Pre-Announcing the Stranger's 64th Annual All-City Invitational Single (Or Maybe Double) Elimination World Series of CRIBBAGE World/Windermere Cup Superbowl Championship of CRIBBAGE

Posted late yesterday afternoon, moved up so no local peggers miss it.

No one else at The Stranger knows this yet—I haven't actually run it by our promotions department (hey, Caroline!)—but this August The Stranger is going to host a cribbage tournament. It'll be $20 to enter (or maybe $10), first prize is gonna be $1,000 (or maybe $2,000), a cribbage board created by a local-artist-to-be-named-later, and bragging rights in every old folks home in the city. Second prize is gonna be bupkis (or maybe money).

The first thing that Caroline and the publisher and the rest of the killjoys on the third floor are gonna want to know before they allow me to actually announce the Stranger's 64th Annual All-City Invitational Single (Or Maybe Double) Elimination World Series of CRIBBAGE World/Windermere Cup Superbowl Championship of CRIBBAGE is if there are actually enough people in Seattle who 1. play cribbage or care to learn to play cribbage by August and 2. would be inclined to enter a cribbage tournament.

sport of kings

Cribbage, of course, is thecard game of Wisconsin lake cabins. We're going to host it in a church hall, serve Leinenkugel, brats, and salty nuts, and we'll go all day until a champion is at last crowned. Lindy West has agreed to enter and I will challenge her in the first round.

But only if there's enough interest.

Is there?