Planet Kubb Score

My notation and scoring system for recording Kubb games, begun on Planet Kubb in 2012 and being rebuilt, not yet published.

Status: Active Being built or operated.
Dates: Started 2012
Topics: Play Archives
Latest evidence: Latest commit, Aug 17, 2014

Planet Kubb Score is my system for writing down a game of Kubb “like a baseball box score.” I created it with Garrick van Buren, who said on Open Loop #3 in July 2012 that we had been working on it “almost from the very beginning” and who drew up the first scoresheet. I call it “the very first scoring & notation system for Kubb” (Fun Facts). By July 2012 the Planet Kubb Wiki had a Notation page whose goals were a notation that scales from player-by-player detail to simple games, could be sent over Twitter “turn by turn, tweet by tweet,” and is language neutral.

The scoring repository holds the Planet Kubb scoresheet, including version 11 from Garrick van Buren, added in July 2014. PyKubb, started in August 2014, is a Python module to analyze Kubb games and output statistics. In October 2013 I was “proud of” a new scoresheet with on-pitch stats. That month I wrote a Backus-Naur form grammar for the notation, and in 2017 I mentioned having tried to write a parser for it with PyParsing (Weekly Thing 25).

I am rebuilding the notation, grammar and scoresheets as a new site. It has not been published yet.

Activity

14 commits, all by me, the first on Jul 6, 2014.

Commits each year from 2014 to 2026, most in 2014 (14). By me With an agent By others

The latest weeks with activity

Week of Aug 11, 2014 12 commits, all by me
9 more commits
Week of Jul 14, 2014 1 commit by me
- Adding v11 of scoresheet from @garrickvanburen. Close #3.
Week of Jun 30, 2014 1 commit by me
- Initial commit

All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

web.archive.org/web/20120715062240/http://wiki.planetkubb.com/wiki/Notation archive
- First archived Jul 15, 2012 by the Internet Archive (existence evidence, not a launch date)
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
Planet-Kubb/scoring historical

Planet Kubb Scoresheet and supporting materials.
- Repository created Jul 7, 2014 (a development record, not a launch date)
- Latest commit Jul 20, 2014; 0 commits on master between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
Planet-Kubb/PyKubb historical

Python module to analyze Kubb games and output statistics.
- Repository created Aug 16, 2014 (a development record, not a launch date)
- Python
- Latest commit Aug 17, 2014; 0 commits on master between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
- Observed Oct 18, 2026

Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

Planet Kubb Score began on Planet Kubb

The notation was first published on the Planet Kubb Wiki, and the scoring materials live in the Planet Kubb GitHub organization. Source
Open Loop discussed Planet Kubb Score

Episode 3, Kubb Fever, linked the Planet Kubb notation and scoresheet and talked through how Garrick van Buren and I record games. Source

History

Aug 27, 2014 development Notation BNF grammar
I write a BNF grammar for the notation. Source
Oct 31, 2013 milestone A scoresheet with on-pitch stats
A new Planet Kubb scoresheet records statistics during play. Source
Jul 23, 2012 archive Kubb, notation, and a community on the web
Open Loop’s Kubb Fever episode links Planet Kubb Notation and Scoresheet. This dates the public record, not the original launch. Source