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Featured above are the two winners for tonight's game who make up team "Don't Worry Beyonce".  If you don't think this win is a big deal - it is.  Usually, Beyonce struggles to get past 20 points.  Especially if the questions have anything to do with current events.  Or geography.  Or history.  Or - well, you get the picture.  But they're committed.  And they try.  And that's all that matters, right?  Well, no.  Trying doesn't pay for your bill at the end of a long night of buffalo chicken sandwiches at Barney's.  But, alas, tonight we celebrate their win.  However, before we do that, there are two things you should know about these girls:

Adriana loves Friends and hasn't been able to make it through all of the seasons of Friday Night Lights.  If this were Salem, we would've burned her at the stake a long time ago based on those two facts alone.

Alanna thinks Barb was the best character in "Stranger Things". Barb.  The dead one.  Oh, is that all you remember about her too?  Good.  Because that was her one and only defining characteristic.  Barb sucks.

Congrats on your win, ladies!

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Now that we've reached the end of summer, it seems only appropriate to use this space to compile a best of list curated by the author and (as rule number three states) not open to debate.

BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER: Hell or High Water

BEST SONG OF THE SUMMER: "Too Good" Drake ft Rihanna

BEST BOOK READ THIS SUMMER: The Girl on the Train

RUNNER-UP: It by Stephen King

BEST SUMMER TV SERIES: The Night Of

BEST TV SERIES BINGED THIS SUMMER: Rick and Morty Season Two

BEST PLACE VISITED THIS SUMMER: Niagara Falls, NY

BEST VIDEO GAME PLAYED THIS SUMMER: Battlefront

BEST SUMMER OLYMPIC SPORT: Swimming

BEST ALBUM OF THE SUMMER: Blonde - Frank Ocean

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Alright, the minute they showed the "Previously on..." I already knew who killed Andrea.  Kind of a dead giveaway, eh?  No pun intended.  Why show us this minor character if he wasn't going to come back in some big way - especially when the mortician was too obvious (ditto for stepdad) and Duane Reade had been arrested and placed in prison for an entirely different crime.  I never thought Nas would have actually been the one to kill her - but I still wonder where he was when the actual murder was taking place.  Did he stumble downstairs and pass out at the kitchen counter while the killer crept inside and sliced and diced?  Or did he purposefully leave Nas alive and knocked out so that he would be the most likely suspect?  I don't know, man, crazy show.  But Stone re-adopted the cat!  That's all that really matters, right?

Okay, enough about "The Night Of" - special thanks to all of you for coming out and playing instead of staying in for the finale (or if you're smart like me you just watch it on HBO GO at the same time it airs on the East Coast - life hack).  Tonight's game was almost as stressful as a murder verdict as several of the teams crept up on Crickets to try and overtake their near perfect game - while that didn't happen, Nickelback got awfully close (good thing they knew their monarchy reigns).  Third place became an almost three way battle royale between three very intelligent teams but in the end, much like Nas' newfound heroin addiction, only one could win out over the rest - praise Jesus.  Tune in next week when we try and figure out what Stone's eczema had to do with literally anything.