Results from HQ July 2017

Greetings again staunch patriots and wondrous quizzers!

July was the first engagement  in the 11th Tour of Duty of the renowned and infamous, long running and never ending cross-Atlantic tussle between the two greatest nations on the planet.

Yes, I mean you, so sit up straight my human friends. And be Proud!
After months (dare I say, years) of domination from the great UK horde my American buddies, who, let's face it,  don't know the meaning of surrender, had made a terrific comeback and were stamping their superiority on the battlefield since January. That is ... until June, when the UK & Co rose from the ashes and swiped victory.
Is this the beginning of a UK fight back?
A return to UK dominance and global rule?

We shall see ... there are no second places in this war ... only losers!

The Challenge
The USA fielded 15 awesome troopers who grabbed 7954 points = 56.7% of the spoils of War.
Wow! I bet you're way ahead of me ...
The  UK & Co fielded 12 determined woadwearers, who bagged 6063 pts = 43.3% of the crumbs. What a brave, but failed resistance.
Yes . The USA won the July Challenge battle , and if I may humbly say so, even as I tremble in awe of their might  .. in a magnificent way.

Come one UK!  Pengy loves an underdog so I'm cheering for you here as I rattle my hi-tech abacus to see if you managed to avert disaster and do something truly spectacular on the Survivor battle.

The Survivor
The USA sent in 9 bionic wonders of human engineering, snatched 2011 pts = 52.2% of the spoils.
The UK & Co enlisted 11 fabulous fighters, bagged 1843 pts = 47.8%

A big groan just rolled across the Atlantic .. did you hear it? It registered on the Richter Scale. The Earth trembled.

The July War result.
The USA = 54.4%
The UK & Co = 45.6%

Someone hand me a tissue (one monogrammed with the Queen's Royal Arms) ... quick. This is dire stuff. The wonderful USA are running amok, stamping on those who stand in their way. You have to hand it to them .. what a fantastic win by fantastic players. So UK & Co .. what are you to do?
There will be wailing outside the railings of Buckingham Palace ... but remember .. 'We will fight them on the beaches'.... or, as it not commonly known but also ascribed to that wondrous statesman .. "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got".

But ... as this pacifist Pengy doesn't condone either violence or alcoholism... just virtual internet wars ... I say, less violence, more love!

Until we can attain that high noble humanitarian aim I advise the UK to get enlisting, to get busy nibbling the performance enhancing treats  kindly provided by Quiz Beagle (or pinch what Qmel is giving our USA friends)... and wade bravely into the trenches.
Remember .. you are not alone. Your versatile, multi-talented referee is also your sympathetic medic well fortified with splints, bandages and aqua vitae.