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2024 Skat Year Review

In 2024, the Red Deer Skat Club met on 48 Mondays, starting January 8. Six of those Mondays were double round evenings, meaning we played a total of 54 rounds over the year.

Having had switched to electronic scorekeeping last year has made quite the difference in the ability to report on statistics and by the beginning of the year, the group was comfortable with it. Every once in a while, we did switch to paper, just so our manual scorekeeping skills would not rust away.

As agreed to in the 2023 AGM in December, the club continued ranking by average with a minimum of 32 rounds needing to be played to be eligible for the championship title. The club also agreed to continue with random draws for all but the last five rounds.

After the first quarter, Gerd was in the lead with 1174.31 points average, just ahead of Fred with 1113.47 points, followed by Joe O' with 1098.85 points average. In the second quarter, Fred showed his skill with averaging 1368.83 points for the quarter, followed by Gerd (1255.71) and Kevin (1005.73) for the second quarter. The competition between Fred and his students looked promising for the teacher up to that point in time in the year, although Fred did not attend as frequent anymore. The following 90 days were dominated by Joe O' with 1291.71 for the quarter, followed by Gerd (1266.85) and Helen (1243). The fourth quarter unfortunately had to be played without our long-term mentor Fred, who passed away on September 1. We were all shocked of the sudden passing of our mentor, we will miss our dear friend, and not just because of his fierce Skat skills, but also for the person that he was.

In Q4, Joe O' mounted a great comeback, winning the quarter with an 1166.50 average before Gerd (1099.63) and Bert with 1035.20 average for the quarter.

All rounds combined, and the minimum of the mandatory 32 rounds taken into consideration, the 2024 Red Deer Skat Club Champion is Gerd with an average of 1195.24 for the year. Joe's commendable challenge towards the end secured him runner-up with 1118.49 points average. Third place went to John, who played a very solid year as well.

Here the complete results (considering the minimum of 32 series played)

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So, to the people out there, reading this, if cards are your thing, we encourage you to come by on a Monday night and check us out! Play is held at the German-Canadian Club (location can be found on the contact tab above) and starts every Monday at 6:30pm! On long weekends, where the Monday is a holiday, we play two rounds starting at 3:30pm with a club sponsored meal at 6pm. The second round on a holiday Monday starts as soon as we are done dinner (usually around 6:45pm).

 

Red Deer Skat Club Fee:

We have eliminated the annual Skat Club Fee for 2023, however, since we still need to pay for the food for our two-round nights as well as the Christmas windup party, we are now charging 5 dollars per night of which two dollars will be put in the pot to cover these expenses and the annual prize awards.

ISPA Fee:

The ISPA fees are now being paid from the entry fees for the Monday game, we, the Red Deer Skat Club have currently 21 players registered at the International Skat Players Association for North America.

 

2023 Bump Money:

For the first three losses one dollar each is collected, then two dollars for every following loss.

We decided to implement a $ 0.25 penalty per player for passed in games this year, to encourage a little more risky bidding among the contestants.

We should mention however that newcomers do only pay half of the bump money for the first six months.

 

Rules:

ISPA rules apply and will be enforced so that we learn the rules better. We will email them and print them off, so that everyone has a copy and can take them home to read.

 

In order to qualify as a club champion, a player must have participated at least in 32 rounds of Skat over the season.

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