Trivia: Semi Finals

If you don't know, every Thursday night at 9, some friends and I get together and play a live trivia game. Well, apparently we have been kicking a ton of ass at this because we made to the semi finals in Grapevine last Sunday night.

Usually, the game is played by the following rules and will last about 2 hours:

1. Each game consists of six rounds, with one half time question and one final question.

2. Each round consists of three questions. The categories for the three questions are announced at the beginning of each round.

3. Teams are allotted three point values to use each round. Once you have assigned that value to an answer, you cannot use it again for that round. The point values for rounds one through three are 2, 4, and 6 (maximum score of 12 points per round). The values for rounds four through six are 5, 7 and 9 (maximum score of 21 points per round).

4. Your team may have as many players as you want.

5. You are allowed the length of one song to turn in your written answer and point value. An additional song may be allowed for half-time and final questions.

6. Once you have turned in your answer, you may not re-submit another answer.

7. Teams do not lose points for wrong answers, with the exception of the final question.

8. A team may wager up to 20 points on the final question. If your answer is correct, your team is awarded the amount of points wagered. If your answer is incorrect, those points are deducted from your score.

9. Some rounds include bonus questions or opportunities for additional points.

During the semi finals round, they switch things up a bit. Instead of 6 rounds per game, there are now 8 rounds. That may not sound like a big deal but it makes the game noticeable longer. And you can only have 5 people max per team. Since we had 10 people, we had to branch out and make 2 teams, both called Todd Scott after one of the member's fake id from high school.

The trivia employees will ask all kinds of questions ranging from science to pop culture events to food. It is basically a live, much cooler version of trivial pursuit.

The good thing is that both of the Todd Scott teams qualified to be in the finals which will be in a couple of weeks. In order to make it to the finals, you have to be in the top 15 teams of the night. My teams was 8th place and the other Todd Scott came in 3rd.

I will let you know if we place at the finals place 1st place wins 5 grand. So we are either going to win or rob the 1st place team. Either way, we will be leaving with something.