For those who can't remember Mark and I set up a usefully complex scoring system that spat out a number with many decimal places. The first leg of the tour (Rugby) scored 8.774964387, while leg two (Ice Hockey) fared better at 10.44030651. The categories used to compile the score (all out of five) are:
Refreshments
Transport
Merchandising
Quality of game
Entertaining Extras
Value for money
Springfield Factor
Fellow Spectators
A little excel jiggery pokery and from the average of the square root of each score we get our total. The photo below reveals why the scoring in the 'fellow spectators' category was unlikely to be high -namely there were none. More on scores later.
Mark and I spent ages pretending to understand the complex form guide shown below before placing bets essentially at random based on whimsy. (At one point Mark bet on a little horse "because it shares my bosses name in part" - it obviously lost and Mark will naturally claim the £2 back from the aforementioned boss as really its her fault). In the end some wins did come our way and both of us left feeling like we had not been robbed too badly. (Although I did point out that we could have saved ourselves the trouble by walking in, handing the bookie a tenner, then walking out again)
The ticket stubs below are the loosing ones, the winners you don't get to keep.
The all important scores:
Refreshments: 2 (standard burger and chips, hot chocolate, nothing interesting)
Transport: 5 (parked outside for free)
Merchandising: 0 (there was none)
Quality of game: 1.5 (not massively engaging)
Entertaining Extras: 1 (see shrubs lining the track in top photo)
Value for money: 3 (not bad)
Springfield Factor: 1 (seedy and quite coventry like, no real "bought in" element)
Fellow Spectators: 0 (there were none)
All this gives a predictably low total of 6.5, currently in last place. Oh well...
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