Dedicated America's Cup fans at the White Swan in Greytown will be hoping today's the day, with Oracle blitzing Emirates Team New Zealand in both races yesterday.
The Wairarapa Times-Age has been sharing a stool over several days at the hotel's bar, which has put on a sports screen for fans.
So far, the paper has been building up a reasonable photo collection of tense, agonised punters with long faces.
As New Zealand hangs on match point, parents have been opting to bring their children in for the first races, armed with scrapbooks and colouring paper, before bustling them off to nearby Greytown School before the second race starts.
The only cheers have been during the weekend's race 13, when Team New Zealand posted a massive 1500m lead, prompting one child watching the screen to call out: "where's Oracle?" But it didn't matter; groans and a shuffling of seats quickly followed as the race was called off because the kiwi boat ran out of time.
