POSTED BY GRAPEVINE AT 11:00 AM

Spain wasn’t the only winner on Sunday

After Sunday’s World Cup finale, The Grove Spot announced “The Most Knowledgeable Fan.” This was a person who played along during each game and answered the most questions correctly. It ended up being my friend Armando Paz. No wonder he would ask me to meet him at The Grove Spot for the World Cup games all the time, he was playing the trivia game as well as enjoying the World Cup.

He says he was surprised he won because he “missed six games.” But weren’t there dozens of games? He was there for all those? Guess, so, he ended winning the EZ Notebook, which he generously handed over to Raquel. He’s now ready for all the Heat games.

Margo Alvarez won a tv in a raffle drawing. My friend Vinnie and I entered the drawing, too, not realizing you had to pay for tickets, we just filled in the forms and threw them in the jar. Luckily we didn’t win, that could have been embarrassing. One college student asked me how many times I was going to enter, as she also filled in a form, we all decided to not be greedy and we just put one slip each in the jar. Not that we won, but it would have been awkward if they kept pulling out slips of paper with all of our names on them. I was going to give her the tv if I won. That would have even been more embarrassing, having to take the tv back because we didn’t actually purchase raffle tickets. So we were all thrilled when Margo won.

PS, we found out that it was free to enter the drawing for the tv, so nevermind.
The Grove is party central for World Cup games

Coconut Grove’s bars and restaurants have been packed for almost every World Cup game this past 30 days. Moreso for certain teams, like the US and Holland at The Grove Spot, also known as “Holland House,” during the games. But almost every game drew a crowd.

For the final game between Holland and Spain, the fans packed every place in town.

While most of the fans at The Grove Spot were cheering for Holland, there were a few who wore red and secretly cheered Spain on, who of course won in the end.

Michelle Niemeyer’s allegiance was no secret Sunday, she wore a Spain t-shirt at Holland House and cheered loudly when Spain scored, but ironically, in the sea of orange, a lot of people cheered loudly for Spain. Spain fans in Holland clothing? Armando Paz was for Holland, he managed to find an orange Reese’s t-shirt to wear.

Many of the Holland fans wore UM or Florida State shirts — anything orange, they could find and not only were Reese’s for the Dutch, so were the M&M’s.

In the end, after 122 minutes, Spain won the game, the celebration began and Spain’s fans took to the streets. This group is celebrating Spain on Commodore Plaza, under George’s French flags! One question: Where are all these people on a regular weekend? It would be fantastic if they all came out every weekend and partied in the Grove bars and restaurants like they do during the World Cup games.

Join us for the 2010 World Cup Contest at the Grove Spot

Grand Prize winner will win a EZ Netbook Computer

Answer the 4 questions for each game – First Team to Score / Score at the half/ Final score/ Game MVP

Rules of the Contest:
Each person needs to be present for the viewing of the games at The Grove Spot to play. (Contest forms will be available at half an hour prior to the start of each game at the back bar, please ask the bartender for your contest form.

The contest form must be completed by half time, or before the first team to score occurs.

All contest forms must be given to the bartender in order to be eligible to play, No Exceptions.

All correct contest predictions per game will be tallied on the score board at the end of each game.

The Winner will be the most knowledgable person wih the most correct predictions, in case of a tie the winner will be decided by answering one correct World Cup trivia question.

All eligible players must be present at the final game on July 11, 2010 to qualify for the grand prize.