Friday 17th April

Union Jack

Hoisted by jules44#1

Top 5 allegiances ... 1. jules44#1 UK ... 2. mos623#1 USA ... 3. strnog1 USA ...4. miffy42 UK ... 5. Stuhern UK

3/2 for the UK & Co army! I saw whee whizz across the course yesterday...UK reinforcements ...and my fave player was UK too. Call me biased...but I was cheering for teanana. Matched her PB! And as we all know (referee's exempt, of course) breaking through that pain barrier of a personal best can be a mammoth task.

How did the private duels go?

miffy42 and mos623 were locked in mortal combat and might I modestly remind that I correctly predicted the winner's name would begin with an M. Is there no end to my talents? Is your head sore mos? Yes...miffy pounded past.

magijoh1 UK truly flattened julieanne123 USA...very impressively...very bravely. Was this rash? Now he's taking on bernie73 AND shadowzep! Well I say, best of luck there. Hang on in...markswood is not far behind and coming to help.

This means it's 2/0 for the UK & Co in the mini wars..

Oops....2/1...poolosopher beat Dr Gas

skipperdeedoo met his nautical memesis...from scubascott. 2/2 tie

Lanadale extinguished flicker123....3/2 for the USA.

It's mid-month (ish) and I was curious to see who our Most Outstanding Players are so far this month. So I peeked. Astralspace is current top MOP but who's playing the best and improving their ranking and heading for fame and glory?

1. miffy42 UK up 88....well no surprises here.

Oh you clever troopers!
2. datrivialist USA up 31
3. teanana UK up 29
4. Mutski USA up 26
5. skipperdeedoo UK up 21
6. Stuhern UK up 17
7. Alien8 USA up 16
8. strnog1 USA up 15
9. MarchHare007 UK up 15
10 kaykay USA up 15
And what's this? Loads of you are going that extra mile ...
bernie73 USA up 11
briarwoodrose UK up 9
brokenbody USA up 6
cat_brat63 USA up 5
dcreasy USA up 9
Deborah USA holding rank
donamaria USA up 1
Dr_Gas UK up 4
Jabberwok UK up 12
jacky UK up 1
Jazzrockfusion USA holding rank
jibber UK holding rank
jules44 UK holding rank
kjc USA up 3
Lacey UK up 9
LanaDale USA up 2
LittleShe UK up 1
mike32768 USA up 6
Mikeangel USA up 10
Norabee USA holding rank
pollygw UK up 12
Qmel USA up 8
swotty UK up 4
twosleepy USA up 8
Wetherby_Pond UK up 7
yand UK up 4

For those of you not on pengy's list...oops, don't worry we don't have firing squads here...ingest more protein...stretch those legs and get running.

The Titans

Yesterdays top terrificus was miffy42

Top 5 allegiances....1. miffy42 UK ... 2. whee UK ... 3. StuHern UK ... 4. polaris UK ...5. bernie73 USA

4/1 for the UK....crumbs it's getting more deadly than braving the Challenge! No way is this batlefield easy....miffy is soldered onto the flagpole with 7 wins in a row. And look! Whee is back here too! My fave player had to be polaris for sneaking in..and ah, brave bernie73. Here bernie have a lie down on a stretcher and recouperate. That's two fave players yesterday..

Drat! All the Titans get a heartfelt cheer from pengy for playing so magnificently.

Even so...I nostalgically shook the Stars and Stripes out yesterday and moths flew out and the light hurt their eyes after so long. Could it be my american buddies are in big, big trouble? It looks that way. Defeat could soon be staring them in the face.

The Moguls

Yesterdays most magnificent mogul was jules44#1 UK

Psst...someone tell miffy, jules has just stolen the lead...I'm a bit too scared myself. I frighten easy and have a low pain threshold. There, with conscience clear and bad news dispensed pengy turns his beady eye on the mogul scoreboard. Again. I can't resist the urge. It's too tense and exciting. Each morning now I jump out of bed and have a look even before I smoke a kipper.

Did you know on yesterdays eve...a tournament first I'm sure, the scores were exactly the same..A Tie!

This was unbelievable...mogul madness has struck!

But that's the new old news.

For any player who got beat by the dasterdly guillotine yesterday..pengy feels a stabbing pain of sympathy shoot straight through his right ventricle. You could feel awful in a minute after my next indiscretion.

One army now has a 10 point lead....

America be smug.

Enjoy!

I am.

Come on UK...nick it back...pengy is on the edge of his chair here!

The Sole Survivor
Yesterdays steel sheathed survivor was WorldB#2 USA

Well....julieanne123#9 USA and poolosopher#10 USA scurried to safety yesterday....and yes indeed cat brat ..oh carp! You fell in.

But one or two of you are slithering dangerously close to the Pits edge...

Careful twosleepy USA and mike32768 UK and jules44 UK you could be next....

Huh? That was not a typo either ...jules....what a surprise! This must be a perverse ploy to get me all excited....

Still, there's plenty of time to scrabble out yet. My fave player? Well, 2 actually..it has to be bernie73 and briarwoodrose at the moment...hmm and cubswin2323...and ..no, I must stop there.

Anyone who can avoid the Pit is pretty spectacular.

And todays mogul treat is...there's a definite fishy whiff about just now...it's shrimp stir fry.