Nine weeks ago, I entered a trivia tournament at Graney’s Stout. The grand prize offered at the end of the tournament were four tickets to a Jets-Dolphins game at the former Joe Robbie Stadium, along with two nights’ hotel accommodations. Every time a team won that week’s trivia competition, they would receive some raffle tickets.…
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An Offer Against the Chance
Last May, I was in the middle of planning a Times Union Community Bloggers’ golf tournament, when I received a Twitter message that offered me a very interesting and intriguing choice. The message was from a casting director, who was looking for contestants to participate in a pilot episode of a potential new game show.…
Read MoreThe Log and the Chance
It’s Sunday, August 5, and I’m riding the train down to New York City for another try with The Chance. Another audition. Only this time, I’m not traveling alone. For the first time since I started auditioning for this show, I’m actually auditioning with someone. And would you believe it’s everybody’s favorite blog-snark, D357? That…
Read More“You should give the tickets to me.”
The other day, I was talking with an acquaintance about my latest trivia competition. I’m currently playing in a nine-week tournament at Graney’s Stout, with the grand prize being four Jets-Dolphins NFL tickets and two nights’ lodgings at a Miami Beach hotel. “Sounds like a really tough tournament,” he said to me. “It is,” I…
Read MoreGraney’s Stout Trivia: If 9 Were 6
The fun part about playing competitive team trivia in the Capital District is that you can win some great stuff. And by “great stuff,” I mean your could snag anything from restaurant gift certificates to cash money. And in some instances, you can win some big-ticket items – and when I say “big ticket items,”…
Read MoreBlue lines and placards
I’ve recently started playing – well, the proper term is WINNING BIG – at the Wednesday night trivia game at Graney’s Stout. I’m participating in a 9-week tournament, in which teams have a chance to score four Jets-at-Dolphins football tickets, plus two nights of hotel accommodations in Miami. No airfare, though – I’ll have to…
Read MoreThe Results of Summer Bowl III
It’s Sunday morning, and I’m trying to keep my mind focused. Took the cameras out for some early morning shooting. Went grocery shopping. Bought some N-gauge train tracks. I’ll explain the N-gauge train tracks in another blog post. Now it’s time to head over to Recovery Sports Bar and Grille in Troy, site of this…
Read MoreRecursion of the Chance
The minute I received my seventh “postcard o’ doom” from The Chance, telling me I wasn’t worthy of participation, I immediately taped it on the wall with the other six rejections, then went to set up another appointment. Another trip to New York City. Another recursion back to try again, to re-audition, to re-apply, to…
Read MoreSummer Bowl III is coming
It’s the midyear championships of professional team trivia in the Capital District. On Sunday, July 15, the weekend before the Saratoga flat track opens for its summer season, the top trivia teams tackle tough topics and try to trounce their competition in the Summer Bowl. This year’s event, which will be held at Troy’s Recovery…
Read MoreResumption of the Chance
And it begins anew. My annual pas de deux with an unrequited dream, a symbiotic synthesis of singular surge. The Chance. How long have I tried to capture the attention of The Chance? Longer than I care to remember. So long, in fact, that I still dare not mention its name, only to reference it…
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