The 2011 Des Moines Kubb Fall Kubb Klassic was our sophomore year, and by every measure it was a resounding success. We had double the participation of last year and raised more than twice as much money for our sponsored charity, Animal Lifeline of Iowa.

 

We started Friday night at Felix & Oscar's and had a great time with a lot of our club members attending to mingle with a few of our traveling teams. Grant was awarded his SKAL Championship shirt and we talked shop with Sweden's Sons an...

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In 2010 we borrowed a tournament format from Chess called the "Swiss System", which is best described as a hybrid between a round robin and an elimination bracket. We were generally pleased with it (and the players reported enjoying it), but we were still using software designed to handle the subtleties of a different game, and it didn’t QUITE do exactly what we were hoping for. So, we took it upon ourselves to design a Kubb-specific tournament system, and built an Excel program to help ...

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A sneak peak at one of many killer Silent Auction items at the tournament this weekend. You are not required to play in the tournament to bid in the auction. If you can't make the tournament stop by and check some of these amazing silent auction items out.



This is a nice, hardwood kubb set made of Locust wood with Purpleheart inlays. Each kubb has an inlay to help with determining if it is a baseline kubb or a field kubb. The king is a monster, and I can assure you, the image doesn't do it jus...
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Rich, a guy I play hockey with made some kubb sets for the Fall Kubb Klassic Oct. 23rd.

He is now known to me as Mr. Awesome

Thanks Mr. Awesome.



Mr. Awesome is planning on making a set for silent auction made of Locust. It will be amazing.

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I heard a rumor today that the back of waterworks had opened for the first time this week, since the floods had left the park road full of debris. I wanted to take a look for myself, and review how much (if any) damage the floods did on the shelter area planned for the Fall Kubb Klassic in October. The weather, unfortunately, did not cooperate. I did manage to snap a few low resolution, blurry pics with my phone during the downpour. The area is in good shape. There's two areas I envision kubb...
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