Crokinole - The Movie
February 27, 2007For those who have had a chance to peruse The Engleson Files you may have seen Craig’s effort to make a Crokinole board over the past several weeks. For those not “in the know” Crokinole is a board game that basically combines shuffleboard and curling on a 26″ diameter board looking something like this
The basic play is contestants shoot or “flick” small discs toward the center of the board and the main idea is to have your discs closer to the center than your opponents to score points. Any disc landing in the recessed area in the center score twenties which is obviously 20 points. There are other complexities to the scoring and play but this is a good basic summary.
Tonight Craig lent me a DVD entitled “Crokinole - The Movie” which chronicles the 2005 Crokinole World Championship held in Tavistock, Ontario.
The movie itself seems more like a mockumentary (like Best in Show) rather than an actual documentary but the folks in the movie are real and quirky as can be. In doing a bit of Google searching I found the The World Crokinole Championships website and was particularly amused at a portion of Rule #6 governing the positioning of the board and the contestants. It reads - “When a player is shooting, at least one portion of the posterior (the “one cheek rule” ) must be in contact with his/her chair.” This should give you an idea of the “flavour” of the movie.
I can’t wait until the board is finally finished and we can begin holding the China Regional Championships. Today Dalian, Tomorrow Tavistock!
I don’t know if it is a good idea to give unsolisated advice but your recent interest in crokinole suggests to me that you may have lived in China long enough and perhaps need new challages in your life. Your friend may consider his future too.
Comment by Dad — March 4, 2007 @ 1:50 am