The History of Near Perfect Games in Fandom
A perfect game is something very few have accomplished in Fandom and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit obsessed with achieving one myself during my first few years of playing. So I got to thinking, how many times has a player gotten 1 question off from a perfect game? To my surprise, it has not only occurred 16 times, but the majority of these people have yet to achieve a perfect game. Several are still active players too, so this may give us a glimpse of who could accomplish a perfect game next. Now I know for a lot of these the player would have to have hit the bonus question as well to get 100%, but when you’re at 95% accuracy, the chances of doing so are pretty high. So without further ado, here is every time someone has nearly played a perfect game.
Thomas Scully
-Played: Rene Villareal (#1 Contenders match from Season 3)
-Question Missed: In Rocky V, where is Rocky when he sees a vision of Mickey?
-Round 2: Disney Animation (Opponent’s Choice)
-Accuracy: 94% (17/18)
-Final Score: 21-9 KO
Tyler Beutler
-Played: Cameron Holzmann (Season 3)
-Question Missed: Which Classic Disney actor cameos as themselves reading a children’s book in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day?
-Round 2: YA Dystopia
-Accuracy: 95% (20/21)
-Final Score: 27-26 in Sudden Death
-Special Fact: To date, this is the only occurrence where a player missed 1 question and had to go to sudden death.
Jake Maringoni
-Played: Dave Goodger (Retirement Match from Season 3)
-Question Missed: In X-Men Days of Future Past, what is the full name of the man who founded the Sentinel Program?
-Round 2: Marvel
-Accuracy: 95% (18/19)
-Final Score: 22-12
Albert Wiradharma
-Played: Malcolm Lay (Retirement Match from Season 4)
-Question Missed: What page does Snape want the class to turn to in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
-Round 2: Pixar
-Accuracy: 94% (15/16)
-Final Score: 20-4 KO
Tim Brzakala
-Played: played Mark Camire (Rd 1 of singles tournament in Season 4)
-Question Missed: In Fantastic Four 2004, what specific kind of vehicle does Ben Grimm save from falling off of a bridge?
-Round 2: DC
-Accuracy: 95% (21/22)
-Final Score: 28-23
Thomas Scully (#2)
-Played: Regev Ben-Vais (Rd 1 of singles tournament in Season 4)
-Question Missed: What was the last Halloween film to feature Donald Pleasance as Dr. Sam Loomis?
-Round 2: YA Dystopia
-Accuracy: 95% (19/20)
-Final Score: 25-16
Thomas Scully (#3)
-Played: Tyler Beutler (Semi-Finals of singles tournament in Season 4)
-Question Missed: which Disney Animated character said “I love that kid. I love him like he was my own cub”?
-Round 2: Disney Live Action
-Accuracy: 94% (17/18)
-Final Score: 25-15
Nicholas Twohig
-Played: Mark Menchaca (Championship match in Season 4)
-Question Missed: which Bond villain said “man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He’s fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor… except crime”?
-Round 2: Worlds of DC
-Accuracy: 96% (23/24)
-Final Score: 35-20 KO
-Special Fact: To date, Nick is the only player to accomplish this in a championship match
Albert Wiradharma (#2)
-Played: played Cain McMillan (Season 4)
-Question Missed: How does the villain Hugo Drax die in Moonraker?
-Round 2: James Bond
-Accuracy: 94% (17/18)
-Final Score: 21-10 KO
Brittani Tapley
-Played: Brooklyn Vail (Season 5)
-Question Missed: In The Maze Runner: The Death Cure, who drives the armored car through the tunnel full of cranks where Newt ends up getting bitten?
-Round 2: Pixar (Opponent’s Choice)
-Accuracy: 94% (16/17)
-Final Score: 21-5 KO
Brittani Tapley (#2)
-Played: Caleb Boatman (Rd 1 of singles tournament in Season 5)
-Question Missed: Name all 3 members of the IMF that are on the mission that goes wrong in Berlin at the beginning of Mission: Impossible Fallout.
-Round 2: DC
-Accuracy: 95% (18/19)
-Final Score: 23-14
Kaiser Huang
-Played: Cameron Holzmann (Rd 1 of singles tournament in Season 5)
-Question Missed: Which Pixar film features the song “Time of your Life”?
-Round 2: Scores & Soundtracks (Opponent’s Choice)
-Accuracy: 95% (19/20)
-Final Score: 24-20
Brittani Tapley (#3)
-Played: Kaiser Huang (Rd 2 of singles tournament in Season 5)
-Question Missed: When Bond and Madeleine get to Blofeld’s base in Spectre, they find what as the centerpiece of the room where they meet him?
-Round 2: DC
-Accuracy: 94% (17/18)
-Final Score: 22-10
Kaiser Huang (#2)
-Played: Mike Shea (Season 6)
-Question Missed: In Michael Bay’s Transformers, the first Decepticon to confront Sam about the glasses disguises himself as what specific kind of car?
-Round 2: Wizarding World (Spinner’s Choice)
-Accuracy: 94% (16/17)
-Final Score: 20-8 KO
Robert Castner
-Played: Antonio Chavez (Season 6)
-Question Missed: What is the name of Marlin’s wife who dies in the beginning of Finding Nemo?
-Round 2: MCU
-Accuracy: 95% (18/19)
-Final Score: 25-21
Robert Castner (#2)
-Played: Cameron Holzmann (#1 Contenders match from Season 7)
-Question Missed: What is the name of Tommy Jarvis’ love interest, the Sheriff’s daughter in Jason Lives?
-Round 2: MCU (Spinner’s Choice)
-Accuracy: 94% (17/18)
-Final Score: 23-13
-Special Fact: in case you didn’t notice, to date poor Holzmann is the only player to have their opponent achieve this on more than 1 occasion, 3 to be exact.