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I think I saw more failed double downs Monday night at Hyperion Public than I ever have before. Collectively, out of all 18 teams, twenty times were the dice rolled and came up snake eyes. Which means a full 15% of all submitted answers were failed double downs. Now to be fair, Backyard Yurt failed 5 out of 7 attempts, so they did bring down the entire night's average. But you got to give them credit where it's due - they certainly did try!

It was 6 Dope Queens who took home their very first victory on Monday. They were always the bridesmaid, but they finally got to have their very own shotgun wedding. Fred McGriffs returned to swoop into second with steady, measured play. And The Boneyard managed to snag the drinking round simply by being in the right place at the right time. Ain't life fun?

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The Fall of the Roman Empire - 476 CE

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire - 1918

The Fall of Little Lebowski's Urban Achievers - MONDAY NIGHT

That's right, the winningest team in Hyperion Public history has truly fallen from grace, as they made the epic plunge into tenth place on Monday night.  And that's tenth out of ten, for the record.  A team that was at one time so cocky they answered an entire round blind folded.  A team so cruel to their competitors that they pushed a man down a flight of stairs when he turned in ten point clue on Round 4.  A team so relentless in their pursuit of victory that they held me hostage at knife point for the answers one night, and I could only just barely escape by throwing pens in another direction and hoping they'd get distracted.  These trivia geniuses have finally been hoisted by their own petard, and made to feel as petarded as possible by their peers.  It was Dead Weight is Enough that slammed the jail door shut, and it was Quiztopher Guess who throw away that goddamn key.  And LLUA was no match for The Sex Quiztols on the drinking round, who cruised to a free round of drinks with 13/15 correct.  

So what do the Urban Achievers do now?  I suggest to them that they really rethink their whole strategy, and not just in trivia - but in life, too.  If they want to reclaim their title, they're going to have to study harder, learn faster, and write more legibly than any trivia team has done before.  Will these once trivia titans be able to claw their way back up to the throne upon Mount Olympus?  Or will they be relegated to rock of obscurity, condemned to have their livers pecked out by eagles for the rest of eternity?  Find out next week on KING HYPERION'S TRIVIA PUB CHALLENGE AND BAKE OFF!

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