If there is any consistency in the Saucony office summer league, it is the fact that the organization keeps introducing me to games I have never heard of. Team XRT was challenged to a game of Kubb, and after two straight losses, we were given the opportunity to redeem ourselves.

Known as the Viking Game (really, I’m not making this up) Kubb, is a cross between bags, a block set, and that game at the fair where you try to knock down the milk jugs with a ball. Okay, so maybe that is not the most accurate description. I could go into more detail, however the only thing that seems important is the game’s house rule: You must knock down the final piece of the game, the King Kubb, by throwing one of the smaller Kubbs between your legs. Upon hearing this rule is when we decided that the Saucony officials wanted nothing more than to embarrass the offices that participate, and boy did they succeed.

The game went smoothly until it came down to knocking over that final King Kubb.  Never in my twenty-one years have I witnessed something so impossible in athletics, (okay, maybe the Cubs winning the world series is up there too), but that final kubb seemed to take forever to knock down…or at least a good half hour.

Facing a team of Gumby’s, (Pitchfork employees must have a height requirement of at least 6ft), team XRT seemed to be at a slight disadvantage. Myself standing tall at an unimpressive 5’2, was actually told by our acting team captain and one of my bosses, Zack, that and I could not longer compete in the final round of my height restriction. Talk about EEA violations.

However, after several failed (and epic failed) attempts from both parties to knock the King Kubb over by throwing between our legs, the house rule was abandoned. (We’re not quitters, we just were hungry.) And okay, I don’t care, I’m gonna brag, I knocked down that final King Kubb and victory has never tasted so sweet (TAKE THAT, ZACK!) However, that was my one and only contribution to the game. It was in fact a team effort that earned Team XRT our first win.

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