Congrats Green Team!

Today marked the closing of the Winter 2006 There Games! Although several hosts have yet to post scores for at least five events, Green team was unofficially declared the winner of the games at the closing ceremonies, with yellow in second and gray in third. When There will stop waiting for the few remaining hosts (slackers!) to post their scores is a mystery. The scores are very close thanks, in part, to Basya who gave out a total of 24 points in one event on Saturday. Such an event is unheard of! Sixteen of those points went to yellow team alone. All for one event! She gave out four sets of points, that's four 1st places, four 2nd places, and four 3rd places! Before this event, gray and yellow were very close for points and second place in the games was still up for grabs. Basya, however, effectively removed any hope gray team had of earning second with one swift click of the mouse. Great job Basya. No really, I'm being totally serious here. Several people have already begun to e-mail Mackie and complain about the utter inappropriateness of Basya's scoring. Among them, myself. Not only am I afraid yellow may have a chance at taking the lead if the rest of the events are scored in their favor, but I do believe in fairness of the games. Anyone who has attended one of Basya's events in these games knows she goes way beyond fair scoring on a regular basis. This one event, however, was just ridiculous. Allowing one event to carry the weight of what would normally be four separate events is absurd. But enough ranting, bring on the eye candy! Click to englarge:Dihtri won the There Games Spirit Award, "for her outstanding sportsmanship and efforts in rallying for all the teams as well as her own". Go Dihtri!!

Total (final?) scores as of this posting:

And so ends the Winter 2006 There Games! Boom, kaboom! Yaaaaaay!

Jon Quixote was There.