Good morning everybody
I’m so sorry that I couldn’t give you a final confirmation of the winners yesterday night but I was a bit tired and my eyes were crossing on that damn excel file.
But here we are now:
Official results
1st place Stein 55 points. Congratulations! I did my best to make it hard for you but it seems you’re on another level of competition. Not only you know everything about Europe but you’re also incredibly fast. Very well done, you absolutely deserved the first prize.
2nd place galaia2004 32 points. Congratulations! It’s a silver medal but, really, among us humans it’s like a gold medal. Seriously, you did an amazing job, also scoring a triple 3 on “Time has come”. Respect! The second prize is yours.
3rd place Stefania 26 points. Congratulations! Stefania you have been great. Even with major connection problems you’ve managed to deliver an astonishing performance! That triple 3 on “Cherokee” was great! The third prize is yours.
3rd place headbangsterv 26 points. Congratulations!
You missed the podium for just one small point. What a pity! You did
nevertheless an absolutely awesome job, your playing strategy was very clever, you
almost did it! Your comments, company and spirit were also very much appreciated.
5th place alex72 24 points. Congratulations! It wasn’t at all easy but you also did a great job getting at just 2 points from the podium. I appreciated very much your answer about the watch on TFC video. You only (except galaia2004 who arrived a bit late on that) got the real meaning of that question. The time was wrong by one minute but I was so delighted that nevertheless I awarded you the 3 points. Forgive me the terrible cliché but, talking about watches, I could expect nothing less from a Swiss
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6th place Tone Irene 19 points. Congratulations! Considering that you played with the pedal to the metal across the whole game trying to go for the fast answer you scored incredibly well. With the onorable mention of scoring a couple of 3 (and one was even before Stein!). Beside that, your smart company is something that always boosts the party to an higher level. Thanks a lot!
7th place guesswho? 3 points. Congratulations! You only managed to answer to one set of questions. I don’t know if you have experienced connection problems or if you were discouraged by the hard questions. Nevertheless you gave the fastest and only right answer to one questions! Well done!
8th place vonnyloveseurope 2 points. Congratulations! Well, what can I say. You were at work, with your boss looking at you, slow internet connection…it’s a miracle that you even manage to post your answers. Thank you so much for having been there, representing the whole South America. You have been fantastic!
Special mentions:
poundingheart and
Michaela Italy: our live reporters from the gig. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have been simply amazing at sacrificing part of your fun for keeping us updated. It has been awesome to have you with us!
kat and
thededicatedfans: thank you for the support, the endorsement and your contribution with the prizes. Keep up the wonderful job you're doing with your blog and show up here too every now and then.
Wm JN: Thank you for offering the precious John’s picks, they were very much appreciated, your support is very important for us.
Eva Tomorrow: she has been a bit in the shadows during the game but she has done an incredible job at organizing things in advance, she has double-checked my questions, giving me precious advices and has motivated me a lot to go through this. If this place is so good most of the credit has to be given to her. Thanks a lot.
Well, that’s it. I hope you all had fun like I did. My biggest regret is that I didn't have the time to properly answer to most of your funny and smart comments, but I enjoyed them very much later. Not everything went as planned, I made some mistakes but I hope they didn’t compromise the general enjoyability of the party and game. After all we managed to crash the forum for a couple of minutes: that’s an incredibly good result, isn’t it!
Long live Europe the band and fans!
P.S. If you have any question about the point counting or on some of the questions, feel free to ask.
It was a blast! 
It was a blast! 
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-FANS who have tried in vain to beat Stein-Vidar 
Now you make me feel SO much better about playing so foolishly