MarkBarrett wrote:The champ carousel has been spinning with no repeat champ since the week prior the TOC, making ten champs in ten games. April 2009 had a longer streak, so we'll see what next week brings. Anyone know the record?
The April 2009 streak, with 13 consecutive new champs, has an asterisk: Priscilla Ball, #9 in the order, was returning after she had been unable to defend in a previous session due to illness. This one started on a Monday, like the current streak (3xer Ryan Alley finished in the negative on 11/3/14).
Starting with Fred Beukuma's fourth game on 3/30/09:
- Anne Reilly
- Heather Menzel
- Daniel Stauss
- Diane Wilshere
- Kevin Rainforth
- Eric LaForest
- Becky Anderson
- Jeff Mangum
- Priscilla Ball*
- James Holst
- Michael O'Malley
- Marc Sacks
- Kevin Joyce (3x)
Beyond the current streak, I see
two other streaks of 10 consecutive new champs.
Starting with Joanne Platt's third game, 9/20/07 (Thursday):
- Ann Gavaghan
- Donal Coomey
- Sara Price
- Elizabeth McKenna
- Kirk Jordan
- Kevin Martin
- Richard Johnson
- Sharon Lin
- Brett Chandler
- Todd Butler (2x)
The streak starting with Erin Zwiener's fourth game, 9/26/12 (Wednesday), had a notable ending:
- David Schuman
- Mike Malaier
- Erica Mines
- Brendan DuBois
- Joanna Mang
- Sara Lehmann
- Erik Dresner
- Brendan O'Connor
- Mike Lonesky
- Stephanie Jass (7x)
More interesting might be: what's the longest streak without a 3x, 4x, 5x champ? I'll get on it…