Mastermind 2020/2021 - Heat 2

 

 

Mastermind 2020/2021

Episode 2 – Heat 2

 

Apologies for the delay with this update, I know many of you will have watched Heat 3 by now (write up to come) but the Second Heat took place last Monday and involved….

 

-        Ikenna Oguguo

-        Dani Cugini

-        Frankie Franko

-        Cecil Morgan

 

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

 

Frankie Franko	Berthe Morisot	12
Dani Cugini	The Novels of Toni Morrison	8
Ikenna Oguguo	Manchester United	8
Cecil Morgan	William Tyndale	6

A nice range of subjects in this episode. Frankie Franko nailed a full house, and the highest SS score of the series so far, and given her pedigree in Only Connect (series winner) and Brain of Britain (recent grand final runner up) she was always going to be hard to catch with this sort of lead.

Cecil Morgan was first up and scored at a steady pace, scoring points in all subject areas. With a relatively huge gap to make up and a few stopper questions that ate up time, Cecil left the black chair with a score of 14.

Ikenna was up net and both himself and Dani realistically needed to be scoring mid-high double figures on the round to challenge Frankie. Ikenna started strongly and reached ten for the round with “Pretty Woman” after the buzzer. 

Dani was up next, and had a horrible trio of “old man quiz league” style questions early on which slowed down the pace of scoring. In fact, more than any other set tonight, this GK seemed to veer heavily towards the “old man quiz league” style of setting which didn’t seem to suit Dani but an array of speedy answer elsewhere took the score to 16.

 

Frankie Franko finished off the heat, and as expected, stormed the GK set with the highest GK total of the series (15) so far, the highest overall score and certainly blasting her way into contention for the overall series title. I can’t see many scores in these first round heats to exceed that!

Contestant	Specialist Subject	SS	GK	Total
Frankie Franko	Berthe Morisot	12	15	27
Ikenna Oguguo	Manchester United	8	10	18
Dani Cugini	The Novels of Toni Morrison	8	8	16
Cecil Morgan	William Tyndale	6	8	14

And for the first  time this series I can start off the overall series leaderboard (which has no baring on anything related to the show of course) and as you can see with a stunning score in Heat 2, Frankie Franko lies top, a tough score to catch and a certain contender for the crown this series!

Contestant	Total
Frankie Franko	27
Tom Lee	21 (w)
Sally Wilson	21
Emma Haley	21
Ikenna Oguguo	18
Adrian Segens	17
Dani Cugini	16
Cecil Morgan	14

 

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) - 41

 

*the (w) indicates that score won the heat