Good evening again my friends, and welcome back, at last, to Quizzy Monday! Yep, back to business as usual this week, but, as I said last week, don't be surprised if we have another change of day next month as well. Anyway, coming up, Mastermind and OC as usual, plus the end of an era on Radio 4, but firstly, UC, and a match most peculiar as we had no idea who'd be playing! Well, we knew it would be two of four teams, but not which two. In the end, it was the two London clubs contesting the first repechage play-off match...
SOAS were defeated in another London derby, this one against U.C.L., in the first round, keeping pace throughout before just being pipped late on, 210-170 the final score. They were represented by the unchanged team of:
Hatau Mozayen, from Manchester (originally Ethiopia), studying History and Politics
V Davis-Aladren, from Islington, studying PPE
Captain: Andrew Graham, from Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, studying Medical Anthropology and Mental Health
Matthew O'Regan, from Dublin, studying Global Liberal Arts
Imperial were with us only two weeks ago, losing a slow-burner of a match to Churchill, leading for much of the game before their opponents just about got the better of them late on, 175-160 the final score that time. They too were the same foursome as before:
Rahim Dina, from Peterborough (originally the Seychelles), studying Ecology and Evolution
Eugenia Tong, from Hong Kong, studying Chemistry
Captain: Oscar O'Flanagan, from London, studying Atmospheric Physics
Justin Keung, from Hong Kong, studying Computing
Imperial took the first starter of the game, SOAS the second and third, which took them into an early lead. Imperial bounced back with the first picture round, which they took a full house on, after which the teams were level on 35-each. I was pleased to get 'bats' for the next starter before Mr O'Flanagan did; they took two bonuses, but SOAS took the next two starters to take the lead back, with Mr Graham getting brownie points for a joke guess of 'Toxteth O'Grady'! Imperial soon reclaimed the initiative though and, after the music round, they led 95-55.
Imperial now had the bit between their teeth and ran away on the buzzer in the third phase; after the second picture round, they led 170-55. SOAS did pull back to respectability in the final straight, taking a couple more starters and a solid haul of bonuses to deservedly reach three figures, but they had been well beaten this time around. At the gong, Imperial won 220-115.
A good start to the knockout matches. Well done Imperial, a strong performance against worthy opponents; best of luck to them in the second round! Hard lines to SOAS, a capable team who didn't disgrace themselves at all; thanks to them for playing!
The stats: Mr O'Flanagan was the best buzzer of the night with SEVEN(!) starters, while Mr Graham was, again, best for SOAS with four. On the bonuses, SOAS managed 11 out of 21 (with two penalties) and Imperial 21 out of 33 (with one penalty), and, for the first time in quite a few weeks, all eight players got at least one starter correct.
Next week's match: Sheffield vs New College
Only Connect’s second
qualification match saw the returns of the Metrophiles, who defeated the
Grapevines in their first match, and the Showstoppers, who were victorious over
the 5ks first time around.
I claim the same point as the
Showstoppers on the Zelda question in the first round (but only because I heard
them say ‘ocarina’ for the last clue, which gave it to me!); my Dad and I
definitely claim three points on the purple question. The Showstoppers led 5-2
at the end of that round. I claim the same three points as the Metrophiles on
the names question in the second round; the Showstoppers led 7-6 after that.
The Metrophiles went first on the
Walls, and took their time to work out all four groups, but missed one of the
connections, so seven points. The Showstoppers worked out two groups quite quickly,
but didn’t get the other two in their three tries; they did get all the
connections though, so six points, thus meaning the teams were tied on 13-each
going into Missing Vowels. The teams couldn’t be separated by that either, and
the game ended in a 17-each tie! Mr Evans was first to work out ‘TOO CLOSE FOR
COMFORT’ and the Metrophiles had the win! Well done them and best of luck in
the QFs, and best of luck to the Showstoppers in the play-offs.
Next week’s match: the Pitchers vs
the Worker Bees
Mastermind was narrowly won by Matthew
Patenall, whose 19 points saw him just scrape home ahead of Jane Kendrick with
18 and Jonathan Bartley with 17; Savannah Phillips completed the line-up with
12.
Also, yesterday saw the final episode of The 3rd Degree. And not just the final episode of the series, but, it seems, the final episode ever, if Mr Punt's monologue at the end is to be believed. Shame; it was a decent enough quiz even if it was never going to capture the public's imagination the same way UC and the other Radio 4 quizzes have. At least it went out on a good episode, with the only student victory of the series.
And that's it for this week! Thanks as ever for reading; next week, we do definitely know which teams we'll be seeing on UC, which will help a great deal, as not knowing and having to prep at speed definitely threw me a bit this week. Anyway, back next week, same time same place with my usual write-ups, so, see yous then...
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