Donnerstag, 22. März
James Darren, "Here's to the Losers" from This One's from the Heart (The Last Angry Man)
Commentary: After four consecutive triumphs, we Misty Beavers ran into an opponent we couldn't defeat: ourselves. We were off from the word "Go," anxious, uncertain, & distracted. Long have we prided ourselves on "winning the fun," on being raucous & joyous on our merry way to victory. We don't win the fun because we win the quiz, we win the quiz because we win the fun. This bewitched Friday, we won neither the fun nor the quiz.
None of which is meant to take anything away from the victors, Ben Swallows, a team build around a core of former Misty Beavers, hangers-on if never official teammates (due to the History Quiz Night restrictions on team size). They played a masterful game, scoring forty-eight correct answers out of fifty-four questions (eighty-nine percent [89%]). Even on a good night, we Misty Beavers would have been hard pressed to defeat Ben Swallows. As it was, even plagued by anxiety, defeatism, & self-doubt even before we were defeated, we finished in a comfortable second place (first loser), but well behind the champions with only forty-two out of fifty-four correct (seventy-eight per cent [78%]).
We lost, something we had not done since my first year as a Misty Beaver, 2013.
"Here's the last toast of the evening,
Here's to those who still believe
All the losers will be winners,
All the givers shall receive,
Here's to trouble-free tomorrows,
May your sorrows all be small,
Here's to the losers,
Here's to the losers,
Here's to the losers,
Bless them all!"
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