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A trivia contest you say?! 38 HOURS RAID ON TRIVIA 51  Let's get prepared again for TRIVIA, goons! We're back in action April 16, 17, and 18! IMPORTANT DATES AND TIMES APRIL 12 (TBD???) - 3-6pm EDT - PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT BEGINS! (scroll down to read more about this part - we need more people to join earlier for this!) APRIL 16 - 7pm EDT - CONTEST BEGINS. APRIL 17 - 1am EDT - CONTEST PAUSED. APRIL 17 - 9am EDT - CONTEST RESUMES. APRIL 17 - 7pm EDT - APPROX. 30 MINUTE CONTEST BREAK (TBD???) APRIL 18 - 1am EDT - CONTEST PAUSED. APRIL 18 - 9am EDT - CONTEST RESUMES. APRIL 18 - 7pm EDT - APPROX. 30 MINUTE CONTEST BREAK (TBD???) APRIL 19 - 1am EDT - CONTEST ENDS. (Late Monday Morning) APRIL 19 - POST-1am EDT - We find out results (this is somewhat variable) Our Logo (2021) (Colors subject to change)  More colorways: https://imgur.com/a/qsev2Lp What the crap do you want us to do? We've broken top ten 8 straight years, (and Top 3 for 4 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 52 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 12 (TBD ???). 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 38 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 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 (2021) thread As you can see we have (almost always) improved steadily with each year, with our best years being the last 4, when we placed in THIRD out of over 350 teams, giving us our FOURTH 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) Here are a few options in no particular order:
Please suggest more! We more than welcome other suggestions for team names! 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? my cat is norris posted:
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! quote:Trivia 44 Playlist (thanks, Athanatos!) 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 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 20:34 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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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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The hideous Trivial Fursuit 2021 t-shirt is available to be ordered through March 7th! As always, our shirts are being printed by Commonwealth Press, a small business locally-owned in Pittsburgh, PA. This year's shirt will include a small addition of their union bug printed beneath our team logo. Folks I spoke to in Discord were in strong favor of us supporting CWP's labor union membership by printing the union bug. https://forms.gle/BgUrQUrswvDBELZdA Gallery of sample background colors (though these are not all available options): https://imgur.com/a/qsev2Lp Available colors: https://www.sanmar.com/p/7449_AthKlly my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 16:34
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HELLO SPACE RESERVED, I'M DAD
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Feb 23, 2021 16:36
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please enjoy this ceremonial trivia shitpost.
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Feb 23, 2021 16:36
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Easily claims first page again this year
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Feb 23, 2021 16:37
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This sounds dumb, but is amazing. Over a decade of a goon project working. If you think you are good at google, play this.
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Feb 23, 2021 16:39
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Just requested the time off work.
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If you're wondering why this year's trivia logo is so bizarre, you can thank the contest runners for the inspiration. Part of the contest involves identifying images. We could not identify this corn. In fact, only one team could identify the corn. Corn haunts our dreams. https://twitter.com/KeeganWest_/status/1338238262310125570 Shout-outs to McStabby for designing the base logo. I expanded on it, but she's the creative genius behind Alien Corn.
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If you've put off joining because it seems like a big time commitment (you can totally come and go as you please, but I understand the "I should be able to help answer questions at 4:30 AM!" impulse) then this is a great time to give this a try. There's something to be said for a 2.5 day solid gauntlet of trivia but the modified covid schedule was kind of nice in the spring. This is a real highlight of the year and you (yes you!) could be the only goon to know something! It's a real rush to be the goon who figured out some part of a question and helped the whole group figure out an answer. Come join us in giving obscure abandoned fan wikis the internet hug of death! Track wikipedia vandals! Call a central Wisconsin hippie's cell phone at 4 AM to argue about whether or not a YouTube video with 5 views is an official music video! 
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thinkin about Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant and wondering how many times it will be played on the first day this year tbh
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bookmarked because I wanna get in on this this time.  I have a >120 WPM type speed so I might take a whirl at that.
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ALL HAIL CORN GUY ALL HAIL... ALIEN CORN GUY
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Sorry won't join in because I have horrific ADHD and even if I know something I wouldn't be able to think of it in time.
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CherryCat posted:Just requested the time off work. doing the same when I walk through the door Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Sorry won't join in because I have horrific ADHD and even if I know something I wouldn't be able to think of it in time. hasn't stopped me
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Sorry won't join in because I have horrific ADHD and even if I know something I wouldn't be able to think of it in time. It isn’t about knowing something off the top of your head, it’s about having twenty browser tabs open googling ten different search terms while scanning six pages of tineye/GIS results and scrubbing through three YouTube clips you found out about from a suspiciously exhaustive children’s television show wiki. Every four minutes for nearly two days straight.
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my cat is norris posted:If you're wondering why this year's trivia logo is so bizarre, you can thank the contest runners for the inspiration. Much like Peppa Pig and, wait, does anyone have a list of these?
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vibur posted:Much like Peppa Pig and, wait, does anyone have a list of these? it's less a list and more a distributed form of PTSD
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I signed up last year but lost track of it with the rescheduling of the dates and such. Hopefully I can get in on this this year!
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Checking in for dank sheet memes and confirming other people's finds!
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quote:During a TV campaign for the frozen dinners of Marie Callendar, the claim was made that every recipe started the same way. According to that campaign, how did the recipe start? Without looking it up or anything the answer to this had to be 'love'
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H2SO4 posted:it's less a list and more a distributed form of PTSD Still mad about that tricycle. Also gently caress yes trivia
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Feb 23, 2021 23:39
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Note to self: use a blank browser profile. Random corn haunts my misclicks to this day
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TRIVIA! Music Crew is the best crew.
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Posting in the trivia thread, I missed the covid changeup contest last year (I think there was one?) but hopefully can be here for this one!
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tangy yet delightful posted:Posting in the trivia thread, I missed the covid changeup contest last year (I think there was one?) but hopefully can be here for this one! There were one and a half contests!
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I Greyhound posted:TRIVIA! Music Crew is the best crew. 
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In on the ground floor! Music crew is best crew, but all crews is best crew. I currently work the Sunday but will be avaibs the rest. Name suggestions pending...
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Triviaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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(clears throat, approaches podium, waves to crowd, waits for them to settle down, rests hands on side of podium, leans forward slightly) trivia
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fins posted:Note to self: use a blank browser profile. Random corn haunts my misclicks to this day If you aren't permanently screwing up your Google search predictions, you're not truly living.
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Teddybear posted:(clears throat, approaches podium, waves to crowd, waits for them to settle down, rests hands on side of podium, leans forward slightly) trivia 
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Ground floor 
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I Greyhound posted:TRIVIA! Music Crew is the best crew. I can't believe it's already been a year since October!
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Let's loving GO Take the advice of an internet stranger just this once: save the date and 
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Paper Clip Death posted:Let's loving GO Every year I try to get in on this and always forget to show up and miss it.
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Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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