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Author: | richte09 [ Thu Mar 01, 2018 4:10 pm ] |
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Adams Mill is in, sorry haven't been on scaratings in awhile and my email account is acting screwy |
Author: | ANON [ Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:01 am ] |
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This is one last gentle reminder that registration for the tournament end this weekend. If you have not yet signed up your team for the tournament, now would be a good time. Either way, though, Live Long and Prosper. |
Author: | richte09 [ Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:10 pm ] |
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ANON wrote: This is one last gentle reminder that registration for the tournament end this weekend. If you have not yet signed up your team for the tournament, now would be a good time. Either way, though, Live Long and Prosper. Thanks for the reminder Adams Mill is in |
Author: | ANON [ Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:57 am ] |
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Barring an oversight on my part, here is the field for the 2018 McCarthy Cup. The tournament starts tonight, so if your team is missing and you think it should be on in here, please let me know ASAP: Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Big Guys, Winnipeg MB Bilmar Station, Tampa FL Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON BWW-Blacksburg, VA BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA (but may move to another location if technical issues continue) BWW-Oklahoma City OK BWW-Tallahassee FL Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC Danny K's, Orange CA The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH Houlihan's-Westbury NY Humperdinck's, Dallas TX K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN Mad River, New York NY Meriden AOH, Meriden CT Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON The Old Barn, Portland OR The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM. (Will start at BWW-Gibson) Stadium Cafe, Addison TX Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN Teaser's, Chicago IL Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ (although will be starting the tournament at BWW-Scottsdale) Time Out West, Hanover Park IL Wallaby's, Lenexa KS West Park Station, Cleveland OH |
Author: | GONE D [ Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:04 am ] |
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Week 1: That was a rousing start, wouldn't you say, ANON? The Tailgate was like a zombies' convention where everyone was missing a limb. And apparently we weren't partying alone. Congratulations to Crystal City for your superb start. We want to harvest your brains. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:56 pm ] |
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In the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," Captain Kirk first famously starts the Enterprise's self-destruct sequence as a tactic to regain control of the ship. The Fellowship tried this tactic last night with one small tweak: Instead of seizing control of the tournament, they blew themselves up instead. I, for one, think it was extremely sporting of them to do so. As evidence of just how wide-open this tournament is, three former McCarthy Cup champions are currently on the outside looking up at the top 16 teams. At the same time, the most-decorated McCarthy Cup champion--The Team Formerly Known As Grand Slam--seized first place in both the tournament and the network with a commanding performance reminiscent of the days of Showdown yore. Before posting this week's standings, a few explanatory notes are in order: 1) The folks from Scooter's petitioned yesterday to be included in the tournament, and The Fellowship voted before the game to include them. Congrats to them for almost doubling The Fellowship's score. 2) The Ragged Rascals played at BWW-Gibson last night. 3) The Tilted Kilt team played at BWW-Scottsdale last night. Without more ado, here are the Week 1 Standings: 59,257 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 41,160 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 38,396 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 37,815 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 35,465 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 34,481 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 34,123 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 33,105 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 32,312 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 32,125 Teaser's, Chicago IL 31,565 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 31,158 Mad River, New York NY 30,242 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 28,313 BWW-Tallahassee FL 27,908 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 26,136 The Old Barn, Portland OR 24,912 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 20,006 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 19,465 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 18,894 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 18,582 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 18,369 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 17,541 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 15,737 Danny K's, Orange CA 14,658 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 14,389 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 13,966 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 12,855 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT 10,754 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS As bad as the game went for a lot of teams, the good news is that no one is out of the running. Everyone gets to drop one low score, and I suspect this will be the one that more than half of us will use. I know you all have come to expect more analysis than this from me, but I'm afraid that I am overdue to limp over to Sick Bay, where Bones will be treating me for severe burns and other self-destruction-related injuries. Good skill this week, and live long and prosper. |
Author: | richte09 [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:42 am ] |
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That game was a blood bath |
Author: | richte09 [ Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:52 pm ] |
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Due to inclement weather the Adam's Mill is closed so we will not be playing trivia tonight, looks like our Mccarthy cup hopes are done before it really even started |
Author: | GONE D [ Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:14 pm ] |
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richte09 wrote: Due to inclement weather the Adam's Mill is closed so we will not be playing trivia tonight, looks like our McCarthy cup hopes are done before it really even started. Mother Nature may have screwed you over, but her incursion at this time of year is only temporary. Your site, Adam's Mill, has a more enduring presence than a March blizzard. Suck it up, dig yourself out, and run the table when you get the chance. |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:22 pm ] |
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In the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror," Kirk and his away team find themselves on the Enterprise in a topsy-turvy universe where all the crew look the same but are almost opposite in personality, including the famous be-goateed "Evil Spock." With a few notable exceptions, last week's results seemed a bit like that, with the usual teams often taking unfamiliar positions in the standings. This week the goatees have been shaved: although the game was challenging (only two scores above 50k, four of the top ten places going to Borg teams), in terms of relative rankings the universe was a bit less topsy-turvy. Here are Tuesday's results: Score Team 53,195 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 49,790 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 48,107 The Old Barn, Portland OR 47,597 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 46,055 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 43,554 Danny K's, Orange CA 43,480 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 42,555 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 42,223 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 41,850 BWW-Tallahassee FL 41,302 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 41,197 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 39,998 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 39,890 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 39,683 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 39,269 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 38,852 Teaser's, Chicago IL 38,297 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 37,704 Mad River, New York NY 37,422 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 36,714 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 36,242 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 34,194 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 33,573 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 31,705 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 31,065 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 13,379 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 12,047 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 0 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Goateed or not, the former Grand Slammers at BWW-Crystal City continued to dominate the standings, while other teams bounced back from abysmal performances last week. Unfortunately, Adam's Mill was unable to play due to a weather-related closing. On the other hand, given the difficulty of the games so far and the fact that most of the teams have struggled, if there was ever a year that a team could bounce back from a disastrous game and a zeroed-out score, this year could be it. As a case in point, look at the cumulative standings so far: Score Team 112452 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 84451 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 82078 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 78582 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 77813 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 76585 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 75148 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 74243 The Old Barn, Portland OR 74013 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 71439 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 70977 Teaser's, Chicago IL 70834 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 70163 BWW-Tallahassee FL 69210 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 68862 Mad River, New York NY 68684 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 68554 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 67135 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 59291 Danny K's, Orange CA 56521 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 54255 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 54200 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 53038 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 52686 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 45723 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 42459 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 31748 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 30629 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 12855 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Despite the fact that The Fellowship lemminged to the wrong answer last week, it has somehow clawed its way (barely) into the top 16 even though it didn't crack 50k this week and is counting last week's gruesome score. If another topsy-turvy game comes up, who knows what will happen? Of course the score to keep your eye on is the cumulative score after dropping a low score, which will be the one that determines who makes it into the elimination round. In what may be a McCarthy Cup Tournament record, only four teams that played last night failed to improve on last week's score, which indicates that Week 1 will probably be the dropped score for most of the teams. With only two weeks to go in the preliminary round, this means that unless you are in Crystal City, VA, there is little room for error from here on out: Score Team 59257 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 49790 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 48107 The Old Barn, Portland OR 47597 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 46055 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 43554 Danny K's, Orange CA 43480 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 42555 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 42223 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 41850 BWW-Tallahassee FL 41302 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 41197 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 41160 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 39998 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 39890 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 39683 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 39269 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 38852 Teaser's, Chicago IL 38297 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 37704 Mad River, New York NY 36714 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 36242 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 34194 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 33573 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 31705 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 31065 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 18582 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 18369 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 12855 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT The bubble is still pretty big, and there is plenty of opportunity for movement in the coming weeks. Good skill to all on Tuesday, and Live Long and Prosper. |
Author: | richte09 [ Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:48 pm ] |
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GONE D wrote: richte09 wrote: Due to inclement weather the Adam's Mill is closed so we will not be playing trivia tonight, looks like our McCarthy cup hopes are done before it really even started. Mother Nature may have screwed you over, but her incursion at this time of year is only temporary. Your site, Adam's Mill, has a more enduring presence than a March blizzard. Suck it up, dig yourself out, and run the table when you get the chance. Thanks, appreciate the confidence, It will be up to my teammies as I play next tuesday weather permitting LOL, then its off to hopefully sunny Florida for 9 days of R&R |
Author: | richte09 [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:32 pm ] |
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Looks like we may get trivia in tonight, looks like the nor'easter (the 3rd one in 4 weeks) will hit tomorrow, but unfortunately my flight to Florida got cancelled, so a day delay for vacay |
Author: | GONE D [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:03 pm ] |
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richte09 wrote: ...my flight to Florida got cancelled... Mesdames et Monsieurs, je mais presente RICHTE, who literally can't buy a (spring?) break. At least he didn't spend the evening at a casino. Fond as I am of dispensing unsolicited advice, even I knew that a gambling den was hardly a place he would choose to visit, in these troubled times. We know that RICHTE avoided the casino owing to his fine 13K and 12th place finish on the Final Top 20 in Brainbuster. Well played, Sir. I, on the other hand, did go to the casino, and gambled away the family farm, taking Lackluster ahead of Braggadaccio as the term coined by Edmund Spenser in Final Showdown. Of course the Tailgate received no elimination of Lackluster, a term which, on closer inspection, seems to have been planted in the drop-down box for the special purpose of placing the Tailgate on the bubble in this tournament. |
Author: | xtrain [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:51 pm ] |
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Some possibilities for future final questions in Showdown: What is the penultimate word in the novel Middlemarch? What is the 64th largest moon of Jupiter? How many people were killed at the Battle of Hastings? Oh, and...How many months will it take for Buzztime to go out of business? |
Author: | GONE D [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:02 pm ] |
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Difficult to criticize XTRAIN for a lack of attitude. I thought I could draw up the penultimate word in Middlemarch, but the second of my duplicate copies went to a recovering alcoholic, who recently graduated with an English degree, special emphasis on feminist literature. One can specialize in this regard at St Catherine's (one of a consortium of colleges in St Paul, which includes St Thomas, Hamline, Macalester, and Augsburg in Minneapolis. Enroll in one of these schools, you can attend classes in any of the others). I went above and beyond, annotating the book with a map of Middlemarch and its environs, where all the neighbors were placed in relation to each other, translating the French phrases, etc, and now that I think about it... Not having seen nor heard from her, I might request through our mutual friend LORBOR that, if she doesn't regard Dorothea Brooke as a feminist study, she might do me the courtesy of returning the damn thing. There, XTRAIN. Back at 'cha. |
Author: | xtrain [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:52 pm ] |
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I only thought of the Middlemarch question because Dr. Joseph Duffy, who taught The English Novel at Notre Dame when I was there, stressed that he had been asked these questions as part of his doctoral orals. "What is the last word in Middlemarch?" A. Tombs. "What is the penultimate word in Middlemarch?" A. Unvisited. Of course, those were the days when you actually had to know things. Your friend probably had to answer "How did Middlemarch make you feel?" |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:27 pm ] |
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Although The Borg famously insist that “resistance is futile,” The Federation learns that it can, in fact, resist them. This resistance comes at a cost, though. Just ask Picard/Locutus or the fleet of Federation Starships at Wolf 359 in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II.” Similarly, Buzztime has proved that The Borg can be resisted effectively in Showdown, too—mostly through shrewd writing in the final six questions. Tuesday’s game was a perfect example of this: not a single Borg team cracked the top 20, probably (I suspect) because of a final question that was extremely difficult to look up on a computer quickly enough to get a good score. But this resistance came at a cost as well, primarily in the form of lower scores overall. In this regard, it proved to be an extremely challenging game: only one team got more than 50k, and only four cracked 40k. Beyond banishing The Borg to the Delta Quadrant of the standings, the effect of all this was to make the McCarthy Cup even more competitive than usual. With only one week to go in the preliminary round, only one team—BWW-Crystal City, VA—has clinched a spot in the finals. Even more extraordinarily, not a single team has been mathematically eliminated from contention—not even Adam’s Mill, which had to take a zero for last week’s game. Thus, there is more than usual riding on the last week of prelims. This week’s results were as follows: 51086 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 47137 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 46844 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 46162 The Old Barn, Portland OR 39564 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 38731 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 38695 Danny K's, Orange CA 36614 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 35771 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 35558 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 34255 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 33336 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 30933 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 29781 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 28321 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 28129 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 27417 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 26640 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT 22763 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 21517 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 20649 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 17810 Mad River, New York NY 17495 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 17227 Teaser's, Chicago IL 16240 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 14361 BWW-Tallahassee FL 13882 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 13610 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 832 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD Adding these to the previous scores, the cumulative-point standings look like this: 159296 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 121065 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 120405 The Old Barn, Portland OR 119770 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 117971 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 112837 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 112143 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 111003 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 110919 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 106134 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 105866 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 102727 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 97986 Danny K's, Orange CA 91508 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 88204 Teaser's, Chicago IL 87454 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 86672 Mad River, New York NY 86374 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 84524 BWW-Tallahassee FL 83981 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 82384 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 82164 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 74203 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 70042 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 65222 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 61963 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 59165 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 44511 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 39495 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT For most weeks, the cumulative point standings don’t mean much because everyone gets to drop a low score. However, because there is only one week left these numbers represent the lowest possible score any team can have. This can be useful in calculating bubble positions going into the last week. The most important standings, of course, are the ones that come after dropping a low score. Here is where everyone stands in that regard going into the final week of open play: 112452 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 100876 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 94269 The Old Barn, Portland OR 86406 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 84451 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 82249 Danny K's, Orange CA 82078 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 80954 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 80761 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 79038 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 78582 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 77813 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 75454 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 74013 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 73488 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 70977 Teaser's, Chicago IL 70163 BWW-Tallahassee FL 69210 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 68862 Mad River, New York NY 68554 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 66909 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 64843 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 63975 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 59814 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 54468 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 47305 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 45786 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 39495 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT 32464 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX If you add 63,750 (a perfect score) to these numbers, it represents the maximum possible score for every team. Using the lowest possible scores for comparison, this is how we know that BWW-Crystal City has clinched a spot in the finals. In fact, even if they did not play on Tuesday and every other team got a perfect score, the Slammers could do no worse than the #3 seed in the elimination round. Congrats to them on smoking the preliminaries. For the rest of us, however, things are very much up in the air. The “bubble” is extraordinarily large this year. Teaser’s sits squarely on it right now, but there are fully 16 teams—more than half the field—within 10,000 points of them in either direction. Given the wide variation in scores the last few weeks, this means that there is great potential for both upward and downward movement in the final week. For the vast majority of teams, then, the chances of advancing after this week are anything but futile. Good skill to all, and live long and prosper. |
Author: | spotes [ Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:33 pm ] |
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xtrain wrote: I only thought of the Middlemarch question because Dr. Joseph Duffy, who taught The English Novel at Notre Dame when I was there, stressed that he had been asked these questions as part of his doctoral orals. "What is the last word in Middlemarch?" A. Tombs. "What is the penultimate word in Middlemarch?" A. Unvisited. Of course, those were the days when you actually had to know things. Your friend probably had to answer "How did Middlemarch make you feel?" Do you suppose I could get my doctorate by answering "sleepy"? |
Author: | GONE D [ Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:30 pm ] |
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Somewhere in Buzztime's archive is a question which SPOTES has seen, inquiring after the identity of Dorothea Brooke. The tagline identifies Middlemarch as the greatest of Victorian novels. I gasped in astonishment that anyone at Buzztime would know as much - or more accurately, exercise that level of critical judgment. At the end of the quiz, I again gasped in astonishment. The 86th Street Pub had once again run a Countdown quiz for a perfect 15 site score. By tooth and claw I had earned my usual 11.4. Dorothea Brooke was the second question in that Countdown quiz. The first question had to do with five TV actors I'd never heard of, who had appeared in a single season fiasco I'd also never heard of. I worry about you, SPOTES. Is anyone slipping healthful meals under the door of whatever monastic cell you're occupying? |
Author: | ANON [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:05 pm ] |
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Midway through The Wrath Of Khan, it looks like everything has gone topsy-turvy: Kirk and his party are trapped inside an asteroid—seemingly forever—and Khan is on the loose with the Genesis device, leaving Kirk to scream “KHAAAAAAAAAAN!” in impotent rage. It’s all a ruse, of course, set up by Kirk and Spock using Regulation 46A to trick Khan into thinking he had triumphed. In the end, despite some significant casualties, no one is surprised that Kirk and the Enterprise crew win the day. In some ways, this is how the preliminary round of the McCarthy Cup played out. It seemed pretty topsy-turvy throughout, with disruptive games in week 1 and week 3 making it look like a changing of the guard might be possible. In the end, though—and despite some significant casualties—the final field revealed after week 4 held few surprises. OK, it’s a really strained metaphor. But I’m tired and couldn’t think of anything better. If you don’t like it, tough. Feel free to scream “ANOOOOOOOOOON!” in impotent rage. Here are last night’s results: 55366 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 53637 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 52743 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 51276 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 51209 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 50906 Danny K's, Orange CA 50262 The Old Barn, Portland OR 48209 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 47972 Mad River, New York NY 47865 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 47794 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 46297 Teaser's, Chicago IL 46076 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 45879 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 45093 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 43747 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 37291 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 33766 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 32869 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 32060 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 32037 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 30994 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 30816 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 29334 BWW-Tallahassee FL 27594 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 27549 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 25455 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 21276 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 19979 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Congrats to the folks at Stained Glass Pub on the win for the evening. After missing last week’s game their backs were against the wall, and they responded splendidly, as we will see. Adding last night’s scores to the ones before, here are the cumulative point totals for each team: 212933 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 170979 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 170714 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 170667 The Old Barn, Portland OR 169274 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 158913 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 156096 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 153928 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 150592 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 148892 Danny K's, Orange CA 143157 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 141913 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 134644 Mad River, New York NY 134501 Teaser's, Chicago IL 133660 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 133419 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 131201 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 128043 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 125408 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 123545 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 120140 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 114797 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 113858 BWW-Tallahassee FL 106263 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 92816 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 87418 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 86714 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 77380 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 59474 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Clearly, the former Grand Slammers at BWW-Crystal City went ahead in week 1 and never looked back. There are more points separating them from the #2 team than there are separating the #2 team from the #11 team. Fortunately for the rest of the field, the points get thrown out after this. Of course, the only number that matters is the cumulative total after low scores are dropped. Oddly, though, despite all the topsy-turviness of previous weeks, dropping low scores ousted only two teams from the Sweet 16. Here are the final preliminary round standings (teams that are advancing in bold): 166089 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 152085 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 144531 The Old Barn, Portland OR 139149 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 133155 Danny K's, Orange CA 132660 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 129943 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 125854 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 125607 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 124658 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 124576 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 118245 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 117274 Teaser's, Chicago IL 117235 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 116834 Mad River, New York NY 116119 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 114433 Moose McGuires, Ottawa ON 112143 K-zoo Krew, BWW-Kalamazoo MI 110919 Scooter's, Las Vegas NV 106050 Broadway Bar and Grill, Nepean ON 100675 Humperdinck's, Dallas TX 99497 BWW-Tallahassee FL 94791 Cedar Cottage, Vancouver BC 91874 Bilmar Station, Tampa FL 82062 Wallaby's, Lenexa KS 73335 Meriden AOH, Meriden CT 72760 K.C.'s Time Out Lounge, Evansville IN 65333 Stadium Cafe, Addison TX 59474 Adam’s Mill, Manchester CT Before moving on, I’d like to take a moment to thank all of the teams that won’t be advancing. If you are among those teams, you are in good company, including a couple of former McCarthy Cup champions. We appreciate the competition you provided in a very tough field, and we hope you will sign up for the Sandbag Tournament that will begin in the fall. Congrats to all of the teams making the Sweet 16—especially Stained Glass Pub and BWW-Oklahoma, which elbowed their way into the field in the final week. If Loyola can make the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, then I see no reason why these teams can’t be the Cinderella Stories of this tournament. But they are not alone. Despite the fact that the final field represents most of the usual suspects, there are plenty of opportunities for upsets from here on out. Here are the pairings for the first elimination game: 1 BWW-Crystal City, Arlington VA 16 BWW-Blacksburg, VA 8 Big Guys, Winnipeg MB 9 Tilted Kilt, Scottsdale AZ 5 Danny K's, Orange CA 12 Time Out West, Hanover Park IL 4 Houlihan's-Westbury NY 13 Teaser's, Chicago IL 3 The Old Barn, Portland OR 14 BWW-Oklahoma City OK 6 The Ragged Rascals, Albuquerque NM 11 Stained Glass Pub, Elkridge MD 7 Tailgate Sports Cafe, Minneapolis MN 10 West Park Station, Cleveland OH 2 The Fellowship, BWW-Kent OH 15 Mad River, New York NY Intriguing matchups abound here. For example, the Fellowship/Mad River tilt is a rematch of the 2014 McCarthy Semifinals and the 2014 Sandbag Finals. The Ragged Rascals/Stained Glass Pub and Tailgate/West Park Station pairings pit top-ten-ranked teams (according to Don Denton’s site) against each other in matches more fitted for the semifinals or finals. The truth is, though, that all of the matchups are intriguing because once you get to this level, any team is more than capable of knocking off any other team on any given Tuesday. It only takes another week like week 1 of this tournament to break everybody’s brackets. Congrats again to the Sweet 16 teams. Good skill this week; and live long and prosper. |
Author: | Merkin [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:20 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 20th Annual McCarthy Cup: Rules, Signup, and Results |
To the last, I grapple with thee! |
Author: | GONE D [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 20th Annual McCarthy Cup: Rules, Signup, and Results |
That's some wonderful statistical spadework, ANON. As MERKIN has suggested, it'll take disciplined team play, as exemplified by Loyola-Chicago in the NCAA Tournament, to defeat the whales who attend our no less competitive Showdown affairs. I'm a Big Ten guy, but I can't be the only one who roots for GYPSY's team. The law school she brags up but seldom identifies is Chicago-Loyola. In the final four of the NCAA Tournament. Direct your best wishes to MERKIN. GYPSY's too busy to reply to all her correspondence. |
Author: | Merkin [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 20th Annual McCarthy Cup: Rules, Signup, and Results |
Chicago is Loyola Ramblers crazed! Especially since the last two times they did well in the tourney (1963 & 1985), something else good happened. In general, I root for all Big Ten teams except That Team Up North. Now, if only the finest school in the league will consider rejoining..... |
Author: | ANON [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:39 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 20th Annual McCarthy Cup: Rules, Signup, and Results |
Merkin wrote: To the last, I grapple with thee! You task me. You task me, and I shall have Teasers. I'll chase you round the Moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition's flames before I give up! |
Author: | Gypsy [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:27 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 20th Annual McCarthy Cup: Rules, Signup, and Results |
GONE D wrote: I'm a Big Ten guy, but I can't be the only one who roots for GYPSY's team. The law school she brags up but seldom identifies is Chicago-Loyola. In the final four of the NCAA Tournament. Direct your best wishes to MERKIN. GYPSY's too busy to reply to all her correspondence. I object, GONE D! I reply to all of my correspondence! It just took me a minute to realize that I was addressed somewhere in these threads. Yes, I'm at Loyola Law School Chicago and it is absolutely INSANE. Did you catch the interview with Sister Jean in which she said that she always prays for both teams, but she prays a little harder for Loyola? |
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