Cellar Rats 62, Misplaced Modifiers 59, All Over Twisted 53
It was a very close game between all three teams; most of the time
the Mods had a small lead over the Rats, who in turn had a small
lead over AOT. But the Rats surged ahead in the challenge round
with five deuces and a steal to take the Cup. In more detail:
----round---- ----cumul----
Rats-Mods-AOT Rats-Mods-AOT
1. Current Events 8-8-9 8- 8- 9
2. Entertainment 6-7-3 14-15-12
3. Geography 5-4-6 19-19-18
4. Science 4-5-4 23-24-22
5. Audio 5-5-6 28-29-28
6. Canadiana 8-8-6 36-37-34
7. History 6-8-4 42-45-38
8. Sports 4-3-5 46-48-43
9. Arts/Literature 5-6-4 51-54-47
10. Challenge 11-5-6 62-59-53
As we only had two people QMing at the end of the game, we decided
to mark the audience questions after the game and let the unanswered
challenge round questions go to the audience. On 10 rounds there were
34 audience questions, on which nobody else came close to MI5's score
of 23 correct.
As it turns out, the best individual scores were:
Doug Misplaced Modifiers 7
Jim All Over Twisted 7
John All Over Twisted 6
Rick Cellar Rats 5
Ralph Misplaced Modifiers 5
Mel Misplaced Modifiers 4
Craig Cellar Rats 4
Mike Cellar Rats 2 (played 5 rounds)
Notice that none of the THREE top scores involves Cellar Rats players.
It turns out that they won the game while scoring the FEWEST deuces
of all three teams! (This remarkable achievement may be seen as an
extension of the fact that they also had fewer zeroes in the regular
season than any other team; being in the Final, of course, they were
ineligible for that prize.) They actually scored 1 point on fully
half of their questions in the Final, not counting steals:
2's 1's steals 0's
Cellar Rats 18 25 1 7
Misplaced Modifiers 19 20 1 11
All Over Twisted 21 9 2 20
(Here "0's" means zeroes in rounds 1-10 and includes questions stolen
by another team, while "1's" means the ordinary 1-pointers in rounds 1-9.)
Well done, Rats!