How do you like the tables, I ask the Canadian ladies in the first round. The short one sitting north thinks they’re too high. Kind of like back when you were a kid. In the final round, I ask again. This it’s Art Matthies. He thinks they’re fine and says it in such a casual way that it seems like this has become an irrelevant question. So it’s settled. The tables are good.
The tournament committee does a little retirement display for Dick Rasmus – a sign saying Thank You and a big Wegmans sheet cake, half white, half chocolate, with chocolate icing.
How many teams today? I think 23. As it turns out, the overall winners are the Jim Mathis-Saleh Fetouh team. We aren’t the only people they steamroller. We, the Perry team, aren’t last, but we’re only a couple steps away with 71 victory points. We’re in the C strat, thanks to averaging in the low career totals of Flo Boyd and Pawan Matta, but to win something extra there, we need 99 vps. To hit the extra point jackpot in B, we’d need 118.
These are silver points, but for my money, they’re gold-plated. My $60 in entry fees gives me 1.11 master points, or 54.05 cents per hundredth of a point. Note to self: Skip lunch and fill up on the bagels and cream cheese they put out for breakfast on Sunday. Pawan reminds me that she’s getting .52 points for only $20.
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