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Resolved.  I need to break my routine.  I can’t keep going home from a trivia league game with zero points.  I have to do better. And this week, I did.  Mostly thanks to a new team that showed up at Graney’s Stout – and basically violated the tenets of tavern trivia. Let me explain. As…

What’s the worst thing you can do in competitive team trivia? Is it mess up on the final three questions, to the point where your quickly-earned lead suddenly drifts into fifth place? Is it to bet all your points and hope that you get the right answer on a category for which you think you…

The funny thing about playing competitive team trivia is … you never know what will trigger the correct answer in a team’s collective brain cells. I explain this because most of the teams in this weeks’ trivia game nailed questions left and right.  Everybody knew that the film that introduced the “Pizza Planet” restaurant to…

The thing with a tavern trivia league tournament is that if you build up enough points and get the final answer right, you can really cement your position. If you get that answer wrong, however… then you have to hope that other teams got the answer wrong as well, or that some teams bet miniscule…

There’s a good rule about using your safety options in competitive team trivia.  Use them if you don’t know something, but hope that you can keep a skip or a double-chance option in your back pocket later in the game. Of course, if you use your options up early in the night … you better…

It’s a new place for the Summer Bowl trivia championship, as over two dozen teams gathered at the new Pearl Street Pub in downtown Albany.  I was there with my Street Academy trivia teammates, and right off the bat everybody knew that this seventh iteration of the summer gathering of Capital District brainsquads would be…

Some housekeeping business first.  Although this is only the fourth week in the 12-week tournament, it’s the last trivia game in the Trivia League schedule before Saturday’s Summer Bowl VII.  Yep, the mid-season championship of trivia is coming up this Saturday at the Pearl Street Pub (the former Jillian’s), show up at 1pm, questions start…

So let’s see.  A few things have come up with regard to this season’s “Trivia League” tournament.  First off, after twelve weeks of play, the top four teams will receive money.  That’s in addition to the money being raffled off during the weekly games.   So there will be, once again, “THE DREADED CUT LINE” at…

Sometimes, when playing competitive bar trivia, you can have a great run of several correct questions in a row. This was NOT one of those nights. A lot of teams this week, myself included, struggled in Week 2 of the twelve-week summer trivial league at Graney’s Stout.  Some of the questions were absolute murder questions…