As we all should know by now, tonight marks the 100th Dark Horse Quizo, an event commemorated by the phrase (as coined by Alias Pseudonym Undercover):
"It's Going To Be Great; Don't Tell Your Friends."
Let me tell you, I went back and forth for a long time on whether to use a comma or a semicolon there. I'm a big fan of the semicolon. When used properly it allows for the sorts of long, hideously complex sentences that we all know I am a large fan of. But in a Quizo slogan? There was a fierce internal debate about this one, but I eventually decided that strict grammatical accuracy had to win out over aesthetics.
What's on tap for tonight, then?
Well, in a new effort on my part to achieve if not 100% honesty than at least 80 or 85%, I have to say that I'm not entirely sure what just yet. The one thing I am sure of is that tonight's money round will be at the Special Quizo Rate of $10 a team, if for no other reason than to give the winning team a little more money. Also, after the fiasco last week of Das Boot and Sunshine Happy Face -
Side note, seriously, RC and crew, show up with that name again and MONDO BAD SHIT is gonna happen that will make the William McKinley thing look like a walk in the park -
After the money round fiasco last week of those two teams betting each other 20 bucks that they would win and then getting trounced by a team led by a friend of mine who was a Quizo first-timer and who I am not entirely certain has more than a sixth-grade education (he's from Florida), I'm tempted to put forth... not so much a "rule," necessarily, as a "strong suggestion" that "if you don't follow your team will almost certainly lose" that if you're going to make side bets on the money round you have to toss that money into the pot to make it interesting for everyone. Surely, if you think you're good enough to bet Team X that you're going to win you must think you're good enough to put that money up for grabs for everyone.
It is just as sure that by now everyone realizes that Quizo is not so much a trivia game as it is a chance for me to teach certain people a little humility. And by "a little" I mean "any." And by "certain people" I mean "Das Boot." And by "Das Boot" I mean "Fletcher."
So, yes, tonight will feature a $10 money round and some as-yet-undetermined other prize offerings. I don't know if tonight will be as well-attended as the Two-Year Anniversary Quizo, but then again the anniversary Quizo wasn't as well-attended as the game two weeks ago when we had 18 freaking teams, so who can guess at these things anymore? I would still recommend an early arrival, though.
Also be aware, for those of us who are Quizo beginners, that the Quizo website - http://quizo.blogspot.com - has the full text of this e-mail every week, along with a few links that, if carefully perused, are usually guaranteed to give you anywhere from one to four answers in a given week. So there's that.
Final note: driving home from the shore last night I stopped at a 7-11 (a non-Kwik-E-Mart 7-11, since apparently small towns in Central New Jersey don't rate this kind of promotion) for a drink, and after I paid for it the guy behind the counter handed me my change and said - I am not making this up - "have a day."
I thought, "how existential of him," then proceeded to spend most of the drive home trying very hard not to hit the VAST HORDES OF DEER that infest Routes 530 and 70. Cause that's, you know, fun.
JLK
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Your Ultra Amazing Super Special Muy Importante Second Anniversary Quizo Update
No amusing anecdotes or anything this week. Just the important info about what the plan is for tomorrow night. And I'm even getting it out to people a day early in case you need to make plans. Because, deep down, I'm a giver. I'M A GIVER! SAY IT!
After consulting with James this morning - the less said about this morning the better - we are, in fact, going to be in the main bar (i.e. where we normally are). The golf outing people are going to be in the restaurant and spill over into the rigger bar. So that's nice.
The drink special will be $3 drafts. All drafts. So that's nice (I guess).
The prizes for tomorrow night's Special 2nd Anniversary Quizo will be a $100 gift certificate for first place and $50 for second. So that's REALLY nice.
I'm also going to see if I can't toss something interesting in for the money round, but I can't promise anything on that score. That may be nice, but it may not. The only way to find out is to show up.
As for showing up, I'm thinking you probably want to get there around 8. This way everyone who wants to come should get seats/tables/etc, as if everyone who has expressed interest in coming tomorrow shows up we'll have quite the crowd. I'm still planning on starting at the normal time, although hopefully we won't be there until 11(!) again. Bear in mind that anniversary Quizo aside the team limit is still 6 (six)(VI)(seises)(six)(sechs)(sei). If you roll up at 8:50 and can't get a seat... well, I can't PROMISE I won't point at you and laugh, but I can promise I'll at least try not to.
See you all tomorrow night, then.
JLK
After consulting with James this morning - the less said about this morning the better - we are, in fact, going to be in the main bar (i.e. where we normally are). The golf outing people are going to be in the restaurant and spill over into the rigger bar. So that's nice.
The drink special will be $3 drafts. All drafts. So that's nice (I guess).
The prizes for tomorrow night's Special 2nd Anniversary Quizo will be a $100 gift certificate for first place and $50 for second. So that's REALLY nice.
I'm also going to see if I can't toss something interesting in for the money round, but I can't promise anything on that score. That may be nice, but it may not. The only way to find out is to show up.
As for showing up, I'm thinking you probably want to get there around 8. This way everyone who wants to come should get seats/tables/etc, as if everyone who has expressed interest in coming tomorrow shows up we'll have quite the crowd. I'm still planning on starting at the normal time, although hopefully we won't be there until 11(!) again. Bear in mind that anniversary Quizo aside the team limit is still 6 (six)(VI)(seises)(six)(sechs)(sei). If you roll up at 8:50 and can't get a seat... well, I can't PROMISE I won't point at you and laugh, but I can promise I'll at least try not to.
See you all tomorrow night, then.
JLK
Monday, September 25, 2006
I thought I'd devote a couple minutes to talk about some things that are going on with the game in general, to get a sense of folks' thoughts on certain things.
A couple people have asked me over the last three weeks when we were going to have another tournament. I'm all for the idea of doing it again, but I'm exploring the idea of an alternative format this time. There area couple options here:
1) We go back to the old way (i.e. you win to get a spot in the finals, and that's all).
2) We do it World Cup style, with group stages and all. This sounds prohibitively complicated, but might be interesting.
3) Single elimination with seeded pairings, a la the NCAA tournament.
4) The format a lot of bar poker tournaments use. Basically, how this works is you play every week (or so). If you win you still get a spot in the finals, but you can also qualify for the finals by accumulating points every week. Like, first place is 10 points, second 8, third 6, and so on (with whatever numbers are appropriate) and at the end every team with X or more points also qualifies.
I'm up for whatever people like, or if someone has some other idea I'm all for that.
Next up is the new wrinkle in the overall game, whereby any team that wins three weeks in a row will get to choose a speed round topic. There are a couple things to remember about this.
For starters, it must be substantially the same team that wins. One or two changes here and there are okay, but I would say that you need to have more than 50% of the same people on every team that wins. If you bring 5 different friends every week, no dice.
Second, your choice of speed round topic must still pass muster with me as not ridiculous. You all know how the speed rounds generally go, and I've tried to keep them from being obscenely esoteric. Those are your guidelines, should you choose to follow them. I'm never going to say "you can't do that, pick something else." I will accept any topic.
Remember that you ARE making a deal with the devil here, though. If you DO attempt to choose something stupid and absurd (like, say, I don't know, "shoe designers") you may find that your choice will backfire on you in unexpected and terrible ways...
JLK
A couple people have asked me over the last three weeks when we were going to have another tournament. I'm all for the idea of doing it again, but I'm exploring the idea of an alternative format this time. There area couple options here:
1) We go back to the old way (i.e. you win to get a spot in the finals, and that's all).
2) We do it World Cup style, with group stages and all. This sounds prohibitively complicated, but might be interesting.
3) Single elimination with seeded pairings, a la the NCAA tournament.
4) The format a lot of bar poker tournaments use. Basically, how this works is you play every week (or so). If you win you still get a spot in the finals, but you can also qualify for the finals by accumulating points every week. Like, first place is 10 points, second 8, third 6, and so on (with whatever numbers are appropriate) and at the end every team with X or more points also qualifies.
I'm up for whatever people like, or if someone has some other idea I'm all for that.
Next up is the new wrinkle in the overall game, whereby any team that wins three weeks in a row will get to choose a speed round topic. There are a couple things to remember about this.
For starters, it must be substantially the same team that wins. One or two changes here and there are okay, but I would say that you need to have more than 50% of the same people on every team that wins. If you bring 5 different friends every week, no dice.
Second, your choice of speed round topic must still pass muster with me as not ridiculous. You all know how the speed rounds generally go, and I've tried to keep them from being obscenely esoteric. Those are your guidelines, should you choose to follow them. I'm never going to say "you can't do that, pick something else." I will accept any topic.
Remember that you ARE making a deal with the devil here, though. If you DO attempt to choose something stupid and absurd (like, say, I don't know, "shoe designers") you may find that your choice will backfire on you in unexpected and terrible ways...
JLK
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Well, we finally have something approaching a working website again, since my old webmaster appears to have completely written off getting the old site updated.
This site accomplishes mutliple purposes:
1) I can now start putting back up the old Quizo Recaps that at least two people actually enjoyed.
2) People who are unable to get the Quizo e-mail at work (for whatever reason) can now check out this site on Mondays and get the question hints they need.
3) We can have a somewhat-centralized place for information about the game. Okay, time and place at the top... yep, that's that. And I guess I could put up some other stuff.
And, if we're ESPECIALLY lucky, the commenting feature will work in a way remotely like what it's supposed to, so we can have some interactivity.
If you are of such a persuasion, this site is syndicated through an RSS feed that you can plug into your newsreader and know the very instant the updates go through. You should be able to just put in the main URL, but if you need it the feed URL is
http://quizo.blogspot.com/atom.xml
We now return to our regularly scheduled... er... stuff.
JLK
This site accomplishes mutliple purposes:
1) I can now start putting back up the old Quizo Recaps that at least two people actually enjoyed.
2) People who are unable to get the Quizo e-mail at work (for whatever reason) can now check out this site on Mondays and get the question hints they need.
3) We can have a somewhat-centralized place for information about the game. Okay, time and place at the top... yep, that's that. And I guess I could put up some other stuff.
And, if we're ESPECIALLY lucky, the commenting feature will work in a way remotely like what it's supposed to, so we can have some interactivity.
If you are of such a persuasion, this site is syndicated through an RSS feed that you can plug into your newsreader and know the very instant the updates go through. You should be able to just put in the main URL, but if you need it the feed URL is
http://quizo.blogspot.com/atom.xml
We now return to our regularly scheduled... er... stuff.
JLK
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