Flying Fangy and Fangtastic Five Trophy race is on again

It's back with more rule changes than ever to skew it in my favour.
For newcomers, there are two glass trophies designed and made by Windxtasy up for grabs.
The Flying Fangy 5x10 Trophy goes to the best 5x10 recorded at Fangyland over a sailing season. The length of the season is decided by me and maybe cut short if ever I am leading. There may be some other rules that I haven't thought of yet, that will be designed to ensure it goes on my mantlepiece this time. I might let you peeps know what they are depending how I am going.




The Fangtastic Five trophy awarded to the sailor who has the highest accumulated score across any five of the GPSTC disciplines on any day at Fangyland. That is, your best score in any five disciplines will be added together to give your total. This means you can get your paws on the trophy simply by having an epic distance session whilst not being particularly fast on the day. I am hoping this will mean that the sailors who churn out some big distance can seriously challenge those who can lock in big speeds.

Being completely unreliable when it comes to figures and record keeping, the onus will be on you to send me a tally of your day and I will attempt to get a ladder going. Of course, if I am not well placed on the ladder I will probably change the rules.







General rules :
You can only have one trophy per season, not both.
If you you win the trophy, the next season you are handicapped by 10%, the year after 5%.
Women receive an additional 10% on their score if they wish. (Sorry fellas, but having manboobs does not qualify you as a woman)
If you have a repeated letter in your Avatar you are probably disqualified unless your bribe is epic and brilliant.
You have to return the trophy at the end of the season.

As you might have guessed, most importantly, this is for fun. Don't get too serious, just get sailing and have a blast

All sounds totally fair and unbiased to me. Will 10 % be enough for any of us to beat the current champ. Maybe you should have another review of the rules.

"Psuedo-Pregnancy"

Just so we all know where the bar's at, it would be nice to keep an update here.
So Slugger has set a medium fantastic five bar at 212.973
And Swindy has set a lowish 5x10 bar at 30.212kts

That was a massive Decrepit performance yesterday Mike. Huge respect man.
If anyone manages to top that they will need to be drug tested!
So currently Stretch has his hands on the 5x10 Trophy and Decrepit probably has both hands on the Fangtastic Five trophy. That's a big start given we haven't even got into summer yet!

Well my effort today was 346.208.
But slugger is better, he has a score of 360.527
Has anybody else done some distance in the last 3 months?

A massive crack from Decrepit and Sludge yesterday. After calculator dust has settled, as Decrepit has posted, Sludge now has got a hand on the Fangtastic Five Trophy and Stretch on the 5x10.
Thanks for doing the number crunching Decrepit, and don't worry, there is no chance Sludge will get past the drug testing round!

Big News from the Kingdom. Queen Sludge had his Fangtastic Five Trophy torn from his grip by a determined, if not slightly unhinged, Johnski. John carved out 260 km's, plus his other top four categories meant he walked away yesterday with a score 370.661 ( or something about there)
Massive effort John, congrats. Queen Sludge is receiving flowers today if you feel inclined.

www.gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2018-03-17&team=2

So what do get if you combine a bunch of fireworks and a Firie who is struggling with 'adulting'? Well, mainly just a whole lot of black burn marks on the lawn and a few bewildered possums. I would like to say the fireworks show was a magnificent and fitting finale to the Mandurah Mobbers Trophy Night, but that would be fake news.

Happily, Firiebob wasn't responsible for catering and as a result of the outstanding generosity of all who attended, no one went home hungry. There was a pile of food other than BBQ stuff, and that was fortunate as I managed to keep my record of 100% BBQ failing while drunk intact. It somehow seems a very fine line between raw meat and charred lumps once I am on the plonk.

In keeping with the past, I did keep the speeches very, very, short and handed over the trophies in a ceremony that lacked almost any pomp and ceremony. Congrats to Rob (Stretch) for taking out the 5x10 with a 40-knot effort and also to John (Jonski) who walked off with the Fangtastic Five Trophy with a score of about 370 to knock the Queen of Coodanup, Slugger into bridesmaid position with a fine but fruitless 360 effort.

Big thanks to Stretch who ensured I gave the right trophy to the right mobber, even at the expense of Slugger giving him the silent treatment for the rest of the night. Sadly, Decrepit missed the occasion due to a bad hair day, but as per usual did leave clear instructions for team strategy for the evening. I was impressed at the lads, it was a fab team effort to collectively ignore the Captain's sole instruction for the night and in the end, we did not take a single worthy photo. But we did burn a fair amount of flammable stuff so that has to count as a Top Ten Fangy Day.

( This season's comp has started and not wanting to give too much away, mainly because I haven't checked the numbers, but I am pretty sure I am 'winning so much right now', I am thinking of getting a bad hair dye experience, orange fake tan and turning the whole place into a golf course )

PS if anyone is bored and wants to check the numbers since September 2018 until now and get the leaderboards sorted for this season that would be fab.

Fang you're just lucky I had a quiet night on wine, and what's this 'adulting' you talk about
Great night, thanks Fangster

Yesterday saw some worthy entries for this season's trophies.

Slowie has kicked it off the Flying Fangy with a 40.213 (5x10)
And Stretchy has pipped Jonski for first place on the Fangtastic Five leader board with 297.227

Stay tuned for the next strong sea breeze in the weed...

Swindy didn't you hear? it's only open to flappy tail boards between 63 and 65 wide now