the PAX arrived at Timberwolf bright and early for a day of fun and punishment. The game today was Ultimate Golf, aka All Sports Driving Range With Consequences, aka A REAL Numbers Game. Due to the frankly absurdly complicated rules, YHC will spare you from a description of the horribly convoluted and half baked game. The important details are as follows:
- It turns out Fandango is some strange gecko-human abomination and he can’t drop a ball
- Flyboy is not as good as he claims at golf
- Nerf footballs are harder to catch than I remember
- probably should have brought a scoreboard
we started the day out with SSH, Don Quijotes (dialed in the cadence as we went), dead man hang, and the merkin. After that YHC couldn’t think of anything else to do so we moved right along.
After taking 23 minutes to explain the game and get teams, we got to it. Not much interesting to report until around round 3 when YHC realized that the burpee count was getting too high and we backed that off a bit. Then Fan-Gecko managed to snag two racquetballs IN A ROW (may not sound hard but those things are tough to catch when they are covered with dew) and team 1 ended up with a lot of consequences. Following round team 1 gave it back, catching 3 balls and letting 2 go out of bounds. Later on Team 2 didn’t seem to understand how out of bounds worked (understandable… the game was impossible to understand) so everyone’s favorite mvp, Rudy helped team 1 by stopping their ball before it rolled out and earning his team 4 extra merkins.
Original plan was to give Boys of summer points to most catches and most points. It was quickly clear that keeping track of those stats was entirely impractical and points ended up going to the Flyboy choice award for best catch(es) which went to Fan-Gecko and best drive which went to The Duke with Bru coming in an unofficial runner up spot.
thanks to those who came out to my VQ and humored me with this unique and admittedly overengineered game.
Announcements for July 4 convergence, and rucking event in September. Prayers for Mr. Brady and his family and Fandango and his son who is having surgery this coming week. Also shout out to the green mile boys who kept it alive long enough for us to get to the new AO and see so many FNGs yesterday!
Flyboy, signing off.
