While there was not a lot drama regarding the top spot in the first post-COVID Brainbuster Tournament, there was plenty of drama surrounding spots 2-5.
The Fellowship did not do particularly well on Tuesday, but they did well enough to squeak ahead of Stained Glass Pub by 24 points for the gold medal for the night and the tournament victory. Before dropping low scores, here are the cumulative point standings for the tournament:
58,300 The Fellowship
49,477 Lighthouse Tavern
49,156 Danny K's
49,076 Teaser's
47,471 Alien Bar
46,913 Primetime Sports
45,832 Phat Turtle BBQ
43,343 Stained Glass Pub
42,378 Time Out West
40,717 Wallaby's
34,005 Grumpy's Too
32,639 Torrey Pines Pub
As you can see, only about 400 points separated the teams from 2nd to 4th place, with Lighthouse just a few hundred ahead of Danny K's. But of course, the only totals that matter are the ones after dropping low scores. Two things are evident from these scores: 1) The Fellowship clearly likes nice, round numbers, and 2) There were some shakeups in positions 2-5:
48,000 The Fellowship
42,318 Danny K's
42,215 Lighthouse Tavern
40,376 Alien Bar
40,162 Teaser's
38,804 Primetime Sports
37,777 Phat Turtle BBQ
36,652 Stained Glass Pub
35,774 Time Out West
33,474 Wallaby's
30,945 Grumpy's Too
27,090 Torrey Pines Pub
In a real barn-burner, Danny K's sniped the silver medal away from Lighthouse Tavern by only 103 points, and Alien Bar jumped past Teaser's for the 4th-place spot by a little more than 200 points. Congrats to all of them, and to Grumpy's which achieved its stated pre-tournament goal by not finishing in last place. (For the complete tournament standings, check out the tournament page on Don Denton's site:
https://ntn.donrdenton.com/tournament.p ... &KeyCol=15 . Thanks as always to Don for maintaining the tournament page.). Will the representatives of Danny K's and Lighthouse please contact me with mailing information for your Silver(-ish) and Bronze(-ish) medals? Please also include any special engraving instructions regarding your team name, if any.
So that's a wrap for the 8th (nearly-)Annual Brainbuster Cup. I would like to take this opportunity thank each and every team for choosing to participate. It has been a rough few years for the Buzztime faithful, so it is great to have actual tournaments again like in The-Before-Times. Here's hoping that next year's field will be even bigger than it was this year. With the McCarthy Cup in progress, the Sandbag Tournament slated to return this fall, and I'm guessing another SIX tournament in the works, it looks like Trivia-dom is beginning to get back to something vaguely resembling normality. Thanks again to all the participants, and consider this an invitation to other locations to get your teams together and join the fun the next time a tournament rolls around.
Last, but certainly not least, as tournament commissioner I would be remiss if I did not officially congratulate and thank the awesome team it has been my great honor and good fortune to play with these last 18 years. Congrats to The Fellowship for the win, and thanks for making every Tuesday fun for almost two decades.
Until next year,
ANON