9/15 Battle of the Sidewalk Vendors: BALUT vs. PISBOL

Team BALUT was up against Team PISBOL in Week 2's Battle of the Sidewalk Vendors.  Sisiw kayang labanan ng maaligamgam na BALUT ang matitinding PISBOL na naisawsaw sa laway ng bayan?  But before the games could begin, we had some business to take care of.

 

The Team Captains and Bowling Committee discussed proposals regarding the Week 1 results.  Here are the details for interested parties (others can skip to the other juicy parts of the blog):

• If you may recall, Week 1 play was conducted at 80% handicap as entered incorrectly at the Palace, but all league scores were corrected to 90% handicap per league rules.  This changed the outcome of the ADOBO vs. DAING matchup from 2.5/1.5 to 2/2 in the league standing sheets.  Much appreciate the careful thought and generosity (naks) of our dear Commish Jay, to provide as solution the deduction of one point from his week 1, game 3 score, in order for the calculations to more accurately reflect the real-time outcome of the match.  If your can understand why this works, hats off to you, you have super utak-brains = bow.
• An additional quirk of the calculation included the fact that the league averages are only based on games played within the league, so the previous Philly Pinoy averages were not included in the average calculation.  This is a lesson learned to be incorporated into future league rules: the previous average and handicap was used to create the teams and in the scoring for Week 1 but will not be reflected in league average.
• There are still a couple of errors in the league standing sheet that we are actively working with the Palace to correct, e.g. Team 7 = Daing.

 

It was a WONDERFUL sight to see everybody with their Filipino shirts on!  Of course, we all had fun posing in all different permutations and subgroups: shirts with maps, shirts with same design, groups maskipops, everybody together now!  Nice shirts, y'all, looking good!  Thank you to Mary Ann for the beautiful pictures, posted on the Philly Pinoy Facebook page.

PHILLY PINOY MFL players in Filipino shirts

Parang nag-usap ang Team BALUT: we all somehow ended coming in with white shirts on.  Looking good, mukhang suswertihin but we were up against Team PISBOL's formidable Paolo (last week's high scorer with his 242 game), the always smiling and consistent Francis/Atit and Sansu's prebowl scores (missed you, San!).  

TEAM PISBOL (L-R):

Francis/Atit Carangan, Susan/Sansu Sanchez, Paolo Quimbo

And boy, was it an epic battle!  We never seemed to be able to catch up on the first game - galing ng prebowl ni Susan!  And with Paolo and Francis so strong and consistent, we had no chance even though Edmer, Lowen and I played close to our averages.  

From Game 2 onwards, my Team BALUT found a secret weapon in Lowen's hot hand. Strikes and spares, oh me, oh my!  Galing galing, such awesome play!  Alas, bagsak kami ni Edmer at tuloy ang consistent fabulosity of Team PISBOL, so talo pa rin kami sa Game 2.  Pero hindi pa tapos, laban pa!

Gumagabi na, inaantok na si Atit, magpapatulog pa ng bata, kaya napagalitan ako sa dami kong satsat...  Ang solusyon? Magbato ng maraming strike!  I came close to a 200 game with a 192, and with Edmer and Lowen fighting back and fighting hard for every pin, Team BALUT rallied to win its first game and earn its first point: nakaisa!  We lost the match but gained one win and played well - may pag-asa pa, pitong gabi pa ang labanan at nagsisimula pa lang kaming magpakitang gilas!  

It was great playing with Team PISBOL, winner of the Battle of the Sidewalk Vendors.  Galing galing!  So here is the song for the night, sang to the tune of "Balut Penoy Balut":

BALUT, team kong BALUT 

Sana nama'y di maitlog ang BALUT

Dahil si Edmer, Lowen at Jing

Kahit laro ay kay galing

Hanggang ngayon ay 

Nangangarap pa ng WIN

 

PISBOL versus BALUT

PISBOL kay galing, sus, nakakayamot

Si Sansu ay gumawa

Paolo at Francis walang awa

Kaya Team BALUT 

Ngayon ay nakakaawa...

So for some OFFICIAL RESULTS (updated 9/18):  The league standings are available on the Palace Website.
 

Top teams are MONAY, DAING and ADOBO.  Great play, teams!  Naghahabol lahat sa naghihintay na limpak-limpak na salapi!

Top male players based on two-week average are Romy (SISIG, 208 average), Paolo (PISBOL, 203 average) and my own Go Papa Joel C (GOTO, 186 average).

Top female players based on two-week average are Jing (BALUT, 167 average) and tie between two players with 151 average: Mitchie (LAPU-LAPU) and Chelo (MONAY).  Go, my IncrediBOWL BowlStar teammates!  We are winner!

Our 200 clubbers are Romy (SISIG, 238 and 213), Joel C (GOTO, 224), Art (MONAY, 224), Paolo (PISBOL, 212 and 200) and Lino (ADOBO, 201).  Hanep!  Balang araw, mabibilang din ako sa inyo, yebah!

Outstanding performance by a team where all players performed well above their averages goes to Team DAING with Lanie, Jay and Joel D.  To give a snap shot of their super fantabulous performance, their individual highest score games were 171 from Lanie (99 average), 178 from Joel (161 average) and 181 from Jay (139 average, this was the highest score in the pit!).  Wow, when a whole team collectively adds almost 60 pins to their average, it is amazing!  Well done!  And apologies to Team KROPEK for being the victim of that performance.

Super-duper players that had games 20+ pins over their averages included the following:

• Ed (LAPU-LAPU, 141)
• Lowen (BALUT, 161)
• Ivan (TAPSILOG, 175)
• Eden (GOTO, 150)
• Edwin (MONAY, 182)
• Sansu (PISBOL, 125)
• Blue (ADOBO, 181)

 NOTE: This list does not include the top players, 200 clubbers and outstanding team players from Team DAING - nabanggit ko na kayo, iba naman ang babanggitin ko!  We are improving: galing galing!

My performance was instantly blogged - I am a happy BowlStar.  

The winner of our 50/50 raffle was Art who got $34 from the pot.  Magaling na ang laro, winner pa ng raffle, suwerti!
 

Team BALUT (ranked last) will be up against Team KROPEK (ranked next to last) next week.  It is the Battle of the Bottom Feeders: Sino na naman ang mas galit at mas sabik manalo?  Abangan! 

Till next week: bowl, baby, bowl!