NABO Mus Tournament-Winnemucca Women Win!

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by jguerricabeitia

This past Saturday 41 teams of two squared off in Chino, CA for the annual NABO mus tournament.  Representing SEE were Jose Maria Guerricabeitia of Boise, ID and me, Joe M. Guerricabeitia of Seattle, filling in for Fidel Michelena of Port Angeles, who with my father won the Spring tournament in April of this year.

Each team played 9 other teams in their randomized bracket for a best of three series. Mus play started at 8:30am and broke for lunch at 12:00pm. After a rocky start with a two match loss, SEE was 2:2 at lunch. Following the wonderful meal of chuleta, chorizo, morcilla, tortilla, ogia and ardaua (can you have a Basque meal without wine and bread?!?) SEE continued winning with a 3  match streak and were  leading the bracket with a record of 5:2. Ultimately SEE’s team ended with a 5:4 winning record in a 3 way tie below the winners of the bracket. Not bad considering that I haven’t played a single hand of mus in 2009 and haven’t played with my father in even more time!

All of the mus players were very friendly. Sadly many were not aware Seattle or WA even had a club, a fact we hope to change by holding the 1st WA based NABO meeting this October and by continuing to attend events like the annual mus tournament where club members, not just board members, meet face-to-face.

At 7:30pm the national mus champions were announced. Two women from Winnemucca carried the title and will be representing NABO in the international tournament which will be held this Fall in Bizkaia Spain. Second place went to Jean Flesher (the lead of the band entertaining the evening at 9pm) and his partner of Salt Lake City. I am unsure who 3rd place went to. Fourth place was held by Jose Maria Artiach and Xanti Alcelay of Boise, ID.

When the results are published by NABO I will post the final standings. Zorionak to the team from Winnemucca. Not only is this the 1st  female team to win a NABO tournament, but I think this gives pause to all of us to realize our Basque women can bluff and bs just as well as the men

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SEE Web Page Update!

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by jguerricabeitia

The SEE web page has recently undergone some revisions, primarily adding more features to help members better access information on our website. Here is a quick summary:

Under the heading “Pages”

Event Calendar-Now the 1st permanent link on the left-hand side of the main web page links to our *new* Event Calendar. Here we will post all of the SEE events and any Basque events we know about in our general vicinity that SEE members might want to participate in. If you have events that you would like added to the SEE calendar e-mail any of the board members and we can post them on the site.

Under the heading “Post Categories”

Meetings-Going forward SEE will be publishing the meeting notes in this section so members can stay informed about what items the board is working on.

Newsletter- A new category for newsletters that should make searching them easier as well.

Under-

Post Calendar-This shows which days during the current month new posts were published on. Also by clicking the days posts were made (days shown in blue) you can jump directly to the posts.

Archives-SEE web posts are now archived by month so if you have a general idea when an older post was published you should be able to find it quickly!

Admin-The admin area helps the board jump directly to the website features that allow us to post and make web changes.

Last but not least I added a tiny compressed version of the Washington state/ikurrina symbol that Blas Uberuaga created for the club as what is known as a “favicon” or favorite icon. This is now proudly displayed in front of the web address when you access the SEE site and is also shown on the web page tab if you are using tabbed browsing.

~j

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