Updates

On Tuesday, March 17, we faced High Tech 1 in BRITE. There was an issue where Alex responded to a question at the same time when time was called. That was resolved with the higher-ups at BRITE just giving a new question as if the situation never arised. I can see the High Tech people were pretty disappointed considering this was their best team; however, JP has officially advanced the furthest that it ever did in BRITE: we are now officially semifinalists, and we will be facing South Brunswick next Tuesday.

Last Wednesday, we went back on the Challenge. First, we played Jewish Ed. Center. I have to admit that they were a lot better than I expected because we were actually behind on points for a while; however, we managed to pull through at the end. A very similar issue arouse when a question in Complete 180 was asking for Tyra Banks' reality show, to which they replied "America's Top Model" only to try to retract it and say "America's Next Top Model" (the correct answer). Taping was temporarily halted, and once again, the question was thrown out, but this time the new one was bounced to us, and we did not appear to know the answer. Still, we managed to win against them, which led us to our game against Bergen County.

We actually almost won against BCA. The MC round ended with a score of about 150 BCA to 135 JP. Then, after Lightning Round, the score was 185 BCA to 180 JP. Then, after the third round, we actually managed to pull ahead with a score of JP 280 to BCA 245. However, BCA pulled a 180 in Complete 180, and the final score was BCA 335 to JP 325. I would have liked it better if we won, but I guess I can take comfort in that JP has probably come the closest that any NJ team ever did in actually beating Bergen.