Two regattas. One weekend. A series title decided by 3 points out of 795.
mulletmancharles takes Fixture Series 3 by the thinnest margin we've seen — edging Glucky7s by 3 and Fraser Innes by 4 across the Big Ten Invitational and the Lenny Peters Cup.
Final series standings
| Rank | Player | Series points | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🏆 | mulletmancharles | 795 | — |
| 2 | Glucky7s | 792 | −3 |
| 3 | Fraser Innes | 791 | −4 |
| 4 | tia | 736 | −59 |
| 5 | fergusmainland | 728 | −67 |
Three players inside four points. A 55-point cliff down to fourth. This series ended with a photo between three boats and clear water behind.
How it played out
| Player | Big Ten Invitational | Lenny Peters Cup | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| mulletmancharles | 504 (8th) | 291 (1st 🏆) | 795 |
| Glucky7s | 560 (1st 🏆) | 232 (11th) | 792 |
| Fraser Innes | 531 (3rd) | 260 (4th) | 791 |
| tia | 525 (4th) | 211 (17th) | 736 |
| fergusmainland | 494 (12th) | 234 (8th) | 728 |
Everyone ran the same two-event card. The series came down to which regatta each player turned up for.
The three strategies that nearly won it
mulletmancharles — the specialist who spiked at Lenny Peters
Mid-pack at Big Ten (8th, 504 pts). Perfect 8-from-8 at Lenny Peters, sharing the top of the leaderboard with Christian Rorie on 291 and winning on countback. That countback — the margin-bonus tiebreaker nobody notices until it matters — is the reason he's lifting the series trophy. Without it, the top of Lenny Peters drops to 290, Glucky7s takes the series on 791 countback over Fraser, and this story looks completely different.
Glucky7s — the Big Ten destroyer
Won the Big Ten outright on 560 — a blowout. It should have been enough. But he slipped to 11th at Lenny Peters on 232 — 59 points behind mulletmancharles's perfect card. Do that maths backwards: a single additional correct pick at Lenny Peters (25+ points) would have flipped the series. One race, one tick, and he's the champion twice over. Instead finishes 3 points short. Brutal.
Fraser Innes — the consistent bridesmaid
3rd at Big Ten, 4th at Lenny Peters. The only player in the top five to finish inside the top four at both regattas. And it still wasn't enough — 4 points short of the title. Consistency got him there; a single spike would have sealed it. Fraser's Wisconsin gamble on Big Ten's 1V8 Flight 4 was the missing win — one more tick and he's on 816 instead of 791.
tia and fergusmainland — the mirror cards
Fourth and fifth by way of nearly opposite lines. tia was a Big Ten contender (4th, 525) who couldn't find a rhythm at Lenny Peters (17th, 211). fergusmainland did the inverse — quiet at Big Ten (12th, 494), back on the pace at Lenny Peters (8th, 234). Two bounces in the wrong direction between them. They're separated by 8 points, which says more about how close this whole field was than about how their weekends went.
The shape of the series
- Big Ten Invitational was the scoring mountain — 560 pts at the top, 16 flights of racing, the event that should have decided a series. Glucky7s won it; mulletmancharles was 8th.
- Lenny Peters Cup was the reset — only 8 races, but worth up to 291 points from a perfect card and featuring Pimenov's explosive WORLD quad finale. mulletmancharles hit it. Glucky7s didn't.
That's the series in one line: mulletmancharles won 1-0 on decisive events. One cup, one outright win. Everyone else had to make up the shortfall with consistency and none of them quite did.
One-sentence summary
Two regattas, five contenders, a four-point spread across the podium — mulletmancharles takes Fixture Series 3 because he caught fire at Lenny Peters on the only day it counted.
