Thanks to Josh for hosting this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and the overall standings are pretty close to what they were last week.  Les has pulled ahead of Julian in the most improved race, but Julian is still leading the season with the new handicap system.  We also had four new members join this week, so welcome to Karl, Tammy, Marc, and Jeff!

This week we also started testing a new rule where we allowed groups to switch games instead of waiting.  Since we had 8 groups of 4 this time, there were no games where we needed a median, so it wasn’t a big deal to switch players.  Going forward, we’re going to keep this in place, but with the following guidelines:

• If a game is marked on the score sheets with an Asterisk * then that game MUST be played to get a median (since it means we have groups of three.
• A game can be substituted if the game you’re supposed to play is busy with a league game, and will likely stay so for more than 5 minutes. 
• All four members of a group need to agree to switch games.

If in doubt, ask before you swap a game out.  At larger locations, we’re going to try to spread players out as much as possible, so swapping games won’t be as necessary, but at smaller locations, we’ll obviously have overlap, and it’s never obvious what is going to take the a long time on any given night.  If you’ve got any other suggestions on how else to implement this, let me know!

Next week we’re back to Glen’s place in Newmarket.  Glen hasn’t hosted in a while, but he’s got a great collection of Bally/Williams games.  Have a great week everyone!