It turned out to be a beautiful day for Petanque. We arrived early and got some good practice games in. Philippe, Jean Luc, Art, Jim and Judy won many of their early matches. Barbara came along to support the team, and graciously took these photos (after lunch - we were so engrossed we forgot about taking pictures prior!!)
This was a carousel doubles format and each player was randomly matched with another, changing partners each match. We played 2 matches, then broke for lunch. The final match decided who would be in the round of 16 and progress toward the finals.
We were close but, alas, did not make the final cut. Here are some photos from the afternoon....
Here's Philippe in action.
Here's Art in his bike shorts - it got very warm as the day progressed...
Judy and Gilbert couldn't win against the young lady to their right - she was a great shooter and got into the next round.
Here's Jean Luc in action...
And Jim with Thierry....
It was lots of fun...can't wait til the next tournament!
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Sorry I do not how you send a message. So I post here!
Hello, allow me to introduce the new game of Petanque whose I'm the creator : The New Petanque.
The concept is simply that: each player plays with 3 boules (bowls) of three different values. These three boules are worth 1, 2 and 3 points and the choice to launch the boule is free at all times ....
... The rest of the rules of the game remains almost identical to the traditional Petanque game. However, this new concept changes spectacularly the strategy in the game. This makes this new version of Petanque game more attractive and more fascinating: at each run launch the choice of the played boule, but also those to be drawn, will greatly influence the course of the game! This ability to choose, for each run, the value of the boule and what happens then to the ground boules will also introduce a strong atmosphere of suspense throughout the round. This outstanding suspense will be felt so by both teams either the audience!
You can find all of this new concept on this site: http://jean-yves.boulay.pagesperso-orange.fr/petanque/index.htm
Jean-Yves BOULAY
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