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Issue Seventy-Eight

23rd February 2013

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

Round 10 — "Hannibal Hamlin"

Railway Rivals Map FR

22) (23-33) Rennes - Lille: REN 15-2 ; LOSER 15-1-4+1 ; FWOGGIE 0+4 ; FRAK IT 0-1+2+1.
23) (36-64) Nancy - Marseille: REN 20 ; NERTZ 10.
24) (65-54) Toulon - Bordeaux: NERTZ 20-1+5 ; FRAK IT 10-5 ; LOSER +1.
25) (55-22) Bayonne - Cherbourg: FWOGGIE 20-4+2 ; LOSER 10-2 ; NERTZ +4.
26) (13-@1) Paris - England: REN 20 ; FRAK IT 10.
27) (@2-45) BeNeLux - Lyon: REN 20+3 ; NERTZ 10-3-2 ; FWOGGIE 0 ; LOSER 0+2.
28) (44-14) Lyon - Paris: NERTZ 20+1 ; FRAK IT 10-1 ; FWOGGIE 0 ; LOSER 0.

Builds:

NERTZ (William Whyte, USA.) [purple]: t(C59) - F57 [-1 Fw] [-1 Fr] [-1 R] - F56 - Rouen. =-7-3
LOSER (Geoff Challinger, UK.) [blue]: No builds.
FRAK IT (W. Andrew York, USA.) [black]: No builds.
FWOGGIE (Brendan Whyte, Aus.) [green]: (V21) - V22 - U23 [-1 N]. =-2-1
RENAISSANCE (Robin ap Cynan, UK.) [yellow]: (Z31) - Y32. =-1

Scores on the Doors:

Company	B/fwd	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	Builds	C/fwd
NERTZ	131		10	24	4		5	21	-07-03+01	186
LOSER	86	11		1	8		2	0	-00-00+00	108
FRAK IT	153	2		5		10		9	-00-00+01	180
FWOGGIE	193	4			18		0	0	-02-01+01	213
RENAISSANCE	157	13	20			20	23		-01-00+01	233
Totals	720	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	-10-04+04	920

Races for Round Eleven:

29) (46-21) St Etienne - Brest
30) (@5-52) Italy - Limoges
31) (31-43) Amiens - Dijon
32) (51-32) Clermont Ferrand - Dunkerque
33) (16-63) Le Havre - Marseille
34) (61-@3) Grenoble - Germany
35) (26-11) La Rochelle - Paris

GENEVA: For Round Eleven, you may enter up to four of these races, and then build up to 6 physical points of track (i.e. payments to rivals don't count against the limit; although of course you still pay them.) The deadline for Round Ten orders is SATURDAY, 16th MARCH, 2013 to Peter Sullivan, peter@burdonvale.co.uk

That was Octopus's Garden #78, A Startling Press production.