Changes
no edit summary
In fact, the second season of cribbage saw not only a modest increase in the total number of games played, but the longest gaming sessions of any year. Zach's [[walkthrough double]] in Prospect housed no fewer than three cribbage boards, and up to four games in a row were played on said boards on some days -- and not just over Winter Study. Somehow, visits later in the day for a second bout of matches were also fairly common, though nearly unheard of in future years, as the more wizened players seemed to opt for a steadier pace.
Williams Cribbage historians, in conjunction with eminent sociologists, have postulated that the great distance between Prospect and Mission was spanned, in part, by Zach's Ms. Pacman habit coupled with the existence of the game on Jonathan's computer. Anecdotes from the time record that Zach could often be found in Jonathan's [[Pratt]] room even when he was not there, playing Ms. Pacman in the endless quest for a high score -- perhaps to alleviate his cribagge cribbage woes, for Jonathan did well this year. Playing solo, Zach set some impressive high scores, but the highest score in the books at Williams was set by the simultaneous cooperative play of Zach and Jonathan: well over 200,000.
===The 100th Game of 2002 - 2003===
Out of deference to tradition and a certain homesickness, the [[common room]] of [[East#East_3|East 3]] was again chosen as the site for the century match. Dan Krass '05 and Al Grodon Gordon '04, were hired to commentate for the event. Latecomers trickled in as Dan and Al interviewed the players on their game plans, and on the season so far. A modest crowd of spectators witnessed Zach's sound defeat.
Occassions of great moment need great events, and so the publicity for the second hundredth game of cribbage (#200) took on a wider scope. Emails were sent to the [[Bridge]] and [[Deviants]] [[listservers]]; the Deviants version, sent 10 April 2003, is reprinted below:
===Highlights of 2003 - 2004===
* '''The year's first on-campus game is played in the [[East 3]] [[common room]].''' Zach makes a monument to his victory and his maturity on the common room wall by scrawling a boast in washable crayonpermanent marker.
* '''The year's official tally is burned into a plank of wood,''' to make the most craftsmanship-intensive cribbage scoreboard of the four years.