CROKINOLE RUMBLE!

Spoilers ahead!*This article contains spoilers for **CROKINOLE RUMBLE!**. Be warned!*

## CROKINOLE RUMBLE!

### Cast

Blair, Dom, Laurie, Molly-Rose, Oli, Pete, Rosie, Sullivan, Tempest

### Games

*Crokinole*

}}**CROKINOLE RUMBLE!** was a livestreamed battle royale on the No Rolls Barred YouTube channel.

"*Well, this is a really dumb idea that we're doing...*"
―Laurie
This is a Crokinole competition, with players competing for the chance to face Lord of the Board Jon in a further challenge.

The competition is set up as a Royal Rumble style ongoing battle. Beginning with 2 competitors, new players join the game at 90 second intervals. The order of players is determined by drawing their token from a bag.

As each player is knocked off the board, according to normal Crokinole rules, they leave the game. Each player has 3 lives, so eliminated players have their token replaced in the bag, allowing for their return to the board until their lives are used up.

## Notable moments

* Token colours
	+ Laurie - orange
	+ Dom - red
	+ Rosie - white
	+ Tempest - pink
	+ Blair - yellow
	+ Oli - green
	+ Molly-Rose - black
	+ Sullivan - blue
	+ Pete - purple

* Oh the wrestling references - leaking all over the place in this one, unsurprisingly
* The 90 second interval turns out to be a countdown to drawing the next player's token from the bag, so it's slightly more NRB than it might have been
* Our maximum number of simultaneous players is  our full 9, reached for the first time at 0:31:00 with Pete's first turn
* Crew Alex supports with token removal, player selection, keeping track of turn order (which we first mess up at only 3 players)
* As a professional Canadian, Tempest wears his traditional Mountie uniform. Our rendition of the Canadian national anthem is less respectful and more Avengers
* Dom is our first self-elimination, Rosie our first competitive elimination
* Rosie's first elimination does lead to possibly the greatest moment in Laurie's life 0:53:13 - maybe even in all our lives
* Nice to see CBW making a rare appearance. Go watch *City British Wrestling* - it's on Chaotic Neutral now and it's great
* Our fastest elimination is Molly-Rose - on her first turn of her first go. She's at the table for 47 seconds, including all the working out of turn order
* Shortest time between elimination and return to the table is Blair, who was eliminated for the 1st time and returns for her 2nd only 11 seconds later. Oli isn't far off, with 27 seconds between his 1st elimination and 2nd turn
* Dom gets his own theme tune for his 2nd entrance - and the piglet stuff is still with us, I see. For his 3rd life he actually shows up as Stalin, complete with gaffer tape moustache
* Tempest thinks this is the most British room he's ever been in, but as chat points out - the queuing is far too chaotic for that to be true
* All the old rivalries and bitter feuds resurface, quelle suprise. Welcome home, everyone
* Laurie's looking forward to getting out so he can have a nice sit down
* Tempest: "Pete still has 3 pieces on the board and his first life". That's what we call foreshadowing, people...
* $10 Patrons can apparently watch someone finally beat Sullivan off
* People on their last lives start playing incredibly defensively - but we really need to assemble to defeat Sullivan, still on his first life
* Molly-Rose loves to surf but hates sharks
* Tempest is 'thunder fingers' apparently
* Rosie grew Dom's moustache on her own leg and farmed it out to him
* Dom: "What are you snickering at on Loser's Bench?"
* Laurie: "Start getting each other out - then we can all go to the pub."
* Several people end up causing their own demise at one time or another: Dom (twice), Laurie, Molly-Rose, Tempest (twice), Oli, Rosie
* Tempest causes the most eliminations  - 7 - but that includes himself, twice. If we remove self-eliminations, Oli and Tempest are tied with 4 eliminations each
* Longest single stretch at the table is Sullivan's 1st life - a duration of approximately 38 minutes 38 seconds
* It all gets very messy at the end but we do get a winner
* Sullivan is going to NERBlemania

## Competitors

Approximate entry time based on arrival at the table