kayser update, for those who care but don't yet know

[fox]

Our club has sent eight teams to the Kayser.  Our records, as of last night, were:

1:  2-1; into the rat race, i.e. third event, competing against Team 8 to advance to the quarter-final.
2 (SeMu, RaSe, BrPa, KaSm):  2-0; in the first event quarter-final this morning at 11:30.
3 (DaHa, AiRe, ToRe, PaMa):  3-0; in the first event quarter-final this morning at 11:30.
4 (JeEr, RaBe, ScFa, EmMo):  1-1; in the second event quarter-final this morning at 9:15.
5 (BrGa, LaBa, BeYe, RaTr):  2-0; in the first event quarter-final this morning at 11:30.
6 (devilvern, flt, FrCa, TrCa):  1-1; in the second event quarter-final this afternoon at 4:30.
7 (JaSe, self, JAt, cmshaw):  2-0; in the first event quarter-final this morning at 11:30.
8:  1-2; in the third event competing against Team 1 to advance to the quarter-final.

The 1 vs. 8 game is in progress, because the poor dears had to play at 7am this morning.  Owing to the miracles of modern technology, I am able to tell you that the score is 7-3 after five ends; but the score was last updated on the website half an hour ago, so there must be sixth-end scores that are simply not available to me.  (The game's over by now, because the next draw is 9:15.)  Aha, it has just updated:  the sixth end evidently blanked, and 8 took one in the seventh, for a score of 7-4, meaning the game is either over for time, or over because Team 8 would have to steal four to tie.

Not that ReBa hasn't given up big ends, mind.  But the text update now tells us insptr_penguin has conceded.

1 (ReBa, datlowen, LiAn, DoAn):  3-1; advances to the quarter-final of the third event, this afternoon at 2:15.
8 (insptr_penguin, ScCo, abka, JaTr):  1-3, and done for the weekend.  But you should have seen the place go bananas when they won last night.  The skip's dad (who is also the skip of Team 4, incidentally) leapt up in the air, screaming and waving a chair around, ran around hugging everybody, ran down to the ice and administered a bear hug that lifted the child up off her feet.  It was pretty cool.  (That win ensured that all teams from our club had at least one win in this tournament, which may be the first time that's happened since we started sending people to it.)

Conversation that occurred twenty minutes ago:

cmshaw:  [hangs up phone]
me:  That was your dad with a wake-up call?
cmshaw:  He didn't intend it to be a wake-up call.  But he does, you know.  Know me.