Toss Up

An exciting weekend in Seeger Olympic Play. Jen extended her lead in the Joel /Tim / Jen games & joel kept pace with tim in their one-on-one competition.

On Friday night we three competitors had dinner at Jim & Pam's house and got in a few events between dinner, child-wrangling, and (grand)parenty-chit-chat. Joel & Tim played a game of the as-yet-unnamed hand-slapping balance game (SeegerOlympic blog contest boys, girls & hamsters... the game is played by two people standing in front of each other about a foot apart and push forward against the other player's hands trying to unbalance the other player... the winner is the last one not to take a step... OK, so the contest is to name this game. 3 finalists will be selected by the competitors, then we'll have a vote on this website. Winner will be awarded a brand new, and probably unused rice cooker. Please post entries to the comments section), which joel won. Joel & tim & jen then competed in a quarter-rolling contest. Joel started out with an impressive roll, most of the way across the room. Tim's started well, but turned left suddenly and hit a piece of furniture. When jen made her play, however, she showed her true skills & blew both the other competitors away. A big win for jen, who retained first place, extending her lead. Tim then devised a ball tossing game, a variation on the frisbee game where if it touches you, you need to catch it. Joel took a 2-0 lead in a game to 3, but tim successfully came back to win.

On Saturday more events were played between joel & tim, but the overall result was tim retaining his one match lead... Tim won paper football after joel won his first ever game of Ker-Plunk, the game that takes just a minute to play, but a lifetime to set up... Joel also won a ball-kicking game where the other player served as keeper, with the living-room as a goal. Tim won a ball-kicking golf-type game. In the end, each player had more wins, but the state of affairs was unchanged.

Jen also hinted at a tim v. jen event that she won, but i haven't scored it here, yet, because it was unconfirmed.

Point that thing someplace else

Tim took over the lead in the Joel vs. Tim competition last night with back to back darting victories at the Rose & Crown Pub. After a round of Beefeater & Tonic for joel & a Guinness for Tim we played a game of 301 (joel's selection) followed by a game of Gotcha!, a 301 variation where players can send each other back to zero by hitting exactly the same score as another.

Tim won 301 fairly soundly, fairly trouncing joel. Another round of drinks was ordered, tim switching to a Colorado Bulldog & joel sticking with the gin and tonic. The game of Gotcha! that we played next seemed a bit tighter at the beginning, though tim jumped out to an early lead due to actally being better at darts. Tim failed to close out the end of the game and joel came back, eventually passing him and closing in on 301... Tim was able to hit joel's exact score, however, and send him back to zero, paving the way to his eventual victory as joel scrambled to catch up.

Well played games by tim & an excellent evening in SeegerOlympic competition.

a lot of action...

Last night, Sunday the 8th of October, there was a lot of SeegerOlympic action going on. Leads changed and changed back & new threats emerged. Sadly, there was almost too much that went on to be able to discuss it all in one entry (if fellow competitors want to {and can figure out how to} add their own descrpition of any events i pass over, please do).

The major movement happened in the five-person overall competition. Tim briefly tied up with brooke at 3 points - a - piece with a victory in the Seeger Weight - loss Challenge, successfully dropping 6 whole pounds, but then Brooke went back up, by standing on one foot longer than any of the other competitors could. By the end of the night, though, tim had tied up again with a huge victory in the standing broad jump.

The evening was full of competitions between a wide array of combinations. With games ranging from indoor soccer-style games (all of which joel won) to balloon games to how fast you can pull someone's sock off (Jen & Kris, take note). The zerbert match between Joel, Brooke & Jen was completed, with joel winning 3-0-2, respectively). Anyway, a lot of scoring changes, so take note.

Pucky comic relief

A rare evening occured this Saturday, when all five of the Seeger-Olympics competitors were together in one room. While only one event was completed, it was an epic battle, ranging all night and all over the... table.

We played andy's air hockey tournament, with each competitor playing against everyone else. The top two in round 1 (round robin) played for the championship. Joel, Tim & Andy were the early leaders, each beating brooke & jen, but tim was able to defeat both of his brothers (andy 3-0 & joel 3-2) to come out of round 1 as the clear favorite. Joel defeated andy & went on to play the final match against tim (this time, to 10 instead of the 3-point mini-matches we'd played up to this point).

Tim & Joel were neck & neck, pretty well trading points, with joel going up two, then tim tying & going up one, then tying again. It was 6-6, when Tim took over the game, scoring 4 straight points to win the event. Tim comes closer to the overall lead with this rare 5-person event victory. The weigh-out for the Seeger Weight Loss Challenge is tomorrow evening, so another point will be awarded then. Jen is next to select an event & brooke's poetry-writing event was clarified a bit, with the judges being named as David Tillotson, mom/ Hope Seeger, and Eric Friedericks. Shane will receive all the poems (at the due date yet to be determined) and distribute them anonymously to the judges.

In other SeegerOlympic news, joel currently holds a 2-1-0 lead over jen & brooke (respectively) in the 'zerbert' name that tune challenge (played to 3). Joel correctly identified "The Farmer in the Dell" & "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" to take the lead.

Also, Andy won a game of Trivial Pursuit : Millenium Edition, after Joel missed a potentially winning pie-question. Andy won with the correct answer Francoise Mitterand (though he was unable to produce the French leader's first name). Brooke passed out after accruing 4 pies.

Poet Lariat

Brooke has declared the next SeegerOlympic Event will be... A poetry-writing competition. All submissions will be judged by a blind panel (that is not knowing whose poem is whomse, not actual blind folk). Judges and timeline and rubrick will be determined, but she has selected, which turns the pick to Andy.

And i will also announce Andy's choice - assuming he is sticking with it - as he told it to me. An Air Hockey competition where each competitor will face each other competitor and the overall winner gets the point. Play at your leisure, though, of course, the joel & brooke basement currently houses an air hockey table.

More details to come & competitors can update their event selections in the comments or with another entry (see your inboxes again to figure out how to register & blog your own entries).
And now, the selection turns to Jen for the 5-person contest.