{"id":163,"date":"2018-03-27T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/?p=163"},"modified":"2018-03-27T01:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:02:13","slug":"meeting-26-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-26-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 26 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jordan Thomas Returns with a Splash<\/h3>\n<p>It was a beautiful cloudless autumn night as we filed into the residents&#8217; common room at <strong>Wayne<\/strong>&#8216;s place. His son<strong> Jordan<\/strong> had eventually sorted out his domestic infestation issues and finally met everyone (except <strong>Gill<\/strong> who couldn&#8217;t make it).\u00a0 The splash came about halfway through the main game as Wayne knocked over an almost full glass of juice &#8211; most of it landing on Jordan &#8211; miraculously missing his phone and wallet that were on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The main event was <em>Gallop <\/em>&#8211; an old favourite with the huge racetrack board, the silk-clad jockeys on their legendary mounts, and\u00a0<strong>Mark<\/strong> in the Tote banker&#8217;s cap. <strong>Tara<\/strong> won it by a huge margin, finishing with almost eight times as much cash as the nearest rival <strong>Jordan<\/strong>, who was closely followed by <strong>Rob<\/strong> in 3rd place. Not content with blasting everyone off the track, Tara then won the backup\u00a0<em>Scattergories<\/em> convincingly with <strong>Genelle<\/strong> in 2nd place. There was a draw for 3rd, so <strong>Jordan <\/strong>and <strong>Rob<\/strong> had the first ever &#8220;alpha-off&#8221; tie breaker &#8211; a roll of the Scattergories alphabet ball to see who got closest to A.\u00a0 Rob won the 10 point 3rd place. Only four of us scored points, leaving both <strong>Louise<\/strong> and <strong>Mark on<\/strong> <em>WHP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the progressive score graph, and it&#8217;s obvious who is the big improver &#8211; <strong>Tara<\/strong>, overtaking three other gamers and now within a backup game win of reaching the top.\u00a0 <strong>Wayne<\/strong> is still to rise up from the murk at the bottom, then there are four people around 50-60 with three of them tied on 50 points, then a 90 point gap to the top three.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ladder1a2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Thomas Returns with a Splash It was a beautiful cloudless autumn night as we filed into the residents&#8217; common room at Wayne&#8216;s place. His son Jordan had eventually sorted out his domestic infestation issues and finally met everyone (except Gill who couldn&#8217;t make it).\u00a0 The splash came about halfway through the main game as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-26-march-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting 26 March 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}