Our final contest was a fun one since it entailed 3 contests - Four Square (which we excelled at), JAZZ (shorter version of basketball’s HORSE, which we did not excel at) and wrapped it up with a couple of good ol’ rounds of Dodgeball. In the end, we did well but not quite well enough for some trophy action this time around. Second place will have to do. Congrats to the Seattle Weeklies for the grand glory of the Championship. And kudos to my whole team for lots of well played fun times! Go Saucony!

Chris

Simply put, SPUD is a fun game that most of us hadn’t played before. And although the Hot Dogs only won one of the 4 contests (big props to Mike G. and Amy M. for the face saving win), we kept it competitive throughout the contest. The Weekly came away with the overall win. So it’ll be quite a showdown for the big championship gathering next week!

Tomorrow our Seattle Office League competes in its season championship — the ultimate playground tournament! Not content to leave the playoffs to a single game, we have KEXP, Bumbershoot, Easy Street Records and Seattle Weekly competing in three rounds of playground madness.

Round 1 - Four Square! This 15 minute lightning round of our favorite twee playground game will determine the order for the second battle which is…

Round 2 - JAZZ! It’s like HORSE but jazzier, like the Saucony Jazz of course.

And if there is a tie-breaker needed, or if everyone just can’t get enough, we’ll have a final Round 3 of DODGE BALL!

Bring your A-games Seattleites. Bumbershoot and Seattle Weekly may be in the lead right now, but tomorrow night we’ll see how it all comes down. 7pm at Cascade Playground - 333 Pontius Ave N. Celebratory tamales at Bandits after.

As the regular season starts to wind down for the Seattle SOSO league, the games get rougher. Two-hand touch football saw the Seattle Weeklings pitted against Easy Street Records on field #1, and 2 time champions Bumbershoot went toe to toe with the determined crew from KEXP on field #2.

Turnovers plagued both the Weeklings and Easy Street early on. On their first possession, a lazer beam of a pass from the Easy Street QB ricocheted off its intended target only to fall right into the hands of their opponent. It was going to be that kind of night. With each team scoring a single touchdown and failures to convert an extra point, the teams were tied 6-6 at half time.

Seattle Weekly holds on to the ball with everything they’ve got left.

Easy Street comes prepared with Easy Street Beverages ™.

The second half only brought more evidence that the caliber of these two teams matched play for play. Refusing to end the game in a tie, Easy Street and Seattle Weekly abandoned their short game and lobbed their passes into the end zone hoping to find their target. This happened maybe twice.

TOUCHDOWN.

Seattle Weekly maneuvers for the kill.

Easy Street’s one touchdown in the second half was answered in kind by a hail mary pass by the Weeklings. The 12-12 tie led to a sudden death match. Nobody scored.

Meanwhile, on field #2, Bumbershoot and KEXP scored touchdown after touchdown. With the taste of their first victory of the season so close to their grasp, KEXP defended their endzone against the ferocious Bumbershoot Hot Dogs. But alas, KEXP’s defense couldn’t withstand the evermounting pressure and the Hot Dogs’ last touchdown put them over the top 36-34 .

KEXP runs it down into Bumbershoot territory.

Bumbershoot about to get handsy with the ball.

At that point, Easy Street starting foaming at the mouth so we abandoned the field to quench their inner beasts with beer.

Good hustle out there, everyone.

And congratulations on your first win!

And mighty KUBBs to you, too, Bumbershoot!