Good evening my friends, and welcome to Quizzy... Tuesday? Yep, hope you remembered we're on a different day this week. Despite what I said last week, I'm not changing the blog's title to reflect the change of day. Nor am I going to review Mastermind more fully again, though it was one worthy of a better write-up, so I'm glad I could give it that at least. Anyway, let's do this thing, beginning with UC and the final first round match...
Magdalen College Oxford was, for a few years, the most successful institution in UC history, and it still is the second most, with four series wins, in 96-97, 97-98, 03-04 and 10-11, and a second place finish as well in 14-15; tonight is its first appearance for six series, its last team having unluckily drawn and been trounced by Corpus Christi Cambridge in the second round. This year's team were:
Aidan Woo, from Sydney, studying History and Politics
Lily Costa-Ferreira, from South West London, studying Human Sciences
Captain: Benjamin Sharkey, from North London, studying History
Sasha Walker, from Ely, studying Computer Science
Robinson College Cambridge, the youngest college at said university, has appeared four times in the BBC era, reaching the QFs of the first BBC series in 94-95, but not getting beyond the second round in its other three appearances, one of which was a very heavy first round defeat. Playing for them were:
Michael Shipman, from North Yorkshire, studying Natural Science
Jessica Cronin, from Lichfield, studying History
Captain: Eve Temmink, from North London, studying Medicine
Otis Moran, from County Durham, studying Archaeology
Robinson took the first two starters of the night, and half the resulting bonuses, to take an early lead. Magdalen responded with the next two, including the first picture starter, and went one better on the bonuses; after the first picture round, they thus led 40-35. The two teams swapped starters and sole bonuses, but then Robinson incurred a penalty, allowing Magdalen to pull further away and a run of starters took them up to and past three figures. After the music round, the Oxonians led 110-45.
And the starters just kept coming from Magdalen, who were rolling back the years somewhat as they ran away with the game, and suddenly their lead had also reached three figures. Robinson finally broke back into the game with the second picture round, which reduced the gap to 180-65. The Cambridge side did take a few more starters in the final straight to reach a respectable three figure score, and you could forgive them a couple of unfortunate penalties as they tried to get in first. Magdalen kept on pushing as well though, and ended up racking up the second highest score of the round. At the gong, Magdalen won 245-105.
An enjoyable match to end the round on. Well done Magdalen, who look a pretty good team with all players contributing well, though their bonus conversion may need to improve a touch in a closer match; nonetheless, best of luck in the second round! Hard lines to Robinson, who you fancy would've done better against another opponent; thanks to them for playing!
The stats: Ms Walker was the best buzzer of the night with six starters, while Ms Temmink was best for Robinson with four. On the bonuses, Magdalen managed 21 out of 42 and Robinson 10 out of 21 (with three penalties).
Next week's match: the first play-off match, featuring two of Sheffield, SOAS, Imperial and New College, with the other two playing the week after
Only Connect began its
qualification matches with the returns of the Whitley Baes, who defeated the
Caraxians in the first match of the series, and Oh No They Didn’t, who beat the
Pear Trees next time around.
My parents claim two points on
the patterns named after Scottish places question in the first round and three
points on the five years question; the Baes led 4-2 at the end of that round. I
claim the same three points as ONTD on the regnal numbers question in the
second round, and we got the Nobel prize winning Curies question between us for
two points; the teams were tied on 7-each after that.
ONTD went first on the Walls, and
worked out two groups, but didn’t get the other two in their three goes; they
did get one of the connections for them though, so five points. Similarly, the
Baes got two groups, failed to get the other two in their three attempts, but
did get one of their connections; five points, so, as you were, a 12-all tie
going into Missing Vowels. ONTD fared a bit better on that and won the show
19-14 to become the first team through to the QFs! Well done them, and best of
luck to the Baes in the play-offs.
Next week’s match: the Metrophiles
vs the Showstoppers
Mastermind was won by Richard
Carr, who led with 11 points after the SS round and just about made it through
with a winning total of 20, two ahead of second placed Paddy Moore, who was
last with 6 after the first round, but had easily the best GK round of the
night to finish with 18. Davina Kesby-Beck and Anjaneya Baput also competed,
both finishing with 17.
And that's it for this most unusual week! Thanks as ever for reading; back to our usual day next week, but don't be surprised if we get another Quizzy Tuesday after the next international break weekend next month, especially given the way these qualifiers have been playing out so far. Anyway, back on Monday with my usual quiz write-ups, so, see yous then...
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