Mastermind 2020/2021 - Heat 6

 

 

Mastermind 2020/2021

Heat 6

 

Back up to date now, and with Quizzy Monday returning last night, here is a run down of Heat 6 of Mastermind 2020/2021. With two names familiar to me, taking part in this heat were

 

-        Bryony Ashcroft

-     Jackie Hunter

-     Colin Wilson

-     Jamie Hall

 

 

At the end of the specialist round the standings were as follows

 

Jamie Hall	The Weimar Republic	10
Jackie Hunter	Cheeses of the UK	9
Bryony Ashcroft	Bridges of London	8
Colin Wilson	Alex Higgins	8

Again a nice mix of subjects. Knowing how passionate Colin Wilson is about sport it was no surprise to see him on a sporting subject and it was great to see another face from the quiz world Jamie Hall line up in the black chair. It was shaping up to be one of the closest episodes of the series….

Bryony was first up to set the marker for the rest to follow and managed to tot up a score of 17 with an impressive range of answering (and a score which would have won other heats) but given the calibre of players to come, I felt as a viewer this heat was going to need a 20+ winning score.

Colin Wilson got off to a flyer with quick, confident answering wasting very little time on the question he didn’t know, a tactic which keeps the round going at a solid pace. A few unlucky misses here and there didn’t hold the round back too much and Colin reached double figures for the GK round and record a score of 19 to put him in the lead.

Jackie had taken on a wide subject earlier in the show and bossed it, but came to the chair needing double figures in her GK round to give her a shot at the Semi Finals. A different approach to Colin, giving herself a few second to ingest the question and answer. And the tactic worked racking up the required 19 with time to spare. A correct answer on the film Philomena meant Jackie took the lead, becoming only the 7^th player of the series of hit the 20 mark.

It was down to Jamie, I have quizzed with and against Jamie in the past and know him to be an excellent all round player, and had every faith he would reach the double figures he needed to progress to the Semi Final. (P.s. if you want to see an example of the long questions that could be answered after  a few words that are plaguing this series…check out the Louis Vuitton question in this set). But I am guessing from the body language and the content of the set, that these questions weren’t best suited and a score of 18 was recorded.

Congratulations then to Jackie who reaches the Semi Final. Notable, all four scores in this heat would have been winning (or at least tiebreaking) scores in the previous heat! The length of the questions now is making any score above 20 difficult to achieve.

Contestant	Specialist Subject	SS	GK	Total
Jackie Hunter	Cheeses of the UK	9	11	20
Colin Wilson	Alex Higgins	8	11	19
Jamie Hall	The Weimar Republic	10	8	18
Bryony Ashcroft	Bridges of London	8	9	17

 

And the current season leader board now looks like this…

Contestant	Total
Frankie Franko	27 (w)
Tom Lee	21 (w)
Emma Haley	21
Sally Wilson	21
Steve Goddard	20 (w)
Jackie Hunter	20 (w)
Jane McDonnell	20
Jacqueline Jones	19 (w)
Colin Wilson	19
Poppy Mckenzie Smith	19
Andrew Fortyish	18
Ikenna Oguguo	18
Jamie Hall	18
Edana Guest	17 (w)
Adrian Segens	17
Bryony Ashcroft	17
Alex Hardwick	16
Annabelle Dunwoody	16
Dani Cugini	16
Jeremy Sullivan	16
Kitty Grant	16
Jonathan Sargant	15
Cecil Morgan	14
Peter Almond	14

 *the (w) indicates that score won the heat

  Other season records this far –

·                  Highest GK Total – Frankie Franko – 15

·                  Highest SS Total – Frankie Franko – 12

·                  Highest Scoring Heat – Heat 1 – (Tom Lee, Sally Wilson, Emma Haley, Adrian Segens) – 80

·                  Highest scoring combined GK heat – Heat 2– (Frankie Franko, Cecil Morgan, Ikenna Oguguo, Dani Cugini)  and Heat 3 (Steve Goddard, Jane McDonnell, Poppy Mckenzie Smith and Andrew Forsyth)  - 41