#675 - “Sporting Chance”

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#675 - “Sporting Chance”

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MGWCC #675 — Friday, May 7th, 2021 — “Sporting Chance”

This week’s contest answer is a sport you’ll see at the Olympics this summer.
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Beam me up. Let’s hope those Olympics happen!!!
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Beam me up. Good week for a week 1 with final to write and grade. :)

ETA: since my position lends itself nicely to the trend developing in posts below (added here to avoid using another page 1 slot):
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Beam me up!
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:flying_saucer: :alien: Nice one! My position on leaderboard...
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On the board. Always wish for slightly crunchier week 1s.
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Beam me up - thankfully as the Honey Do list is LONG for the weekend. For some reason my wife and kid want the second bathroom remodel finished...jeez...
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Really hoping for Olympics this summer for sure! Nice breezy Week 1, which gives me plenty of time to attempt to be constructive this weekend!
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And mine (took me four minutes to get the puzzle):
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Got this one fairly quickly as well. Busy weekend, so glad to have this out of the way.
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Submitted. The grid was more challenging than expected .
Update: beam me up at exactly number 100
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docison wrote: Fri May 07, 2021 12:23 pm On the board. Always wish for slightly crunchier week 1s.
Then they wouldn't be week 1s...the beauty of Matt's progression is that dopes like me can get week 1s.
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Not sure where I was beamed...

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I have beamed up! I don't know of a song with my leaderboard number (67), but I'm told it was a pretty good year!

Edit: Found one, good song too!

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Beam me up. It only took less than half an hour and there were already 80 ahead of me on the board.
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Beam me up!
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Home please Mr Scott
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Wow, I had it solved (assumed) but wanted to finish grid, apparently that was about a 20 place difference. Hope this wasn’t a trap - but I doubt it.
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Week 1 does not require a very strong beam, but up I go.
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Beamed up!
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