It was a cold, damp night at Illawong, but the aircon kept us comfy as we played Word Power<\/em>. Louise’<\/strong>s plan was to hold back in the lower educational institutions with easier questions to more quickly amass points to graduate to University, then make a rush for the finish, but she was strongly advised against this by El Trez <\/strong>sitting next to her – just go for the finish he said. She wisely took that advice and beat him into second place as a result! There was a crowd scene at the board finish line as Rob<\/strong>, Mark<\/strong>, Genelle<\/strong> and Wayne<\/strong> jostled for second and third places – the Zarubin sisters Tara<\/strong> and Nicole<\/strong> were languishing in High School while this was going on. Rob <\/strong>eventually scraped into 2nd and Genelle <\/strong>made it into an uncatchable end position as we called off the final questions and awarded her third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The time had flown by as we started the backup game late, so it didn’t really get a good airing. This was a shame because it is a brand new game – a Uno<\/em> variant called Uno Flip<\/em>. So that we can get a better go at it, it will be on the program again in July. The single round we had was won by Louise<\/strong>, thus giving her a double whammy of points which overtakes Rob to put her at the top, but only by 15 points. Take a look at the score graph on the front page – there’s the two fighting it out at the top, then a 110 point gap to Tara at 3rd, then a 50 point gap to the middle bunch in a 30-point grouping, then we come to Mark<\/strong> – a sorry story, his already low graph line goes downhill this month due to a dress code violation; he forgot his SBGA shirt! This hasn’t happened for quite some time, excluding extenuating circumstances such as pregnancy for example. Due to both Louise<\/strong> and Genelle<\/strong> getting double doses of points, there were four WHP victims this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Leader – Louise takes Trez’s advice and wins. It was a cold, damp night at Illawong, but the aircon kept us comfy as we played Word Power. Louise’s plan was to hold back in the lower educational institutions with easier questions to more quickly amass points to graduate to University, then make a rush … Continue reading “Meeting 24 June 2019”<\/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-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}