1st Annual Newfie Horseshoes Tournament

Hey everyone! Sorry about the delay - it was a busy weekend and I've been in training since with no time to write up blog posts. 

Part of the busy weekend was the first annual Newfie Horseshoes Tourney at Brian and Julie's. 

Chris taking a toss.

To those who aren't familiar with Newfie horseshoes, the target is a small square box with a cylinder inside. Instead of a horseshoe, you're throwing a small plastic-covered metal washer from a distance of 21 feet. If the washer lands inside the cylinder, you get 5 points. Inside the box but outside of the cylinder you receive 3 points. If you land outside of the box but touching the box or within a couple of millimeters of touching the box, you get one point.

The boys keeping cool with drinks - Jayden, Tim, Kirk, and Curtis.

Each team has two players. One player from each team goes to each end of the field. Players then rotate through throws. i.e. Player 1 from Team A throws, Player 1 from Team B throws, Player 2 from Team A throws, Player 2 from Team B throws. The first team to get to 21 points wins. If a player from one team makes a good throw for points, the points will be negated if the player from the other team manages to make a throw worth the same amount of points. 

Tim and I loving life in the beautiful weather!

The tournament was set up as a two-game knockout. Lose two and you're out. Unfortunately (I did warn him) Tim and I were the team that lost our first two games. 

Dave with a nice toss. 

The weather was absolutely gorgeous. It had been super hot earlier in the week and cooled down towards the weekend. Even still, it was HOT out there in the sun. There was a tiny bit of a breeze and it was perfect when the sun was behind a cloud. As you can see from these pictures, however, the clouds were pretty fluffy and the sun never stayed behind them long. 

Jimmy had quite the follow-through on his throws. 

The tournament board - Chilly Willy (Curtis and Brad) wound up taking home the cash at the end of the day.

Dave with an apparently successful toss.

There were a number of different throwing styles, some more successful than others. Brian did extremely well with his slight frisbee tossing method. I did much worse with my bowling-style toss. Tim told me I needed to get more flip in the washer. A lot of the guys seemed to have good success with a really high lofting throw.

The peanut gallery during games. There may have been a little heckling going on.

The whole crew post games, trying to get a little reprieve from the boiling sun. 

I'm not sure if my cheeks are sunburned or if I just have a bit of a drunk glow going on - there was a LOT of drinking going on. 

Mike may have fallen prey to the drinking and the sun.

Tim and Toby hanging out. 

Toby the Wonder-Dog! He actually had to stay inside most of the day, even though he didn't want to. It was way too hot outside for his moving mountain of fur. 

Tim saying goodbye to Parcells after a long afternoon. 

Brian and Julie also provided a BBQ of hamburgers and gigantic hot dogs, which was absolutely delicious. I can't wait until next year to go to the second annual! I might need to get some practicing in beforehand, though, or Tim will be kicking me off the team.