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I am not sleeping tonight.

Righto, now that half of you have completed the Picture Round, here are how the scores stand for this round only. Please bear in mind these are raw marks and are yet to be converted into UMS. EC!: 93.0 Luke_A: 90.0 scarycoasterboy: 90.0 Cornflakes: 88.0 JoshC.: 83.0 J.S217: 81.0 James & Co.: 80.0 stretchy: 79.0 James_C: 70.0 MarkC: 66.0 coastergod: 60.0 Mr. Fish: 44.0 So those are the scores to beat! Off you pop.

But how is that different to other theme parks such as Blackpool Pleasure Beach or Alton Towers?

Turquoise. When I say green, I mean primary greens. All colour questions refer to colours that are unmistakably that colour. Therefore Kumba would neither be an answer for green or blue B&Ms.

Banned for being on the phone when you're talking to me. How rude.

Very astute Dan! And yes Josh, that's a great way to overcome this. I refrained from mentioning it because I couldn't word it properly and knew Josh would give it a good bash.

Blame it on the auto-numbers! I couldn't put two fives in! But yes it should be noted that Josh and Ethan are in joint-fifth. Guess I better get to work on this Multiple Choice Round!

The next round will be on Friday 2nd of August at 8pm in Chat, unless there is a significant number of players who cannot make this date. It will be the Multiple Choice Round. This round runs very differently to the previous rounds. The biggest difference is that in this round you can use the Internet. This round will also be timed. You will have between 1 and 2 minutes to complete questions, quite possibly all of which will require use of the Internet. Here's how the Multiple Choice Round will work. You will receive a question like: "Name a green B&M coaster". There are exactly six answers you could have, and each is worth different points, depending on 'obscurity'. You must pick one answer for each question. The more obscure you go, the more points are up for grabs, hence why Internet is allowed in this round, as not everyone knows all the green B&M coaster in the world. To further explain my point, here are the six green B&Ms, and the points they might be assigned*: The Incredible Hulk, Islands of Adventure (4) The Riddler's Revenge, Six Flags Magic Mountain (15) Raptor, Cedar Point (10) Hydra: The Revenge, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom (14) Green Lantern, Six Flags Great Adventure (7) Flying over the Rainforest, Ocean Kingdom (24) Why so many points? Well this is because as well as earning more points for going obscure, you also share points with whoever else picks the same answer as you; another reason for Internet. Questions with fewer answers will naturally have more points per answer, to accommodate these shared points. Those questions with 20 or more possible answers will have fewer points per possible answer, as there are 26 of you and odds of picking the same answer are lower. This has all been worked out on a rolling ratio in my spreadsheet, as well as the available points for each answer themselves. So, for instance, if you were given the above question, and three of you picked The Riddler's Revenge but only one of you picked Raptor, then the three who picked The Riddler's Revenge would receive 5 points each, but the player who picked Raptor would receive all 10. It sounds complicated, but it's honestly one of the most fun of the rounds so far, according to my trial runs. It can be very frantic due to it being timed, and it's much better played live, so please be there if you can! Best of luck to those of you yet to answer the Picture Round questions! *Due to the ratio, these numbers are rounded. The numbers are more like 7.11 and 24.49.

"Tonight TPM, I will be... THE EMPTY CHILD".

Cheers guys! Glad you enjoyed it! Okay you plucky little quizzers! Now that the deadline has passed for Round 2 - the Records Round - I can officially reveal your UMS marks for the first two rounds. Please be aware that these marks are UMS, not raw. They have been proportionately uniformed so that your marks are worked out of a score of 50. Peaj: 89.7 Dan9: 87.7 scarycoasterboy: 86.8 Cornflakes: 82.4 EC!: 82.1 JoshC. 82.1 James_C: 78.1 Luke_A: 77.6 Coaster Jamie: 75.9 J.S217: 72.4 MarkC: 71.4 Phill Pritchard: 69.8 pluk: 67.8 Matt Creek: 65.8 coastergod: 62.5 R1C4Y: 61.2 James & Co.: 58.0 coastercameron98: 56.3 Han30: 50.4 stretchy: 40.3 Topsyturvy15: 38.9 Mr. Fish: 37.0 Holly: 34.6 Tiddlywinks: 25.9 (Did not complete Round 2) MohammedAli: 12.1 (Did not complete Round 2) Frog-Tastic98: 10.3 (Did not complete Round 2) The players who have already completed the Picture Round have already drastically changed the face of this leaderboard so get on and answer those PMs if you're still to do it!

Josh's beard... IT'S UPSIDE DOWN

Word will be fine CG. Hope you have a good time! Don't worry about getting back on time. You'll have a whole week to do it if you can't make it.

Hi Adey! Lovely to have you here. Be sure to get involved in everything the forum's got going on of late if you can! There's been some great meets this year!

Just a pre-warning! Question 25 of Round 3 will be timed! You will have 5 minutes to answer it! This means that those receiving the questions by PM (those who cannot attend the live quiz) will have 40 minutes to complete the questions.

That looks absolutely amazing. Actually laughed out loud. I remember reading about it on Wikipedia but didn't get much from it. Looks exciting!

This was in reference to Crash Pad's ridiculous offering of free continental breakfast, yet having to pay extra for a full English. What arsehattery even is that?

It is CG! Still plenty of time to do a little research! I've only just realised how many of the later questions orientate around Merlin. Get yourself on RCDB.com and look up a few notable American B&Ms. This means everyone!

Banned for having one of those annoying screaming head things Thorpe were so fond of in 2008-2011 in your's.

Yeah but you don't need to name the rides in that picture. Love the enthusiasm though! Btw you totally forgot RollerSoaker (the one that looks like a monorail).

Here's a few more teasers! It appears SkyRush is still ugly whatever angle you view it from... Happy deliberating!

Mark, I think you may have a problem participating in this live quiz if your iPad does not allow you to view two or more tabs without being kicked from Chat. You will need to click links that will take you to another tab automatically, which may result in you being kicked. If you cannot access a computer at the time of the live quiz though, I can send you the questions in PM?

How do you mean James? I will be sending you 25 questions, one at a time as per the norm. Each will be accompanied by a photo that will hopefully help you answer each question.

Pessimism isn't the way to go! I'm sure you'll all do fine! Here's a little list you might want to revise if you're the more competitive type! American B&Ms Ride clones Train hardware Merlin Disney Not too challenging!

This Picture Round is coming on very slow! The questions are a lot harder to write in the third mini round. But when I do come up with something it's such a good feeling! Here's a little taster of what you might expect to see! All these photos will have questions based on them! Oooooh intriguing! What could I possibly be asking about these seemingly normal images?

I love how bendy Phill's arm is too. Lol. Wibbly wobbly wrist action. Also, I have discovered Thorpe's new 2014 ride. Storm in a Teacup. WITH INVERSIONS.