The Fantastic Fourth: Rise of the Super Sister

Greetings fellow Fufys!

Firstly, a rousing Hi5 to all those who could make it to Wonder La on Friday! As the various status messages later that day/the next day made it quite clear, it was a day to be remembered indeed.
Between repeated bouts of Insanity and trying to "sink" ForeheadFufy at the Wave Pool, it was a very fun day indeed, but more on that in a separate post that Forehead and I will begin work on soon...very soon..

Things had been a little dull on the Fufying-at-home front, what with ToxicFufy hardly proving to be a worthy opponent, and MaFufy never taking any game too seriously, and always putting making gallons of Coffee/Tea/Bournvita for the rest of the players above her matches, Knurd's hopes of having high-energy tournaments dwindled. Until one fateful post on the Fufy group changed it all.

Sifting through the material, you may find a recent post by MiddleAge(he really needs a new name!), about how the rules of carrom have changed(that post goes on to elaborate those changed rules). MiddleAge also remarked that this was like a 20-20 version of Carrom, something that immediately caught my attention.

All it took for Knurd were some snide remarks about woeful shotmaking, and some more taunts about blaming poor skills on vaastu and the wind, to get ToxicFufy to try out the new format.
And so it began - Fufy Home League - The Twenty20 Version.

The Kings XI vs Deccan Chargers was going on as well, so both Toxic as well as Knurd were thoroughly distracted throughout the match. That being said, the match proceeded, and I would go on to take the first "Set" quite comfortably(12-0). (For what a "Set" means, refer MiddleAge's post)
After this, ToxicFufy lost all hopes, squandered some really good opportunities of making comebacks and handed the second set to Knurd, thereby ending the first Twenty20 carrom match played here quite prematurely.

Knurd was slightly disappointed at things having ended so quickly, and was wondering what to do, which is when it happened.

The Sister arrived, showing a keen interest to get in on the game. A weary ToxicFufy was only too glad to give up his place and toddled off to dinner. The Sister(yet to be christened) arrived, severely out of touch, professing that she hasn't played for years, and that this would be a disaster. Knurd, smug in the knowledge that victory was certain, indulged her, telling her that she might even beat him, who can ever tell?.. and so on and so forth.

All perfectly brother-sisterly you think? Think again!
Within two boards, the score read 16-0, in favour of the Super Sister. Sister, who seemed to be in remarkale form, pocketed her coins easily, while Knurd struggled to put away even the biscuit-est of shots, and "oota"ed so many times that had he been a witness, Uppi/EarthFufy would've wept with joy. At this point, KnurdFufy decided that the time was over to be nice to out-of-touch players, and to play as he usually did.

After some very close boards, which saw the use of loud and well-timed screaming, giggling and board-shaking courtesy Super Sister, Knurd managed to withstand it all, and bring the game to a 22-27 scoreline, in favour of the Super Sister.

To no avail. :(
Pulling out all the stops and tossing fair play right out of the window(my coins would all "accidentally" get pushed behind my baseline whenever she tried to play, which would mean me wasting hours trying to rebound all of them to a playing area while she swiftly cleared coins), SuperSister countered everything Knurd threw at her, and sealed the game in the next two boards.

Well..defeat certainly came from the most unexpected adversary to KnurdFufy, who has been greatly humbled by this. But he is not too worried yet; there are many more rainy days, and many more games to be played.

Quotable Quotes:

KnurdFufy: (after losing 11 points in a board) "My GOD you're still good!"
SuperSister:(arranging coins for next board) "Hmm. You're clearly still bad."
KnurdFufy:(in an undertone) "@#$%^&^$#$@#..."

KnurdFufy:(trailing 22-28, one black, one white, one queen left on board) "Don't think its over! I'm the King of Comebacks!"
SuperSister:(after Knurd has burnt the board to give her the win) "Sure. You can come back tomorrow. We'll see then."