Last year, we held the inaugural Fumblers B Decathlon during our end of season cricket trip. And going into that weekend, I was cautiously optimistic that we'd pull it off. We had our ten events -- some of which we put some real thought into, others which we seemingly tossed in to get to ten -- but I was far from convinced that it would be a success.
Apart from our failure to actually stage all ten events, however, last year's Decathlon met and exceeded all of my wildest expectations. If I was expecting a weekend that would register an 8 out of 10, that weekend was a 10 out of 10. It... was... awesome.
So for this year, the bar had been set. And it had been set high. No longer did we view the Decathlon as a few incidental activities during our end of season trip; this time around, it felt as though our end of season trip merely acted as a stage for the Decathlon. So yeah, expectations were fairly lofty, and we knew that we had our work cut out for us.
Several days removed from the Second Annual Fumblers B Decathlon, I can confidently say that we not only staged a weekend on par with last year's, but it actually was better than last year's. That's right: this weekend went to 11.
Planning started early this year. Maybe a month or so before the actual trip, Shorty, Maz and I revisited last year's competition, discussed what had and hadn't worked, and after some debate, we settled on our ten events. Some were carried over from last year with no changes. Some were modifications from last year. And some were new events altogether.
By the Thursday night before the trip, we had everything in order: manuals for the Decathlon (five pages long!), scorecards, a trophy for the winner, a punishment for the loser, and a couple of surprises. It was going to be good.
It was good. And I'll recap everything in this space over the next week.
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