Back in our favourite summer venue, Bar Uno did not disappoint!
We got access right on time, and got set up fairly quickly, so that some of the early arrivals could get on with some freeplay. Runbow was the game of choice!
People arriving sort of meandered in, after it had transpired that half of them had been hunting Pokémon on the way up, via the latest app “Pokémon GO!” – we’re all eagerly awaiting the official release of the accompanying watch too!
We had a few latecomers, as trains were delayed, and the weather wasn’t great either!
We held off the start of the first competition, to allow for latecomers.
The SPGL Athlon session theme was “Rainbow”. Sounds ambiguous?? That’s because it was..!
With people assuming we’d be doing Mario Kart Rainbow Road, we let them assume. (Too obvious you say?)
Round 1 started with “Runbow” which was another obvious, but also known choice.
After the freeplay had up to 7 players, the 4 player one didn’t seem too daunting. It proved a popular game, as throughout the day, people kept popping on the freeplay version!
Mario Strikers Charged was next on the agenda, and people also took the chance to grab food from the bar. With tribute to the Euro 2016 cup, and the history that Wales had made earlier in the week, we thought it entirely fitting!
Every pair was allowed to try out a practice run first, as bar 3 people, no one had actually played it before. It seemed only fair to put two of the more experienced ones against each other in the first round, and also first up to show people how it should be done! Obviously that meant that one of the “good” players got knocked out early, but thankfully they understood.
We had 14 entrants to the main tournament.
The football tournament went on a bit longer than planned – half because more people turned up than we initially expected (Which was awesome by the way!) and half because people kept nipping out to hunt for Pokémon!!
