Electric Pigs, behind throughout, with 4 questions to go honked forth to overwhelm the hapless History Men - an ominous portent for the forthcoming Val Draper Cup competition where Pigs usually fly.  Ivor writes in:

"The drama continues to the end of the season.  Our match against the Pigs was never going to be easy (our head to head results are pretty evenly balanced).  Only a win would be enough to hold on to fourth place (assuming our rivals succeed tonight) but it was not to be. A five point lead with 3 rounds to go was whittled away. Looking on the bright side we will not now face the Opsimaths in the first round of the cup.

The quiz was moderately hard with 13 unanswerables - 9 of them falling to the Pigs who nevertheless won by out-doing us in 2s by 10-5.

In mitigation we did have to contend with a couple of medical problems: neither of the medics nor, indeed, the optician in our side had heard of Babinski's syndrome of the eye; and Peter was bitten by a tsetse fly whilst in town earlier in the day and the quiz only just finished in time as he slumped asleep in his chair."

X-Pats finished on a low note losing at home (just) to Snoopy's Friends who now snatch 4th place in the table and thus qualify for next season's WIST Champions Cup

Charabancs of Fire cruised to a comfortable victory over the Opsimaths once they had bagged a 7 point advantage on the picture round - with SPW suffering a shock defeat at the Gateway, the Charas ended the league season just one measly point behind the mighty ones - a magnificent performance!!

Fine for most of the rounds but a big thumbs down (from me at least) for the picture round.  We went first and so had the first picture.  Well it was obviously Gordon Brown, so which dictator's uniform had been superimposed (well that seemed to be what the question was asking)?  Long discussions ensued.  Stalin, General Tito, someone from North Korea.  Eventually we settled for Enver Hoxha, the tyrant of Albania.  Much mirth from the others at the Swan.  "All together now", said Megson and his merry parishioners, "It's Gordon Brown!".  "Correct for a bonus point", said John the QM.  I felt I'd been tricked and cheated and duly went into a sulk.

Kieran's result email reflected similar bad vibes on the picture round.

From the Fletcher Moss Ivor adds:

"The quiz was moderately hard with 13 unanswerables - 9 of them falling to the Pigs who nevertheless won by scoring 10 2s to our meagre 5.  As to QotW: we quite liked the marriage quotation pairs though Tim’s nomination went to Round 6 Question 2  ('WNA' is Winter North Atlantic apparently)."

...and from Roddy at the Parrswood:

Where do the abbreviations TF, F, T, S, W and WNA appear one above another?

Next week the Charabancs will attempt to keep the WithQuiz flag flying in the WIST trophy.  They face Stockport's Tiviot team in the Semi Finals at the White Swan.  Please come along and offer Meggers and his flock the maximum support.  It's really important that the Final isn't a Stockport/Stockport affair (no pressure then, Gerry).

The following week (April 8th) we kick off a 4 week run of Val Draper Cup and Plate  knockout matches - starting with the eliminating Round in which the top 6 league teams get whittled down to 3.