Once again a special evening in fine company. So much action was taking place at the Bamboo last night that nary a soul did more than peek at the final ashes test unfolding on the peripheral screens.
The monster chook raffle went down well with the Bashers, Geishas and guests as well as the great unwashed in the rest of the bar. Many thanks to the lads from the Million Tree project who volunteered to help sell tickets.
We managed to get a bunch of cash for some new pads and bats and a good percentage will also be donated to our charity. Well done to all!
Of course none of this happens without the generosity of many.
And so to the results;
Well, what a finish, including the traditional bad maths and deliberate controversy. Boring repeat winners the Drop Bears were there at the finish again but had to work hard this time and the challenge from I’m Easy stood up to the pressure and a dead heat resulted.
In the end Statsie was too good in the sudden death playoff and I’m Easy took away a case of Just Beer product. The Bears, who have subsequently deteriorated into infighting and name-calling and threaten to disband should be more than happy with their bottles of Prosecco. All this could have been avoided if the geek with the Star Wars t-shirt and tattoo had actually managed to answer the Star Wars question. Lara Please showed their form of years gone by with a storming late run for third and some six-packs and Kooka Pies samplers.
Newcomers Frequency did not disgrace themselves, in particular with one mind-boggling display of mathematical gymnastics. The buzzer questions proved pivotal in this contest. Special mention must be made of the Loose Units who not only managed to score a perfect zero in the “World” round but also had the forethought to select that as their wildcard thus doubling that for a grand 0 points.
The Shanghai Sheilas weren’t able to repeat their podium finish from last time despite or perhaps because of the cast of ring ins. Sloppy Thirds only managed to live up to half of their name.
Well done to everyone, next quiz will be either September 24th or 25th. Expect something special.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Just a couple more stats; average team scores (with same number of questions); last quiz: 288 this quiz: 309 range of scores; last quiz: 181 this quiz: 240 negative section scores; last quiz: 2 this quiz: 0 (one zero score) averages for sections; geishas:42.14 Bashers:47.14 China: 45.00 World: 40.00 Arts: 45.71 Sciences: 52.86 WILDCARD:35.00! Teams picking their best section as wildcard: 0%
why couldn't be a question like; who is the only actor to be in all 6 moves? or who shot first in the original cantina scene? Totally lost my geek cred...
forgot to mention that you can relive every question