MSNCT finals liveblog

[jonah]

We're about to start the play-in game Kealing A vs. Longfellow, the winner of which will face Barrington A in a one game final and the loser of which is the third-place team.

[jonah]

Longfellow nails computation tossup #1 and 30s a bonus on Morse code.

[jonah]

Kealing A powers a tossup on Magic Flute and 20s a bonus on the speed of sound.

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Longfellow 10s a tossup on piracy and 20s a geography bonus.

[jonah]

Longfellow gets a tossup on Mexico and sweeps a bonus on Russia.

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Longfellow powers geography and 30s the bonus on Russian leaders.

[jonah]

This coordination is not going so well, even though Jeff and I are on consecutive chairs.

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Kealing powers Allen Ginsberg on the description of "A Supermarket in California," but earns just 10 on the Asian history bonus.

[jonah]

Longfellow negs a tossup on planetary rings with something I didn't catch; Kealing picks it up and 30s a bonus on gun control.

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Kealing negs a tossup on Buenos Aires; Longfellow converts it and gets the chance at an Irish lit bonus. 30.

[jonah]

Kealing powers a tossup on Confucius and gets a bonus on Georgia cities, which they 0.

[jonah]

Kealing buzzes at the end of a tossup on the House on Mango Street and is wrong. Longfellow guesses wrong too.

The next tossup is Gaul, which Longfellow powers, and then they sweep a bonus on Euclidean geometry and other stuff Euclid did.

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Kealing answers a physics tossup and gets a bonus about the Tudors; they earn 20 after switching them for the Stuarts.

Halftime: Longfellow 195, Kealing 175.

[jonah]

After a really short halftime, Kealing A gets a tossup on yo-yos on "walking the dog", and comment "trash...". They get 20 on an ancient wonders of the world bonus.

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Tossup on Louis XIV; Kealing powers it. The bonus is on web technologies and they sweep it.

[jonah]

Kealing gets a tossup on Descartes and a bonus on food, the latter of which they bagel.

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Longfellow calls a time-out and lodges a protest about a previous bonus.

Kealing negs a tossup on the number 20 (in foreign languages); Longfellow picks it up to get a Greek myth bonus for 30.

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Kealing earns ten for a tossup on amazon.com; bonus on model organisms coming up.

[jonah]

Kealing powers a tossup on Prague (buzzing on "Dubcek"), and 30s their bonus on American colonial history.

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Longfellow earns ten from a meteorology tossup and gets a bonus on Tom Sawyer characters. 20.

[jonah]

Kealing gets a mixed tossup on vampires and 30s their Hopper bonus.

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Kealing converts a pop culture tossup on Zack and Cody and 20s a Confederate leaders bonus.

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Longfellow 10s a tossup on Michael Jordan and gets a mixed bonus on Denmark, which they 30.

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Longfellow negs a Tolkien tossup and Kealing converts it. Bonus about The Little Prince, and 20 points.

[jonah]

Kealing A powers a tossup on the eye to get a bonus on stars on which they get 30.

Final score: Kealing A 480, Longfellow 300.

[bt_green_warbler]

Finals starting now, Barrington vs. Kealing A

[jonah]

Cutest introductions ever.

[jonah]

Tossup 1 is a common-link on the name Oscar, which Kealing powers. They sweep a bonus about Vienna.

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Geology tossup, which Barrington negs with diamonds. Kealing converts opals for 10. Bonus about stellar magnitude, which they 20.

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Kealing gets a tossup on the Spanish Armada and a bonus on Tierra del Fuego — 30 points.

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Barrington powers a myth tossup and earns 30 on a bonus about the U.S. Senate.

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Kealing 10s a tossup on sunspots and 30s a bonus on Raisin in the Sun.

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History tossup; Corin from Kealing powers it on the first clue (John Brown). 20 on the bonus.

[jonah]

Kealing negs a tossup on the letter X (foreign language); Barrington tries to power-vulch but only gets 10, plus 20 on their bonus about the Canadian election.

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Kealing powers the young adult lit. Geometry bonus, and a sweep.

[jonah]

Tossup on (legislation related to) driving goes to Barrington, and they get 20 on a current events bonus.

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Barrington 15s a pop music tossup on Nirvana, and earns the rights to a bonus on the Hardy Boys; answering only "the Hardy Boys" for 10.

[jonah]

Geometry computation tossup goes to Kealing; they get 20 on a bonus about Canadian geography.

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Geography tossup on China earns Barrington 10; here's a bonus about the Fukushima nuclear disaster. 30 points.

Halftime: Kealing 260, Barrington 165

[jonah]

Tossup 13 is on Charles De Gaulle, which Kealing 10s to get a bonus on Israeli history, which they sweep.

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Barrington negs the sports tossup; Kealing picks it up at the end (common-link on Spain).

Russian lit bonus; Kealing sweeps Anna Karenina/Brothers Karamazov/Dead Souls.

[jonah]

Barrington first-clues a tossup on Twain and 20s a bonus on volcanoes.

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Particle physics, which Barrington powers.

British history bonus. 20 points for Gunpowder Plot/Guy Fawkes, can't convert James I.

[jonah]

Barrington gets a general knowledge tossup on the post office. Foreign language bonus on Greek letters -- 30.

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Kealing answers a tossup on Libya and gets 10 on a taxonomy bonus on insects.

[jonah]

Kealing powers a tossup on pendulums (pendula?) and gets a bonus on Italian geography, which they 20.

[jonah]

Kealing gets a common-link tossup on Mary in art and a bonus on La boheme, which they only pull 10 on (Puccini).

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Common link on "governesses", which Kealing powers. Time for a James Bond bonus, which is 20ed.

[jonah]

Barrington gets a tossup on Iceland and 20s their bonus on Supreme Court cases.

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Time called on a Meteor Crater geography tossup.