Falcon wrote:
Whew! Is everyone still in shock from last night's Showdown? Judging from the scores, it must be one of the most difficult in recent memory - only 3 sites over 54000, eight over 50000, 28 over 40000, and 54 over 30000. Congratulations to Home Turf and Stringz & Wingz for amazing 60000+ scores on this game and to Sigis and the Ross Bay Pub for the top Canadian score.
It would be interesting to know how many missed the final question vs how many, like us, crashed on the Pyramid round. As I have visited Juneau, and often seen their claim to be the largest city in the USA, we had no trouble with the final. Like last week, though, for us there was only one fairly easy Pyramid question (the oldest sharks one), and we were guessing all the way on the others, although they seemed like things we should have known. With only 6 Playmakers that worked (and three players), splitting didn't help much either. You have to admit that it is hard for a Canadian to remember whether it was Polk or Buchanan in your 1844 election - we were going back and forth debating that, and all ended up on the wrong one. Oh well, maybe next week!
According to Don's NTN site it was the toughest game of the year so far, but only 10th on the all-time list.
We got kidney-punched in every round apart from Category before the final left hook left us on the floor. We went with Texas on the final question, and not simply out of jingoistic pride - anyone who has driven into San Antonio might sympathize (when you pass the city limit sign there is nothing but open fields as far as the eye can see).
In Pyramid it was the book by the guy we had never heard of and the Carlist wars which got us. Not that it matters, in retrospect....
Only bright note: COOGS' weaselly 20% bets on final enhanced our score such that we scraped in at #100, just preserving our streak for the year to date.