{"id":96,"date":"2017-04-10T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-02-09T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:12:00","slug":"meeting-10-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-10-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 10 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Gill absent and still not overtaken, BUT&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Gill<\/strong>, you know, that person on the top score, couldn&#8217;t make it for the second consecutive meet, however there are now THREE players tied on the top score of 175 &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Gill<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Genelle<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Rob<\/strong>! Only 5 points behind on 170 is\u00a0<strong>Tara<\/strong>. Take a look at the line graph on the home page &#8211; it makes interesting reading; you can see Gill&#8217;s 125 points in February rocketed her to the top where she has since flatlined.\u00a0<strong>Nicole<\/strong>&#8216;s 125 in January rocketed her to the top, but that lead only lasted till February. Half the membership is now jammed together at the top of the ladder!\u00a0<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Shire Buyer<\/em>\u00a0win has lifted him out of the Wooden Spoon rank &#8211; that honour now falls to\u00a0<strong>Mark<\/strong>\u00a0who has been flatlining since February.\u00a0<strong>Louise<\/strong>\u00a0narrowly avoided slipping into last place by coming 2nd in\u00a0<em>Smart Ass<\/em>, thus overtakling Mark.<\/p>\n<p>The main game, Wayne&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Shire Buyer<\/em>\u00a0had it&#8217;s 2nd outing since it was new in 2012 &#8211; it was Genelle&#8217;s first SBGA game experience back then. Being relatively &#8220;new&#8221; meant that certain anomalies were revealed during game play. Wayne put a lot of effort into avoiding the Monopoly syndrome in which players who go broke must sit out the remainder of the game till there&#8217;s only one player left. Unfortunately it fell to poor Nicole to reveal that Monopoly syndrome has not been completely avoided &#8211; she went bankrupt with little chance of regaining any position at all. With nearly all properties owned, even a million dollar bank loan allows the broke player to travel the board, but with only a microscopic chance of expanding her property portfolio. One possible rule change might be to call Game Over if a player goes bankrupt twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gill absent and still not overtaken, BUT&#8230; Gill, you know, that person on the top score, couldn&#8217;t make it for the second consecutive meet, however there are now THREE players tied on the top score of 175 &#8211;\u00a0Gill,\u00a0Genelle\u00a0and\u00a0Rob! Only 5 points behind on 170 is\u00a0Tara. Take a look at the line graph on the home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/meeting-10-april-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting 10 April 2017&#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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}