And so Zac Crain knows he’ll be facing Rich Goff, a promotions manager for WFAA, in a fight tomorrow for a spot in our Finally Four. That’s because Goff beat Tim Rogers – more than once, apparently. The final score was 403 to 298. Here’s Tim’s account of what happened:
To be honest, Rich beat me twice. A quarter of the way through our game, the Newtoy servers had a hiccup, and we lost our game. Gone. When it vanished, Rich was killing me. So we started another game. You know what happened there. I drew all the big letters yet couldn’t score with them — partly because I’m not that good, but mostly because I think Rich was playing (and bingoing) in a way that was designed to thwart big scores with the Z, Q, and J. The game was never close. Zac is going to have his hands full tomorrow.
Now read what Rich has to say about what transpired. Do you detect the same note of skepticism that I do about that server “hiccup”?
After our first game mysteriously disappeared, (something about a NewToy server update), we re-started at around 1:15 in the afternoon. I was fortunate enough to get some good letters and score a bingo off the top…Tim has warned me that Zac will be a formidable opponent tomorrow, and I believe him. To quote a great movie:
1) We gotta play ’em one day at a time.
2) I’m just happy to be here. Hope I can help the ballclub.
3) I just want to give it my best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out.
As far as I know, Rich: no, Tim didn’t signal his good buddies Paul and David Bettner to turn off the juice when things weren’t going his way. As far as I know.
