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Nothing like waking up on Sunday morning in Boston … driving through nasty roads and snowy terrain to get back to the 518 … and competing in my second consecutive trivia cham0pionship competition. And there were some wins … and losses … in my effort to claim the first-ever Capital District Trivia Unification Tournament, a…

It’s Saturday morning, and I’m waking up in Boston. I’ve been recruited by the Stir Crazy trivia squad – the team who won the 2017 World Tavern Trivia Championships – to participate in Geek Bowl XII in Boston. I’m game.  Actually, they asked me to play in Geek Bowl XI in Seattle last year, but…

Yesterday was the 14th annual Capital District “Trivia Bowl,” one of five different championship trivia tournaments on my 2018 schedule.  Guess you could call it a different type of “Competition Season” for me. Nearly forty teams arrived at Wolf’s 1-11 for the big event.  For my team, I had a grouping of various players from…

This Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Wolf’s 1-11 in Colonie, the fourteenth annual Trivial Bowl will commence. Wow.  Has it been that many Trivia Bowls? Yeah, it kinda has. Background. I’ve participated in thirteen of the fourteen Trivia Bowls, starting with Trivia Bowl II where I participated as a guest on the Tres Hombres squad. …

Some background. A few months ago, the Capital District’s bar and tavern trivia companies put together a competition which would crown an overall trivia champion.  The Trivia Unification Tournament, if you will.  Teams needed to play for at least twelve weeks in their respective locations, and the top team from each venue – as well…

Every three months or so, the Wednesday night trivia game at Rivers Casino has a $1,000 winner take all night.  To qualify for that night, you have to have played enough Wednesday night contests at the casino to be eligible. My one-man Street Academy trivia team has done so.  And, in accumulating more points in…

Going into the next few weeks, I’ll be participating in several championship trivia tournaments.  Hopefully I will do well. The first championship tournament is next Wednesday, when Rivers Casino in Schenectady is hosting their $1,000 trivia championship.  I’ve played the majority of the weeks necessary to qualify for this event, and in fact, going into…

Okay, I’m ready for Wednesday’s trivia event.  I’m going to arrive in plenty of time, I’m going to get some food to eat when I’m playing, and I’m planning on running the table. Got to Rivers Casino in plenty of time. Ordered some food. And when I arrived at the Van Slyck Restaurant, home of…

I gotta hurry.   I’m running late.  And the trivia host, Damon, starts a 7:00 p.m. game at 7:00 p.m. on the nose. Pulled into Rivers Casino’s parking garage.  Quickly handed off my coat to Betsy the coat check lady, and got to Van Slyck Bar inside the casino – and made the game with two…