WBL Round 2: The results

  Won Dr. Pt. Rnd. Total
Xero 2 2 2 0 12
Clem­enger 2 2 0 0 10
Sil­ver­stripe 1 2 0 1 7
Bowl­tron 1 2 0 0 6
Bow­l­ing­tonista 0 2 0 0 2
Click­suite 0 2 0 0 2
Dr: Drink Bonus, Pt: Points Bonus, Rnd: Ran­dom Bonus.

Team res­ults and com­ment­ary after the jump.

Wellingtonista on Public Address Radio

Well, it aired a couple of weeks ago, but the Wel­ling­tonista vibe is fairly time­less, so, if you missed it first time around, here’s Rus­sell Brown of Pub­lic Address fame being shown a night on the town by Wel­ling­ton’s largest blog­ging col­lect­ive…

If you want to stream the show via your default music play­er (so you can listen while brows­ing away from this page), click here.

Down­load the show for off­line listen­ing by click­ing here (right click, save as…, etc.)

Or just hit play (and remem­ber not to close the page)…

Whichever way you do it, it’s going to be a 7.84mb hit to your traffic.

WBL Round 1: the results

So we met, we bowled, great epic battles were fought, and drink­ing was the win­ner on the day. And also Xero. Here’s the league points so far.

  Played Won Drawn Drink bonus Points Bonus Total
Bow­l­ing­tonista 1 0 0 1 0 1
Bowl­tron 1 1 0 1 0 5
Clem­enger 1 1 0 1 0 5
Click­suite 1 0 0 1 0 1
Sil­ver­stripe 1 0 0 1 0 1
Xero 1 1 0 1 1 6

Team bowl­ing scores are after the jump.

The Wellingtonista Bowling League Draw

It gives us tre­mend­ous pleas­ure to announce the draw of our Bowl­ing League. Brave (but fool­ish for think­ing they could pos­sibly beat us) teams from Xero, Sil­ver­stripe, Click Suite, Clem­enger BBDO and the fant­ast­ic­ally named Bowl­tron will be tak­ing part and there­fore get massive karma points.

SEE THE FULL DRAW HERE.

Round 1 will be Tues­day 24th at 8pm at The Lanes on Wake­field St.

The rules on the night are as fol­lows:

  • If at the end of the game your team’s sum total (total of all four play­ers) is high­er than your oppos­i­tion’s then you get four com­pet­i­tion points.
  • If your team con­sumes more than four alco­hol­ic bever­ages (or aver­ages more than one per play­er) you get a bonus com­pet­i­tion point
  • The team with the highest sum total on the night gets an extra bonus point.

So if you booze up and roll like a god your team could come away with 6 points.

Expect to see many people at Clem­enger cry­ing on Wed­nes­day morn­ing after the Bow­l­ing­tonista give them the thrash­ing of their lives. Hur­rah!

Martha on the Front Page of the DomPost

Hard on the heels of one of their worst front pages ever, the Dom­Post goes some way to redeem­ing itself by put­ting one the of Wel­ling­tonista above the fold in today’s issue…

Nice work Martha. Way to fly the flag undies.

Bowling: It’s OOOOOOOOOOON!

We are super pleased and excited to announce that the Wel­ling­tonista Bowl­ing League is offi­cially a hap­pen­ing thing. Game nights will take place once a month until the round-robin is played out. The first night will be Tues­day 24 April at 8pm, so that we can all recov­er the next day.

There will be four people to a team, and your website/organisation may enter more than one team if you like. There will be a trophy. Register your team here in the com­ments, or email the.wellingtonista @ gmail.com before next Wed­nes­day 18. We’ll be bowl­ing at The Lanes on Wake­field St, and it’ll cost prob­ably $10 per per­son per game. Plus the drinks you will want to buy us.

Please do par­ti­cip­ate. Or are you scared that we will KICK YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES? Cos we totally will.

Quote of the night

James, whilst walk­ing through Cuba Mall with us all: “Hey, that bol­lard (covered in posters) looks just like our site!”.

Also, James gets super large bonus points for com­ing swim­ming tonight.

(And also: I heart Wel­ling­ton.)

What’s in a name #2

And the Wel­ling­tonista them­selves are in need of a name for their 10-pin bowl­ing team.

Sug­ges­tions so far…

  • Strike Force
  • Wel­ling­ton-PIN-stars
  • Gut­ter Rollers
  • Ultra-Cock­tail-Hour-Super-Bowl­ing-Squad

That Pin-Stars is going to take some beat­ing, but, for the sake of hav­ing a name in the hat, howza­bout The Strike­mas­ters (in trib­ute to the 80s Wel­ling­ton heavy met­al band of the same name).

Fur­ther monik­ers wel­come.

Welcome back home Wellington

Flickr: A Trek Through Wellington

To all those that left for the Yuletide, wel­come back. We at Wel­ling­tonista Towers trust you all had a spark­ling time away cel­eb­rat­ing Christ­mas and New Year, are refreshed and ready to take on anoth­er fun packed Wel­ling­ton year.

Oh, and before I con­tin­ue, just a word about the weath­er – don’t worry about it. If it’s “too” windy it means the beaches will be free of riff-raff, if it’s rain­ing the cafes will be buzz­ing and if it’s “gen­er­ally fine with the odd cloud and a chance of showers” it means the TV weath­er people have just told you that there’s gonna be “weath­er!” (it happened last night on TV One).

Any­who, on to 2007 and your Wel­ling­tonista …

Photo Credits

Thanks to the pho­to­graph­ers respons­ible for allow­ing us to use their work as the back­ground image at the top of each page. If you wer­en’t aware, the image rotates for each indi­vidu­al browser every 24 hours.

The images are…

  1. Inside of the Embassy Pic­ture theatre: ???
  2. Mephisto Jones grafitti col­lage: ???
  3. Flat White and a Cheese Scone: cof­fee photo by Tani­wha. Not sure about the scone, to tell the truth.
  4. Wel­ling­ton from the Tur­bine: noizy­boy.
  5. Wel­ling­ton City­scape at Night photo by ???
  6. The City-to-Sea Bridge Icons: Tani­wha.