Photo Above showing the differences in water composition around Australia, from Questacon.
Once again the biscuits were not breaking, and duellists more in danger of cramped wrist than a laundry bill from a splodged biscuit. It turned out that the supply in Goulburn was Hard Water, due to the amount of lime about. With the biscuits not wiggling when waggled we had to go straight to elimination biscuits yet again.
These are the trials that the Tiffin Master or Mistress must face at every duel on the road, and need to be kept in mind by any tea duel organisers. It is the official policy of the Australian Tea Duelling Association to now conduct practice duels under local conditions wherever we travel, and we can not press upon you the importance of doing so yourself. Happy Dunking.
"Karl Marx became the enemy of steampunk when he said that all proper tea is theft."