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Issue One Hundred

11th August 2021

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HELLO, good evening and welcome to Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own Railway Rivals game. It is a subzeen to Douglas Kent's Eternal Sunshine. It's produced by Peter Sullivan peter@burdonvale.co.uk. It's also available on the web at: http://www.burdonvale.co.uk/octopus/.

Round 7 (RR 2473 B) — "Garrett Hobart" — Railway Rivals Map "B" (Lon&Lpl)

1) (46-21) Peterborough - Huddersfield : AYUP 20+6 ; HJA 10-6
2) (@5-52) Wales - Birmingham : HJA 20-3 ; JGF 10+3 ;
3) (31-43) Preston - Lincoln : No entries
4) (51-32) Birmingham - Stoke : BASH 20 ; JGF 10+1 ; AYUP 0-1.
5) (16-63) Sheffield - London : JGF 20-7+2 ; AYUP 10-2+7 ; HJA 0.
6) (61-@3) London - The North : HJA 20-6+4 ; JGF 10-4 ; AYUP +6
7) (26-11) Manchester - Grimsby : AYUP 20

Builds:

JGL black (John David Galt): (H27)- Gloucester.
=-1+1[A]+2[H]
AYUP yellow (Mark Firth): (F57) -D58 [-1 J] ; (H16) - G17 - E16 - Shrewsbury ; (Birmingham) - K22 - J22 [-1 B] - J24 - I25 [-1 B] ; (I67) - F68.
=-14-3
HJA red (Hank Alme): (D46) - Doncaster [-2 J] - B49 ; (G20) - Wolverhampton.
=-5-2
BASH sky-blue (Bob Blanchett): No builds.
=0+2[A]

Scores on the Doors:

Company	B/fwd	001	002	003	004	005	006	007	Builds	C/fwd
JGL	103		13		11	15	6		-01-00+03	150
AYUP	71	26			-1	15	6	20	-14-03+00	120
HJA	56	4	17			0	18		-05-02+00	88
BASH	-2				20				-00-00+02	20
Totals	228	30	30	0	30	30	30	20	-20-05+05	378

For Round 8, you may enter 5 of the following 8 races, then build up to 12 points of physical track. Orders to me, Peter Sullivan, at peter@burdonvale.co.uk by WEDNESDAY, 8th SEPTEMBER 2021.

Races for Round Eight:

3) (31-43) Preston - Lincoln (re-offer)
8) (@6-33) Any Seaport - Shrewsbury
9) (34-15) Liverpool - Doncaster
10) (25-@4) Manchester - The North
11) (56-42) Gloucester - Nottingham
12) (12-53) Hull - Wolverhampton
13) (62-24) London - Bolton
14) (41-66) Derby - Oxford

That was Octopus's Garden #100, Startling Press production number 396.