Good evening again my friends and welcome back to Quizzy Monday! The last one with a streamlined line-up for a few weeks; regular Mastermind is finally back next week, and then we'll have a full line-up for, I think, five weeks until OC finishes. And even then, we may well get repeats for the rest of UC's run like we did last year. Anyway, on with tonight's procedings, beginning with UC and a very celtic match-up...
Cardiff won another such fixture in their first match, beating St Andrews 200-145 in a game that was pretty close until they pulled away late on. They were unchanged from that previous game:
Kyle Gilbert, from Worcester, studying History
Rosalie Tarsala, from Arcadia, California, studying Data Science
Captain: Conor Boyling, from Dartford, studying History and Economics
Henrik Holm, from Manchester, studying Physics
Queen's University Belfast won the very first game of the series, winning 240-125 against a pretty good Liverpool team who may have reached the play-offs at St Andrews' expense had it not been for so many penalties. They too were the same quartet as their first game:
Sarah Carlisle, from Ballynahinch in County Down, studying English with Creative Writing
Jason McKillen, from Belfast, studying Artifical Intelligence
Captain: Daniel Rankin, from County Down, studying PPE
Sam Thompson, from Limavady, studying Physics
Like their first match, Queen's got off to a flying start, the only starter in the first phase they didn't get being about Robert Maxwell's ill fated attempt to merge Oxford United and Reading. After the first picture round, they led 80-0. Another two starters and already Queen's had reached three figures and AR gave Cardiff a 'plenty of time'. They did indeed get a quick buzz in on the next starter, but lost five as their answer went on to emerge as part of the question; Queen's pounced, pushed further ahead and, after the music round, led 140-(-5).
Cardiff finally got some positive points on the board, taking two starters in a row, while their opponents were limited to a couple of penalties, including one for what, in all honesty, wasn't an interruption; AR really had just finished talking as Mr McKillen buzzed. He took the next one to recoup the points though and, after the second picture round, led 155-35. Cardiff took a couple more starters and ensured they wouldn't be the third new members of the Sub-50 Club this round, but had still been well beaten this time around. At the gong, Queen's won 180-70.
Another enjoyable contest despite its one-sidedness. Well done Queen's, another solid performance, from Mr Rankin especially, and best of luck in the QFs! Hard lines to Cardiff, but they managed a respectable enough score in the end and, again, we know from the first round that they're a better team than this; thanks very much to them for playing!
The stats: Mr Rankin was, easily, the best buzzer of the night with SEVEN starters, while Mr Boyling was best for Cardiff with three. On the bonuses, Cardiff managed 5 out of 15 (with one penalty) and Queen's 16 out of 30 (with two penalties).
Next week's match: Warwick vs Oriel in the last second round match, which, if Oriel lose, will mean a third series in four where Oxford has been wiped out in the second round! I may decide to expand on this in a seperate blog post at some point.
Only Connect entered its third
round with a line-up consisting almost entirely of UC alumni, which reminds me
I really need to get around to updating my list of people who’ve been on both
at some point, with the Bloomsbury Group, who won two high scoring games
against the Tea Totallers and Too Many Cookes to get here unbeaten, playing the
Crunchers, who defeated the Uisge Beathas twice but lost to the Introverts en
route here.
My Dad claims a point on the music
question in the first round; the teams were tied on 3-each at the end of that. I
don’t think we got anything in the second round, but the Crunchers did; they
led 7-3 at the end of a very tricky round.
The Crunchers went first on the
Walls, and took their time, but eventually worked everything out for a full
ten. The Bloomers got a bit stuck on their wall, eventually getting one group,
but no more; they got all four connections though, which meant they trailed
17-8 going into Missing Vowels. “If any team can pull this back, they can” I
remarked at the start of the round, and they did indeed have a very good round
to pull right back, but not quite enough; the Crunchers held on to pull off the
upset of the series so far, 20-18 the final score! Well done them, and best of
luck in the semis, and many thanks to the Bloomers for taking part!
Next week’s match: the Introverts
vs the Tea Totallers in the last QF
And that's it for another week! Next week, finally back to business as usual with the return of regular Mastermind, and nicely timed that the current rounds of the other two finish together. So, join us again same time same place next Monday for that and possibly more too in the coming week. So, see you again whenever we do...
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