ICBING update

Thursday night - time for a bowling update.

After last week's stellar performance, there was bound to be a slight slump. ICBING still did pretty well, though. The team decided to change a few things tonight. First was the roster. Our roster changes on a weekly basis. Tonight we actuallly bowled 8 bowlers for both games, and dropped the two lowest scores. Next, names. Instead of putting our real names into the computer, we entered our nicknames. More on the effect of this below in the highlight reel. Finally, Wrong Lane and Breaks 50 (aka "I want to change my name every week or more often but Alex doesn't seem to like the idea") decided to experiment with the effect of beer on their bowling skills. The jury's still out on that - I think further testing will be required.

And now for the score recap:

Wrong Lane: 83, 115
Take a Knee: 109, 153
9 pin (aka 10 pin, aka Turkey - see below): 106, 124
En Fuego (fka On Fire): 119, 96
8lb (fka 7lb): 57, 112
The Edge (fka Pinky): 166, 131
Breaks 50 (aka so many other names...): 121, 69
Newbie: 94, 98

Highlight reel:

The big story of the night was some name switching for 9 pin. The name had become something of a curse, resulting in 4 straight open frames (of nine pins, naturally) to start off the game. To break the curse, the team decided to change the name to 10 pin, which immediately resulted in a spare. Bolstered by this effect, the team rechristened him Turkey. Unfortunately, this didn't pan out quite as expected.

Take a Knee and Breaks 50 had another friendly wager for a week's worth of bragging rights. Take a Knee had to beat Breaks 50's score (for the evening - both games combined) by thirty pins. Breaks 50 jumped out to a commanding lead, bowling a personal best of 121 and led Take a Knee by 12 pins going into the second game. But Take a Knee came back strong. A turkey in the tenth frame clinched it, giving Take a Knee another week of heckling rights.

Wrong Lane didn't bowl in the wrong lane tonight, but the other team did during his turn (effectively bowling for him); maybe the SBA will stop sending emails that lead to such confusion.