the nines won't leave me alone
Aug. 8th, 2008 04:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tonight's bowling battle, billed as awesome more than justified the hype...
with an even number of chums from afar and those born on this blessed isle, it seemed natural we play brits vs the world: why break with hundreds of years of tradition?
the odds seemed stacked against us, what with lourens-the-bowling-savant and a team of americans to contend with our hopes lay with our not-so-secret weapon, the wii trained mr kingtiger.
much to my surprise, we totally stormed the first round, outscoring the other team by over a hundred points. my constant failure to get a strike, felling 9 pins 5 times, didn't prevent me from prevailing, just pipping kingtiger for top spot.
there was from the other team talk of their lane being cursed, and mutterings of foul play whenever the magic's trademark divebowling technique yielded results, so, in an effort to appease the rotw team, for the next game kingtiger switched sides and we switched lanes.
the second round saw a reversal of fortune for us; paul and lyssa joined our ranks, but without our star man, further drubbing of the other team was sadly beyond us. bested by the bolstered bunch and bowling mainly for pride we managed to close in on their impressive total of 600 but weren't really in with a chance... however, paul's brilliant last frame swung the balance in our favour.
dunno what it was with the number 9 tonight, but even the final score was full of them.
britain 999, the rest of the world 993
right, break over, back to the coursework :/
with an even number of chums from afar and those born on this blessed isle, it seemed natural we play brits vs the world: why break with hundreds of years of tradition?
the odds seemed stacked against us, what with lourens-the-bowling-savant and a team of americans to contend with our hopes lay with our not-so-secret weapon, the wii trained mr kingtiger.
much to my surprise, we totally stormed the first round, outscoring the other team by over a hundred points. my constant failure to get a strike, felling 9 pins 5 times, didn't prevent me from prevailing, just pipping kingtiger for top spot.
there was from the other team talk of their lane being cursed, and mutterings of foul play whenever the magic's trademark divebowling technique yielded results, so, in an effort to appease the rotw team, for the next game kingtiger switched sides and we switched lanes.
the second round saw a reversal of fortune for us; paul and lyssa joined our ranks, but without our star man, further drubbing of the other team was sadly beyond us. bested by the bolstered bunch and bowling mainly for pride we managed to close in on their impressive total of 600 but weren't really in with a chance... however, paul's brilliant last frame swung the balance in our favour.
dunno what it was with the number 9 tonight, but even the final score was full of them.
britain 999, the rest of the world 993
right, break over, back to the coursework :/