And, just like that, another year of trivia is in the books. Although we slipped slightly this year from fifth place to sixth, I think that it was a very successful year once again, and I hope everyone had lots of fun. The best compliment we received in a long time was when a group of Plantz kids expressed surprise at the awards ceremony that we aren’t a much larger team. Considering the size and experience advantage that the teams that finish ahead of us have, I personally think we should be quite proud to finish in sixth place while simultaneously enjoying ourselves the way that we do. It sounds like everyone is excited about returning next year, so I think it’s safe to say that Too Much Trivia in the Pants will return for a twelfth consecutive year in 2009.
I want to thank Connemara and Ben for hosting us this year. Our team wouldn’t be able to carry on from year to year without the generosity of our hosts in allowing the team to overrun their domicile for a weekend, and they did a great job of hosting us, as have all of our hosts over the past eleven years.
I want to thank everyone who provided food and beverage to the team this year, be they sponsors, team members, mothers, visitors, friends, or casual observers. Everyone really came through this year, and we didn’t have to make any mid-weekend food runs, which always makes for a better weekend.
I want to thank all of our team members, whether they participated from the War Room or afar; whether they found answers, called in answers, answered phones down at the studio, or participated in the spirit, revelry, and camaraderie of the team; and whether they stayed all weekend or were only able to make a short, cameo appearance. Everyone’s assistance is appreciated and cherished: thank you, thank you, thank you.
I want to thank the Trivia Masters for putting together another successful weekend of trivia. I know you’re still dealing with the growing pains of adjusting to life on the Internet, but you’re making good strides. I also want to plea with next year’s Trivia Masters to relax and enjoy themselves a little more. Too often in recent years—especially this year—you seem to be taking trivia a little too seriously and forgetting the Trivia Credo: “Trivia is meant to be entertainment and should be perceived solely in that light.” Don’t get angry about teams having fun, and, most of all, don’t get so angry over phone jamming. (Not that we condone jamming, but I think most trivia participants appreciate clever and/or amusing jam team names, so please don’t deny the people their fun.) I think you did a good job this year of being lenient and taking lag time for slow Internet connections into account, and I sincerely hope you keep it up. Also, please take the size of teams into account when requesting phone answerers. We were often sending down a person or two to answer phones while down to only three or four team members playing—there’s no reason why teams with thirty, forty, fifty people cannot sacrifice a person to answer phones at all times if we manage to send people down with only a half-dozen playing.
Finally, this year’s photos have been posted, so I recommend everyone go over to the photos page and check them out.
Thanks once again everyone, and I hope you’ll all be back for trivia again next year.
♥ k.
1 Commentsis Little Chocolate Donuts (The Breakfast of Champions!) and Miller High Life (The Jam-pagne of Beers!). Good thing we're well-stocked with both.
And this image comes up:
Thanks Zak.
There, I said it.
Look at this map:
It points to much more than just Hades, you idiots. Throw out question #317!
We're definitely getting less stupider as the weekend goes on. Wish we could say the same about whoever is operating the sound board down at the studio. (My ears! My ears!)
Matt has us back on the right track by having found this:
We're back up to six people now, including Corey made it here. As if trivia weren't enough of a challenge, Connemara decided to do the Sunday Times crossword puzzle as well. Sheesh.
♥ k.
We're down to just three of us, and I'm on the verge of passing out. We could really use some reinforcements right about now. These questions aren't doing any favors in helping to keep me awake either.
♥ k.
It started with 2Girls1Cup, and now the search is on for Shaved Wookie Porn....
We have people again! Yay! Now we're starting to get our mojo back....
Well, we totally tanked nerd hour.
Boo! We didn't get a lot of points.
Yay! We're not as big of nerds as we thought!
Vegan farts stink.
So, we're currently in 5th place, which happens to be where we finished last year. Also, we just checked in with our good friends at Team 108 who happen to be in 12th place right now, which also happens to be where they finished last year!
We seem to have crawled our way up to 5th place according to the latest score sheet! Awesome!
The natives have now figured out how to post. There should be more frequent posts from this point on.
If listening to Prince is supposed to be annoying enough to get us to send more phone answers, then we might not send anybody the rest of the contest. Go Chanhassen!
(Or, as Ben said, "I didn't pull an all-nighter to listen to Prince.")
Sorry everyone about the comments not working, but I think they should be working now. My apologies for the error.
♥ k.
We're on a hot streak again and having fun again ... and there's only three of us.
The questions this year pretty much suck, and I'm not having any fun. I wasted a week of vacation on this?
iamb, trochee, anapest, and dactyl -- thank you Mr. Lee's ninth grade honors English!
♥ k.
We totally missed questions 36 and 37 because our iTunes got messed up. Oops. Hope they weren't gimmes....
And Buck Angel makes his first appearance in the War Room.
There's my bachelor's degree in German coming in handy....
♥ k.
We didn't get question number 15; there goes our streak.
