{"id":8760,"date":"2025-05-28T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:41:54","slug":"vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-board-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-board-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Cup Highlights: Board Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VC Cup took a playful turn this month with two fantastic <strong>Board Games sessions<\/strong> that brought out the competitive spirit, quick thinking, and lots of laughter across our University teams!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session One<\/strong> kicked off on Thursday with a brilliant lineup of games including <em>Hues and Cues<\/em>, <em>Herd Mentality<\/em>, <em>Battleships<\/em>, and <em>P for Pizza<\/em>. The energy was high and the strategies fierce\u2014but it was <strong>RISistence is Futile<\/strong> who took the spotlight, storming ahead with an impressive <strong>38 points in Hues and Cues<\/strong>, helping them land a strong <strong>60-point finish<\/strong> overall for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, <strong>Session Two<\/strong> followed the next Tuesday with another exciting mix: <em>Dobble<\/em>, <em>Trivial Pursuit<\/em>, <em>Articulate<\/em>, and the ever-popular <em>Klask<\/em>. <strong>Infomaniacs<\/strong> proved themselves as quick thinkers and smooth communicators, dominating the session with a powerful <strong>40-point win in Klask<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>After tallying up the scores across both sessions, here are your final standings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st Place: Infomaniacs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd Place: Marlowe\u2019s Marauders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd Place: Flu Fighters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>huge thank you<\/strong> to everyone who came along, rolled the dice, and made both sessions such a success. Your enthusiasm and team spirit made this one of the most popular VC Cup events yet.<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures, check out our Flickr album to see our teams scoring top marks on their favourite board games; https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjCf4mq<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep your eyes on your diaries<\/strong>\u2014with the buzz around campus, more board game sessions could be on the cards very soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VC Cup took a playful turn this month with two fantastic Board Games sessions that brought out the competitive spirit, quick thinking, and lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-board-games-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84971,"featured_media":8761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,95646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}