ANNOTATIONS for the SEPTEMBER 2016 SCOREBOARD

• For the fourth month in a row, a team from Hitch topped the Monthly Scoreboard! 
• On the month that the third annual Christopher Hitchens Cup was decided, it makes sense that it was very much a Hitch Scoreboard with so much at stake. Still it doesn't make it any less impressive that, over two events, five teams take up over seven spots on the list! 
• Yes, Hitch teams are responsible for a whopping seven spots on the September Top Ten, while Cardinal Rule teams grab two spots, and a Lou Dawg's team grabs one spot! 
• For the second month in a row a new Highest Score All-Time at Hitch was set, with Tiny Tim's... now owning the top honor with their Hitchens Cup winning 214 which tops September's Monthly Scoreboard! Tiny Tim's... become just the second team to cross the 200 point barrier at Hitch! 
• Tiny Tim's... were also the highest score team for the month, not to win a Golden VHS, when they set what was at the time the fifth highest score at Hitch, with 174 points but still fell on the night to the Trusty Rumpets. 
• hey dummy also, impressively, show up on the list with third and fourth place finishes on two respective nights. The first time a team has made multiple Scoreboard appearances, without even a runner-up spot to their name. 
• Team Name are the high scoring team at Cardinal Rule for September of 2016, with their 168 points on September 7th, a team high as well! 
• With 126, the Vart Smaginas won their first Golden VHS and grabbed the top score at Lou Dawg's BBQ on September 6th! 
• The Vart Smaginas also have the 11th highest score of September, with 119 points on September 21st at Cardinal Rule! 
• As we began the Annotations talking about streaking, it seems fitting to bring up the fact that PETE! and the Cunning Stunts each broke their respective streaks of three and five appearances. 
• The Mean Team for August, the high score closest to the scoreboard average, are The Bridges of Prince Edward County.

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 I t was a reserved end to the month of October, an intimate night at the Original Home of Trivia Club, surrounded by friends! Last Place Team continue their unbroken appearance streak with a twenty-second appearance in a row, and were joined by Rated T For Team for an entirely civil trivia war! Newcomers the Van Cats also joined in on the night, adding to the fun and unpredictability.

After the first round, the Last Place Team had a half point lead on The Van Cats, with Rated T for Team six points behind The Van Cats. In Game Show Games we then saw Rated T for Team blanked on Countdown Takedown, while their friends on the Last Place Team took the TOP TEN for their very own! The Van Cats kept close with eight points from the question. Survey Says saw the top ten missed out on, but Last Place Team hit six points, while Rated T for Team picked up four points, and the Van Cats were now blanked!

Then the night around to the C-C-Combo Breakdown portion, which proved as competitive as expected... as Rated T for Team were the first to fall, unable to unlock the pun behind the Shrek Christmas special... but Last Place Team DID in fact know it, Shreking The Halls for an additional SEVENTEEN POINTS!

With the Last Place Team in the lead heading into Tri-Pardo, we would have to see if those last four questions could make the difference! In Tri-Pardo, Rated T for Team were able to grab the twenty point question, for a great boost, but both The Van Cats and the Last Place Team got the first and third question correct for thirty points! This put the Last Place Team into an impressive position heading into the Finale, but their competition on the night were still very much within range! The Van Cats went all in! Rated T for Team went all in, save for one point... and the Last Place Team left sixty points on the board, which pushed them past Rated T for Team if they got it correct, but if all teams got the Finale correct, then The Van Cats would instead be the winning team!

Fittingly though, the only team to get the Finale correct... was our winning team... the LAST PLACE TEAM, who won their FIFTH GOLDEN VHS CHAMPIONSHIP!

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: FIVE TIMERS CLUB

The Last Place Team are the 19th team to join the Five Timers Club, doing so in their first 294 days as Trivia Club participants! This puts them in good company with Team Name, who were able to join the club in the exact same amount of time! The Last Place Team also extend their Iron Team streak (with the Iron Man streak still belonging to PETE!, natch), with a twenty-second consecutive appearance!

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After the first round of Trivia Classic, it was the Cunning Stunts with the six point lead on The Bastards! Just Bunches, the latest name for Lt. Dance (no Oates, or Hall for that matter, tonight), were in third... while I-H-O-P-ness (& Dan the Schmeg) were in fourth! In fifth were Fox & Squirrel, while Bottoms Up and The Tits rounded out the field!

Starting off Game Show Games was a controversial Countdown Takedown! And in case that sounds familiar, you might remember all the way back to February 17th, 2015 when the Cunning Stunts were again on the verge of a Threepeat, the first of it's kind! The Cunning Stunts, with their narrow Survey Says-given advantage, answered the deceivingly simple question. (Damn you, simple questions!) "How many studio albums did The Beatles release?" Their answer "13", gave them a night shifting TWENTY POINTS. The controversy, a quick google showed wikipedia naming 12 albums released in the UK, leaving off the Magical Mystery Tour in the process (two EP's in the UK were made into an LP in the US). Except UK releases was never specified in our question. Our initial source, none other then thebeatles.com had another opinion on the matter, naming 13. 'MERICA! 

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 N ow a month removed from our third annual Christopher Hitchens Cup at Hitch, we saw the top three teams return to our home away from the Original Home of Trivia Club! Yes, on the east-end of Toronto it was a wonderful mix of familiar competitors, and all new teams looking to walk away with the Golden VHS!

After the first round of Trivia Classic, it was as competitive as ever between Tiny Tim's Terrifying Tarantula Tormentors, back for the first time since winning that Hitchens Cup, who held a one point lead over the third annual Cup runners-up the Trusty Rumpets! Six points behind the Rumpets were the third place finishers of our third annual celebration, hey dummy! In fourth were There Are Only Four Cool People Here, which itself included members of that very same Hitchens Cup winning Tiny Tim's... team as well! Sic Transit Trivia, one part of 5 Fast 5 Furious, was in fifth and five points behind her were newcomers The Flaming Hobos! Fellow newcomers The Azizas were in seventh, with the returning Gutter Gang in eighth!

With such a competitive field, Game Show Games would no doubt prove quite contentious! In Countdown Takedown, the TOP TEN went to hey dummy, with Four Cool People, Trusty Rumpets, Sic Transit Trivia, and Tiny Tim's... also picking up points! Then in Survey Says it was The Azizas picking up the TOP TEN on our first surveyed question, and the Flaming Hobos picking up a second TOP TEN! The Gutter Gang grabbed eight points, with There Are Only Four Cool People Here and Tiny Tim's... each picking up six points, and Sic Transit Trivia and those Trusty Rumpets also picking up some points! This all led to a Combo Breakdown with the broad field, that saw the Flaming Hobos eliminated first, followed by The Azizas and the Gutter Gang! Then Tiny Tim's... fell, followed by their friends the Four Cool People, and their compatriot in Sic Transit Trivia! Finally it came down to the Trusty Rumpets and hey dummy... with the Rumpets outlasting hey dummy for FOURTEEN POINTS! Well played, Rumpets!

So as we headed into Tri-Pardo, the Rumpets held the lead on the field with Tiny Tim's..., Four Cool People, and hey dummy not too far behind 'em! It was, naturally, a tough Tri-Pardo to be had, and Gutter Gang, the Flaming Hobos, and Sic Transit Trivia all lost points! The Azizas and There Are Only Four Cool People Here both stood pat with their current point totals, while the Hitchens Cup 2016 trio of the Trusty Rumpets, Tiny Tim's... and hey dummy all gained ten points! This led to a Finale, which proved difficult, but in which five teams got the answer correct! This included Tiny Tim's..., hey dummy, and the Trusty Rumpets... but even though hey dummy had the least points, of the three teams heading into the Finale, they wagered the most!

Yes, winning their FIRST GOLDEN VHS on the night, HEY DUMMY! Congrats to the two of them on a well earned, humbly anticipated victory! Having participated under a few different team names, before settling on their anniversary competition moniker, this is their first Golden VHS in five nights of participation!

• 5 points - promos
• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 5 points – singing/dancing
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (Broken)
• 5 points – crying
• 5 points – singing
• 7 points – Weekend Update
• 5 points – reoccurring (The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party)
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (A Girl’s Halloween)
• 2 points – swearing (“bitch”)
• 5 points – gushes fluid (vomit)
• 3 points – 10 to 1 sketch (America’s Funniest Pets)
• 5 points – reoccurring
• 5 points – singing
• 2 points – in costume during goodnights

• 7 points – cold open
• 5 points – reoccurring (Hillary Clinton)
• 5 points – along-side former host (Alec Baldwin)
• 5 points – dancing
• 10 points – “LIVE FROM NEW YORK…!”
• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (Broken)
• 5 points – crying
• 5 points - singing
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 3 points – 10 to 1 sketch (America’s Funniest Pets)
• 5 points – reoccurring
• 2 points – in costume during goodnights

• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (Broken)
• 5 points – singing/dancing
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (A Girl’s Halloween)
• 6 points – swearing (“f*ckin” x2, “pizza biiiitch”)
• 15 points – blurkled nudity
• 5 points – runs through window

• 5 points - promos
• 5 points – sketch (Black Jeopardy)
• minus 2 points - breaking
• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• minus 2 points - breaking
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points – dancing
• 7 points – Weekend Update
• 5 points – as Herself
• 2 points – swearing (“bitch”)

• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (Broken)
• 5 points - singing
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points – sketch (Captain Sully)
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (A Girl’s Halloween)
• 3 points – sketch V/O (America’s Funniest Pets)
• 5 points - singing

• 5 points – sketch (Black Jeopardy)
• 5 points – reoccurring (Darnell Hayes)
• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)

• 5 points – sketch (Black Jeopardy)
• 5 points – reoccurring (Keeley)
• 5 points – sketch (Captain Sully)
• 5 points – along-side former host (Alec Baldwin)

• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points - dancing
• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (A Girl’s Halloween)

• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 3 points – sketch V/O (Captain Sully)

• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points – sketch (Captain Sully)

• 7 points – pre-taped sketch (A Girl’s Halloween)

• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 5 points – singing/dancing
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)

• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points - dancing

• 15 points – cold open
• 5 points – along-side former host (Alec Baldwin)
• 5 points – sketch (Black Jeopardy)
• 5 points – sketch (Next Week’s Halloween Block Party)
• 5 points – singing/dancing
• 10 points – pre-taped sketch (Broken)
• 5 points – crying
• 5 points – singing
• 5 points – sketch (100 Floors of Frights)
• 5 points - dancing
• 5 points – sketch (Captain Sully)
• 5 points – along-side former host (Alec Baldwin)
• 5 points – sketch (America’s Funniest Pets)
• 2 points – embraces guest first
• minus 10 points – did not thank cast
• 15 points – 5.0 rating or higher

• 15 points – cold open
• 5 points – reoccurring (Donald Trump)
• 15 points – “LIVE FROM NEW YORK…!”
• 5 points – sketch (Captain Sully)

HARTMAN TROPHY STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	TEAM NAME	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	The Ignorant Sluts	--	178[01/03]	57	29	611
2	Holtzwomenn	--	213[02]	79	15	593
3	The Team You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party	∧1	171[03]	0	25	535
4	Buffalo Bill Murrays	∨1	156[01]	0	29	524
5	War Horse Can Dance	--	151[03]	181	26	517
6	Not Ready For First Place Players	∧1	132[04]	87	26	472
7	The Style Boyz	∨1	221[03]	108	26	439

GILDED RADNER STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	TEAM NAME	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	Night CrawlerZ	--	355[01]	269	27	919
2	Suck It Trebek	--	247[04]	166	22	806
3	Jenny Slate’s Potty Mouth	--	236[03]	0	20	681
4	Martha Stewart’s Home For The Holidays Topless Christmas Special	--	193[02]	10	40	612
5	Three Legged Jeans	--	153[03]	0	20	476
6	Murry’d With Children	--	159[03]	0	5	463
7	Kebert Xela	--	123[03]	0	15	375

WEEKEND WARRIOR AWARD STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	Team Name	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	Jones’n For A Good Time	∧1	217[02/04]	166	35	735
2	Lazy Sunfeys	∨1	197[03]	171	27	669
3	Haders To The Left	--	162[01]	57	35	595
4	International Na$ty Gals	--	167[03]	0	8	502
5	The Gay You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party	--	202[03]	108	0	451
6	Boyfriend’s Talk Show	--	128[03]	0	35	412
7	Lorne Again Christians	--	126[03]	0	6	377
8	Jon Bovi	--	91[02]	0	2	273

CHRISTOPHER GUEST GROUP STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	Team Name	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	Johnny Switchblade	--	288[04]	87	40	910
2	DJ Baby Bok Choi	--	328[03]	108	14	723
3	Go Gene Rayburn!	∧1	213[01]	67	24	698
4	Space Pants	∨1	228[02]	87	16	686
5	Don’t Make Me Sing	--	178[03]	10	0	624
6	Wookin’ Pa Nub	--	159[01]	161	20	589
7	I Know Why The Caged Bird Laughs	--	184[03]	0	50	580
8	First Citywide Change Bank	--	119[03]	0	26	409

YVONNE HUDSUCKER PROXY STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	Team Name	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	The Weekenders	--	239[03]	181	0	777
2	Skanky Little Prostitutes	∧3	229[04]	87	30	705
3	Not A Strong Swimmer	∨1	218[03]	0	26	669
4	Lil Baby Aidy	∨1	269[03]	108	35	632
5	This Team Has Everything	∨1	222[02]	79	22	588
6	Heather From Work	--	153[02]	0	30	576

LOUIS-DREYFUSS GROUP STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	Team Name	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	Dan Akroyd Rage	--	332[03]	108	19	908
2	Kristen Wiig In A Box	∧2	199[04]	87	19	612
3	Total Bastard Airlines	∨1	188[03]	0	5	604
4	The Vondrukes	∨1	185[03]	0	0	572
5	E. Buzz Miller’s Saturday Night Live Fantasy League Team	--	148[02]	10	0	446
6	The Ninos	--	135[02]	0	0	408

GOLDEN ROCKET MAN STANDINGS (as of 42x04)

#	Team Name	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	Lovitz Knows No Bounds	--	158[01]	0	20	552
2	A One-Dimensional Female Character From A Male Driven Comedy	∧1	175[03]	0	10	539
3	@TheRealLindseyBuckingham	∨1	165[02]	0	17	507
4	El Nino	--	149[03]	0	27	430
5	Scrumtrelescent	∧2	148 [04]	87	25	382
6	Sports Team!	--	127[03]	8	17	347
7	Blizzard Man	∨2	119[02]	0	26	341
8	Junk Squad	--	94[02]	0	0	293

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