Val Draper Cup Final
Bards beat Opsimaths
A comfortable victory for the Bards sees them retain the Cup
Tony
looks happy...
It was a good toss to win and an even better decision by us to go first. The Bards enjoyed a decisive victory.
After winning the first round 7-3 we increased our lead to 15-4 then to 20-6. By Round 5 we were leading 30-10. The Opsis were in a considerable state of shock to the extent that they could hardly credit winning the last round convincingly 7 points to 3. They were only too pleased to agree with our nomination of Round 8 as easily the best round of the night.
By the close we had scored 9 twos, 20 'confers' and nicked 9 'steals'. In contrast the Opsis scored 5 twos, 14 'confers' and no steals. Mike, who QM'ed, did not find the paper easy to present for whatever reason (I didn't look at the question paper later to discover what the difficulty might have been).
By the time we had finished we were the only people in the pub and so we await tomorrow's announcements to discover who the winners of the Plate might be.
The Opsis were gallant losers and did not moan about the balance in the paper - but that doesn't prevent us from doing it on their behalf. In the event the Bards have won the Val Draper Trophy two years running and now have the pleasure of getting it engraved.
Last night we also had the pleasure of buying the winner's round of drinks for the losers before Round 8 had even started. The Opsis thanked us by winning that round 7-3.
That's Leigh going Labour next time then
(R1/Q7)
Howell
looks a little peeved but mainly philosophical...
Not a great night's quizzing!!
We lost the toss and went second (I would be interested to see who went second in the Plate).
At 8-25 at half time, it rather felt that the questions favoured the team going first in the first half - as an example, we lost Round 2 by 8 points to 1 (no unanswered questions) but would have probably been 4-5, 5-5 or 5-6 if we'd being answering first. We were 10-30 down after 5 rounds then scored 15 against the Bards' 17 in the final 3 rounds so it was a case of too little too late for us.
We do need to get some better discipline into our ranks when it comes to keeping quiet when people are considering whether or not to go for a two. We were yap, yap, yap tonight.
It was a very long drawn out evening generally, with loads of repeating of questions, confusion as to the score, doubts about where we were up to in the paper, questions being asked out of order, etc. At the end of Round 7, it was so late that Brian made the opposition buy us the winners drinks!!
Having said all that the Opsis were definitely not on good form. Even if I had done a bit better we would have still lost by 15-20 points. On the other hand, the Bards were pretty good. Their 2 newer players (one of whom I had not seen before) both performed pretty well. They won just 9-5 on twos and it was 3-3 on unanswered questions but the steals went 9-0 in their favour!!
The $200m paint spill
(R1/Q3)
Finally
QM Mike chips in...
Another very long,
difficult, very late quiz with a heavy defeat for the Opsis at the
close (Brian thought they had never lost by so much). By the
end no-one wanted to choose the top three rounds preferring just to
name the last round as the best.
An apology from me: By the time we reached Round 5 I was so tired I
got the questions and scores in a muddle. Brian told me there
was no need for the QM to keep the scores - but that is something I
always like to do.
Having said all this QMing is something I much enjoy, and last night's teams are two of my favourites.
Manager
Mike reports ...
