Mastermind 2012/2013 - Heat 10

Mastermind 2012/2013 - Heat 10

Due to a busy, derby-day related, weekend I have only just got round to writing up my views on this weeks show. I was very interested to see how top-ranked quizzer Chris Quinn fared....

Contendors - 

Helen Marshal

Bart Smith

Chris Quinn

Jonathan Gordon

Helen Marshall kicked off proceedings in what turned out to be one the closest run heats of the series. Her 12 on Catherine of Aragon, which I tried on the Wiki challenge and failed miserably, set a good bench mark and indeed with Bart Smith clocking in 9 on Fanny Craddock it looked like a solid score. Chris Quinn had chosen Roddy Doyle novels and as always with this sort of subject it can be tricky. Questions based on events in novels can be so random and lazily set that a round can suffer. Chris managed 8 which would keep him in contention but Jonathan Gordons 13 with no passes gave him the early lead.

Standings after SS round -

Jonathan Gordon - 13

Helen Marshall - 12

Bart Smith - 9

Chris Quinn - 8

Chris Quinn was first out in the GK round and produced perhaps the finest GK round of the series of the series so far. A stunning 19 points put him right in the mix with 27 the score to beat. Despite a great round of 16 himself Bart Smith could only manage to take his total to 25. Both Jonathan Gordon and Helen Marshall managed 16 too in what was easily the highest standard of GK we have seen so far and indeed it ended up being Gordon's extre point in the first round that was a difference. A very high quality episode indeed.

Final Scores - 

Jonathan Gordon - 29

Helen Marshall - 28

Chris Quinn - 27

Bart Smith - 25

Congratulations to Jonathan Gordon who moves into the next round with the 3rd highest score so far. Still only two players have breached 30. Helen Marshall has also given herself a fine chance of making the next round and although only 8 of the 40 players so far have scored more than him, Chris Quinn narrowly missed out!

Qualified

Gregory Spiller - 32
Kathryn Palmer - 31
Christine Plume - 29
Jonathan Gordon - 29
Michael Wright - 29
Sian West - 26
Shahab Mossavat - 26
Matthew Bradshaw -26
Aidan Mccquade - 24
John Chadwick - 23

Highest Scoring Runners Up

Chris Cann – 29

John Wheeler – 29
Helen Marshall - 28

Paul Whittaker - 27

Philip Walters - 25

Andrew Granath - 24

Other

Chris Quinn - 27
Nathan Joss – 26

Alan Sharp - 26
Bart Smith - 25

Andrew Hunt - 25
Nina Fetherston - 25

Alan Wharmby - 24

Rosalind Winter - 24

Laurie Handcock – 24

 Kevin Baker - 24 
Roland Mcfall – 23

Hazel Humprheys - 22
Chris Kirk - 22
Les Wallace - 22

Graeme Marley -22

 Ian Copping - 22

Alan Haddick - 21

Sarah Le Fevre - 19

Jackie Phillips - 19

Mathhew Clarke - 18
Nathan Scott – 18
Xavier Woodward - 18
Nick Gunatilleke - 17
Barbara Bell - 15