June 28 was the end of the first half of Season 16, with groups finishing their tour of banks Poseidon and Hermes. A couple of people also still needed to play makeups on Lord of the Rings from the week that it was down: Brian because he was absent last league night, and Allen because he just plain forgot. I still had the sheet we had used to write scores down for the makeup, and left it out for Brian when we went to play. Since I arrived with plenty of time before league, I was able to watch most of Brian’s game. When I did my makeup, I had an excellent (for me) game in which I destroyed the ring for the first time ever. When Joseph wrote my score down, he also drew a little picture of a ring and put an X next to it, to indicate “destroyed the ring.” Well, as I watched, Brian also destroyed the ring, and beat my (not very good) ring champion time too, so I drew a little ring-and-X icon to match the one Joseph did.
I’m very sorry to say that league came to the end and I realized I had not taken any photos, so all my photos of the night are of the Smackdown winners and then some hanging around and playing Avengers: Infinity Quest afterward. I don’t have too much to report; it was a pretty ordinary league night, fortunately without any games needing to be switched out this time. Biff once again dropped in to visit and play a qualifying Smackdown game, although he did not stick around for finals.
Speaking of the Smackdown, it was Elvira’s House of Horrors, which is why the Smackdown medalists can see that I drew a spooooooky ghost on the medals. The A division (won by Allen) actually finished before the B division, which got them some razzing. The B division game was on Guardians of the Galaxy. Mike won and humblebragged that it was his first B division Smackdown medal.
Oh yes, and Allen also played his Lord of the Rings makeup game after league. He more than doubled Brian’s and my scores (which were very close together) and, yeah, destroyed the ring. Thoroughly defeated, I drew the little picture on the score sheet one more time.
