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The Mars Scorecard

An excerpt from the Mars Scorecard explains how it works:

“Welcome Space Sports fans! As you are well aware, Earth is currently the underdog in the solar system division in the Expensive Hardware Lob. For every piece of hardware that returns useful information from the Lobbee’s planet, the Lobber scores a point. For every piece of hardware sucessfully thwarted by the Lobbee (secret agent LGMs [two to a trenchcoat], IPBMs, “lasers”, blowing sand in the lens, etc…), they score a point.”