BROOKLYN BOULE: June 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Pétanque Score is now available from the App Store....

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Pétanque Score....COMING SPRING 2011

An iOS app for Pétanque

Keeping your pétanque score has never been easier. In the tradition of a hand-held pocket counter, you rotate the wheels to keep score for each side,

choose the top score to be played to and set the 'game over' mode for a visual finale. This app will never leave you asking "…..what's the score?" as the boules clack and the pastis is sipped in the afternoon sun.
Made by pétanque players, for pétanque players.

Features

•Track score of both players / teams

•Swipe across to reset score to 0-0

•Adjust score up and down by turning wheels

•Remembers score after closing

•Select highest score 0-11, 0-13, 0-15

•Set game mode to Game Over or free rotation

•Shortcut access to instructions (tap 3 fingers on Score screen)

•Click chasing arrows to animate flip

•Localized for French and English

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Pétanque

The sublime game, of French/Belgian decent, played world wide has now found it's way to North Brooklyn under the shade of three oak trees in McCarren Park williamsburg/Greenpoint. As in resent years the popularity, good press and not to mention the Bastille Day Bar Tabac Petanque tournament has opened a lot of eyes to the joy of Petanque. There are of course places to play in Manhattan and clubs to join, but time has come for some Brooklyn Boule. In McCarren park there are Bocce courts next to the running track but alas it's surface is not suited (in my opinion) to Petanque, as well as feeling like your playing in a coal bunker. So to the trees we go, three beautiful American Oak trees ( now more, thanks to the all the groups and support for the park), are nestled in the mid-south east of the park. The trees cover an area large enough for one game and there is a another, that is in the light at night, shade by day and lit in the eve. They are NOT perfect "pistes" or man-made courts, but challenging patches of playable surface, so hard to find in our beautifully manicured urban city parks. To share the surrounding areas with such activities as Baseball, Kickball, Frisbees, kites and boomerangs; and on the odd occasion Medieval Sword Fighting. Only enhances the communal aspect of park life and the people around us.
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I have started this blog to create some interest and hope that players of all levels can embrace the idea of playing in Brooklyn, maybe leading to having our own "Washington Square like Petanque Piste".

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