It’s going to be a very tough trivia tournament finals.
Why?
Because last night at the “Catch the Mania” trivia game at the Ruck, it seemed that no matter how well my Nemesis team of Donna, Dylan, Matt and myself did – we hit perfect tens in three categories – so too did the two teams ahead of us, More Cowbell and Unwed Fathers.
We came in third place last night, good enough to earn us some barware prizes and cementing our hold on an automatic bid for the finals.
But something happened last night – something that truly reinforced our commitment to the game of competitive team trivia.
During the night, the bar hosted a promotional night for Southern Comfort beverages. Two sylph-like promotional models handed us free Southern Comfort knit caps and T-shirts, and asked us if we were enjoying the trivia game that night.
We replied that we were. Heck, at that moment we were only a point behind the Cowbells and the Unweds, and were putting every other trivia team in our rear view mirrors. “You should play trivia sometime,” I said. “It’s fun.”
“Oh, we’re not that good at trivia,” said one of the promotional models. “It’s just a game.”
Wow. Just a game, she said.
This coming from a combined trivia team that has participated in trivia competitions going all the way back to when there was a Tuesday night game at Hooters in Crossgates Mall and 35 teams showed up each week. Heck, Matt was playing at Hooters long before I ever discovered the competitive team trivia world.
This isn’t “just a game.” Trivia is our chance to enjoy a friendly rivalry with other like-minded trivia experts. It’s our chance to talk smack, our chance to be part of something fun and entertaining and healthy. We celebrate the victories in the game; we celebrate the victories in each others’ lives. And no matter how much dirt we throw at each other during the game, I know that if anything terrible or tragic happened to one of us… there would be at least ten other trivia players offering assistance or comfort.
This isn’t “just a game.”
This is our chance to shine.
And I don’t care what any Southern Comfort girl happens to say about it.
So there.
Chuck The Writer 
oh.. my soda drinkinng days at Hooters….Remember watching Torii Hunter rob Barry Bonds of a homerun in the MLB ’02 All-star game at a trivia night there. And i still boo Lynch’s Mob. They were street academy before street academy was.
Trivia can be your fun night out at the bar with friends any other week than this. Last week of Elbo Room trivia. Trivia Bowl. A Super Bowl game i’m actually looking forward to.
And feel free to recruit Trivia Bowl ringers from our Nemesis squad. My Woo Hoo team has the only Nemesis player that has had us win recently, George.
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