Yesterday, I participated in a charity trivia fundraiser with a team from Trinity Alliance of the Capital District. We’ve won this event before, we’ve raised some money for the charity, and this most likely is our last go-round in this tournament. Partially because the very qualified and dedicated director who organized these teams, Kat Brown,…
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The Finals of the 2018 World Tavern Trivia National Championships
It’s Monday morning in Atlantic City. My teammates are bonding over a breakfast lunch at the borgata. Me? I’m walking along a wet, soulless shore, watching the waves crash into the docks. This not me being antisocial, mind you … this is me recharging my mental capacities and refocusing my energies for the next two…
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Day1 of the 2018 World Tavern Trivia Championships
We’re ready. We’re set. And it’s time to go. Once a year, I team up with several trivia competitors from the Hudson Valley, and we compete at the World Tavern Trivia National Championships in Atlantic City. The events are fun, the questions are tough but fair, and we all have a good time. But the…
Read More“The Guys Get Shirts,” 2018 edition
Man, the Pentatonix concert at SPAC last night was absolutely amazing. Totally worth it. Unobstructed seats in the amphitheater, awesome comapny, all is right with the world. That, plus upgrading to the “Privileged Parking” meant that my date and I were able to get out of the parking lot after the concert in less than…
Read MoreThe Results of Summer Bowl 9
Holy Crap, Summer Bowl just snuck up on me! And I already had a full day planned. … it just meant adjusting my schedule as necessary. I was scheduled to drop off my artworks and photos at the New York State Fair, which is a three-hour drive to Syracuse and a three-hour drive back. I…
Read MoreWhen you see “__cke_,” it’s “Hockey,” not “Bucket.”
Remember a month or so ago when I attended a tryout for Wheel of Fortune at the Saratoga Casino Hotel? Yeah. I tried out. I didn’t get picked to play the game on stage, and that was fine. It’s not like they were going to send me an e-mail and ask me to try out…
Read MoreThe difference between wings and tenders
Last night, I played trivia at Rivers Casino. Of late, trivia has been a bit of a struggle – the game was cancelled last week due to a casino poker tournament (but not before most of the trivia teams showed up, not knowing that trivia was cancelled that night), and I’m still getting used to…
Read MoreTime for the Trivia Unification Tournament
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…
Read MoreHow I survived Geek Bowl XII
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…
Read MoreThe results of Trivia Bowl XIV
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…
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