Here’s the scores after two weeks in the JGTAI (Blue teams are in the Top 10, Yellow in the Top 25, and orange teams have scored but not qualified for Top 25). After two weeks, we’ve already had more teams score than we had total in the JGT Summer Invitational. The addition of the Numbers Runners is really making things interesting. It also means that if you haven’t started already, you need to get your team together stat. There is still plenty of time, as a 2nd place finish will put you in the Top 25, but don’t let yourself get too far behind. I would definitely suggest you play this coming week.
The team above, the Expendables, are getting special mention this week because of their remarkable performance on Thursday night. They got 3 of the first 4 questions right, then missed 34 of the next 36. That included a 1 for 10 performance in the 50/50 round. The topic was Tennessee and Kentucky, and they are both from Europe. Therefore each question in that round was essentially a toss up. That means that the odds of missing 9 straight (as they did) stand at a remarkable 0.19%, or 500 to 1. (The odds of any random person you meeting having the same birthday as you is 0.3%*)
Also, congrats to CatDog, who won last Monday’s Cheater’s Quiz. It earned them double points in the JGTAI, and more importantly, we were able to raise $435 for the Spells Writing Lab. Extra special thanks to everyone who came out. Hope to see ya this week!
*Math provided by Mike Minion
Although the odds of missing 9 straight in a 50/50 round are about 1 in 500, the odds of going 1-for-10 in the 50/50 round are much better. In fact, guessing randomly, you’ve got closer to a 1% chance–a fivefold increase–of getting only one answer right. The reason for the discrepancy is that to go 1-for-10, you could get any of the ten questions right, but you can only get nine questions wrong IN A ROW if you get question 1 or question 10 right.
Thanks Dave. They got #1 right, then missed the next 9.