blonde's Greatest Mind 3 - Another Ultimate Quiz

[KarmaDope]

Throughout August and September Scotty ran blonde's Greatest Mind, a quiz designed to find blonde's best "quizzer". The link to the thread is below where you can see TightEnd eventually prevail via a tie-break in the final versus mulhuzz, with me only one point behind in 3rd place.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=65812.0

Scotty then started a second season of the quiz, but for unknown personal reasons he hasn't logged in for over two months now and we were at the semi final stage. I don't want to carry on with his quiz (mainly because I'm still in it!) so rather than try and continue his vision, I thought I'd go with a new version.

So here is blonde's Greatest Mind 3!

The setup is below, taken directly from Scotty's previous thread.

We need 32 players for bGM2. And there are slight changes to the format to keep more players interested for longer.

Round 1: 8 groups of 4 players will battle over 15 general knowledge questions, with the top 3 players in each group progressing to Round 2.

Round 2: 24 players remain. 6 groups of 4 players, again battling over 15 general knowledge questions. The top 2 in each group will make the Quarter-Finals.

Quarter-Finals: 12 left in 6 head-to-head matches. 10 general knowledge questions with an additional 5 questions from both competitors' specialist subjects. In a change to the last edition, the specialist subjects will likely be a little less vague (there will be 10 to choose from).

Semi-Finals: 6 left in 3 head-to-head matches. 10 general knowledge questions with an additional 5 questions from both competitors' specialist subjects.

Final: A final of 3. 15 general knowledge questions, with 5 additional questions from the 3 specialist subjects.

Now, I know I have form for pretty obscure questions - so before I even made this thread I came up with the twenty questions and tested them on my housemate, who scored 10/20, which is what I was aiming for. He said beforehand that he wasn't good at general knowledge stuff as well! The questions are pretty well mixed, so don't let that worry you.

So, basically, declare your entry in the thread and when we're full I'll make the first round draw.

[dwh103]

Missed out on the last iterations, but in for this one

[Longines]

In

[MintTrav]

Yep.

[TightEnd]

yes please and thanks

[ForthThistle]

Yes Please and Thanks.

[ruud]

In

[POWWWWWWWW]

Yes!

[AndrewT]

yes please and thanks

Tighty betrays his confidence by including his victory speech in his application.

In.

[stribling]

In.

[GreekStein]

in

[buzzharvey22]

Yerp in.

If I can make one slight suggestion to improve (although I know your going to do for no reward) But it would be to go through the rounds quicker (yes i appreciate i probably wont last long anyways). Just felt the last time when there was 10 days or so in between rounds it lost a bit of momentum. It only takes about 5 mins to go through and answer them afterall.

Still though, cheers for organising. Much appreciated.

[baldock92]

In

[HutchGF]

In.

Many thanks.

[tikay]

The winner is in-ner.