Shot In The Dark: Taking On All Comers

August 22, 2006

Taking On All Comers

Chad the Elder notes that Friday is the big day - the biennial Trivia Smackdown:

A mere five days remain unil the Ultimate Trivia Showdown II: Ralphie's Revenge event takes place at Keegan's Irish Pub in Minneapolis. And a mere two places remain for teams to participate. If you don't want to be left on the sidelines, you need to act quickly. Send me an e-mail (rightwinger23@hotmail.com) with the name of your team and the four players participating.

It's $100 a team - $25 per playa, if you prefer. It's for a great cause, of course - proceeds go to Soldiers Angels.

I'll be playing on a team with Captain Ed, Mike from St. Paul (a Jeopardy veteran) and the inimitable Inge. I need to mention (since neither Hugh nor Chad will) that Ed and I are the defending champions of this series; we took the 2004 title (along with then-teammates Chumley Wonderbar and Kevin Cash) over Hewitt and Michael Medved.

Contact Chad if you want one of the last two team (eight player) availabilities. And if you don't want to play, at least stop by, have a drink, meet Hugh and the rest of the crowd, and drop a buck or two off for Soldiers' Angels.

Hope to see you there!

Posted by Mitch at August 22, 2006 07:14 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Technically Mitch, while your team did best my squad and Hugh's, you did not win the competition that night, so to call yourselves the defending champions is highly inaccurate.

Posted by: the elder at August 22, 2006 09:23 AM

Er...we DID win, though!

I mean, we got the most questions right...right?

Or is this some freaky-deaky Hockey rule that I'm not aware of where "having the most points at the end of regulation" doesn't mean "win"?

Posted by: mitch at August 22, 2006 10:01 AM

it doesn't truly matter, since you're both going down...

Posted by: rew at August 22, 2006 12:23 PM

No Mitch, the team made up of Atomizer's mother, father, and sister, and Mike Nelson's wife won. You got more right than us, but not them.

Posted by: the elder at August 22, 2006 12:51 PM

El-dar,

Doh. That's right.

Cool!

That means we have both bragging rights AND underdog cred!

This is getting better and better!

Posted by: mitch at August 22, 2006 12:55 PM

We learned a valuable lesson from that loss. It's better to have Atomizer's mom than Atomizer and it's better to have Mike Nelson's wife than Mike Nelson.

Posted by: the elder at August 22, 2006 03:08 PM

When I told my mother that you had unceremoniously siezed the title of Trivia Champion from her, she was not too pleased.

Do not wantonly incur the wrath of the Atomizer clan again before this Friday. For if you do...death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth.

Posted by: Atomizer at August 22, 2006 11:52 PM