Up at the Camelot Dome tonight to face the Merlins, or, as we'd call them in my house, the Melvins. Another new team combination of:

• Anshul -- two easy-ish wins then lost a corking match to hot 'n' cold Paul
• Ed -- undefeated, somehow, though helped by a Cassy's worth of nets and edges against Andrea
• Rene -- the evening's star with 2 out of 3, tripling his season's tally and inevitably losing the other game in the fifth end

Keenest to play doubles was on-song Rene joined by hat-trick Ed. Close but not close enough. Still, a most pleasing result.