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A trivia contest you say?! 54 HOURS STRAIGHT YOU SAY? TRIVIA 54: VERY SUPERSTITIOUS  Let's get prepared again for TRIVIA, goons! We're back in action April 12, 13, and 14! IMPORTANT DATES AND TIMES APRIL 8 - 4pm EDT - PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT BEGINS! (scroll down to read more about this part - we need more people to join earlier for this!) APRIL 12 - 7pm EDT - CONTEST BEGINS. APRIL 13 - 7pm EDT - APPROX. 30 MINUTE CONTEST BREAK APRIL 14 - 7pm EDT - APPROX. 30 MINUTE CONTEST BREAK APRIL 15 - 1am EDT - CONTEST ENDS. (Early Monday Morning / Late Sunday Night) APRIL 15 - POST-1am EDT - We find out results (this is somewhat variable) Our Logo (2023) TBD (See CNN Post) Our Name VOTE HERE What the crap do you want us to do? We've broken top ten 10 straight years, (and Top 3 for 6 years in a row now) which should be described as an inhuman feat for a team that didn't exist before 2011. Some teams play for generations and haven't cracked Top 50. Tell Me More!  For the last 54 years Stevens Point, WI college radio station 90FM has run the world's largest trivia contest. There are over 350 teams from around the world who compete. The entire town is taken over by trivia contestants. These are the canonical rules, but here's a brief overview.
 PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT We will get 30 grainy, sometimes blurry, sometimes photoshopped, black and white pictures that we need to identify as much as possible. These can range from random hot sauce labels, inner sleeves of record albums, random board games, random people/celebrities, old sports stars, etc. This part is EXTREMELY difficult. This begins on APRIL 10. We have until the question about that picture is asked to answer it (so nearly a full week). Sometimes these questions are worth hundreds of points - THIS IS IMPORTANT. Getting 1 or 2 more of these pictures than other teams can be the difference between 3rd and 7th place in recent years! Imagine a couple thousand trivia nerds hitting redial  for 54 hours Things you should know:
What TEAM GOONS needs from you!  Here's a list of things we need:
Official website (Don't be shocked at how bad this is) Our Results: 2011: Trivial Fursuit - 33rd place 2012: Trivial Fursuit: 2 Fat 2 Furriest - 14th place 2013: Trivial Fursuit: Tokyo Yiff'd - 8th place 2014: Trivial Fursuit: Watch Walker Wreck - 7th place 2015: Trivial Fursuit: Awful Mix Vol. 5 - 4th place 2016: Trivial Fursuit: 6 Sick Stick Shifts - 6th place 2017: Trivial Fursuit: Furple Reign - 3rd place 2018: Trivial Fursuit: Miner Threat - 3rd place 2019: Trivial Fursuit 9: Howlin' Haoeles - 3rd place 2020: Trivial Fursuit X: Gon Yiff It To Ya - 3rd place 2021: Trivial Fursuit: Xi: Bangs Xi Bangs - 3rd place 2022: Trivial Fursuit XII: Ace of Spayeds - 3rd place 2023: Trivial Fursuit: Spot Marks the X - 3rd place  For those with archives... Trivia 42 (2011) thread Trivia 43 (2012) thread Trivia 44 (2013) thread Trivia 45 (2014) thread Trivia 46 (2015) thread Trivia 47 (2016) thread Trivia 48 (2017) thread Trivia 49 (2018) thread Trivia 50 (2019) thread Experiment in Trivia (2020) thread Trivia 51 (2021) thread Trivia 52 (2022) thread Trivia 53 (2023) thread As you can see we have (almost always) improved steadily with each year, with our best years being the last 7 when we placed in THIRD out of over 350 teams, giving us our SEVENTH straight top 3 finish. FAQ:  How the gently caress do I participate? Follow the guide in the next post What is our team name this year? Undetermined currently. Please suggest options. (Maximum 36 characters, including spaces and punctuation, we may be able to get a few more characters but no guarantees) Here are a few options in no particular order:
Please suggest more! We have a form to vote on team names, results will be posted later. https://forms.gle/oWpX4YDTpoMMGvkh7 We more than welcome other suggestions for team names as well! It's February (or March), what should I do right now? Come drop into IRC (details on the next post) and say hi, we can tell you a little more or answer just about any question you have. Due to the rules of the contest we cannot share most information in a public setting but in IRC we can tell you a lot more so you can get a feel for it! Where the gently caress do I order my shirt? ORDER BY MARCH 15 https://forms.gle/qUFb7MMQApaP5AUFA my cat is norris posted:SHIRT ORDERS ARE OPEN THROUGH MARCH 15TH Can I see some sample questions? Athanatos posted:This sounds weird but is actually kinda cool. Give it a shot when the day comes. What kind of music is played in between questions? Here are some Spotify playlists you can check out!
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS CONTEST There was a decent write up done in 2017 and our team was featured in it. https://theoutline.com/post/1469/stevens-point-worlds-biggest-trivia-contest Including a "documentary" video in which we are also featured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IyBRXaUls Start at 9:45 if you can't be bothered to watch the whole thing There was also a movie made over 10 years ago about the contest called Triviatown We usually do a yearly (online) screening of this film the Friday night 7 days before the contest starts. It's a tradition. This sounds stupid and complicated I don't want to do it Give it 15 minutes of your time and then decide. There are tons of people involved in this contest and so many different areas of it, we have players of all sorts, from 18 through 65+ participating. The contest is hectic, and fun, even if you're just sitting around watching the organized chaos unfold. Sometimes there might be a question about a cereal box we're stumped on but it happens to be in your pantry. Who knows! We have goons from New Zealand, Sweden, all across the Americas, Britain, Finland, Denmark, Japan. We are all over the place! Give us a fair shake and see how you like it. Sooo... are you ready to play Trivia, Fast Eddie? rawillkill fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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How To Join Us In IRC (TL;DR at bottom) What the hell is IRC and what do I do? So the channel is #tplobby on the server irc.synirc.net. To connect to these you will need an irc client. Popular ones are mibbit, hexchat, mIRC and irssi. Mibbit is web based and as such the easiest one to get started with. The other ones require an installation. This guide will focus mostly on mibbit but the instructions are somewhat universal. If you're okay with using mibbit, all you need to do is click here and pick a nickname.  For other clients, open it up, type in /connect irc.synirc.net, type in /nick YOUR_NICKNAME_HERE (you can pick your name here) and then type in /join #tplobby and you should be in. I've joined but there's no contest going on. What the hell? Once you're here (#tplobby) it might take a little while for people to respond, especially if you want to join during the middle of the contest is going on. This is because we're busy trying to win. However, within a minute (last year this was generally within 15-30 seconds, not minutes) someone with OP (operator) status will talk to you. In the meantime, you can register your nick on the server.  Registering is pretty simple. Type in /msg NickServ register YOUR_PASSWORD YOUR_EMAIL You will then get an email with a command to put type into IRC. Do that and you're registered!    note that the email ended up in my spam folder, so check there Note: the next time you open up IRC and pick this nickname you will have to log in or the server will change your name. To do this you simply type in /msg nickserv identify YOUR_PASSWORD On both of these commands it's important you don't have an empty space or whatever at the start or it or you'll post your entire message openly for everyone to see. Make sure NOTHING but what I've put in italics above is in the message as you press enter or people might steal your password or whatever Okay, so I'm registered and stuff. How do I join in the fun? At this point you'll hopefully have been contacted by an OP in #tplobby (you can tell who's an op by what symbol they have before or after their name, these differ between clients, though. Mibbit has custom icons and others usually have an @ or a & before their name to show it.) They will ask you to identify yourself with your SA user name and potentially by putting something in your profile. They will then add you to a list of trusted users if all of the above has been done correctly and send you to another channel, where the actual contest is happening. If after this point you get disconnected you will be able to join the real channel immediately and just log in with /msg nickserv identify YOUR_PASSWORD and skip all the other steps above. If there are any questions or confusion, feel free to ask one of the ops in #tplobby for help. We'll try to have someone semi active in there as often as possible until the contest ends. If you have time to spare it's really helpful for everyone involved to register ahead of time. TL;DR if you know sort of how to irc Join #tplobby on the server irc.synirc.net. Register your nick with nickserv. Talk to an operator in #tplobby. Or just click here.
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AcetylCoA! posted:Double checked the holidays. Hopefully IRC will recognize me this year. registrations expire after like 30-60 days
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Athanatos posted:I just want to tell everyone, good luck. We're all counting on you. we need you. i need you.
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Blackajack posted:WIFERABIT WITH THE FIRST 500 POINTER IN TEAM HISTORY incredible. The Rabbi T. White posted:MY WIFE IS VERY CLEVER clever girl.
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wa27 posted:You guys killed it this year. I haven't looked that closely at the scores but I believe we outperformed both Festivus and Dad's in the dark hours at the end of the contest, which is often when we struggle. It just felt like everyone was firing on all cylinders the entire time. First place is attainable! we outperformed every single team during the dark hours
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ninjahedgehog posted:Has there been any talk about switching to Discord in the future? To me it seems like a much more user-friendly experience that folks these days are more used to than IRC -- personally, I feel much more comfortable with its auto-login than risking a typo that spills my password to the entire chat. first and foremost, i will never let people forget this, but discord has gone down during the contest before and im not going to run that risk. years (over a decade...) of tools are designed to work in and around irc and porting them to discord is a LOT of work. i fully recognize irc is archaic and not as "user friendly" as discord is, however irc is open-source and we are not beholden to anyone company or service. if for some reason synirc goes down, we already have a self-hosted irc server ready to migrate to, and none of the tools need to be rebuilt since it's just another irc instance. discord auto-expands links, images, etc. im sure there are settings to fix that behavior, but irc works out of the box. irc uses 15MB of memory on my machine while discord is sitting at 500MB. regarding your irc password: it does not need to be overly secure or one of your "usual" password. simply use "ninjapassword123" and that is plenty sufficient for the one time a year you join IRC. your registration expires after 60 days anyway. if for some reason discord changes their api, or shuts things down (look at early slack bots vs today), then literally immediately our bots are useless. and someone (me) has to do a ton of heavy lifting to make them work on whatever new service we use. you cant just "move" them to another chat service since all of the apis are unique (e.g. a slackbot doesnt work on discord, doesnt work on msft teams. etc). so to answer your question, no. we will not be moving to discord in the future. we have an off-season discord, we admittedly did a poor job of advertising it this year. that's my bad. i am sending you a dm with an invite to it, its fairly active over the whole year Propaganda Machine posted:The 500 pointer sounds exciting. Can anyone share a brief rundown? we cannot discuss it publicly. i am also sending you a dm with an invite to the discord.
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