Trivia Finals Featuring Todd Scott

The time has come and Team Todd Scott is going to try and win the coveted title "Masters of Trivia".

For awhile not, at least for 3 months, a group of us have been participating in a Live Trivia Contest almost every Tuesday and Thursday at our local Friday's Restaurant. Its completely free to play and if you come in first, you get $50, second place - $25 , and third will get you $10.

Again, since we have been playing for such a long time, we have accumulated alot of prizes, which are always Friday's Gift Cards, and points that will help us qualify into the semi-finals and hopefully the finals.

Since we have been playing on 2 different days at 2 different locations, we were able to qualify 2 teams of 5 people per team into the semi-finals. Both of the teams breezed through the semi-finals and were on the way to the finals.

The final round, much like the semi-final round, was much different compared to the beginning rounds of the game. Instead of an hour and a half of play time, the game would now last at least 3 hours. The questions were obviously much harder and the half time and final questions were worth 30 points instead of 20 now.

Anther big thing at this event was the known presence of the Trivia Staff. These members would walk around to make sure that no team was using a phone, computer, or any other type of source that could be used for cheating. If you were caught, your team would be disqualified right on the spot. Fortunately, this did not happen to any team.

Since we had 2 teams in the finals, we decided that we need a range of people with different interest and backgrounds so we would have a range of knowledge of different subjects and fields.
The categories for the Trivia finals were history, science, mythology, music, TV, geography and so on. Basically, any question that you think of that may be in Trivia Pursuit, there is a good chance that we will get the same question.

My team consisted of Brian, his fiancee Jess, his dad Allan, and myself. We did pretty damn good during the first half of the competition, we were tied for 3rd place and had a chance to win some cash and other prizes. But the second half would prove that Trivia has a dark side.

When we started the 2nd half, we quickly got a few questions that were worth 7 and 9 points each wrong. It seemed that we would get the questions that were worth the fewest points right and struggle on the questions that were worth the most. The sad thing is that for each question that was missed, someone in the group knew the answer but quickly doubted themselves.

At the end of the competition, our team went from being tied for 3rd place all they way to 9Th place out of 30 total teams that were playing in the game. If we got 8th place, we would have won at least 20 bucks or so. Unfortunately, the other Todd Scott team did not place at all in the top 10. I think they placed at either 12 or 14, I just know that it was an even number.

One thing I wished that would have been handled differently was the location of the Final round. It was on a Sunday night while the NBA Playoffs were going on the the A/C was not working correctly. It was crowded as hell and hot as balls in the place. Other than that, the night was pretty much fun. At least now we know what our competition will be like when we try and make the finals again for next season.

Oh and if you are wondering why our team is called Todd Scott, well then wonder no more. Our friend Matt had a fake id in high school and the named he used was Todd Scott. Now that you know the story behind the name, you will be able to sleep easy and wonder what names your kids are going to use for the fake ids.