Eat our Dust O'Leary!

Walking in Kelly's on Thursday night there was an air of hopelessness......how could we even have a chance with a 9 point handicap? Mr Trivia Man had decided a few weeks previously that the SRF was not going to win every week and he was going to make sure of it.....unbeknown to us, we were docked 6 points as a handicap for winning one week, he then continued over the next few weeks to dock our score by however much we had won by the week before and this week our handicap was up to 9!


9 points! there was no way we'd overcome that one. There were a few teams in the comp who gave us a run for our money (when they showed up) and we were sure they'd triumph over us with this disadvantage.

The first round began.....name the last 6 British PMs, name 2 asian countries beginning with L, who sang these two versions of this song, which arm did Nelson lose?

So far so good...we were tracking well, with confident answers and little conflict.....we were on our way to overcoming the handicap...

First round ends.....scores are tallied....O'Leary announces.....we're in 4th place...no suprises there (bloody 9 points!).....

PERFECT ROUND! Huge suprise there......we looked and looked again and yes it was true....we had correctly answered every single question......with our 9 points lost we still had a score of 30! we couldn't believe it......the air of hopelessness lifted and we were careful not to replace it wth cockiness......what would round 2 bring now?

The triumphant first round team.....with our perfect round score sheet!



Second round and we were in 4th place, a place we expected to be due to our massive handicap (and I'm not talking about Matt), the questions were hard, the sweat was on the brow, the discussions were deep and thought provoking. Is Sri Lanka on the Bay of Bengal and if it is, then where is Cambodia? What is the third Bond film with a body part in the title? Who sang that song and what year was it released?

Time and again the SRF were stumped. We thought for sure we had cocked up royal and there would be no free drinks for next week.

Time came for us to call "COPY" and hand in the answers we had sweated over.... would we come in 4th still? or had we slipped to 5th or worse...6th? the beers were drunk nervously, the nails were bitten to the quick....

A drunk loser broke the tension by pissing off O'Leary at the joker board.....

All answers were tallied and the scores were read out....39, 42, 46, 48, 51, 53, 55, 55, 58, 59...

59 was the winning score.......59 was the SRF's score!

WHAT??!! How??? Huh!?

Confusion reigned supreme...were our competitors that stoopid or were we better than we thought?

We had won by 10 points......amazing...there was much whooping and cheering...followed by a small tickettape parade and the keys to the city were handed over. The SRF had triumped against the odds!

The Victorious Team! Unfortunately we now have a 10 point handicap for next week....will SRF be able to do it again? stay tuned.....