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BBC News
16-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Swedish lawn game 'Kubb' rises in popularity across UK
A Swedish lawn game which is steadily growing in popularity in the UK is being dominated by a team from five players called "Stockholm Syndrome" were crowned UK champions in June and recently placed in the top 20 at the European Kubb Championships in Normandy, often dubbed Viking chess, involves two teams throwing wooden batons to knock over their opponents' wooden blocks, called kubbs, and ultimately trying to topple the central "king"."If you can throw a stick, you can play Kubb. It's friendly, fun, and completely addictive," said Alistair Goulding, Stockholm Syndrome team member. The team trains twice a week in Queen's Square and Bedminster and has been playing together since Goulding first discovered Kubb in 2017 at a family gathering, when his brother-in-law - who is part Danish - introduced the game."I got hooked straight away," he said. "I asked for a set for my birthday a few days later, and we entered the UK championships that same year."The team name is a tongue-in-cheek nod to both their obsession with the game and its Nordic roots. "Most teams go for puns based on Kubb, but we wanted something different," said Mr Goulding. Although still relatively unknown in the UK, Kubb is a fixture in parts of Europe, where teams regularly compete in national leagues and local its UK fanbase is growing, with games now popping up at weddings, parks, and community Woodward, organiser of the UK Kubb Championships, has witnessed the sport's evolution firsthand."When we started the tournament in 2016, the format was very loose," he said. "Back then, it was hard to even find a Kubb set, and hardly anyone had heard of it." Since then, interest has steadily risen. "On 28 June this year, we had nearly 90 teams and almost 300 people playing Kubb in the sun," Mr Woodward said. "People travel from all over the UK and Europe. Every year, players come up to us saying it was their first time and that they'll be back, bringing friends."As for Stockholm Syndrome, the team hopes the laid-back but tactical nature of the sport will continue to attract new players.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
To The Point: Battle over tipped wages
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — This week on 'To The Point,' the battle over tipped wages. We're looking at both sides of the issue: workers' rights and protecting small businesses. 'This could really damage our small businesses a lot, and I think that closure is definitely not out of the question for some of our small businesses if this stuff were to go through,' state Rep. Bradley Slagh, R-Zeeland, said. Tipped wage rework bill passes Michigan Senate 'It's the same argument that the corporate business industry says every time we have a conversation about raising wages for the lowest earners among us. I'll give you just an example. Everywhere around the country that has seen an increase in the minimum wage, the doomsday scenario hasn't played out,' Dave Woodward of One Fair Wage Michigan said. Servers cheer Michigan Senate's tipped wage 'compromise' All that on this 'To The Point' episode for the weekend of Feb. 15. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
