Thursday, August 16, 2012

August 9, 2012 Session Report

A bit late with this session report, but here goes ...

We had nine for the Aug. 9th session. Attendees were:  Jack, Doug, Mike, Hsien (new to the club, pronounced "Shane"), Ben, Jay, Rembert, John B and myself.  Games played:  Decathlon, Ticket to Ride - Asia (teams), Power Grid;  France and Qwirkle.

In honor of the Olympics and the 100th anniversary of the first Olympic decathlon (the final day of the decathlon in the real-life 2012 Olympics was that same day) I dusted off my AH Decathlon game and brought charts for all 20 prior Olympic gold medalists, from Jim Thorpe in 1912 to Brian Clay in 2008.  I invited each attendee to pick one but, we only got through one day's worth of competition.  The winner by just one point was Doug, with Erki Nool, who had a score of 4544 points, one more than Jack, who as Jim Thorpe had 4543.  Jim Thorpe was slowed by an injury in the second event, the long jump, or otherwise it would have been a runaway victory (sorry for the pun) for the first Olympic decathlon Champ.  Results for the rest of the field:  Ben (Nicolai Avilov), in bronze medal position at 4532 points, just 12 back of the winner; Hsien (Bruce Jenner), 4368; Mike (Bob Mathias), 4360: me (Bill Toomey), 4310; Jay (Paavo Yrjola), 4301; John B (Helge Lovland), 4287.

At this point Rembert had arrived, so we broke into two groups for the rest of the session.  One group played Power Grid-France, a five-player game.  Final scores were reported as Jay 15, Mike 12, with Ben, Rembert and John B all with 11 cities and finishing in that order on the money tiebreaker.

The rest of us got in two more games.  Jack and Doug teamed up against Hsien and I for a the team version of Ticket to Ride-Asia, which was a very close game that went to the Jack-Doug duo, 214 to 186.  Jack and Doug had the longest route, and both teams made 14 of 15 tickets.  We then played Qwirkle, a big win for Jack in that one:  Jack 116 Doug 108 John W 93 Hsien 69.

Thanks to everyone for coming, see you this week (later today as I write this)!

1 comment:

Hsien said...

Thanks for not mentioning that the Ticket to Ride would have been much, much closer had I not misread the map and missed a route we could have easily completed :)