Broadview Heights has won its second straight Mind Challenge for the New Majority Championship by defeating a team from Twinsburg at the Solon Senior Center.
Broadview Heights earned the grand prize of $2,500. Twinsburg, finishing third in 2021, won second-place money of $1,500. Cleveland Heights broke through to third-place and received $1,000 while the former two-time champion, Mentor, won $500 for finishing in fourth-place.
“Our semifinal and final rounds brought tremendous excitement to the Mind Challenge tournament,” said co-founders Art Greenberg and Phil Levine.
During the semifinals, Twinsburg defeated the Cleveland Heights team on the very last question, the co-founders said. Broadview Heights disposed of their challengers, Mentor and fifth-place winner Rocky River, to advance to the final rounds.
“The final round was packed with lead changes that made it even more interesting before Broadview Heights pulled away to victory,” the co-founders said. “We congratulate all the winners and all the over 90 teams for a great 2022 Mind Challenge. We cannot wait until next year’s tournament, which will begin May 8, 2023.”
This year, a record 51 cities participated in the trivia tournament ranging from Fairport Harbor to Sheffield Lake and Sheffield Village, as well as Medina and Stow. A total of 90 teams and 520 participants vied for the $2,500 with the second-, third- and fourth-place teams winning $1,500, $1,000 and $500.
Prior to the final rounds, the winning teams from Mentor and Willoughby met in Mind Challenge’s Elevated Eight rounds. While the Mentor team was the overall champion in the first two years of the trivia competition, it lost in the Elevated Eight last year to Willoughby Hills.
In Willoughby, one of five teams from the city defeated the defending winners of last year’s regional, Willoughby Hills, by two points to advance to play the Mentor team. Willoughby Hills finished second overall in last year’s tournament.
When Greenberg and Levine co-founded Mind Challenge, they started out with 16 teams. In their second year, they had 34. The pair say they will continue to embrace any and all senior centers that want to participate.
