A new era of competition is upon us, with the Dawning of the Age of Lepus (just google it, it will make sense...) on Friday Night when Andy claimed his place as the First Holder of The Bunny Trophy!!
Tim came to town (and then so did Joel!), and we three competed first in a game of
Inner Circles, which Tim won to move one step closer to the requisite 10 points to be the first to claim the prize.
Ultimately, Andy won Tsuro, as a 3-person event, to move to 11 points and claim the prize.
Subsequently, the rules of the ongoing competition were established by precedent over the following Saturday evening.
Effectively, the Bunny Trophy functions like a loosely-regulated Championship Belt. As in the classic 80s-era wrestling, the current holder is under constant threat to lose their hold of the title by being challenged by other competitors.
First, Tim challenged Andy in a 3-Person event that consisted of each of us taking a turn at pouring small candies from a kind of giant Tic-Tac container, each aiming for a certain number. Tim successfully poured 1, then Joel overshot his goal of 2, Andy missed 3, and then Tim again hit on 4, winning the Bunny Trophy!
Joel then immediately tried to claim the prize, calling another 3-Person event in the form of a game of I Should Have Known That... (an ACTUAL GAME, tyvm!), but it was Andy who pulled off the win thus earning back the trophy!
This brought us to the first of our bylaws - such that, now that Andy had regained the trophy, and he was the only one of the three of us current competitors who could still choose a 3-Person event that day (at least between Tim/Andy/Joel) because Tim and I had already used ours. Of course, Andy could have braggadociosly selected such an event, but instead Joel challenged him to a 1-on-1 event of a random game selected on the giant multi-system video game emulator at the Seeger House. He was fortunate enough to land on Mega Games 6: World Cup Italia '90, and his dominance in sports video games shone through, and he was crowned champion, which wrapped up gaming for the day.
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While visiting Brooke's parents at their airBnB in Rockford, IL, Brooke challenged Joel to a 'first-to-three' game of Foosball on the mini Foosball Table in the basement. She scored a quick first point that Saturday evening, but then pizza arrived, and the game was put on hold until after brunch the following weekend. Joel equalized, then lost 3 - 1, and Brooke has held the Bunny Trophy ever since...
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At Blackbird Bar in Milwaukee, Joel challenged Brooke to a pinball game of her choice, and after sampling each of the three separate Elvira-themed pinball games, Brooke selected one. After a couple of false starts caused by mechanical problems / (possibly Manhattan-fueled) player errors, we settled on
Jurassic Park pinball (not pictured), because there were some other players taking up all of the Elvira machines. Joel won in a lopsided scoring frenzy, and took back the Bunny Trophy.
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Andy, Joel, and Brooke met up at Louie's Tap House in Roscoe, and pinball was once again on order. Joel became the first ever competitor to successfully defend the trophy, first defeating both Andy and Brooke at Deadpool pinball, and then at Stranger Things pinball.
Last night (5 December), Joel's
ALPS route brought him through Clinton where he stopped off for a couple of slices of leftover Mamma Lilla's pizza, and another successful defense of the trophy when he overcame Andy in a single round of
Roku TV Weekly Trivia - close game with a score of 8 of 10 to 9 of 10.
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After losing out on the Thursday nigh, Joel returned to Clinton on Sunday for a concert, and Andy challenged and won a game of Trivial Pursuit TV Edition (best score out of 4 cards) - a very dominant win, which Andy only needed a single answer right on the final card.
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Joel turned it around, and immediately challenged back for the trophy (before Andy was leaving for Omaha the following day), but Andy was able to hold out and win a 'penalty shoot-out style' match-up of World Travel Trivia. It did go down to a sudden death questions after Andy had jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but ultimately Andy held on for his first successful defense, and brings the trophy to Omaha this week.
Andy did successfully win a game of Rack-O! vs. Tim on his arrival, but the next evening (12/10/2024), Tim won a game of Ticket to Ride: London to take the trophy!
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Andy has won the trophy back as of the 12th of December, winning a game of
Roll For It!, and then successfully defending it for a game of
Trivial Pursuit 2000s and a second successful defense vs. Tim & Claire, winning a game of
Trouble.
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Tim was able to win back the trophy to keep it in Omaha for at least a week, winning a game of Cribbage. Tim won his first successful defense of the trophy winning a game of "Tigers & Goats" (playing as the goats!)
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On arriving to Clinton for Christmas, Claire won the Bunny Trophy in a 4-player game of Marble Pool (a Clinton house classic game), and then defeated Davin in 1 v. 1 Candyland and won a game of Bomberman: Generations (Dodge) versus 3 other player, marking the most competitors ever defeated to defend the Bunny Trophy.
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In the end, Claire's reign of two successful defenses came to a close when Tim won it back in a game of Super Monkeyball 2 (Monkey Battle).
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A flurry of 2 nights of back and forth gaming resulted in the first time we had co-holders of the Bunny Trophy with Davin and Tim winning a pairs game of 8-ball, and then Davin won sole holding of the trophy by playing the worst ever game of Ha ever played with 0 "ha-s" being registered before Tim and Andy both lost.
An over-extended rendition of Rotation Pool was played between Joel, Davin, Claire and Reese, with Reese eventually coming out on top, holding the trophy for about half an hour until Jen won a game of Roku Trivia.
Joel won the trophy again the following evening with a Coaster Toss game into a Millaeger's Bag.
The next morning during Nottingham Forest's 1-nil defeat over Tottenham Hotspur, Davin challenged Joel to a game of 3-Ball and won back the trophy. Later on that Boxing Day, Joel defeated Davin in a 1-on-1 game of
Clay Fighters on an N64 emulator (possibly a faulty controller), and then an hour or so later Davin won back the trophy in a 3-person game of
Boom Blox with Andy, Joel and Davin.
A night later, Davin put the trophy up for jeopardy when we went to Louie's Tap in Roscoe again for some pinball, and lost the trophy to Claire at Bally's Strikes and Spares, the oldest school machine on the floor.
Then, and perhaps finally (!!??), Davin declared a challenge for the trophy in the form of a 5-person game of Marble Pool, perhaps the first ever played at the Seeger House in Clinton without a single scratch, so after Andy and then Davin were eliminated, Joel sunk the final balls of Claire's and Tim's to win back the Bunny Trophy!
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After successfully defending the trophy in a game of basketball shoot-out at Henry Dorrbaker's, the Bunny Trophy passed for the first time ever to a non-Seeger when David won a 5-person game of Tumblin' Dice.
Andy (i think) won it back (but I don't remember at what, and this may not have happened). Nevertheless, the trophy was fated to head to Minnesota, when David & Carolyn won a game of Scene-It Squabble, departing the state as co-holders of the trophy.
Then, Henry took over control winning a 5-person game of Piles. Finally, David again reclaimed the trophy defeating Henry, Simon, and Graham in a game of Farkle!
David closed out the year as the final 2024 champion!
