I spoon, Do you?

So last night was the first ever (that we are aware of) Mercy ships extreme spoons world championship!

Competition was fierce, and as was the stature of the competition competitors came from far and wide to try and win the title. Of the field of 15 highly motivated spoon players there were players from England, Scotland, Holland, France, Switz, Germany and all over America.

Now for those of you that dont know what extreme spoons is ... well shame on you ... but ill enlighten you just in case you want to have your own extreme spoons competition!

So pretty much the deal is this ... Everyone trys to get get four of a kind (cards are passed around) and as soon as someone gets four of a kind then they can take a spoon. Once one spoon is taken, everybody attempts to get the remaining spoons. The difference with extreme spoons is that is it played in a gym hall and there are limited spoons in the middle of the group, the remained of the spoons are spread around the gym!

So the first few rounds were pretty "tame" due to the amount of spoons around. But competition soon hotted up ... There was a huge shock when with 5 spoons left when pre tournament favourite "Dan the Destroyer" lost out.

With just the "hardcore" spooner's left it was decided to go to a line and let people hide the spoons behind with without having any knowledge of where they were ... which i have to say was a little interesting cause you really did at some points feel you was running around without a clue where they were (they were pretty hard to see!)

So the final 5 ... Sam the Manny, John the Giant, Carmen the Classy, Miriam the Magnificent and Amy the Angelic

So with the elimination of the classy and the magnificent there were but 3 ...

So the 2 spoon round for me was pretty successful for me, i saw what i thought was a spoon in the far corner so made a little dash in that direction ... was feeling pretty happy but a little confused cause the giant and the angelic were looking rather confused as to where the other spoon was, it was then that i decided to take my spoon. Well i thought it was a spoon ... infact due to clever placement it was infact both spoons, so taking my spoon then left a dash for the last spoon, which the giant won!

So it was the manny v the giant ... what a tense final ... and due to clever placement again, we were running around like headless chickens for a good amount of time ... until outta the corner of my eye i saw the spoon on a yellow line ... and with it victory was mine!

So thank you to everyone that played, in what can only be described as sweltering heat! And maybe just maybe there will be have another game sometime ... maybe we shall just play round a table like normal people ... but then me for one i know has never really ever been described as normal!!!