Outside Context

The DA’s have played some unusual games over the years, but this was a first for us: this was the first time that we were asked to be a scrip­ted opposition.

The idea has a lot of merit if you think about it. Firstly, games often ebb and flow ran­domly. One side may gain the upper hand in an attack, but they loose too many men to rein­force the pos­i­tion and soon are driven back and it is the other team who are then on the offens­ive. Sim­ilar to a game of foot­ball. How­ever, some­times a team simply ham­mers all oppos­i­tion to such an extent that the suf­fer­ing team can­not ful­fil their object­ives at all. Some­times they can­not get out of their safe zone. The game sud­denly becomes unbal­anced, tem­pers raise, cries of cheat­ing go up and no fun is had at all.

Well, at least none by the team get­ting a kicking.

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