A pre-festivities sharpener of Mornington Crescent?

[MarkWithaC]

Unfortunately I was absent for the thrilling climax to the game yesterday, and offer belated congratulations to LlynTegid. It's not often you see that move deployed with such laser-like accuracy.
A last hurrah before we all disperse for our traditional mid-winter break? (I'm for the Canaries this year with the curate and his new-ish special friend, a dear young man).
I'll start us off with a good invigorating Hudson's Cast: Goodge Street.

Onwards and upwards!

Balham

Hmm Maud going with the "Gateway to the South" there so the obvious way forward is Morden

I've been itching to try a Flipped 20 and now I think I can:
St Paul's

Interesting use of the Bank-Monument interchange there. So the Central line is back in play, a move therefore to Leyton.

Ooh! Reverse Ferret to Dagenham Heathway!

LOVES me a Reverse Ferret!

Vauxhall

Victoria line to the rescue here- Oxford Circus.

Seven Sisters (don’t ask, don’t tell)

You've been talking to the Maidstone tournament convener about the last post-meeting cheese and wine too, eh, Maud? Honestly, I still don't quite know what to believe. Although I may never look at a tube of salted straws in quite the same way again.

Nine Elms

Maidstone tournament convenor, c’est moi.

Battersea Power Station

Well, that is a particularly impressive disguise, then, Maud. And impressive acting; at one point at last year's Easter do I thought I might have to call an ambulance.

Edgware Road (using the odd-numbered quark index).

Marylebone. The kind of place where an open air tournament of the game of games would not look out of place, especially if gathered on platform 4.

@LlynTegid I prefer the intimacy of Edgeware Road for an open air tournament

Talking of which, I’m sorry to hear that MC has still not been designated an Olympic sport. We’ll have to hope for progress before 2028.

After that last move interchanges are wild, so I’m heading to Finchley Road

I expect the lack of the game of games in the 2024 Olympics is that the Paris hosts wanted to have their game Chatelet Les Halles included, but the IOC were deadlocked as to which game to include.

Kilburn

Llyn, I heard that about the IOC too. It's odd really; I'd always thought the1925 Basl Convention ratified in perpetuity the statute that MC superseded all other national iterations, in the Olympic context anyway. It will be interesting to see how the Los Angeles committee handle it.

For now, North Harrow, using one of my Schatz's Allowances.

Schatz allowances!!! My my, right that will take me very nicely to Moor Park

I doubt the game of games will ever be recognised as an Olympic sport - too much potential for international misunderstandings at a time when tensions are already high - although I’ve heard there’s an informal league being played in the athletes’ village.

Beckmann’s shuffle to

Kensington Olympia

That’s a good point Maud - the Olympic Games are supposed to foster international friendship and harmony, and alas that can’t always be relied on with MC, as those of us who were at the international final in 1987 can vouch. I believe the Archdeacon is still in therapy.

Backflip to Holland Park

Honestly, I think it's because the international community can't face the utter drubbing GB would dole out.

Canada Water

There are plenty of players just in the small community on here who could represent GB internationally, the knowledge and expertise is quite outstanding. Sometimes I feel quite humble at the level of play on here.
With that I will proceed with Bounds Green

@Seaside1234 that has never stopped there being world championships in some pastimes where the UK competitor used to always win, such as darts or snooker.

Turnpike Lane

Duck, the Archdeacon has been in therapy for quite a lot of different reasons, to be quite honest. '87 was remarkable though, and not only for what went on in the gaming pavilions.

Maud, I heard the same (from the Major, who is let's say embedded in the eventing camp). Apparently Argentina are the hot favourites.

I think GB would field a pretty impressive team. I'd certainly put forward at least a couple of players from this thread.

A downwards Clinch toPerivale.

I am shaken to the core that tawdry so-called sports such as darts and snooker could be mentioned in the same breath as the game of games.

Mark, my informant at the Olympics says the smart money is on Fiji, who are playing it very cool at the moment but may yet surprise us all.

Pimlico

Fiji, eh? I did hear mutterings that there is internal dissent at the Argentina camp to do with the question of allowing sub-laterals. An international problem, it seems; I remember quite the to-do on the same subject at Tobermory a few Conclaves back.

To be completely fair to darts and snooker, there is at least one similarity: the old Countess did used to like to play the game of games with a Silk Cut to hand, much like Jimmy White in his pomp. She was not averse to a little glass of something while playing, either.

A Georgian Third to Hainault.