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Treff's Bar and Grill
520 Austin Avenue
Waco, TX 76701
Wednesdays: 8:00 PM
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11:27 AM, June 13, 2013


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Fatal Sushi, Lethal Chopsticks	86

MC Vodka Men	80

Babies Ate my Dingo	71

It's So (adjective) that (name)(verbed) at (place) While (verbing) This Week	57

The Best Produced Indie Action Film of the Year	46

I Eat Horses Like You for Breakfast

Matthew

What a fun night! And to think I almost pawned my quiz off on some other poor, unsuspecting Quizmaster tonight so that I could go to Arlington. As you may or may not know, E3 is this week and some Best Buys have a Nintendo demo booth set up for some of their games. I had to choose between playing Mario Kart 8 almost a full year before it comes out or hanging out with you lovely people, and guess what I chose? Now how fucking special do you feel right now?

First round was on food, so that's cool. Second round was karaoke and everyone wanted to sing, but nobody did. Kudos. The round on sports penalties had lots of bad answers like 'anus touching.' So fun for me to read that shit, I need you to know. When you don't know the answer, entertaining me is always, always best. We started late waiting for one of our charter quizzers and we still finished on time, but I feel like the quiz ran at kind of a breakneck speed so we'll be avoiding that for the future. Be here on time(ish) or send emissaries to quiz in your place. I'm benevolent in many, many ways but fifteen minutes is a bit of a stretch. Hard not to sound preachy in text so hear my happy voice and see my winning smile in your head as you read that last sentence.

With the impending Rumble in the Pub, we have a lot of teams with very fun names. Tonight was no exception, with Fatal Sushi, Lethal Chopsticks once again leading the pack and winning it all. It was a close, close game with the M.C. Vodka Men biting at the heels of 1st place all night, but falling out towards the end. Joel and his shifting gang of quizzing minions are ranked pretty high in the Rumble standings and finishing 1st again tonight is an easy way to continue that climb. The Vodka Men had a full(ish) team tonight and it paid off with 2nd place! They've been with us for about 4 weeks now and the experience is really paying off. Babies Ate My Dingo was a mish mash of bar randoms who wanted a chance to win and that worked out pretty well too with a strong 3rd place finish.

Now to the 'almost winners.' It's So (adjective) that (name)(verbed) at (place) While (verbing) This Week wins the longest name award but only wins fourth place. Let's fill that in with some Ninja Turtle fun: It's So (gnarly) that (Michelangelo)(nun-chucked) at (the Techno Drome) While (eating pizza) This Week. Finally, good man Ron of team The Best Produced Indie Action Film of the Year came in a super duper last place. He didn't seem to mind too much though so I'm not worried about it.

Great crowd tonight and great fun. Can't wait for next week and I hope to see all of you back here again.

Be Excellent to Each Other!

Jarek Matthew Jones

Treff's Bar and Grill
520 Austin Avenue
Waco, TX 76701
Wednesdays: 8:00 PM
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10:29 AM, June 06, 2013


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Speedo Burrito	81

Fatal Sushi, Lethal Chopsticks	76

Clam Love	60

MC Vodka Men	48

Fuck Kevin Bacon

Matthew

Alright, quiz night! We had four teams tonight of varying degrees of 'full' and I'm fairly confident that everyone had a pretty good time. All the teams started off strong on rounds one, two and three, no jokers were used and by our first score recap, first and last place were separated by 4 points. I love those quizzes that lull you into a false sense of security with either simpler early rounds or rounds that just happen to cater to your knowledge base. You're all "yeah, I got this. We're winning this bitch tonight" and then BAM! You look down at your visual round and are having trouble focusing on the instructions because you are instantly and fully aware that, while you don't know what you should be doing yet, you do know that none of the pictures look familiar. "That's ok," you think to yourself, "round 7 might be worth 16. I'll joker and pull it out then." But then round 7 turns out to be one of those convoluted rounds where we were trying to be creative and if you miss one early, you're likely to miss them all. *sigh* Maybe next week.

I've been doing this for a couple of years now and, though I really can't explain it, I do know that there is a learning curve to this game. How can there be a learning curve to basically recalling things that you know? I don't know, that's a good question. Maybe it's some sort of 'right of passage' type thing and the geek gods on high require a sacrifice of pride and dignity before blessing you with the almighty 1st place. I believe the scores to your left will lend credence to my theory, however. For example, Speedo Burrito has various member that have been with us quite a few times. They've gotten close to 1st, flirted with it, kissed it awkwardly and then 1st didn't call them back for a while. First base with 1st place, as it were, but tonight they played strong from start to finish and easily earned top merits. Also, they may have won before and I just don't remember so before I get the angry comments, congrats for then or now or both. XD Fatal Sushi, Lethal Chopsticks (a quote from Sergeant Kabukiman: NYPD as I was reminded later), were also made of two very seasoned quizzing gentlemen. It was close throughout the night but they fell to 2nd by the end. In case you don't know what Sergeant Kabukiman is, I give you the original trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4bq4oqAHPg

Two things about that movie (which I haven't seen since 1996 so my memory isn't the best). 1 - it's real. That's a real movie done by the Troma team known for their terribly entertaining and incredibly gruesome Toxic Avenger movies. 2 - It's just as awesome as it sounds, or at least it was when I was in 5th grade. But I digress.

Clam Love was a brand new team of excitable type folks who couldn't have been happier with the state that they found Treff's Bar and Grill in. Quiz? Couches? Smoking? Aw shit, this is the best! Allowing these fine people to flourish in what seemed like a natural environment proved beneficial indeed and they finished the evening in the coveted 'not last' position. Finally, the good guys of M.C. Vodka Men found themselves once again falling to last place, but this was due mostly to just not knowing some things and who can really blame them for that? Not this guy. Not this guy one bit.

I has such a lovely time this evening that I think I'd like to do this again next week. You guys in? Of course you are, and hey, why not bring a friend?

Be Excellent to Each Other!

Jarek Matthew Jones

Treff's Bar and Grill
520 Austin Avenue
Waco, TX 76701
Wednesdays: 8:00 PM
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10:34 AM, May 30, 2013


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The Whistling Taints	86

Havin' Fun	64

Hopefully Greater Chances	63

MC Vodka Men	57

MmmmQuiz

Matthew

7:30 - 7:58: 1 team.

7:59: 2 teams.

8:00: 3 teams.

8:02: 4 teams.

Nothing like living on the edge, people. I was extra pleased with how the quiz went tonight and am pretty sure that you guys had a good time too. Early I was a little concerned because the scores were a bit low. We had a city population round that didn't go well for most teams. The round 2 audio round was kind of a bust. The sports round made me laugh my ass off because, seriously, who knows about women's sports? With only two ladies in the bar, both very good natured, there was a lot of good old fashioned chauvinism thrown about during the round. During this round we had a question about Title IX, and on one of the TV's that would have been playing a baseball game but for the rain, they decided to fill that space with what I'm sure was a riveting discussion on, you guessed it, Title IX. In lieu of the game, FOX sports played an hour long panel of mostly old women discussing how awesome Title IX is and how unfair their lives were beforehand. If you guys (those who missed it) had only thought to turn around and look at the only tv that I can see, you would have gotten that one right and been just as entertained as I was.

Scores looked pretty good after we got out of the early round doldrums. The Whistling Taints showed up like a pair of bosses and could have walked out after round 7 while keeping their first place position. They chose to stay and pad their score and finished an easy 1st place. Havin' Fun had fun all night in 2nd place but barely kept their spot through round 8. All the while, they were extra chill. Hopefully Greater Chances did increase their performance by adding a couple more members to their team and knowing more than usual. Extra congrats to Casey and the crew for placing, even if it was 3rd! Last place goes to our newest team, MC Vodka Men, who lost simply due to an ill-played joker. Math makes everyone sad, so let's do some math right now! MC Vodka Men used their joker on round 5, worth only 8 points right off the bat, and only getting 5 of those points to joker with; they finished in last place as a result. However, if they had played that joker during round 7, a round where they picked up 13 points, they would have finished the evening with 67 points and finished in 2nd place. One circle made the difference. Still though, wonderful score for some first timers and I hope that you guys come back next week.

I'm planning on being at the bar next week and setting up a quiz for you guys to take part in and it will be that much better if you and all of your friends are there. Cooperation? Ah hell yeah!

Be Excellent to Each Other!

Jarek Matthew Jones

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