Merry Christmas, John!

The Weavers were over to celebrate Christmas over this past weekend. In so doing, of course, we had a full evening to enjoy a Mario (Christmas) Party!


John proved to be a good boy in Game One as we ventured through Windmill Central (and learned that 10 rounds is just not enough; rule change implemented: 15 rolls through the Netherlands!). John scored the path to the three-star windwill and took the game with six stars.


Game Two was an entirely different story. And yes, John won. But this had nothing to do with JW's actions this year! In fact, the match game down to this. If Amy's character OR if the computer won the final star, she would have been champ. Had Todd won the final star, he would have been champ. Same, had JW won, he would have taken the match.

That bloody final star... turns out it was the shopping star. JW and I TIED in what we spent during the round so it came down to coins. JW: 4. TM: 0. ARRRRRRRGHHHHHH!

Mario Party Revisited!

In spite of JW and Amy now being married and Mario Parties seemlingly ending as we know it, we forged ahead in the face of this dry spell and played Mario Party last night! Once again, JW dominated. While TM dominated Game One, random bonus stars put JW on top of the Tower of Mario Party Power:


In a desire to have a rematch, Amy and Todd decided to take JW on again, this time in the Dutch world of bidding on windmills.


JW kicked even more Mario Party butt in the second match, garnering six (6) stars by bidding only -- not even to mention bonus stars! The rest of the competitors won three, three and one star, respectively -- before bonus stars were even awarded.

Interestingly, for the first time we saw a bonus star awarded to NO ONE! Literally, not one competitor landed on the Green Question Mark space, yet the system chose that as a bonus star. With that, not one player could have gotten all three stars even to tie JW and he walked away with the second win of the night.

Final Tally:
JW - 2
AW - 0
TM - 0

Good times altogether. And we finally Mario Partied after so much time!

Surprise Party!

Jesse Paulson made a surprise visit to my place for some hang out time -- and for Mario Party! Unfortunately, Boo enjoyed the spoils of victory, but we bested him with some serious bonding time nonetheless!

Boooooooooooooring

Or was it?!Yes, another match of Mario Party has now (finally!) taken place. It seems to have been a VERY similar outcome with Soon-To-Be-No-More-Bachelor Johnny Weaver taking top prize. However, the championship was in hot dispute until the FINAL Bonus Star (red spaces of all things!) which gave Waluigi the win over Peach (Todd) with 67 to 57 coins.

Not that anyone's upset, but this one is being protested. Red spaces?! FFS.

Birthday (Mario) Party!

As part of the finale of my Birthday Weekend, John & Amy ventured over for Sunday evening dinner and Mario Party! We played two outstanding rounds with two separate winners...

In the first round, John -- played in the game by Boo -- eeked past Amy, the computer and I on his way to yet another victory with the ghost. John is hereby also banned from being Boo... if we haven't already banned that character from his repertoire (along with Toad):


In the second of two highly contested matches, the Birthday Boy himself took the crown:

A Perfect Match!

Not only did Amy win last night's Mario Party with the boys, but it was a perfect match from the start!

1. Amy rhymes with Yoshi.
2. She was wearing green in honor of her character!

The boys didn't approach the game with such a selfless paradigm, and instead ended the evening green with envy:


Poor boys!

A Tight One!

The most recent Mario Party was indeed a tight one! To let you share in the suspense, instead of posting the winner straight away, I'd prefer to walk you through the step-by-step of what John, Amy and I experienced last night...

First, we ended Pagoda Peak in a four-way tie with 1 star each!

When it came to coins, Amy won the final game to take a 1-coin lead over Boo (JW):

So we all knew that the Bonus Stars would lead us to the winner. Little did we know however, what they would be, and once announced, who in the world won them:

But Luigi (Todd) took the Mini Games star! A shocker as JW frequenly wins this star!

There was a two-way winner for Orbs used -- Boo & Toad! Darned small fries...

The final star would mean that whoever won the Running Star for movement on the board would win the whole thing! If Amy won, she'd have two stars and the most coins! But it was not meant to be...

Boo secured the third and final bonus star and effectively gave John yet another Mario Party win!

And we hereby state that JW can no longer be Boo either. Boring.

Wario ees zuh WEE-nuhr!

Wario (aka John Weaver) triumphs in our first February Mario Party outing!
Note: he did not win @ Sally's earlier in the evening on the Wii. That game did not exist -- there is no photographic evidence. So there.

Guy Weekend Champion!

Having won two out of the three Mario Parties of Man Weekend Jan2008, John Weaver is the CHAMP! Congrats on another fine finish, JW!

What this photo is not telling you, however, Avid Reader, is that Todd won the Man Weekend Jan2008 Barnyard Championship. Just sayin'.

Man Saturday, Game One

To keep our tradition of Man Weekend alive, JW and I relived the Mario Party adventures of a not so unrecent Thanksgiving. Sadly, with a similar start:

Dice Block Tie-Breaker!!

Are you kidding me?! For the first time ever, we ended Mario Party in a dead heat! Seven stars and ten coins for both Jesse Paulson and I. How do our friends at Nintendo choose to decide the SuperStar?
A Dice Block Tie-Breaker, of course!

Who rolled a three and who rolled a nine?

Indeed, Jesse Paulson takes the victory THIS time.

We have seen some amazing finishes friend; this one may go down as the all-time craziest!

Twas the Night Before Friday...

...and all through the house,
Todd was not stirring,
and Amy won at Mario Party!


Indeed, friends John & Amy McWeaver stayed with me Thursday night. After crashing for the night, they arrived to take Mario Party by storm! Turns out, Amy/Luigi took John and the computer to the cleaners and captured this photo for me to find on my camera the next day!

Wah WAAAAAAAAAAH

Perhaps it was the week away in Dublin or perhaps it was the month away from Mario Party. Whatever it was, it was enough to enable the BLOODY COMPUTER to beat John, Amy and I. BLAST!