There's no West thread, so I'm going to invade here to offer my recollections on the last SIQ. Six or seven of us stuck around for it after Smartest Bar (which, on this night, we were not. My 54k and change ranks exactly at 50th percentile). Rembrandts is no sports trivia bar, and it's only because of S.B. SIX that we fielded a full quorum of players. You guys may laugh, but I'm happy to break 100 whenever I play this game
Floundered throughout the Coin Toss round, best was MADDOG with 8/10, I just beat the monkey with 6/10
The Phelps pair was the first time in a long time I've gotten the full 10 for a ProFile without a WAG. As soon as the pasty white wrist was in focus, nobody was on Usain Bolt anymore. I was on Warren Sapp until I heard JTN mutter "no", so I took a zero for not paying close attention. We did settle on Raiders after some delay. None of us seriously thought slugging percentage was a century-old statistic, so we bled again, but there could be no denying that was the Bambino. Both JTN and MADDOG were all over the Braves for the follow-up
Hunt-and-Peck Round: Thought it would be Aaron Kr
Amer, zero. Japan was an easy lay-up. Paul and Gonzalez were both realized after some bleeding. We had IL as our letters for Bristol, so anyone getting BO as their letters was a nifty coincidence. Seahawks took a second to remember. Lydia Ko winning the Canadian Open was pretty easy; as you might imagine, there was a fair bit of press about it here. JTN offered Oregon State, but as our first letter was the U, I was able to correct us to Ducks. Clemens and Cowboys gave us a strong finish to the round
We struggled mightily on the Date Rape round, and I was uncharacteristically bad on Olympics years. Tara Lipinski medal? Must be 1996, as I completely missed the word Skating in the clue. The only place you would've found enough ice to skate on at the Atlanta Olympics was in your concession stand Coke
. And my apologies to the fine folks in Utah for calling the Turin Olympics as being 2002. That was an inexcusable miss
. It was nice to take a trip in the WABAC machine, and have 1922 as the final Overtime Q. I just wish I had remembered the Senators weren't the Stanley Cup losers in 1924 (they won in 1920, '21, '23 and '27, so it was a toss-up between 2 and 4 for me). No, that was the Tigers of the WHL, from some podunk settlement somewhere in southern Alberta
We knew Arcaro, but had to guess on the other jockeys. Most scored 2/5, I managed three. Slow on the Vikings coach, so only some of us got all five there. NBA draft picks? Happy to find one correct match and avoid getting a rock in the trick-or-treat bag. I believe we nailed the baseball home run hitters, memory's kinda foggy. We didn't do well on the bowl winners
JTN won the site with 132, and I managed 112.5 with the help. Rembrandts as a team showed sixth in the west, which is pretty damn good for us
Thank you to TomD for writing good, challenging SIQ games over the past few months. I haven't played many of them, but also big thanks to UCFHCY, HUNK et al for consistently recapping the games here, allowing me to see what I missed and realize how completely pedestrian a sports fan I am
Farewell, Sports IQ. You shall be missed