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(They lost - “boo hiss” as Alex Trebek would say.) The full team converged on Pizzeria Due for a fantastic warmup game written by George, and then headed to dinner at Safehouse, an incredibly fun spy-themed restaurant. On Saturday, Jason and I had breakfast together while Don & Brian headed to Fadó to watch Don’s beloved Norwich City F.C. We’d been doing this all day, actually - it’s a warmup method that offers the added challenge of keeping in mind that every question really starts with “As of 1981…” Whew.Īfter a while we found our way to the much quieter 25 Degrees, where we quizzed each other with old Trivial Pursuit cards. And let me also throw some love to the very kind manager who took pity on me after I realized that I’d taken out my ID to show with my boarding pass at the airport, stuffed it into my luggage, and left it in Bronzeville, a 40 minute Lyft ride away.
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On top of that, the whole place is stuffed with arcade games and pinball machines set to free play mode. It was glitchy, crashy, and had some design flaws - felt very much like a beta - but also tons of fun when it was working.Īfter that, most of the team converged on a cool arcade bar called Headquarters, where an amazing listener of Brian’s podcasts not only bought appetizers for the whole gathering, but paid for our bar tabs too! WOW. Teammate Brian set up Playshow Jeopardy via his Apple TV, which replays actual Jeopardy! episodes and lets players buzz in via their phones and speak the answers (uh, questions) into the phone itself. After our flights got in on Friday, we headed to an airbnb in Bronzeville where most of the team was staying. There was plenty of fun to be had before Geek Bowl too. Our shirts say, “Are You There Godzilla? It’s Me, Mothra” - possibly my favorite Mothra name ever but one we haven’t used yet at Geek Bowl because people keep thinking of brilliant city-themed ones. Dear readers, I give you the 2020 Mothra team, “When You’re Good To Mothra, Mothra’s Good To You”, wearing blue ribbons in honor of Larry: For myself, Geek Bowl 14 contained both my happiest moment of any Geek Bowl and my most disappointing - details about both in the answers post. In any case, we had a blast and placed very respectably, considering how stacked with talent Geek Bowl has become. It doesn’t really matter since that point wouldn’t have gotten us into the money, but it is confusing. (I think it’s high time Geeks Who Drink spread that prize pool out a bit more, but more about that later.)Īlso, by my count we scored 93 points, but the final tally showed us at 92. We ended up placing 13th out of 231 teams, which was amazing but not amazing enough to be in the money winners, since prizes only go to the top 5 teams.
On that count, Jason was a fantastic addition, and was super fun to hang out with on the rest of the trip too. All you can do is occupy the void they left and hope that the new team approaches the synergy and skill of the last one. You can’t really replace someone on a trivia team. He’s a great teammate, which is the number one thing we were looking for, even above covering any missing pieces from our knowledge domains.
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Prior to that he watched a movie a day for two months. Like, in March he’s learning one new pop music artist a day.
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This was hard news, and precipitated a whole lot of Mothra discussion about how to fill the gap. Larry Ferguson, who had been a member of my Geek Bowl team for all 10 years I’d participated in the event, was unable to join us in Chicago this year for medical reasons.
We also had a bit of team tumult this year. Our team name was a Chicago parody too, albeit a different Chicago: “When You’re Good To Mothra, Mothra’s Good To You”. This year’s Geek Bowl was in Chicago, hence my attempt at a Chicago parody up there. Saturday! With the Geeks! I think it was the seventh of March! Actually, scratch that, I know 100% it was the seventh of March - put that down and let’s move on to the next question.