FINAL: Misplaced Modifiers 61, MI5 58, Forza Azzurri 46
The three teams remained in that order through most of the game, but the Mods and MI5 were neck-and-neck through the late rounds and the win was not clinched until the second-last question.
Round by round scores:
Mods-MI5-Azzurri Cumulative
1. current events 9-6-5 9-6-5
2. geography 6-5-4 15-11-9
3. history 6-8-6 21-19-15
4. arts/literature 4-5-7 25-24-22
5. video 8-3-5 33-27-27
6. audio 4-5-3 37-32-30
7. sports/leisure 5-9-3 42-41-33
8. Canadiana 8-6-5 50-47-38
9. science 3-5-2 53-52-40
10. challenge 8-6-6 61-58-46
On 150 questions, deuces were scored 51 times, 1 point on a team answer 61 times, 1 point on a challenge round steal 2 times, and 0 points 36 times. There were 31 audience questions.
The Mods' 61 points consisted of 18 deuces, 23 team score ones, and the two challenge round steals; they had only 8 zeroes in the whole game! MI5 had 21 deuces but only 16 ones; Azzurri had 12 deuces and 22 ones.
John W. (MI5) and Glen (Mods) had 6 deuces, winning the Final MVP prize; John B. (MI5) played half the game and had 3 deuces. Barrie (MI5) had 5 deuces. Jim (Azzurri), Greg (MI5), Bob (Mods), and Doug (Mods) had 4; Bob (Mods) additionally had BOTH steals in the challenge round, with a second steal on the 13th question (from David [Azzurri] and Doug [MI5]) and a first steal (from Doug [MI5]) on the 14th.
Rounds from easiest to stinker:
1. current events 6.67
3. history 6.67
10. challenge 6.67
8. Canadiana 6.33
7. sports/leisure 5.67
4. arts/literature 5.33
5. video 5.33
2. geography 5.00
6. audio 4.00
9. science 3.33
The hardest individual triple, the only one where all three questions went to the audience, was the Interstate highway numbers in geography. There was one quasi-protest on that triple, due to the player confusing Interstate and US highways.