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Smartest Bar Week 5

August 29 Weekly Top 10

1. 62,560 West Park Station

2. 59,021 Happy Hollow Tavern

3. 58,685 Beef O’Brady’s Prattville

4. 58,531 Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Pub

5. 57,640 Teasers

6. 56,738 Getaway Cafe

7. 56,135 Broadway Bar & Grill

8. 55,615 Old Chicago Louisville

9. 55,230 Esquire Club

10. 55,161 The Arena Bar & Grill



Top 15 by total points over five weeks:



1. 305,792 West Park Station

2. 289,496 Teasers

3. 285,206 Beef O’Brady’s Prattville

4. 280,937 B-52 Burgers & Brew

5. 277,201 Boomerz

6. 276,033 Broadway Bar & Grill
7. 273,288 Esquire Club

8. 272,870 BWW Crystal City

9. 272,672 Big Guys

10. 267,985 Chicago Sam’s Cromwell

11. 267,616 Mad River Bar & Grille

12. 266,612 Rockin’ Crepes

13. 264,800 Old Chicago Louisville

14. 264,416 Warwick Tavern

15. 263,445 Stavro's Sports Bar



Top 20 by total points over five weeks with lowest score dropped:



1. 246,613 West Park Station

2. 234,410 Beef O’Brady’s Prattville

3. 234,338 Teasers

4. 231,414 B-52 Burgers & Brew

5. 225,396 Boomerz

6. 225,217 Big Guys

7. 224,650 Broadway Bar & Grill

8. 224,400 Esquire Club

9. 226,523 BWW Crystal City

10. 220,582 Stavro’s Sports Bar

11. 219,980 Chicago Sam’s Cromwell

12. 218,558 Ben’s Pourhouse

13. 218,484 Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Pub

14. 218,111 Old Chicago Louisville

15. 217,715 Rockin’ Crepes

16. 217,665 Chicago Loop

17. 216,773 The Arena Bar & Grill

18. 216,015 Mad River Bar & Grille

19. 214,428 Happy Hollow Tavern

20. 212,847 Warwick Tavern


Themes:



Week 1: Shows: Action Movies
Week 2: Past: Historic Weddings
Week 3: Games: Combat Sports
Week 4: Science: Out in Space
Week 5: Arts: Music Festivals & Tours
Week 6: World: Food & Drink Around the World

Difference between first place score and tenth place score each week:



Week 1: 1st 61,509, 10th 56,450 Difference: 5,509

Week 2: 1st 62,345, 10th 57,362 Difference: 4,983

Week 3: 1st 61,396, 10th 50,796 Difference: 10,600
Week 4: 1st 62,746, 10th 56,784 Difference: 5,962

Week 5: 1st 62,560, 10th 55,161 Difference: 7,399



By the numbers:

25 sites have appeared in the Weekly Top 10 (+3 from last week). Happy Hollow Tavern of Altoona, PA; Getaway Café of Pittsburgh, PA; and Old Chicago Louisville of Louisville, KY, debuted Week 5.

West Park Station has held the Weekly #1 spot the past three weeks. Their lowest finish to-date is #7 in Week 2. B-52 Burgers & Brew and Teasers held the Weekly #1 the first two weeks.

West Park Station and Beef O’Brady’s Prattville are the only teams to be in the Weekly Top 10 all five weeks. Teasers has been in the Weekly Top 10 four of five weeks.

5 Canadian teams have appeared in the Weekly Top Ten: Broadway Bar & Grill, Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Pub, Stavro’s Sports Bar, Big Guys, and Esquire Club (no change; my apologies for omitting Cedar Cottage’s Week 2 #5 finish from last week’s count).

84 different sites have appeared in the Weekly Top 50. (+3 since last week). At #19, BWW Woodlands of Shenandoah, TX debuted the highest in Week 5.

25 different Buffalo Wild Wings have appeared in the Weekly Top 50 (+1 from last week). The Ram Restaurant & Brewhouse chain of the Pacific Northwest, and the Old Chicago chain of the Midwest each have 3, and are the only other chains with multiple sites appearing in the Weekly Top 50 (+1 for Old Chicago chain).

7 sites from Florida (+1) and 4 sites from Ontario (no change) have made the Weekly Top 50, the most of any state and province so far. Minnesota has 6 and Texas have 6 each (+2 for Texas).

TFM

West Park Station, which hasn't rolled anything less than a 59K, can take the week off. Teasers as well. Torquemada has done a fine job establishing the cut-off. With only one week remaining in the qualifying rounds, there is bound to be an upset or two, marking the final ten eligible for that one-off finale.

If Pete Rose were to bet on B-52, my home site, Rose should be sentenced to spend a few months in jail and later be denied entrance to the Hall of Fame, for exercising really bad judgment. Can Mad River galvanize, lasso, and/or reconnoitre the talent which won the Mudee Challenge so recently? Or is Mad River destined to die outside the top ten? They're currently ranked 18th. I'm not urbane or sophisticated enough to speculate about what happens in Manhattan, some of which apparently stays in Las Vegas - a riddle I'm happy to share, and which many of you can solve without reflection.

Prattville and Teasers are lurking. I make mention of all these sites because the last time I speculated on a plausible winner, another site I hadn't mentioned was ultimately victorious. And who doesn't root for the underdog?

OK, Prattville. No need to raise your voices!

Pretty wild that the 10th place bar edged out the 11th place bar for the final qualifying spot by a whopping 19 points

Borg

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Merkin

I took note of that as well.



MERKIN's orphic pronouncement would seem to indicate that he believes that The Esquire Club, in Sault Ste Marie, which slipped into the 10th and last qualifying position, is a cheating bar.

If that's what MERKIN intended, I'm happy to report, based on my personal acquaintance with CHEWY, that The Esquire Club is clean.

BO and ANON insist that anyone can cheat at Brainbuster.

Lord help us all.

Six is the toughest game to borg by far. Naturally doing so could raise a location's score to some degree, just not near as much as other games.

MERKIN's orphic pronouncement would seem to indicate that he believes that The Esquire Club, in Sault Ste Marie, which slipped into the 10th and last qualifying position, is a cheating bar.

If that's what MERKIN intended, I'm happy to report, based on my personal acquaintance with CHEWY, that The Esquire Club is clean.

BO and ANON insist that anyone can cheat at Brainbuster.

Lord help us all.[/quote]

Gone D,

You were looking at the Week 6 results, not the overall. Esquire Club is the #5 Qualifier.

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Merkin

I stand corrected.

I knew someone would use the 'B' word.
Leave it to Merkin.
Watch out for that 10th place team.

RAY J.

RAY J's guerrilla tactics to rehabilitate The Loop's reputation are noble, so far as they go. But he knows more than he's reported here.

I got a message from ROB/TRONTO today: "Good lick in the tournament next week in the finale..."

I was seriously hoping that ROB himself would give it a run, or GABBY up at Ol' Mexico, or BUGG at Dulono's Pizza, but no other site in Minnesota made any effort whatsoever. Since I'm not by nature a Six player, I'm disappointed in my neighbors for their slouchy indifference.

So this afternoon I was sitting at B-52, scouting the performances of Case Keenum and Sam Bradford, a couple of last year's Vikings quarterbacks, when Sarah, AUVA's daughter, sat down next to me and began wading her way through $100 in pull tabs. She got $20 into it without success before I offered to kiss one of her pull-tabs, just for good luck. Duly kissed, the pull-tab was set aside.

She got $42 out of her $100, but the tab I kissed wasn't a winner.

"It wasn't much of a kiss," I apologized. "I should have given it some tongue."

Good lick to all the qualifiers, including Ray J's group.

All bars should play honestly.

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Merkin

I know for a fact that the folks at Da Loop play just like the folks at Teaser's.
(Except for the Showdown game.)
BTW, there's a Sam Adams Octoberfest Stein Hoisting coming up on Friday, 9/21.
The Collective won't be there, but I will.

RAY J.