I had counted this item as undoable at this point in the year, but then... magic. Victors Valiant (a.k.a. Carl Jr. a.k.a. One Man Army a.k.a. Kitten Mittons a.k.a. Spooning Leads to Forking a.k.a. Francisco) won yet another trivia tournament at Waterhouse and qualified for the Whaddayaknow Team Trivia Tournament of Champions II - The Sequel at Joe's on Weed on Dec 3, 2011.
Side note: Our first Tournament of Champions showing was less than great. In fact, we sucked. It was miserable.
Because of that, we weren't expecting much of take 2.
We kinda tanked the first round, only getting 2 questions right out of 6.
We did well in the picture round; thankfully we have some music experts.
We then did pretty well in the 3rd round but bet some big bucks on some questions we got wrong.
We did really well in the ID round, where we listed things that were a color + a living thing.
Zann knew the escalating clues question right away but we waited for the 2nd clue instead of submitting our answer right away, so we only got 15 of 20 points.
Then Trivia Dan read the standings before going into the final 2 questions. I was pretty sure he just forgot about us, and I was slightly offended after all of the lovely years and times we've spent with Dan. But, no, he didn't forget us. We were tied for first.
Huh.
The first final question was about geography. We argued a bit. The trivia people argued a bit. Teams were not happy with the question. There was a lot of discussion about whether or not you could drive to Mexico and Canada from a couple states, especially Michigan, which has a water border, so it doesn't really border Canada but you can drive to Canada from Michigan.
Anyways, we got it right. 12 points.
The next question was trickier. Naming 5 movies. Exactly. No extra guesses. We decided to let the other teams get both questions right to beat us. It was very scary.
It was worse when Dan read the answers and we would have gotten it right.
He then read the top 12. We knew we were at least top 8. He also mentioned there was a tie in the top 12.
At that point, I assumed we tied the other 1st place team for 2nd or 3rd.
Nope.
We tied for 1st.
The tie breaker was the team that got the year closest to the year of Marlon Brando's birth.
Zann & Ditmar both guessed the same year.
We wrote it down.
Dan then announced that one team had gotten the answer right on with a guess of 1926.
We started to celebrate.
Then Dan said, "No, wait, he was born in 1924."
Then he said, "But the same team was still closest."
That was us!
We won!
$1000 cash!
And we had a lovely time playing drinking games at Sully's.
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