12.18.14 Tilly Club
TEAMS: The 4th (& Final) night of Dice's 2014 Trivia-mas was a joyous celebration of the season, with Christmas songs filling the air and trivia teams scrambling to score points on what proved to be a decidedly brutal Trivia contest. STANLEY CUPCAKES (68) used a dominating 7-point 5th Round (Nearly an unprecedented "anti-social" three-peat...) and a reluctant half-wager on the final question to take down the mighty TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD (67), which nailed the final round, but struggled during several rounds through the night. DILDO BAGGINS (43) earned a single bonus point in the second-half, but somehow vaulted into third, correctly answering the final round. That is not a typo...Dildo Baggins, one of the finest trivia players anywhere, scored a single point for an entire half. Take this moment in trivia teams, because I assure you it won't happen again! 6TH SENSE and DRAKES each contended throughout the show, but tripped up on the Millenial-friendly final round question and wagers.
TRIVIA: You may not realize this, but I'm posting this on "Super Saturday," the second busiest retail shopping day of the year. According to the National Retail Federation's "Holiday Survival Kit 2014", "Black Friday" claims the title of busiest, ahead of Super Saturday, December 26th, and upstart "Cyber Monday," which was coined in 2005 after retailers noticed a sharp increase in online sales beginning the Monday after Black Friday. NRF data shows that sales occuring in the months of November and December account for $3.2 trillion, or nearly 20% of the industy's annual sales, easily making it the top consumer spending event of every year (Back-to-School shopping is second with $74.5 billion in sales.). Some more statistics...The NRF estimates that holiday consumer spending averaged $767.27 per person in 2013, with gifts for family accounting for over $430. Food and candy are second with just over $100 spend per person. I don't know about you, but we maybe will spend $767.27 for the entire holiday...for all six of us including food and candy.
TUNES: After several days of anything-but-traditional Christmas and holiday songs, I tried to close out Dice's Trivia-mas filling several requests and playing songs many of us would consider "classics." Several Burl Ives' Rankin-Bass favorites joined "Linus and Lucy" from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special representing a by-gone era of seasonal TV programming. Nat King Cole's "Buon Natale" appeared to help nobody during our "Italian Cities" theme round and John Denver and the Muppets singing the "12 Days of Christmas" will never get old ("buh-duh-dum-dum"). For the record, Dice's Trivia-mas wouldn't be complete without a few irreverent songs! Bob Rivers' parody "Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire" delighted, and I wasn't the only one that enjoyed Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa".
I hope you all have a safe holiday season, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my Trivia teams, players, and venues!
-Dice
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