Kubb
Tales of playing the Swedish lawn game Kubb with friends and colleagues. I share snapshots of pickup games, tournament stories and even how we incorporate Kubb into our TeamSPS events.
- Skubby Doo
- King Kubbas
- Kubbernetes
Flying the Planet Kubb banner while the kids play some Kubb! 👍
Kubbchucks playing in our 8th annual Minnesota Kubb winter tournament, part of the Loppet! Largest winter Kubb tournament in the world!
Kubbchucks went 2-1 in this mornings Minnesota Kubb round robin! On to the Championship bracket!
Throw off for entry into the Minnesota Kubb Championship bracket. INTENSE KUBB ACTION! Throw 3 Kubbs, then 6 batons. Whoever downs most Kubbs wins! 🔥
These three Kubb professionals took the Kubbchucks down without even flinching. Brutal.
Minnesota Kubb 2019 Winter Tournament
The Kubbchucks played our 8th annual Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament this weekend. After a week of record cold temperatures we were treated to a fabulous day in the mid-30’s, nice sunshine and no wind. Perfect for winter Kubb!
Round Robin
We opened the round robin versus Team Dondante. This was their first tournament and we helped them with tournament rules. They were good players, but needed to work on their drilling technique. We took the match 2-0 and it went on way too long because we were able to close it out. We went very cold on our 8m and that makes for a long game, if you don’t lose.
We played the Free Agents next, serious Kubb talent here. We had an epic fail in our first game and left a field Kubb on our very first turn, throwing 4 batons at 2 Kubbs. The Free Agents then kindly put us out of our misery. We drug out the 2nd game for a good long time. We got to 8 Kubbs in play and went back and forth for about 20 minutes. Sadly we broke first and left a line, which resulted in the expected immediate loss. 0-2 on that match.
We finished the round robin versus The Four Old Guys, however there were only three of them. They had a good game, just lacked some consistency. We were never really at risk in these games, and closed out the match 0-2.
Bracket
With a 2-1 record out of the round robin we went into the difficult end of the Round of 16.
We had to play Skol in the round of 16. Three monster Kubb players including Evan Fitzgerald. We didn’t stand a chance. On top of that, we played horribly. I don’t mind to lose, but our play was really sub-par. It took about 10 mins for them to put us away.
Free Agents, the team that we lost to in the round robin ended up winning the whole tournament.
We had a great day of Winter Kubb! 👍🏻
Fun (and chilly!) day playing Kubb and Mölkky at the Olson Family Weekend!
Kubb, king of lawn games. Still love this painted set I won at the US National Kubb Championship!
2018 SPS Kubb Tournament
Great day for our #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament! Good luck to all the teams!
Results after round 1 of #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament! Skubby Doo v King Kubbas in the lead!
Teams that Kubb together, win together! #TeamSPS
Winners from #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament…
Best team name winner… Bring Back Kubbicles Plz!
We all got to meet Dan Pritchard in person today! Should have gotten a pic. Kubb uniting people in action. 😊👍🏻
SPS Brew-Off with Kubb! Go #TeamSPS! 👍
SPS TechJam 2018
Today is our annual #TeamSPS TechJam event bringing the global SPS technology team together to learn, share, and have fun. The agenda is packed with over two dozen presenters. Automation, GraphQL, Containers, Architecture and more on the agenda! 🙌🏆
A huge thank you to the #TeamSPS TechJam event organizers! 👏 Your passion and drive make us a better team!
Bridget Kromhout getting SPS TechJam started off! Computers are easy, people are hard! 👏
Great #TeamSPS speakers at SPS TechJam! Thank you for sharing! 🙌🏆
Today we have people from United States 🇺🇸 (multiple cities), Ukraine 🇺🇦, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳 and Bulgaria 🇧🇬 with #TeamSPS and partners here in Minneapolis. Global! 🌏
Evolutionary architecture, Kotlin, and GraphQL. Great 2nd half of the morning at SPS TechJam! 🙌🏆
Afternoon sessions for SPS TechJam. 🙌🏆
Women in Tech sharing with #TeamSPS the great work they are leading! 🙌🏆
I left my iPad at my seat while stepping away and #TeamSPS security was on the job with a good reminder! 🔐
“At SPS it might be Kube or Kubb!” Kelly Hamm at SumoLogic knows #TeamSPS — and thanks for the Kubb set!
Another great #TeamSPS TechJam! Wonderful topics, great speakers and an amazing team! 🙌🏆
Not sure about the Paul DeCoursey sticker in the lower right. 😳
Time for some fun socializing for #TeamSPS at TechJam! 🍻
The bishops on the “summer” side of our custom Chess set are Kubb players, of course.
If Curling can be an Olympic sport than surely Kubb could be too. 🤞🏻
Congratulations to Duluth Curling Club for bringing home the first US Gold in Curling.
Interesting strategy in Curling.
Mass Start Speed Skating reminds me a lot of track cycling.
Excited to head to the world’s largest winter Kubb tournament at the Loppet today! Go Kubbchucks!
Warming up for a day of winter Kubb!
Winter Kubb basecamp!
Eric Goplin kicking off Minnesota Kubb tournament!
Kubbchucks at our 6th Minnesota Kubb at the Loppet!
Winter Kubb at its finest. Nice sunny day.
Kubb on frozen Lake Calhoun!
Kubbchucks went 3-2 in morning round robin. Onto afternoon round robin! 🤞🏻👍🏻
The Kubbchucks are registered for the 2018 MN Kubb Winter Tournament!
Morning Kubb!
Kubb King.
Trying Mölkky for the first time today. Fun alternative to Kubb. Everything is fun on the beach. 🏖
Mölkky requires counting skills.
More beach Kubb.
Time for some Kubb!
Put the archive of the Open Loop podcast that Garrick Van Buren and I did in 2012 back online. Fun stuff. Lot’s of Kubb. 👍🏻
SPS TechJam 2017
Kicking off #TeamSPS TechJam community event. Great day of learning and sharing technology solutions ahead.
Nate and Dan sharing how they are using serverless solutions to create scalable and efficient services.
Marcell sharing capabilities of the newest editions of Microsoft SQL Server.
Valentin from our Kyiv office presenting at TechJam about migrating their service to microservices.
. #TeamSPS Introduction to Go by Cody!
Cool live coding and running it inside browser / presentation template. Nice!
Jez Humble giving remote keynote for #TeamSPS TechJam on continuous delivery improvements!
Had a great time doing #TeamSPS VP Jeopardy at TechJam! Good sports Kent, Amy, and Paul.
Travis Travis Gosselin sharing the DevOps journey in our Toronto #TeamSPS office.
Dan talking at #TeamSPS TechJam about isolation and benefits to systems. Less friction!
Corbett sharing with #TeamSPS TechJam the fundamental value of the SPS network. Bringing it home to wrap up the day!
Wrapped up #TeamSPS TechJam with Kubb, beer 🍺 and burgers 🍔!
Tough choices: great beer or great beer? 🍻
Kubbchucks at 2017 Loppet Kubb Tournament
It was a surprise to me that this was our 6th year playing in the Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament. When we were getting ready to play there was some discussion about it, and I thought it was our 4th. A careful accounting of the years brought it to 6 though, and as Eric Goplin started the tournament, we gave a loud shout when he called out any teams that had been there for six years, which is how old the tournament is.
Garrick, Jim and I made our way to the pitches and took our spot in Group D. We played We B Kubbing, Ice Kubb’s YouKubb Channel and Little Lebowski Urban Achievers in the round robin. The Lebowski’s were the 2016 Consolation Champions. We were the seed into the group with our T-9 place from 2016.
We were able to make it through the round robin 3-0. Our match against the Little Lebowski’s didn’t complete, we were ahead 1 game to 0 and ahead on the baseline when they called time. We were close to closing it out but didn’t get it done. The winter tournament has strict 45 minute time limits for round robin matches. The Ice Kubb’s we finished pretty quickly with a 2-0 win and were able to retire to the warming tent for some chili and a beer. We B Kubbing we started ice cold with and couldn’t hit anything. We lost our first game but the batons came back, and we finished it out 2-1 with plenty of time left.
We went into the championship bracket and the round of 16. This is dangerous territory for the Kubbchucks, it’s where we typically fall apart and lose terribly bad. We steeled ourselves for it and went in throwing well. It all worked out, and we took a 2-0 match against a team that I can’t recall the name of. All of the round of 16 games ended quickly, so we moved quickly on to the next round and played Strike Without Warning in the quarterfinals.
Strike Without Warning took us down so fast we hardly knew what was going on. They hit pretty much everything they threw at, and we were out 0-2 within about 15 minutes. We didn’t have a chance. They also went on to win the entire tournament.
We had a great day of Kubb and left with our best place ever, T-5. We’ll get a nice seed next year which hopefully we will use to our advantage for a 7th year showing! If you’re looking for something fun to do in the winter and live in the area, you should get yourself to the Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament!