strong>came 2nd with Matt <\/strong>(still a rookie at the time) in 3rd spot. As it turned out, the 25 points for that 3rd spot was enough to get him the premiership, because he was running 2nd to Louise <\/strong>by only 5 points, and both Louise<\/strong> and Steve<\/strong> WHP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greed<\/em> was well received as usual with only Rob<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong> opening their score accounts on the first round (500 points are needed to start scoring). The second round was marked by Wayne opening his account by throwing $GREED<\/em><\/strong>. Thereafter the lead was swapped between Wayne <\/strong>and Genelle <\/strong>with Genelle winning out in the end, and it was Nicole <\/strong>who got the 3rd placing. Poor Louise <\/strong>kept on going bust until finally opening her scoring on the penultimate round! Tara<\/strong> fared badly too with no score till halfway through the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the gaming there was much discussion about SBGA shirts and embroidery, and also about trophy policy given the rising price of such items. Nicole has designed a new club logo, only final colours to be decided for embroidery which depends on shirt colour. The concensus was that we should in future only award a first place trophy, and certificates for the runners up – certificates to be produced “in house”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, congratulations to the competition placegetters Matt, Louise<\/strong> and Tara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matt the Rookie wins! This will be the last time this journal refers to our newest member as Matt the Rookie, as he has well and truly proved his talent for board games by winning the championship in his first year as a member. We think he is only the 3rd player in 40 years … Continue reading “Meeting 20 November 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-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}