Bucc Bowl

I have more to post on my first year in SL I found some great photos which bring back some great memories, but until I get my 'real' laptop back with it's lovely speed and graphics, and more importantly the photos I've downloaded, I'll have to catch up with another (temporarialy graphicless) post.

Bucc Bowl - September.

As always Trumpton were there. This time we didn't have the usual 'have we got a whole team and will we all be there' panic that we always seem to have. Ana, Mael and I are well established enough to know now that we will be there (though all thanks to Mael's isp for giving me heart failure the day before!), and Liri is the 4th member we knew she would be - reliable and smart.

The venue changed on the day to Monochrome. Apparently the sim we usually use was sold, so Jez stepped in at the last minute. I never really took much notice, but a lot of comments were made about the lack of lag, and I have to agree that lagwise, things did seem to be vastly improved.

The previous Thursday I'd asked questions about the lette Q, and partway through it was pointed out that I should have been wearing my Q Bert av, so I decided to unpack him and check his ARC. He's only 142 so I went off to BB as a big orange blob. I'll post the photo when I can - you can't miss me. Unfortunately I also felt particularly yucky, so I knew I wasn't going to be much competition.

I'd upgraded my broadband package that week to increase my speed (which apparently is still well below everyone elses, but certainly makes things quicker for me) and technologically I was ready. Mael had made the observation that I could be wrong faster, and he wasn't wrong. This was one of those events where I just stood there watching the questions and answers fly up the screen with a bemused 'huh'. I think I knew 3 or 4 answers, but such was my RL physical state that my brain just didn't respond. The only one I managed to score on was something like 'Drooppppeh thead deeadddd doonkeyy' - or some such garbled nonsense like that - the chat log is on my other laptop. I got this one in before the other Brits (Lotus and Mael) and that was my scoring for the day. But, at least I got on the board. Liri and Mael both managed to score on a couple of questions, but the star of the day was undoubtedly Ana! She was on fire, and by my calculations was the individual top scorer on the day. Thanks to her we got the the final round in2nd place behind the Triviators, and thanks to all the other team members we actually got a bonus.

If we got the bonus we'd still have been 2nd, but the gap between us would have been small. Unfortunately due to group im's flustering me at the last minute, and the fact that I still felt pretty yucky, I typed too soon, and we got it wrong. Ana did get the 2nd part of the answer but I jumped the gun. Oops - and no one mention the Daily Mail! As it didn't make any difference to our position in the game I wasn't lynched by the team.

The competition seemed a lot better this time round, and new team Zen and the Koans, came 3rd. Apparently their trick to Zen relaxation was to discuss which team member had the best butt. And we know that if we all perform well on the day we can take the Triviators! We were so close! Triviators even had a round where they didn't score - shame. (hehe) We've had that. It sucks but it's all about the questions on the day, so I guess we'll all have that at some time.

Now if I can connect my brain to my new broadband speed for the next one, and if I actually know some answers, then maybe next time I'll be part of the new team Champions. We've done it before we can do it again. And Triviators- we're getting closer.

Next time I may not be quite so orange though. All thanks as usual to Lette, Thorn and Lillian who put a lot of work in to the event.