Some comments...
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BUDS: Actually, your site was not just 2nd in the East. They were 2nd, period. In fact, the top 10 locations were all Eastern sites. (I have a tongue-in-cheek theory as to why the East dominated on this game...)
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richte09: (Does that mean there are eight more of you? That's okay; there are 740 more of me.
) Since Tim undoubtedly talked you and Al into playing the NFL Topix a few weeks ago, you and Tim should have joined for Romania. I went instead because (a) it was the type of Topix that Al and I would have played well as a team, and (b) I hadn't been to the Mill in well over a month. The fact that Al had been to Romania doesn't surprise me, but it was definitely a plus.
I really expected just two people playing five boxes, but I texted my regular teammate Dave just in case, and he joined us as well. With Tom/BIFF and Dave/GORDON, we were a formidable bunch who also was #3, at least in the East, in Six.
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Rhino: I partially agree with you. Although it was (mostly) an easy Topix for us, the fact that the 11th bar average in the East was less than 8000 points means that most players found the game far less than easy. I do agree that there should be a number of questions that cannot be found just by reading one Wikipedia page, and I also think that the High Jump question was a real stinker, and is better suited for a trivia game on obscure Olympic feats than a game about Romania.
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pengwn: Thank you for your write-up. I mostly agree that it was a great game, but there was no way I'd remember all 15 questions with their answers.
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lewser: My theory as to why the East dominated Thursday's Topix: You scared them away from the West!
Finally, on my first post on this thread, I alluded to a weird news story about Romania that I heard just a few hours after the Topix game had ended. Below is a link to that story. Happy Halloween.
link-- RWM