World Tour REVEAL -- Wed 27th May 8 p.m.

Ready for the reveal ... tried to post but I have two devices open, lost my post (backed up so no worries) ... back in a min or two with the opening salvo.

Getting ready to post again, do people prefer that I just post one after another or leave time for any banter, insults, recriminations?

The horror, the horror ... I am scoring part nine as we speak, so will post parts three and four (as designed) and come back in another few minutes after that.


Q8 _ The airline)

Lots of airlines, lots of grounded planes ... let's find out who wants to fly which airlines.

The scoring will now switch to rank order (rather than order of entry as before) ...

I will list the airlines selected, starting with unique choices and working down to non-unique choices. As with other categories, you lose a point for every PEEHS who turns into a SHEEP.

Airlines selected by one world tour entrant ...

Etihad -- Y0ssar1an22

British -- Rikand

Air Canada -- Sixtoes

Air France -- Three More Big Sleeps

Fiji Airways -- sKeith

FinnAir -- Bubblypop

Singapore -- Irish Aris

Lufthansa -- The Purple Tin

Hainan --- Rainbow Trout

All Nippon -- Sawduck

Aeroflot -- Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster

Malaysia -- Quickbeam


These airlines were selected by two or more entrants:

(2 guesses, 9/10)

El Al --- Homer J. Fong, Dave the Rave

Air NZ -- Mehaffey1, lassykk

Qatar --- Declan A. Walsh, Zaph

American -- Reberetta, Gru

KLM -- Trigger, Collie D


(6 guesses, 5/10)

Qantas -- AS LeVarBurton, Ted_YNWA, Aaron Jennings, Yozico, Strawberry Milkshake, Heidi Heidi

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The updated standings after airline selection ...


ENTRANT _________ guest __ budget __ airline ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 _____30

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____ 30

Rikand ___________ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 29

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 _____29

Zaph _____________10 ______10 _____ 9 _____ 29

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 _____ 10 ____ 29

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10_____ 28

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 _____28

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____27

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____ 27

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 _____ 27

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 23

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(Q 2) Lake you wanted to visit

Hello, and thank you for flying Qantas, the choice of Irish travellers. Apparently. There's a free Fosters for everyone who chose us, and you still have seven chances for redemption. This is but one of them ... we will fly over every freshwater lake you chose, as long as it made the Wikipedia top thirty list. Now about that list -- M.T. Cranium had to write his own list when he found out that wikipedia had thrown in salt lakes (expressly forbidden see the rules) so that takes us down to about number 35 on their list, if we exclude the salty ones. Now, if you did not read the fine print and chose a salty one, you're advised to buckle up, turbulence is reported just ahead of us, advises the captain whose name of course is Bruce.

So, just for your edu-ma-cation, here are the eligible lakes in order, an idea of where they might be found, and the names of those who really really wanted to see them on this tour. Should they be so lucky as to be the only one, it's worth ten points. Every name associated costs each of them a point. Here we go. Remember now, the Caspian Sea is not a fresh-water lake, it may be number one for wikipedia, but for this contest, it is dead to us. But not as dead as the Aral Sea, 90% of which dried up (whoops, Uzbek cotton crop needed the water in 1960s).

1. Lake Superior -- Great Lakes -- Ted_YNWA, Strawberry Milkshake (9 pts)

2. Lake Victoria --- Africa

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crocodiles a problem?

3. Lake Huron

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Great Lakes -- Y0ssar1an22, Yozico, Homer J. Fong, Heidi Heidi (7 pts)

4. Lake Michigan -- Great Lakes -- Dave the Rave, Collie D (9 pts)

5. Tanganyika

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Africa

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Lassykk (10 pts)

6. Baikal

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Siberia

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Irish Aris (10 pts)

7. Great Bear

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n. Canada --- Gru (10 pts)

8. Malawi

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Africa

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Quickbeam (10 pts)

9. Great Slave

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n. Canada --- Rikand, Aaron Jennings, Trigger, Rainbow Trout (7 pts)

10. Erie (fresh? maybe not) GL --- Reberetta, Declan A Walsh (9 pts)

11. Winnipeg

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Canada

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Sawduck (10 pts)

12. Ontario

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Great Lakes -- not that into it myself

13. Ladoga --- east of St. P in Rus - big weekend destination for Novgorodites

(note next entry is salt, Balkhash in central Asia)

14. Bangweulu -- Africa

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I can't find it either

15. Vostok -- under the ice, Antarctica (dodgy, nobody chose it anyway)

16. Onega -- southeast of Lake Ladoga -- only for the select few, so I'm told

17. Titicaca -- Andes, South America -- The Purple Tin (10 pts)

18. Nicaragua

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Nicaragua

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sKeith, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster (9 pts)

19. Athabasca --- n. Canada

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Three More Big Sleeps (10 pts)

20. Taymyr

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n. Russia

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AS Levar Burton (10 pts)

21. Reindeer Lake -- Canada

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Mehaffey1 (10 pts) It thaws out just in time to freeze up

(note, Turkana in Africa, Issyk-Kul and Urmia in Asia, all salty) thank Allah nobody chose these

That gets us to 26 on the wikipedia list, five to this point are salty and aren't eligible.

The Aral Sea used to rank larger than Lake Huron back in the day, now it's just a few ponds.

22. Vanern

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Sweden

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Bubblypop, Zaph Wallander often finds corpses near here

23. Winnipegosis -- Canada

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not a disease, but a lake west of Lake Winnipeg

24. Albert

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Africa

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Sixtoes this one feeds one of the Nile headwaters, Dr Livingstone I presume?

25. Mweru

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Africa

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sure it's lovely enough

Now we are at 30 on the list, but the next five (fresh) would count if anyone picked them.

26. Nettilling ---- Baffin Island, Canada --- I saw this from a plane, biggest lake on an island, ice free for ten minutes in August

27. Nipigon

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north of Lake Superior -- the islands and bays are for sportsmen (also)

28. Manitoba ---- Canada

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it's a twin of Winnipegosis, much easier to say

29. Saimaa

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Finland

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Wonder if it means reindeer, then there's two

30. Lake of the Woods -- U.S.-Canada border -- It's a maze of islands, don't go out there without a map and a valid will.

(34 on their list, Qing'hai in China, also salty).

Anyway, nobody chose those last five that got onto the list when the salt lakes dropped out.

(as would have been any other salty lake or sub-top-thirty, first of which by the way is that one Khalka, just outside Vladivostok, I'm sure you've often dreamed of spending a weekend there between Russia and China, pretty high on my bucket list after maybe Gary, Indiana? The mosquito-bear combo is to die for.)

So with the lake visited, points are now as follows:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 39

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 39

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____10_____ 38

Zaph _____________10 ______ 10 _____9 ____ 9 _____38

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 ____10 ____ 38

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ____ 37

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 37

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 37

Rikand ___________ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____10 ____ 9 _____36

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 36

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10____ 7 _____ 35

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 35

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 34

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____10 _____ 34

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 33

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 32

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 _____ 31

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

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So in the lakes round, ten had unique guesses and scored the max, eight shared seven points for being in foursomes, and everyone else was paired off (in five pairs) for nine points each. Nobody is out of the contest yet, I would say ... next reveal will be the sea, or see the bee? Here again, a lot of seas in this world, but they have to be oceanic ... uh oh ...

Just part five in this post, going to slow down a tad so I can keep ahead ... yes Canada, lots o' lakes ... maybe almost too many? Lots o' islands also. Big uninhabited freezing cold islands.

Q6 _ Seas the moment)

The rules clearly (by my standards) stated that your choice of sea had to be part of the global ocean, not land-locked such as the Caspian Sea. After all, we can't afford to haul the luxury cruise ship we rented (dirt cheap, I must admit) across land and then leave it for who knows how long ... I refer you once again to the fine print. Here's your list of seas, any of them is valid -- no top thirty, if it exists and you can get there from an ocean, then it's all good. I was able to steer a few clear of the shoals.

Here again, I reserve the more popular choices (that you didn't want) to the end of this list.

10 points for these solo mariners ...

Irish Sea -- Y0ssar1an22

Davis Sea -- Zaph

Black Sea -- Sixtoes

Weddell Sea -- Aaron Jennings

Molucca -- Quickbeam

Norwegian -- Rainbow Trout

Aegean Sea -- Homer J Fong

Amundsen -- Three More Big Sleeps

Adriatic -- Declan A Walsh


9 points for these selections ...

Coral Sea -- Mehaffey1, AS LeVar Burton

Sargasso Sea -- Rikand, The Purple Tin

Bering -- Strawberry Milkshake, Gru

Tyrrhenian -- sKeith, Heidi Heidi

North Sea -- Yozico, Ted_YNWA


8 points for those who shared with two other choices ...

South China Sea -- Reberetta, Dave the Rave, Collie D

Baltic -- bubblypop, Irish Aris, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster

Arabian -- lassykk, Trigger, sawduck




The updated points from previous rounds with this one:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake __ sea ___ TOTAL


Sixtoes ___________ 10 _____10 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ___ 50

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ____ 49

Quickbeam ________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___10 ____ 49

Irish Aris __________10_____ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ___ 8 ____ 48

Zaph _____________10 _____ 10 _____9 ____ 9 ___10 ____ 48

sKeith ____________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 9 ____ 47

Gru ______________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 9 ____ 47

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _____10 _____9 ____10 ___ 9 _____ 47

Bubblypop _________10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 8 ____ 46

The Purple Tin ______9 ______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___ 9 ____ 46

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 _____7 ___ 10 ____ 46

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____10 ____ 46

Collie D ___________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Reberetta _________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____8 _____ 45

Dave the Rave _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Sawduck __________ 9 _____ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ___8 _____45

Lassykk __________ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 8 ____ 45

Rikand ___________ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 45

Rainbow Trout ______9 ______9 _____10____ 7 ____10 ____ 45

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 45

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 _____ 8 _____10 ____ 9 ____ 8 ____ 44

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____10 ____ 9 ____ 43

Trigger ___________10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 ____ 8 ____ 42

Ted_YNWA ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 42

Strawberry Milkshake_9 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 41

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 41

Yozico ___________ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____7 ____ 9 ____ 40

Heidi Heidi ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 40

Posting 8 and 9 together ... as I need to edit on a screen I can actually see ... which is this one ...


(Q4) _ Largest cities

We need a bit of night-life, not sure if these thirty largest cities can help or not. Wikipedia's list had mind-numbing variations on the theme but I mentioned "metropolitan area population" as the criterion. Will be somewhat lenient here as the list contains some blanks in that department for cities that obviously have more people than they can shake a stick at.
The only real question marks in this list of cities you provided would be London which is a bit lower in the table than 30th but as I count up metropolitan totals as opposed to UN estimates which seems to form the basis for ranks, London makes it into the top 30 there, and also Santiago (Chile) which is even more marginal, but could be in the top thirty in the category I specified, so I am going to count all entries as valid.
You know the drill, it’s ten points if you are alone with your selection, nine if you share with one other, eight for two others. The points are shown after your name(s). A new subtotal will follow.

London _____ YOssar1an22, lassykk ... 9

Tokyo ______ Strawberry Milkshake ... 10

Paris _______ Mehaffey1 ... 10

Chongqing __ Zaph ... 10

Mexico City __ Rikand, Trigger, Irish Aris, The Purple Tin ... 7

Los Angeles __ AS LeVar Burton, Ted_YNWA, Dave the Rave .... 8

Beijing ______ Sixtoes .... 10

Osaka _______ Aaron Jennings .... 10

Manila _______ Reberetta, Quickbeam .... 9

Dhaka _______ Yozico, Declan A Walsh .... 9

Karachi ______ Homer J Fong, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster .... 9

Kinshasa _____ Three More Big Sleeps, Rainbow Trout .... 9

Moscow ______ sKeith .... 10

Istanbul _____ bubblypop .... 10

Santiago ____ Gru .... 10

Lagos ______ Heidi Heidi, Collie D .... 9

Sao Paolo __ sawduck .... 10


UPDATED POINTS TOTAL

ENTRANT _______ After “Islands” __ City __ TOTAL

3 More Big Sleeps _________ 69 _____ 9 ____ 78

Sixtoes __________________ 67 _____10 ____ 77

Zaph ____________________67 _____10 ____ 77

sKeith ___________________67 _____10 ____ 77

Mehaffey1 ________________65 _____10 ____ 75

Declan A Walsh ___________ 65 _____ 9 ____ 74

The Purple Tin ____________ 66 _____ 7 ____ 73

Rainbow Trout ____________ 64_____ 9 _____73

Gru _____________________63 _____10 ____ 73

Sawduck _________________63 _____10 _____73

Lassykk _________________ 63 _____ 9 _____72

Rikand __________________ 65 _____ 7 ____ 72

Bubblypop _______________62 _____10 _____72

Irish Aris _________________64_____ 7 _____ 71

Dave the Rave ____________ 63 _____ 8 _____71

Collie D _________________ 62 _____ 9 _____ 71

Reberetta ________________62 _____ 9 ____ 71

Aaron Jennings ___________ 61 _____10 _____71

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 62 _____ 8 _____70

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 61 _____ 9 _____70

Ted_YNWA _______________61 _____ 8 _____69

Strawberry Milkshake_______58 _____10 ____ 68

Trigger __________________60 _____ 7 _____67

Heidi Heidi _______________58 _____ 9_____ 67

Quickbeam ______________ 56 _____ 9 ____ 65 (75) **

Yozico __________________ 54 _____ 9 _____ 63

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 54 _____ 9 _____ 63 (72)^^

Homer J. Fong ____________ 52 _____ 9 _____ 61 (70)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)

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(Q5) _ Football match

As to the football question, I have found scoring this to be an enormous challenge without checking the history of every football team I may or may not have heard of, so as long as I cannot spot any obvious error in your choice (as to countries that made the final four of the World Cup) then I'll give you a pass on how, when and where they won a championship, sure there's so many ways almost anyone could do it almost by accident (thinking of Leicester City) -- obviously top of a league table, winning the national Cup final, maybe even qualifying for Europe, or whatever -- let's get this cruise back to port, we've already lost three golfers, a former president, and a serving one too.

At some point we switched from the airplane to a boat, I don't know, very confusing these world tours.

The thread will remain open forever in case anyone wants to challenge any aspects of scoring, I will promise to give it my divided attention but my main focus is on spending the 28 times 85,000 euros which I think is going to work out pretty high up there, just at a guess, over a million anyway (math not my strong suit) ... one million dollars that's for sure, right Donald? Donald? Anyone seen the President?

(I did check one or two of these and all seems legit)

Scoring here is mainly all 9s and 10s ... except that Real Madrid was chosen by four and worth only seven points (and a hundred billion euros) ...


Barcelona ___ Rainbow Trout (10)

Ajax ________ Mehaffey1 (10)

Feyenoord ___ Heidi Heidi (10)

A.C. Milan ____ sawduck (10)

Porto _______ Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster (10)

Chelsea _____ AS LeVar Burton (10)

Arsenal _____ Irish Aris (10)

Leicester City _ Sixtoes (10)

Atletico Madrid _ Collie D (10)

Danubio (URU) _ Aaron Jennings (10)

Bursaspor ____ Reberetta (10)

Basaksehir ___ Yozico (10)

Beziktas _____ Homer J Fong (10)

Monaco ______ Three More Big Sleeps (10)

Estudiantes de la Plata __ sKeith (10)

Pohang (SK) __ lassykk (10)

Dinamo Zagreb __ Trigger (10)

Bayern Munich ___ Declan A Walsh (10)

Fenerbache __ Y0ssar1an22, bubblypop (9)

Montpellier ___ Zaph, Gru (9)

Inter Milan ___ Rikand, Dave the Rave (9)

Real Madrid ___ Ted_YNWA, Strawberry Milkshake, Quickbeam, The Purple Tin (7)

Updated scoring after football ...

ENTRANT _______ After “City” __ Football __ TOTAL

3 More Big Sleeps _________ 78 _____10 ____ 88

Sixtoes __________________77 _____10 ____ 87

sKeith ___________________77 _____10 ____ 87

Zaph ____________________77 _____ 9 ____ 86

Mehaffey1 ________________75 _____10 ____ 85

Declan A Walsh ___________ 74 _____ 10 ____ 84

Rainbow Trout ____________ 73_____10 _____83

Sawduck _________________73 _____10 _____83

Gru _____________________73 _____ 9 ____ 82

Lassykk _________________ 72 _____ 10 _____82

Rikand __________________ 72 _____ 9 _____ 81

Bubblypop _______________72 ______ 9 _____81

Irish Aris ________________ 71_____ 10 _____ 81

Collie D _________________ 71 _____ 10 _____ 81

Reberetta ________________71 _____ 10 ____ 81

Aaron Jennings ___________ 71 _____10 _____81

The Purple Tin ____________ 73 _____ 7 _____ 80

Dave the Rave ____________ 71 _____ 9 _____ 80

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 70 _____ 10 _____80

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 70 _____ 10 _____80

Trigger __________________70 _____ 10 _____77

Heidi Heidi _______________67 _____ 10_____ 77

Ted_YNWA _______________69 ______ 7 _____76

Strawberry Milkshake_______68 ______ 7 _____75

Yozico __________________ 63 _____ 10 _____ 73

Quickbeam ______________ 65 ______ 7 ____ 72 (82) **

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 63 _____ 9 _____ 72 (81)^^

Homer J. Fong ____________61 _____ 10 _____ 71 (80)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)


This brings us to the penultimate scoring total heading into the SHEEP dip ...