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I should not be here tonight.  My leg still feels like someone injected me with a can of Fix-A-Flat.  Yet while I’m aching, I have to gtet back to some semblance of normalcy. And “normalcy” means competitive team trivia. Playing team trivia has gotten me through various humps and valleys in my life, and the…

Before I stat with this week’s Trivia League recap, I want to mention something. Last Tuesday, my friend Matt and I checked out a different trivia game over in Niskayuna at the Tilted Kilt pub.  This trivia game was associated with the World Tavern Trivia company – the same company for whom I played on…

Let’s fix a couple of things. First off, I mis-labeled one of the teams, who just changed their name to “New Phone Who Dis?”  Apparently it’s a reference to a sketch from the FXX comedy series You’re The Worst, which I tried to watch for a few episodes and just gave up.  Wasn’t as funny…

This year, in addition to my regular trivia runs, I’ve also had fun as a “hired hand” for other teams.  Earlier this year, I helped the Stir Crazy trivia team claim second place overall in the World Tavern Trivia Championships, and last night my friend Kat Brown asked if I would return to the Trinity…

No, you didn’t miss an update.  I didn’t think my schedule would allow me to recap the entire twelve-week trivia tournament, so I didn’t bother to recap Game 1. And when I arrived at Graney’s Stout, I had players from at least three different trivia teams say to me, “Where was the blog last week? …

This is it.  The final week. The top four teams, in terms of cumulative aggregate point totals, will receive prize money. After several weeks of being stuck in fifth place, I clawed my way up to fourth place, with a scant 29-point lead over the trivia team Nacho Punch. As for the other teams, Dan…

Well, this wasn’t planned.  Not by a longshot. Apparently I miscounted the number of weeks in this trivia league.  I was so used to the Elbo Room’s 12-week tournaments (that often lasted 16 weeks or more), that I thought the Graney’s Stout Summer Trivia League was a 12-week affair. Nope.  It’s thirteen weeks, and the…

Two weeks left … and I’m still within shouting distance of the dreaded cut line. I know I’m not going to catch the top three teams – the Dans, the Woo Hoos and the Fist – but there’s still an outside shot of catching Nacho Punch. But what if I don’t?  What if I finish…

I’ve got three weeks to go and over 120 points to gain. This is what happens when you’re in fifth place in a trivia league and the final prize money goes to the top four squads. With that in mind, I had to change my strategy and change it quickly. Throw all caution to the…