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Mar. 13th, 2006 12:38 amGaming Session Report
12 MAR 06
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The Q
I bought a Crokinole board (the Pro-XL from Miracle Ventures) a couple of weeks ago, because I knew I would enjoy it even though I'd never played it. And, as it turns out, I do enjoy it very much. It's a lot of fun. You have to flick these little discs to score points and knock your opponents' pieces off the board. It's a lot of fun. We're still working on our styles; The Q uses a pressure-method where she pushes down on the top edge of the disc to shoot, whereas I use more of a flicking motion.
The first three games we played to 50 (the individual round scores being the difference between our two scores, so if she scores 20 and I score 15, she gets a game score of 5). We also played by rules that weren't exactly right.
GAME ONE: Susan put up 15 points on me in the first game, but I put up a whopping 105 in the second round (on the strength of three 20's) to win 15-105.
GAME TWO: I scored 80 in the first round, so I won 0-80. Not the best game for The Q (thank you Captain Obvious).
GAME THREE: I put up 20 in a mostly tight first round, but then put up 95 in the second round to rout her 0-115.
After this, I went home and read some more on the rules. We decided to play with tournament scoring, where scoring the most points in a round nets you two points (or one-one for a tie), with the winner being the first to eight. It's a nice system because it makes blowout rounds less hurtful.
GAME FOUR: I won the first round, and we tied the second. After my win in the third round, Susan came back to win the fourth, bringing the score to 3-5. I won the next two rounds to win 3-9.
GAME FIVE: Susan won early and we had lots of ties. In the middle rounds, she was up 7-5, but I managed to win the last two to eke out a 7-9 win.
So I won all five games today. But that doesn't matter, because Susan has a great time playing the game and so did I. The more Susan plays, the better she gets, and she's making really great shots with increasing regularity. She had one shot where she knocked two of my pieces out of the 15 circle (one to the ditch and one to the five circle) AND pocketed her shooter in the 20 hole. I won't stay undefeated for long.
12 MAR 06
w/
The QI bought a Crokinole board (the Pro-XL from Miracle Ventures) a couple of weeks ago, because I knew I would enjoy it even though I'd never played it. And, as it turns out, I do enjoy it very much. It's a lot of fun. You have to flick these little discs to score points and knock your opponents' pieces off the board. It's a lot of fun. We're still working on our styles; The Q uses a pressure-method where she pushes down on the top edge of the disc to shoot, whereas I use more of a flicking motion.
The first three games we played to 50 (the individual round scores being the difference between our two scores, so if she scores 20 and I score 15, she gets a game score of 5). We also played by rules that weren't exactly right.
GAME ONE: Susan put up 15 points on me in the first game, but I put up a whopping 105 in the second round (on the strength of three 20's) to win 15-105.
GAME TWO: I scored 80 in the first round, so I won 0-80. Not the best game for The Q (thank you Captain Obvious).
GAME THREE: I put up 20 in a mostly tight first round, but then put up 95 in the second round to rout her 0-115.
After this, I went home and read some more on the rules. We decided to play with tournament scoring, where scoring the most points in a round nets you two points (or one-one for a tie), with the winner being the first to eight. It's a nice system because it makes blowout rounds less hurtful.
GAME FOUR: I won the first round, and we tied the second. After my win in the third round, Susan came back to win the fourth, bringing the score to 3-5. I won the next two rounds to win 3-9.
GAME FIVE: Susan won early and we had lots of ties. In the middle rounds, she was up 7-5, but I managed to win the last two to eke out a 7-9 win.
So I won all five games today. But that doesn't matter, because Susan has a great time playing the game and so did I. The more Susan plays, the better she gets, and she's making really great shots with increasing regularity. She had one shot where she knocked two of my pieces out of the 15 circle (one to the ditch and one to the five circle) AND pocketed her shooter in the 20 hole. I won't stay undefeated for long.
