15
teams. 40 participants. Five states represented. Over $500 for
charities. 40 pairs of eyeglasses for Unite for Sight. Oh yea,
and a large box of school supplies for a refugee camp in Ghana.
That is what kubb can do, in one day.
(more...)
Or, how about 31 teams, 77 participants,
and five states. Oh yea, and well over $1800 for two important
causes. Again, that is what kubb can do, in one day. (more)
World
Championship
U.S. Midwest Kubb Championship August 02, 2008 - Eau Claire,
WI
fundraiser for
USA for UNHCR (Darfur, Sudan) &
Eau Claire County Girls on the Run
Champions:
Peanut Butter Root Beer Snakes - Twin Cities, MN Dan Carlson, Ryan Whitney, and Keith Yanes Finished 8-0(16-2 in matches)
Thanks to everyone that
came to play, watch, sponsor, and/or volunteer. The event consisted
of 31 teams, 77 players, and five states were represented. The
event raised over $1800 for USA for UNHCR (12
survival kits will be sent to refugees from the Darfur region
of Sudan) and Girls on the Run.
Welcome to the home of Wisconsin
Kubb. This is the home of kubb in the state of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
The yard game kubb was born in Sweden and is played throughout
Sverige. Still played primarily in the Nordic countries, kubb
is now played around the world with tournaments played throughout
Europe and now in the U.S.A. Two major goals of Wisconsin Kubb
are to help spread Swedish culture and to unite and foster better
and more meaningful relationships in our communities.
Kubb comes from a land where
summer nights are mystical and merge with the mornings, and cloudless
winter days, with the sun low in the horizon, are blinding, bitter,
and at the same time agonizingly short. Many wonder about the
origins of this Swedish game, also known as Viking Chess. Where
in Sweden were the first throwing pins thrown at a kubb? Were
the Vikings the first ones to play kubb? Obviously, the answers
to those questions are unknown. However, it is easy to imagine
the first games of kubb being played with firewood or perhaps
scrap wood from a new barn. Perhaps the first kubb pitch was set
up in the deep, dark, stone covered, and troll-filled forests
of Småland. Or, perhaps the first kubb game was played in
a wind swept grassy area of Gotland or Öland in sight of
the raw and relentless Baltic Sea. Regardless, kubb, like many
of our ancestors, has traveled thousands of miles from a distant
and magical land, crossed an ocean, and now resides in Wisconsin.
Kubb
is for everyone. Let’s toss some lumber.
Kubb
förenar människor och skapar fred på jorden.
Kubb unites people and creates peace on earth.
August 17th Mark the date. Saturday, September
13th. Phoenix Park, Eau Claire. Kubb Friendly.
10am - 1pm.
August 1st The pitches are marked. The weather
forecast for the day of the battle is 88 degrees and sunny.
There is only one day until the much anticipated U.S. Midwest
Kubb Championship. Come one, come all.
July 30th
Kubb was being practiced in a variety of places today in Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls, in anticipation for the tournament.
Five states, 30 teams, and over 70 participants. For those of
you coming from out of town to the tournament, we would like
to welcome you to Kubb City, USA, also known as Eau Claire,
WI.
July 24th
Tonight, we introduced dozens of people to kubb at Phoenix Park
along the Chippewa River at the Thursday night concert
series. The sun was warm, the music was toe tapping, the
local ice
cream was cold and tasty, and the lumber was being tossed.
We had two pitches going and they were both full for almost
three hours. There is also ongoing discussion of creating a
winter indoor kubb league in Eau Claire, also known as Den Kubbstaden
(The Kubb City).
June 30th
Like the Vikings we are, the Berserkers took our kubb sets and
hit the high seas this summer. We did our part to spread the
kubb revolution at the Rockford, IL Swedish Historical Society's
Midsommar
on June 14th and the Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival
in Fargo-Moorehead on June 27-29.
April 6th
On April 5th, we had a kubb
friendly planned in Eau Claire from noon to 2pm. A spring
day. The sun was out. Games were going until well past three.
Five pitches with games. A bluegrass
band. Tons of kids. A Swedish flag. Well over sixty people
showed up. Two grills. A ton of great food. And of course, endless
kubb.
