Steampunk tea duel at Chepstow

Battle of the biscuits at the Return to the Wye Steampunk day with MC Tink Bell explaining the rules.

Transcript

00:00And let that happen first, and I'll explain the rules.

00:05Here we go. As you can see, the tea is indeed very hot.

00:09So, these gentlemen will choose their weapons-wise.

00:13In this case, it is malted milk, because it is the most dunkable crumbly biscuit.

00:19I will count to three. They will dunk their biscuit, and when I say out, they will move their biscuit from the steaming input.

00:26They will then eyeball each other.

00:29And whoever's biscuit crumbles first is elusive.

00:34However, in the Welsh rules, there is a way out of this.

00:39And if you see a biscuit begin to bend, and believe me, it's got to bend,

00:45you can do a thing called a clean snatch, whereby you fling the biscuit into your open mouth before it falls.

00:52However, this is double jeopardy, because you get it on your shirt front, or your chin, or the table,

00:58or the teacup, or anywhere, you lose.

01:01And as before, because we're all steampunked, because we believe in fairness,

01:07the loser must hang their head in shame.

01:10What will you do, child?

01:11Shame, shame, shame.

01:13And they will never again hold their head up in society.

01:17So, before this tea gets me cooler, gentlemen, choose your weapons.

01:22Oh, there's a lot of psyching out going on already.

01:28This is an intensely psychological game here.

01:31So we have, oh, now it's getting serious.

01:35But I have to say, Charlie's barely noticed.

01:38Are we ready, gentlemen?

01:39On the count of three.

01:42One, two, three, duck.

01:45And hold, and hold, and out.

01:49And this is where the scap...

01:51Oh!

01:52Straight away!

01:54Shame, shame, shame.

01:58Charlie, you're through to round two.

01:59Two.

02:00Two.

02:01Three.