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.
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!
Kubb legends.
USA Kubb Championship 2016
Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!
Kubbchucks team shirts this year are awesome!
Kubb everywhere at US National Kubb Championship USA Kubb Championship!
Kubbchucks go 3-0 in USA kubb round robin!
Kubbchucks knocked out. Thanks US National Kubb Championship for USA Kubb Championship!
Sumo Sighting
SumoLogic Sumo Sighting on Kubb King at #TeamSPS TechJam event…
Sumo Sighting with Surly Brewing at #TeamSPS TechJam event…
Showing Isaiah Kubb.
Kubb sets at Target. Wow.
@thingles that's a @marimekkousa #kubb set @Target pic.twitter.com/dhg13T7T8N
— Jason "Birdtowner" Greenberg (@hdntwnctz) April 24, 2016
Fun Kubb event!
https://t.co/L4OwMhwBT6 - the Kubb Krawl is on! Target Field to @CHSFieldStPaul May 7th! https://t.co/hYD8tzd778 pic.twitter.com/SDoeZVCRl2
— Minnesota Kubb (@MNKubb) March 8, 2016
This summer I’ll have Basketball, Kubb, Horseshoes, Bags, Ladder Golf and “home” disc golf course at the cabin. Outside all day! 👍🏻😀
Can’t wait to see those on the Kubb pitch!
Our 51 new @JPbackyardgames kings are coming along. #8mForLife pic.twitter.com/vTA6cCByjH
— US Kubb Championship (@USAKubb) December 19, 2015