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My stats last night: 47 R/ 1 W and $37,800
Tonight: 31 R/ 4 W and $14,600
Amazing more contestants haven't finished in the red during his run. I would've if I'd been up there tonight.

The Sports ML was fun and very comprehensive but tough. I got nine 2's!

A Horizon again, with quite a few boardies.

Patrick Quinn won the Teachers Tournament in 2012. Will Conor Quinn win it seven years later? The only other same-surname pair to win the same tournament (that I can think of) are Raynell and Leonard Cooper.
Now, to the game: it was very good right up until the math category.

Francois was fantastic; only did a very quick scan of the Archive, but 26,600 appears to be the highest Coryat ever recorded in a Teacher Tourney game, yes? (And by a fair margin, at that. Colby, Larry and Jason, notably, topped out around 20-21k. Next best appear to be in the 22-23k range.) Not qu...

We were spoiled rotten the last 22 games. Never thought I'd see a game like this again but here we are! The biggest head-scratcher wasn't the triple-neg on "Which planet did Herschel discover*?" but "Which war did the Army of the Potomac fight in?" Without all the negs, it would've been a decent gam...

Another 50,000+ combined Coryat game. Absolutely unbelievable. This is the sort of thing that happens once, maybe twice in a typical season.
It's worth noting that James's and Ken's toughest opponents were both named Adam:
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=38

The All-Star tournament only had players who made their debuts in 2000 or later. So yes, another supertournament is in order. It could have a variety of other 2000's and 2010's top players (including superchamps) who weren't picked for All-Stars, plus the greats from the 80's and 90's. Coelacanth ha...

I believe there's only one Howard Johnson's left, and it's not in Rock Ridge. Here's an article about the next-to-last one to close:
https://newengland.com/today/living/new ... estaurant/

Not eligible to take the test but I got 44 on Tuesday, 41 on Wednesday, and just 39 on this one. I had serious doubts I'd even pass this one.

I think that the Sameer Rai who James plays tomorrow is the same Sameer Rai who was considered to be the best high school quiz bowl player in the country during his junior year. It is. He also got a 108 on last year's (and 2017's) WQC, which is insane. Interestingly, I think I was the only other pe...

The Bugatti got off to a slow start, but then vroom vroom! If he hadn't hit that last Daily Double, he could easily have lost. FJ was a TOC-level clue. A lot to parse in 30 seconds. I would've gotten it if it had been an LL question, but I spent the first 20 seconds figuring out what it meant. Amazi...

For the LLamas among us:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mul ... 329e147a61
Kind of a mean-spirited article, really, as his lifetime average is over .400.

47/50 (not 48 upon further review). Missed #1 and #19 (no clue on either), and #30

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said "Apennines"

I wonder if

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hyperinflation would be accepted for #4? I thought of "inflation" just to be safe.

He accused me of cheating at LL on this very forum because I missed some TV questions against him on 500Q and then accused Scott Blish of being a fraud in LL because he lost to Alex Jacob. FWIW, James tied Alex Jacob on the 2012 WQC (and finished well behind the current one-day record holder, AP, a...

I guessed correctly on 2 yesterday but wasn't 100% sure of anything. I managed a rare 4(2)-4(4) tie and got myself onto the Sandra leaderboard for the entire league! Will I stay there the rest of the season???

Here's a fun video of him with three other notable J! alumni: (ETA Jboard won't let me embed so here's a link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo-FmYJbaw (ETA it DID let me embed!) The image on the website was taken from here (scroll down): https://bridgefeed.acbl.org/playing-in-style/ so I don't ...

I think this is one of the earlier times I've clinched non-relegation (as long as I don't forfeit). I'm currently sitting in the lowest spot in the promotion zone from C to B. I had been thinking of making this my last season in LL; I'm not sure if a promotion after a ridiculous number of seasons i...

I also started with "magazine" and switched to "almanac." Cost me a 9(6) but I managed a 9(5) and a win. I now have a winning record in A (!) and the second-best defense in all of Horizon... second only to the player who leads all 12,000+ LLamas.

Easiest finale of a super-tournament, no, tournament , ever. As AP said yesterday, it's just a buzzer race, too easy for this echelon of players. The other episodes were more difficult than regular games but not on the level of BOTD or M$M or the UTOC. I only went 1/10 on the 2015 TOC finals but got...