The Tale Of The Tape
|
Jane Hill |
11 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
25 |
0 |
- |
|
Sarah Thornton |
12 |
0 |
11 |
1 |
23 |
1 |
- |
|
Rashid Mumtaz |
11 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
22 |
0 |
- |
|
Richard Brooks |
7 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
3 |
Yes, it’s semi-final time again, peeps. If we look at the
table above we can see that Jane Hill put on the best performance in her first
round heat with an excellent 14 on GK being especially worthy of note. All of
last night’s contenders had scored at least 11 on GK first time out, so no
duffers there. Worth noting was Richard Brooks’ 13 on GK – he’d come back after
scoring 7 on Specialist. If he could improve on this, then he’d be in the
reckoning.
First up was Rashid Mumtaz. A few weeks ago we saw him
looking very dapper while giving us an excellent round on the Godfather trilogy
of films. Last night he was answering on my banker subject, Charlie Chaplin. He
didn’t do badly, either, with 6 points to my five. Not badly, but one sensed
not well enough to give him a realistic shot at the win. For the record I had
4, but just couldn’t dredge up any more.
Richard Brooks had been marked down as one of the drak
horses to watch after I saw him come back from 4th to win last
week’s last heat in a dramatic tie-break. Then he was answering on Winnie the
Pooh and AA Milne, and he scored 7. This time he was answering on Sydney
Harbour Bridge and did so really well. 11 points and no passes! I added two to
my aggregate and I couldn’t realistically have scored any higher because I
didn’t know any of the other answers.
Sarah Thornton scored an excellent 12 in her heat on
Specialist. Then she was answering on the Chcolat Novels of Joanne Harris. Now
she was answering on the TV Drama Series Happy Valley – and she scored 12
again. It’s a huge skill being able to maintain your performance in a second (and
sometimes a third) specialist subject. No, I’ve never watched it and so I added
nothing to my aggregate.
Billie Jean King has always struck me as an admirable human
being and so she was a worthy choice for Jane Hill’s semi final subject. Jane
was 5th on our unofficial first round table with an especially
noteworthy 14 on GK. Well, that round was a little way off yet. Instead Jane
powered through to 11 on BJK. This put her just one point behind Sarah
alongside Richard on 11.
With the best will in the world, It looked unlikely that
Rachid could put in a good enough GK round to set the kind of high score needed
to force the other three to traverse the corridor of doubt. In the heats he
scored a good 11 and he came close to this again, finishing with 10 to set the
target at 16.
Next into the chair was Richard Brooks. I hope I have made
clear how good I felt his GK round was last time out. Well, he almost matched
his score of 13 this time too, finishing just short on 12 for 23. As he walked
back from the chair he must have had the satisfaction of knowing that an okay
round would not be enough to beat him. The bank would only be paying out for 12s
and over.
And 12, to be fair, is exactly what Jane Hill gave us. But
oh, there was a pass in there. It looked from her face as Clive gave the score
that she realised what this meant. On pass countback, Richard was the leader on
the road, with only Sarah Thornton to go.
If she was feeling the pressure, Sarah didn’t show it. She
had scored 11 in her heat on GK. If she could repeat this with no passes then
we’d have a tiebreak. Well, she didn’t repeat it. She exceeded it, and exceeded
it well with an excellent 14. This gave her a winning total of 26, through the
highest score of the specialist round, and the highest score on the GK.Very
well done, and I wish you the best of luck in the grand final.
The Details
|
Rashid Mumtaz |
Charlie Chaplin |
6 |
1 |
10 |
2 |
16 |
3 |
|
Richard Brooks |
Sydney Harbour Bridge |
11 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
|
Sarah Thornton |
Happy Valley |
12 |
0 |
14 |
1 |
26 |
1 |
|
Jane Hill |
Billie Jean King |
11 |
0 |
12 |
1 |
23 |
1 |
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