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I also missed HRE with Prussia. What do you think made HRE a WECIB? I figured I knew with certainty that there were two Prussian kings named Frederick, with one of them being arguably one of the most famous historical figures ever, so it seemed like a pretty good guess. Well, even if Frederick I (B...

I also missed HRE with Prussia. What do you think made HRE a WECIB? I figured I knew with certainty that there were two Prussian kings named Frederick, with one of them being arguably one of the most famous historical figures ever, so it seemed like a pretty good guess. Well, even if Frederick I (B...

$9200 + FJ should be a win for me

I was shocked at the low get rates for the HRE and fellow traveler. Both of those I considered WECIB kinda questions (though I was troubled by the thought that Sputnik means fellow traveler).

Enough said about those FJ wagers. Oy! I was all over the place on FJ. I did the math, pondered the significance of 1776, thought about DC landmarks and finally settled with little confidence on the Jefferson Memorial. Would I have had enough time to write it down fully? Not at all sure.

my science teacher would be disappointed but I did know it was something per unit. I will be clear I have never heard of this British blah blah blah. (not against British measuring systems but I thought we were going with general units of measurement) The next day I looked at my reference table in ...

A well-played game for the most part. I went wrong on the Swiss cheese DD. Knowing that tal means valley in German, I immediately went to Emmenthaler. Easy-peasy FJ.

I also had to put McMurtry out of my mind to get to McMurphy. I too thought it would be a 3/3 FJ and did a double-take on Joanne.

$7800 + FJ means that I'd have needed Aaron to neg in FJ to win from the fourth podium.

$8000 + FJ equate to a fourth-podium win

And the suicide bet from 2nd proves to be very costly indeed. I thought tonight’s boards played a tad tougher than last night’s but still well below TOC level. Easy FJ. I too was surprised that it wasn’t a triple get. How was it costly? He had no choice but to make that bet. It didn’t cost him a di...

And the suicide bet from 2nd proves to be very costly indeed. I thought tonight’s boards played a tad tougher than last night’s but still well below TOC level. Easy FJ. I too was surprised that it wasn’t a triple get.

Missed J17 with "wealth," too. Remember, that's a freebie for fourth podium purposes, so you don't have to deduct the $400 from your score. Unless you think you'd have provided one of those moments where a contestant rings in to give exactly the same response that was just negged. Good po...

The box score certainly doesn't make a strong case for this tournament format. I generally consider 40 attempts/game as the benchmark for a multi-game winner and none of these contestants reached it. And that combined Coryat! One could argue that these boards were just harder than the norm, but BDM'...

Missed J17 with "wealth," too.

$7200 + DD3 +FJ equates to a fourth podium win.

$13K going into FJ puts me in 2nd by a whisker. Dave edges me out in a dual get if he makes the shutout bet.

Comprehensive win by Josh. It’ll be interesting how he fares against the tougher competition of the TOC. In contrast to yesterdays final, I thought todays was a very well crafted one. I started with Genevieve too before honing in on the first woman clue and migrating to the correct answer (fretting ...

though that wager on DD3 left me shaking my head. What was wrong with it? She's still in a great position if she's wrong, and a correct response basically puts the game away then and there. I thought it was a great wager. It seemed unnecessarily aggressive there. Yes, if she gets it right she's in ...

I just checked the box score. I had assumed that Lucy was better on the buzzer as she seemed able to ring in almost at will, but no: her stats were identical to Joe and Nguyen’s. What differentiated her was that she rang in 46 times during the game, far more than either of the the other two. She cer...

$3400 + DD3 + $1200 means that I could have entered FJ with $8000. Since I got FJ right, I count that as a 4th podium win.