A bank holiday victory

To the Puerto for the quiz with the regular team plus P, brought in for the first time to help with the brainy stuff. There was a substantial turnout — 14 teams — and, with usual quizmaster Yorkshire Nick busy behind the bar, a locum compere running things. Consequently, things did not go particularly smoothly — the process of shouting out scores didn't wasn't really particularly efficient — and there was a long, nerve-wracking delay during the totting up process.

After indications of an error in the accumulation process — I think one of the teams may have come out with the maximum number of available points — Yorkshire stepped in and re-did the maths and the sorting. As they were doing this, some of the teams who'd had their scores called early & knew they weren't in the running, left.

A few of the regulars hung around and it eventually came down to a tiebreak between us and one of the other teams. Luckily P had our back and got the answer almost precisely spot on — it was a case of the team getting closest to a particular value — giving us the win and the prize fund. For it turns out that, if you compete in a quiz on a bank holiday with 14 teams at a busy pub, the amount of money you can win is none too shabby...