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Author: | GONE D [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:28 am ] |
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Whoa! I just discovered that, when you click on site scores for a premium quiz, and then click any one score, and then click back - the site rankings then appear. |
Author: | ANON [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:44 am ] |
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GONE D wrote: Whoa! I just discovered that, when you click on site scores for a premium quiz, and then click any one score, and then click back - the site rankings then appear. Yeah, I found that if I toggled between the top site page and the top player page and back, and then reloaded the page, the real site rankings came up. Does Buzztime know the page is wonky? |
Author: | xtrain [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:49 am ] |
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I let them know of the problem on their Facebook site, and received a message that they were aware of the situation. XT |
Author: | ANON [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:13 am ] |
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xtrain wrote: I let them know of the problem on their Facebook site, and received a message that they were aware of the situation. XT Thanks! |
Author: | blumax [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:36 pm ] |
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The Old Barn is up at 44th. B |
Author: | ANON [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:40 pm ] |
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blumax wrote: The Old Barn is up at 44th. B Thanks so much! I will edit the standings accordingly. |
Author: | xtrain [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:12 pm ] |
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Here's the answer I received from Buzztime: Alright, so what the tech team has told me is that the site was recently re-architectured and some of the information hasn't been transferring to the site correctly, hence the repeats. They are aware of the issue however, and they are currently working on a solution. XT: One more proof of my favorite adage: With computers, every upgrade is a downgrade. |
Author: | liljol [ Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:14 pm ] |
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xtrain wrote: Here's the answer I received from Buzztime: Alright, so what the tech team has told me is that the site was recently re-architectured and some of the information hasn't been transferring to the site correctly, hence the repeats. They are aware of the issue however, and they are currently working on a solution. XT: One more proof of my favorite adage: With computers, every upgrade is a downgrade. Well, hell. Sounds like the latest in a long, sad string of missteps. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:27 pm ] |
Post subject: | Week 2 Results |
Before getting to the Week 2 results, a tip o' the hat is in order for the venerable Grand Slam/BWW-Crystal City team for posting the win for the night. The Slammers have been a force to be reckoned with in these tournaments for twenty years now, and I reckon that's not going to end anytime soon. So here are this week's results. Several teams bounced back from rough games last week, and others bounced forward(?) into rough games this week: 55931 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 53583 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 47959 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 47470 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 44978 Mad River, New York NY 44545 Old Barn, Portland OR 44206 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 42979 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 42841 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 42231 BWW-Blacksburg VA 41901 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 41635 Time Out, St. Louis MO 40626 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 40383 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 39636 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 39182 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 38428 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 38412 Teasers, Chicago IL 37186 BWW-Tallahassee FL 36377 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 35811 End Zone, Ironton OH 35499 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 34490 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 33527 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 32761 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 32160 Danny K's, Orange CA 31941 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 29840 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 29498 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 25730 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 23762 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 21746 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 19591 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 17192 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT Adding last week's scores to this week's shows that The Slammers not only took first place on Tuesday, but also now lead the field in cumulative points, followed by The Fellowship and Big Guys. There is a deceptively large drop-off after that: 105511 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 103528 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 99618 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 91381 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 89291 Mad River, New York NY 87125 Teasers, Chicago IL 86390 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 85190 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 84180 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 83601 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 82508 Danny K's, Orange CA 81300 BWW-Blacksburg VA 81136 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 79975 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 78994 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 78039 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 74161 Old Barn, Portland OR 73608 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 72893 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 72635 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 66586 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 65650 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 65339 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 64923 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 63814 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 61677 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 60742 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 58448 End Zone, Ironton OH 57285 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 55390 BWW-Tallahassee FL 49623 Time Out, St. Louis MO 37160 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 34712 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 31605 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT I say "deceptively large" because of course every team gets to drop a low score, which tightens things up considerably. The drop will come as a relief to several teams, not the least of which was The Ragged Rascals at BWW-Albuquerque, who quite unfortunately experienced a glitch during the pyramid round, depriving them of two questions. This (and similar such events) is one of the main reasons why the rules for years now have allowed a dropped score in the preliminary round. When low scores are dropped, the top three remain the same, but The Ragged Rascals ran round and round the rugged rocks into fourth place: 55,931 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 53,583 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 51,659 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 50,840 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 50,700 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 50,348 Danny K's, Orange CA 48,713 Teasers, Chicago IL 48,540 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 47,470 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 44,978 Mad River, New York NY 44,545 Old Barn, Portland OR 44,206 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 43,053 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 42,979 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 42,617 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 42,231 BWW-Blacksburg VA 41,901 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 41,635 Time Out, St. Louis MO 41,500 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 40,626 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 40,383 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 39,182 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 38,428 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 38,084 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 37,915 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 37,186 BWW-Tallahassee FL 35,841 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 35,811 End Zone, Ironton OH 35,499 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 34,645 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 33,527 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 21,746 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 19,591 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 17,192 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT So there has been a lot of movement in the standings, but with two weeks to go in the preliminary round, there is plenty of time and room for more. Good skill to all teams this week! |
Author: | GONE D [ Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:15 pm ] |
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ANON wrote: ...The Ragged Rascals at BWW-Albuquerque, who quite unfortunately experienced a glitch during the pyramid round, depriving them of two questions... One might feel more sympathy for the Rascals if they had anything to prove. But they've been consistently superb, now for many years. I would feel far worse for a site which is attempting to play its way into prominence, and suffered a similar glitch. It goes without saying that BLZBUB isn't attending the right church; but I might not be, either. It's not that I'm not devout. We all want to play on a level field. Pestilence, death. hurricane, tablets - any number of things may intercede. |
Author: | ANON [ Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:11 am ] |
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GONE D wrote: One might feel more sympathy for the Rascals if they had anything to prove. But they've been consistently superb, now for many years. I would feel far worse for a site which is attempting to play its way into prominence, and suffered a similar glitch. It goes without saying that BLZBUB isn't attending the right church; but I might not be, either. It's not that I'm not devout. We all want to play on a level field. Pestilence, death. hurricane, tablets - any number of things may intercede. Yes, it's true that The Ragged Rascals are among the teams that can best afford to punt a game. But as a member of a team that has been increasingly frustrated with glitchy technology at my home location, I definitely feel sympathy for them--it is intensely frustrating. Given his handle, perhaps BLZBUB should sacrifice a goat before the next game to be on the safe side. It may or may not do any good, but at least The Ragged Rascals can have some Curry Bakri while they play... |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 3:33 pm ] |
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Because I had nothing to do with it (I was out of town Tuesday evening), I feel I can start this update by congratulating The Fellowship on its win last night. That the team pulled out the narrow win despite the fact that all the boxes stopped working during the pyramid round and that the location average was carried solely by its mobile-playmaker users makes the win all the more unlikely and impressive. In fact, the last two times The Fellowship has won it has been when I have been out of town. If I find my tires slashed next Tuesday evening I may have some suspicion as to a motive... Congrats, too, to Tailgate, BWW-Crystal City, West Park Station, and Mad River for being the only teams to crack 50k in what sounds like it was a difficult game. What follows are the provisional standings--provisional because Houlihan's-Brick did not report out a score this week, and I will give it a day or two to see if a score shows up for that location before making the standings official. First, this week's (provisional) scores: 58382 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 58100 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 54946 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 51836 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 51405 Mad River, New York NY 47138 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 46982 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 46290 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 44831 Danny K's, Orange CA 40115 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 39670 Old Barn, Portland OR 38059 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 36893 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 36366 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 36156 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 35236 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 35141 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 35051 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 35031 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 32375 BWW-Tallahassee FL 31723 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 31273 Time Out, St. Louis MO 30464 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 29508 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 29465 End Zone, Ironton OH 27319 Teasers, Chicago IL 24568 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 23949 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 18810 BWW-Blacksburg VA 16106 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 15331 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 12079 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 12029 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA ??? Houlihan's-Brick NJ Next, the (provisional) cumulative scores. Ordinarily the cumulative scores don't mean much because every team gets to drop a low score. However, with only one week to go in the preliminary round these scores represent the absolute minimum score any team can post in the prelims, and can be helpful in assessing your team's mathematical chances to advance (see below): 161910 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 160457 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 149481 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 140696 Mad River, New York NY 134854 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 130583 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 127339 Danny K's, Orange CA 126505 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 119773 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 119321 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 116167 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 116131 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 115650 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 115360 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 114932 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 114444 Teasers, Chicago IL 113831 Old Barn, Portland OR 111940 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 110952 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 105331 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 100521 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 100110 BWW-Blacksburg VA 92336 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 91206 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 89907 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 87913 End Zone, Ironton OH 87765 BWW-Tallahassee FL 80896 Time Out, St. Louis MO 78615 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 77002 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 66668 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 61677 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 58661 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 47711 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT As you can see, The Fellowship holds a small, 1,453-point lead over BWW-Crystal City for the top seed in the knockout round in these standings. Finally, the (provisional) standings after dropping a low score, which is a better representation of where the tournament stands going into the final week of the preliminary round. If you add 63,750 points to this value for your team, you will get your maximum possible score to compare to the minimum possible scores above: 111965 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 110877 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 106640 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 99618 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 97822 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 96383 Mad River, New York NY 95179 Danny K's, Orange CA 94608 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 89920 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 87125 Teasers, Chicago IL 86390 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 85190 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 84718 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 84215 Old Barn, Portland OR 84180 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 81300 BWW-Blacksburg VA 81136 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 81112 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 79975 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 78994 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 78794 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 73608 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 72908 Time Out, St. Louis MO 70550 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 69561 BWW-Tallahassee FL 66586 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 65339 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 65276 End Zone, Ironton OH 64923 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 63991 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 61677 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 51254 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 43540 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 33298 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT In these standings, The Fellowship's lead gets even tinier (1088 points) and Tailgate is not too far behind. Thus, the top seed is very much up for grabs. Similarly, right now the bubble for making it to the knockout round sits in the very narrow 164-point margin between BWW-Blacksburg and Four Corners. Ten teams sit within 5,000 points each way of the bubble, making the final spots very much up for grabs, too. The only teams that can breathe completely easily at this point are The Fellowship, BWW-Crystal City, and Tailgate: all of them have clinched a place in the knockout round (their minimum scores are higher than the 16th-highest maximum possible team score). By the same token, only two teams have been mathematically eliminated at this point, so it is a pretty wide-open field with one week left to play in the prelims. Good skill to all this week! |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:42 am ] |
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Before getting to the standings, I'd like to congratulate Tilted Kilt for the win last night, with Danny K's and Big Guys hard on their heels. It seems a lot of teams brought their "A" games for the last week of the prelims. Here are last night's standings for tournament teams: 59750 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 59230 Danny K's, Orange CA 58358 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 58347 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 56284 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 54613 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 54371 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 54111 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 52745 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 52668 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 50926 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 49659 Teasers, Chicago IL 48124 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 47789 Old Barn, Portland OR 46136 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 45177 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 44261 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 44071 BWW-Blacksburg VA 43318 Time Out, St. Louis MO 39345 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 38032 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 36243 End Zone, Ironton OH 36032 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 35101 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 34869 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 34675 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 32808 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 28060 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 27987 Mad River, New York NY 27541 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 24683 BWW-Tallahassee FL 22419 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 16985 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON 11335 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX Adding these to all the previous scores gives the following cumulative scores for the preliminary round: 220257 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 215070 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 205765 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 193212 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 186569 Danny K's, Orange CA 184954 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 179173 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 172066 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 171690 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 169471 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 168683 Mad River, New York NY 166576 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 165909 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 164103 Teasers, Chicago IL 161620 Old Barn, Portland OR 154277 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 154199 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 148645 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 146053 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 144181 BWW-Blacksburg VA 143672 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 138139 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 137513 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 126075 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 124214 Time Out, St. Louis MO 124156 End Zone, Ironton OH 113034 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 112448 BWW-Tallahassee FL 101242 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 101034 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 96352 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 91972 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 86721 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 83653 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON Of course the total score doesn't really count for anything--it is the cumulative scores minus low scores that will determine seeding for the elimination round. Yet the top six are in the same order in both lists (top 16 teams are in bold): 170312 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 165490 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 162924 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 157976 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 154409 Danny K's, Orange CA 152193 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 144468 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 140846 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 140744 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 140696 Mad River, New York NY 139058 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 136925 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 136784 Teasers, Chicago IL 133314 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 133105 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 132004 Old Barn, Portland OR 125371 BWW-Blacksburg VA 119168 Four Corners, Chapel Hill NC 118139 Bilmar Station Town 'n' Country, Tampa FL 116226 Time Out, St. Louis MO 116213 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 116131 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 115727 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver CA 106416 Humperdink's, Dallas TX 101519 End Zone, Ironton OH 100955 BWW-Bloomingdale IL 98860 KC's Time Out, Evansville IN 96352 Houlihan's-Brick NJ 94244 BWW-Tallahassee FL 89907 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 89005 Cameron's, Half Moon Bay CA 77559 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 71600 Adam's Mill, Manchester CT 68239 Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON Several teams made some gains in seeding this last week, perhaps none as significantly as Scooter's, which hopped up from its position below the bubble to make it into the elimination round. Before going on, I would like to thank all the teams that will not be advancing. You made it a robust field, and we all know that were it not for the vagaries of some individual games you very easily could have made it to the elimination round. I sincerely hope you will choose to play in the McCarthy Cup this spring. So unless I am mistaken, here are the brackets for the knockout round: 1 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 16 Old Barn, Portland OR 8 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 9 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 12 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 4 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 13 Teasers, Chicago IL 6 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 11 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 3 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 14 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 7 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 10 Mad River, New York NY 2 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 15 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH Wow--there are a lot of great matchups the first week. Congrats to all the teams who made it to the elimination round, and good skill next week! |
Author: | RickM [ Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:44 pm ] |
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Congratulations to Scooter's for matching our accomplishment. I believe we moved from 20th place up to 15th--and we did it with just four players on 7 boxes. --Rick Magnus RickM, Blue Goose ANON wrote: Here are last night's standings for tournament teams: 54111 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 48124 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV Of course the total score doesn't really count for anything--it is the cumulative scores minus low scores that will determine seeding for the elimination round. Yet the top six are in the same order in both lists (top 16 teams are in bold): 133314 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 133105 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH Several teams made some gains in seeding this last week, perhaps none as significantly as Scooter's, which hopped up from its position below the bubble to make it into the elimination round. |
Author: | richte09 [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:16 pm ] |
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Good Luck to all, apologize for our performance at the Mill, but too many vacations and getting the full team together |
Author: | GONE D [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:13 pm ] |
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Having dropped ARKUAT at his alley hermitage in south Minneapolis, I just got home from the Tailgate, and having nobody else to answer to, figured I'd drop a line to the Sandbaggers. The Tailgate Sports Cafe placed six playmakers above 60K, and finished 7th nationwide, an unusual statistic. In this first week of head-to-head competition, we were matched against Scooters; and we were justifiably proud of our performance. If Scooters were a little twitchier, and pushed past us? Hats off, then, Scooters earned it. This was an unusually high scoring night, and there are bound to be disappointments among other sites which played well above average and yet got knocked out in head-to-head competition by opponents who played even better. Having had a top individual score twice this year without breaking 60K, I thought BLZBUB's 63.5 was positively breathtaking. The Devil had his foot on the accelerator, and put Ken Z behind the wheel. Well played, the both of you. My top gross - ever - was pre-9/11, when I fished up a 63,444 and finished in 8th place. There were seven other houses which hosted perfecto's that evening. Over the last twenty years, the as yet unasked questions grow ever more obscure, and we seldom see 63's any more. If my Tailgate Sports Cafe actually did get past Scooters, we'll be matched against Beelzebub's Bullies, aka the Ragged Rascals, aka BWW Gibson, next week. And on behalf of Scooters, if they've survived: keep that dharma flowing. I want to be able to inform the players around me: "Yeah, we lost. But we lost to the eventual champions." |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:34 am ] |
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We had a similar conversation after the game: "If Old Barn beat us, then they really deserve to go deep." Speaking of the Devil: There was probably no way you could have known this, but the BLZBUB who snagged the top score was the one who plays with The Fellowship (both we and The Ragged Rascals play at BWWs, after all). He almost didn't come, but we were glad he did (except maybe for poor AUDREY, who had a perfecto going into the last question but bled some points as we settled on an answer). |
Author: | GONE D [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:07 am ] |
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ANON wrote: ... the BLZBUB who snagged the top score was the one who plays with The Fellowship... I thought about that after I posted. There's no true religion in the Land of the Black Squirrel, either, is there? I might not know who I'm congratulating, but I'm congratulating him anyhow. Well played! All of you. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:35 am ] |
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GONE D wrote: ANON wrote: ... the BLZBUB who snagged the top score was the one who plays with The Fellowship... I thought about that after I posted. There's no true religion in the Land of the Black Squirrel, either, is there? I might not know who I'm congratulating, but I'm congratulating him anyhow. Well played! All of you. Thanks! Our BLZBUB is a cardiac doctor, and an all-around good guy (for a Mephistopheles). He has been a great asset to the team since he started playing with us a couple of years ago. I'm impressed you know about the Black Squirrels! I'm usually not much of a fan of rodents, but I always thought Kent State erred in choosing to create "Flash the Golden Eagle" as its mascot instead of the Black Squirrel. |
Author: | GONE D [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:16 am ] |
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Some of my idiot friends used to engage in hitch-hiking races to Kent. I think one of them was actually dating a Golden Flash. What she might have seen in him would have been anyone's guess. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:52 am ] |
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It was a very competitive evening last night. Teaser's edged out The Fellowship for first place in Brainbuster by all of 99 points (7/10 of 1% of the points possible), and then The Fellowship returned the favor in Showdown by squeaking past Teaser's by 229 points (4/10 of 1%). Teaser's in turn just squeaked by its opponent for the evening, Big Guys. Nearly all of the rest of the remaining Sandbag Sweet 16 teams cracked 50k, making some of the margins quite close. Several teams can be forgiven for feeling a bit disappointed for doing so well only to fall to a team that did a little better. There were a few upsets, none bigger than #15 Blue Goose's victory over perennial powerhouse BWW-Crystal City. Of course, as has been suggested in previous tournaments, by the time you get to this stage of a tournament there is really no such thing as a huge upset--every team that has made it this far is capable of beating every other team. Here are last night's results, with the winners in bold: 1 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 62,507 16 Old Barn, Portland OR 58,614 8 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 51,069 9 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 60,527 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 60,943 12 Houlihan's, Westbury NY 55,707 4 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 61,638 13 Teasers, Chicago IL 62,278 6 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 58,653 11 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 49,931 3 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 61,115 14 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 54,356 7 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 61,642 10 Mad River, New York NY 57,627 2 BWW-Crystal City (Arlington) VA 57,328 15 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 59,114 Before posting the quarterfinal matchups, I would be remiss if I did not take the opportunity to congratulate and thank the teams that will not be advancing. They are among the cream of the Showdown crop and proved it by making it to the Sweet 16 in a tough field. I expect to see all of you in the McCarthy Cup this spring. So the quarterfinal matchups are as follows: 1 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 9 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 13 Teasers, Chicago IL 6 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 3 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 7 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 15 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH There are so many great matchups here: Two former Sandbag champions meet in the 1 v. 9 match, and the current champion meets a team that has won more games this year in the 5 v. 13 match. BWW-Albuquerque and Tailgate are a couple of this year's hottest teams, both ranked in the top 5 for 2017. And Blue Goose has demonstrated that they are a threat regardless of its seeding, so the gang in Scottsdale will need to bring its "A" game. Nearly all of these teams, I think, have made the finals of one tournament or another, so it could be anyone's trophy at this point. Good skill to all this week, especially The Fellowship's friends in Kalamazoo! When we realized we would be facing you last night, we were still marveling over how you drove five hours each way to hand-deliver the Sandbag Trophy to us (full of buckeyes, no less!) back in the day. You ever have been a class act. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:57 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 11th Annual Sandbag Tournament Rules and Signup |
GONE D wrote: Some of my idiot friends used to engage in hitch-hiking races to Kent. I think one of them was actually dating a Golden Flash. What she might have seen in him would have been anyone's guess. Hey! I had much more hair back then, and actually looked like I might have been going places. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:44 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 11th Annual Sandbag Tournament Rules and Signup |
As promised, it was a series of great matchups last night. The gang at Teaser's in particular may be forgiven for feeling a bit disappointed today: they beat every other team in the world last night, except for the one they were facing in the tournament. Here are last night's results (winners in bold): 1 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 58,376 9 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 26,748 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 60,194 13 Teasers, Chicago IL 58,537 6 The Ragged Rascals, BWW-Albuquerque NM 44,005 3 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 46,087 7 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 48,801 15 Blue Goose, Cincinnati OH 43,461 To the Ragged Rascals, Blue Goose, The K-Zoo Krew, and Teaser's, please accept sincerest congratulations for a great tournament run. To make the quarterfinals in a field this deep is a badge of honor, and we expect you to make some noise in the McCarthy Cup this spring. This leaves the semi-final matchups as follows: 1 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 3 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 7 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ Everyone loves a good Cinderella story, but alas, there are absolutely no Cinderellas here this year. One match is between the defending Sandbag champion and a multiple previous champion in a match that could easily be the final game in any given year. The other is between two top-ten teams with three Sandbag semifinal appearances each. Prince Charming is just going to have to be content with a coterie of some of the usual top-pedigree teams this year. Good skill to all semifinalists, and a special extension of best wishes from The Fellowship to Danny K's. I'm just glad we didn't have to meet any earlier than this. |
Author: | Stoic [ Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:02 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 11th Annual Sandbag Tournament Rules and Signup |
Congrats to all the winners tonight in the Showdown Tournament. Naturally we are disappointed to lose to Danny K's, but this isn't the first time that it has happened. We are looking forward to seeing the semifinals next week. CLIPPR - Teaser's (the loyal 2nd tier opposition) |
Author: | Merkin [ Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 11th Annual Sandbag Tournament Rules and Signup |
I add my congratulations as well to Danny K's. Ouch, ouch, ouch. First board and second bar. What more do we need to do? Is there no balm in Gilead? |
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