2021

The story of my twenty-sixth BARGE. “Mask up!”

Joker and Card Back All the files to make a deck are available here. In 2021, Tim Showalter and John “JZK” Scheinberg made decks to give away. Usually you just do the backs, which we got Patrick Milligan to do for us; but since the vendor had the ugliest card faces I've ever seen, we did our own. The card faces are standard (yet technically custom, because we did both sides), but I was really happy with the ladybug joker. Plus, with the extra joker, each deck has 55 cards! ...

Complete results for 2021

Context: Russ Fox was the first BARGEr to win the Main Event twice. However, his second win was in 2020 when the event was held online. Because of this, his win merits an Asterisk. This, Russ’ second set, highlights major sporting events that merit an Asterisk. His first chip set, back in 2002, used the theme of “Rocks”. References Russ provided these explanations for the images on his chips: Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961 to set the record, but it was in a 162-game season when the previous record was set in a 156-game season; the record had an asterisk. ...