Not much on to watch yesterday evening, with most of the stuff I usually watch on Monday nights not on due to the Bank Holiday. Only Connect seemed to be the only usual thing that was still on.
Anyway, on to the show, and the two teams were the Francophiles, fans of all things French (except the language, leading to an awkward moment when VCM addressed them in it!), and the Festival Fans, who, as their name suggests, are frequent festival goers. The Francophiles were Ian Clark, Sam Goodyear and captain Mark Walton, while the Festival Fans comprised Ed Dovey, Stewart McCartney and captain Marianne Fairthorne. Some previous quiz pedigree here: Marianne Fairthorne represented the LSE on UC in 2008-09 (losing to Manchester in the QFs), and Dave Clark speculated over on LAM earlier that Ian Clark could be the same Ian Clark who reached the Brain of Britain final last year.
On with the first round, and the Francophiles went first, with a question on spotty things whose spots are different colours. The Festival Fans got the music round, on artists whose names begin with 'Mr'. The Francophiles had an unlucky miss on one of their questions, conceding a bonus to the opposition. But they made up for it with the picture round, on pictures relating to 'Liberty', getting the link after just two clues for three points. At the end of the round, the Festival Fans narrowly led 6-4.
On to the Sequences round, of which the first two questions were dropped. The two teams narrowly missed the first one, on phases of the moon, while the second, on successive line-ups of the Sugarbabes (ugh!) was totally missed by both sides. The Francophiles then had another unlucky miss on another question, misidentifying the sequence, and conceding another bonus. Again, though, they made up for it with three points on their third question. Unlike the past two weeks, there was just one picture question this round.
After that round, the Festival Fans narrowly led by 9-8. Going on to the Walls, the Festival Fans only managed two groups, but they did manage all four connections, which got them six points. The Francophiles managed to solve the Wall, and seemed rather shocked that they did! They got two of the connections, meaning they also got six points. This meant the Festival Fans retained the slender lead they'd had all game, by 15-14, going into the final round.
Once again, the Missing Vowels round was pretty even between the two teams, both of whom seemed to pick up points strongly; unless I'm mistaken, no penalties were incurred. In the end, the Francophiles managed to draw level, and then pull away into a slender lead in time for the end of the quiz. They'd done enough: the Francophiles won by 23-20.
Another good close match between two good teams who both deserve another match. As I said last week, the rule change has definitely been justified by the standard of this series' teams. The final initial face-off next week, unless I'm mistaken; will it be four out of four good matches? We'll have to wait and see.
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