Recap - the second-to-last week

Wednesday, Nov. 19 - the second-to-last trivia round for this semester. Sigh.
Attendance: Janelle, Craig, Natalie, Kari, Cindy, Steve, Andrea, Travis.

Victory beer won: One measly pitcher.
Charity beer: not even applicable. Sigh.
Weather: highly shitty.
Vehicle used by Craig: a car. That's how shitty the roads were. I mean, I guess you could have tried to ride a bike on them, but you would have looked like a quarterback warming up on the sidelines on his exer-cycle - not exactly travelling anywhere.
Round turnover speed: decent.
Trash talk: limited.
Tension: ramping up, baby!

This was a night of more lessons for the Travisites. Travisians? Travisoids? Anyway, we did rock the music theme round, which once again is the king of rounds. But themes got us in trouble: we assumed we had detected a theme in one of the trivia rounds, but sadly, there was none. So, influenced by our incorrect assumption that there was a Scotch theme to the answers, we did things like choose Sean Connery over Roger Moore as the most frequent Bond. Darnit. Consequently, we got absolutely murdered on that round - two big points. I think we did better handing in random song guesses and then leaving. In our defence, the winning score was only six, but still.

This does, though, lead me to remind everyone that there has been a theme throughout the trivia season: grade 3 astronomy, airplanes, and James Bond. My advice is to brush up on those topics before next week. Of course, I will be conspicuously absent...

Other lessons learned:
-Never let Cindy play with your phone, or she might accidentally dial your parents.
-Always vet the answers. If not, Kari will write down the wrong song title or artist every time.
-Always trust your instincts. If not, Craig will have a hunch about the correct answer but let us write something asinine instead.
- They don't always trick us with the last song of the last round; sometimes it is exactly what you think it is, and not a parody song. That said, Weird Al owes us some serious royalties if he ever makes a Village People parody titled "SPCA."
-When Craig says he's leaving, don't worry. He's coming back. I think his absence lasted exactly two questions.

My highlight of the night: Alexis' reaction when she beat the bar. There was some gleeful giggling, clapping, and running around with her arms waving overhead. I believe she told the bar to "buy your own drinks, muthafuckas." The joys of being a university bar manager!

So here are the standings, teetering dangerously close to us not winning. Remember, even though we're pretty much in for the keg party, it's all or nothing for the top spot. Frank place is not first place! Good luck out there!

For the night:

6. Lady Godiva - 47.5
5. Bi-Polar Bears - 48.5
4. Bite the pillow, etc. - 49
3. TEAM TRAVIS - 50
2. Plastered Bastards - 51.5
1. Team spousal abuse - 52

Overall:

6. Lady Godiva - 425
5. Broad Street Brawlers - 452
4. Plastered Bastards -462.5
3. Team feminism - 500
2. TEAM TRAVIS - 507
1. Bi-Polar Bears - 508

You know what this means, folks: we're in need of some usurpage. We need to pull out some serious trivia power next week to beat the always-strong Bi-Polars.

Go, team! See you at the kegger.