Opsimaths lost for the second season running to Stockport Champions, Chunky, though this time the margin was a bit more respectable - Opsimath Howell writes:

"An evenly balanced paper with no one knowing much!! The questions were hard and the 'time please ladies and gentlemen bell' sounded before we'd finished as every question seemed to need much head scratching.  Still, the big plus for the Opsimaths was that having lost against Chunky by 25 points last season (in the Stockport format), we were a mere 7 points behind this time."   

Traveller's Call (mercifully for WithQuiz) crashed out at home to the pride of Ladybarn, Charabancs of Fire - Damian writes:

"We were treated to a most courteous and convivial evening in the company of our Stockport hosts during which tears of nostalgia were brought to to the eyes of Father Meggers and Yours Truly as we fondly reminisced about our Stockport quizzing days.  Roisin and John contented themselves with tucking into the butties and Pringles our hosts had kindly provided in the good old Stockport tradition.  It seemed almost bad form for us to repay their courtesy by beating them after all that!"

History Men lost out at the Red to the marauders from the Alexandra - Ivor comments:

"A repeat of last year’s fixture only this time in the Red Lion.  The culture shock did not seem to impair the Alexandra’s winning ways.  They quickly adapted to our way of doing things: helping with the traditional verbal assault on innocent drinkers in the vicinity who are asked to give up their tables 'because there’s a quiz on', accepting the more leisurely thinking time allowed for each question (we didn’t finish until 10.40), adapting to our raucous real-time commentary on the perceived quality of the questions, tolerating our endearing dog-eat-dog behaviour when a fellow team member 'blurted' a wrong answer; and even enduring a finale without a sandwich supper (unlike the Stockport folk we Withington lot go to a quiz to drink).

The game was actually very finely balanced in the second half but as we had ended the first half 8 adrift it was a comprehensive victory for the away team."

Tiviot beat the cream of WithQuiz, SPW, in a disappointing, low-scoring match at the Tiviot Dale

From the Traveller's Call Damian speaks up for the Charabancs:

"The questions ran the gamut from the inspired to the obscure.  For example: combining a US state capital with a food fish to come up with a 20th century painter; questions about long forgotten Terry Nation TV shows; listing the scales used for measuring pain.  There were some thought-provoking history and literary questions mixed in with what seemed rather specialised stuff about racing terminology! The upshot was a good deal of unanswered questions and hence a well below-average final score.  But an enjoyable evening nonetheless."