Stoughton will be the host of the 2018 Stoughton Kubb Invitational which will take place on July 28 at John Nygaard Virgin Lake Park. The Stoughton Kubb Club along with Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge 5-314 will team up to provide a full day of Kubb learning and play for any whom may be interested. While there is a team entrance fee of $40 per team (two to six players per team), kid teams of 12 years and younger can play for free. Registration for the event will take place on the day of the event starting at 8:00 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. Come participate and help spread the fellowship of Kubb. All proceeds will go to local charities. Sons of Norway will have pizza and case wieners for sale over the lunch break. You can find out more about the Stoughton Kubb Club or the upcoming Kubb Invitational by looking for the flyers posted all over town, or by finding them on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/stoughtonkubbclub/. Kubb (which rhymes with “tube”) also known as “Viking Chess”, is a Scandinavian game rumored to have been started over a 1,000 years ago by the Vikings who used the skull and femur bones of their enemies as game pieces. The more probable explanation is that the game of Kubb began using scraps of firewood since the word “kubb” is derived from the Swedish word träkubbe which literally means “block of wood”. For more information about the tournament, contact Todd Fossum at tfossum@eci-consulting.com.