Arrival Times & Team Sizes

Bobby: The 1st few March Trivia Madness tournaments could easily be described as motley. What they lacked in organization was easily made up for in enthusiasm.

Like any good system it became an act and react relationship between the participants and the tournament rules. The player finds the weak spot, the system reacts. This happen 11 years ago, 10 years ago.. in fact the rules were probably changed in one way or another every year since the last two or three.

One of the early rule changes was the setting of arrival times.
We do this as a courtesy to the restaurant and to ensure that everyone will be served efficiently come Super Saturday. This aint no party, this aint no disco, this aint no fooling around son… and any help we can give the staff, we give it.

and … wait for it … I WAS A GD SERVER FOR 400 YEARS AND YOU WILL DO THIS FUCKER!

What we do is we set arrival times for groups of 5 teams in sets of two at 15 minute intervals, every 30 minutes. I’ll give you a minute to kick that one around before continuing

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The reason is it helps the kitchen stay organized and flowing smoothly to have the flow spread out. The lowest seeded teams come 1st because the highest seeded teams get all the perks. This is not a hard concept to grasp but a very difficult one to create an argument against – so I suggest you do not try – it is a routine exercise that has never ended well for the solicitor.

You may arrive early and grab apps, maybe drink – hell, I recommend it. But help us stay organized by ordering in or around your arrival time when going for the whole table.

Here are your arrival times along with team sizes (in parentheses):

Rural Jurors (6) – 12:00
The Maroons (6) – 12:00
Dirty Mike & the Boys (4) – 12:00
McNuttski (2) – 12:00
Fetus (7) – 12:00

Fact Hunt (6) – 12:15
5 lb Sack (11) – 12:15
Say Car Ramrod (5) – 12:15
Migrating Coconuts (6) – 12:15
Kitten Mittens (5) – 12:15

Chipper’s Lipper (7) – 12:45
Experience (7) – 12:45
Kramerica (8) – 12:45
Rash (8) – 12:45
Old Yeller (9) – 12:45

Pabst Playboys (9) – 1:00
Phasers (8) – 1:00
Challenged (8) – 1:00
Oedipus (11) – 1:00
Robot Monkeys (9) – 1:00

#9 (17) – 1:30
Fulmer’s Fat Ass (7) – 1:30
Buckhead Rednecks (9) – 1:30
Denim Chicken (5) – 1:30
Jimmy Jams (11) – 1:30

Muffins (12) – 1:45
United (11) – 1:45
Ray-Ray (10) – 1:45
Bobby Brown (12) – 1:45
Earlliance (14) – 1:45

REMINDER: If you bought extra chairs, money will be collected prior to the game.  If you don’t use a chair you RSVP’d for, you owe $10 per chair… Empty seats will not be tolerated.  If someone calls and cancels, find someone to take their place or pay the piper, folks…

Cell Phones at MTM XII

When Super Saturday arrives, you will arrive @ Jeffrey’s in lovely Braselton with a cell phone in your pocket, just like the last 9,000 times you have gone somewhere. You will walk in, you will sit down – and you will check Facebook, your emails, perhaps send out a text. Standard Operating Procedure and under normal circumstances not a problem or a big deal…

Except that doing so @ Jeffrey’s could cost your team a chance to compete in the Finals.

Cell phones are against the rules at Jeffrey’s for MTMXII – under any and every circumstance.

You will notice how intentionally broad that statement is.

Allow me to further define the intent of this rule -

Cell phones in the building at the Finals is breaking the rules, at any time, under any circumstance, for any reason.

The phone can be turned OFF. Disqualified anyway.

The phone can be something that looks like a phone but isn’t. Disqualified anyway.

In a purse, in a pocket, in your briefs.. makes no difference.. If you have a cell phone IN.THE.BUILDING you can be disqualified at the finals…

Put your cell phone in your car on Saturday. If you need to visit your cell phone during breaks – GREAT, as long as it is in your car and not in the building..

Good luck at the finals and keep your cell phones in the car or at home please – for everyone’s sake.

Teams have been DQ’d for this in the past.

RSVP Time!

It’s finals week, so you need to stay glued to this website or FCT on Facebook, as we will have several important posts that every team needs to be aware of.  Today we discuss RSVPs:

Here are how many seats you have earned (teams in alphabetical order by full name):

(Note: this list will be edited as we receive RSVPs;  RSVP’d teams will be in bold)

Bobby Brown vs. The Board of Education – 18 – using 12, purchasing none
Buckhead Rednecks – 12 – using 9, purchasing none
Challenged – 8 – using 8, purchasing none.
Chipper’s Lipper – 6 – using 6, purchasing 1
Denim Chicken – 10 – using 5, purchasing none
Dirty Mike & the Boys – 4
Earlliance – Unlimited – using 14
Experience – 6 – using 6, purchasing 1
F’n A, I’ve Got A Rash – 6 – using 6, will purchase 2
Fact Hunt – 5 – using 5, will purchase 1.
Fetus Frenzy – 4 – using 4, purchasing 3
Fulmer’s Fat Ass – 10 – using 7, purchasing none
Jimmy Jams – 10 – using 10, purchasing 1
Kitten Mittens – 5 – using 5, purchasing none
Kramerica – 6 – using 6, purchasing 2
Maroons – 4 – using 4, will purchase 2
McNuttski – 4 – using 2, purchasing none
Migrating Coconuts – 5 – using 5, purchasing 1
Much Ado About Muffins – 13 – using 12, purchasing none
Oedipus & the Mama’s Boys – 8 – using 8, will purchase 3
Old Yeller – 6 – using 6, purchasing 3
Pabst Playboys – 8 – using 8, purchasing 1
Ray Ray’s Partay – 16 – using 10, purchasing none
Robot Monkeys – 8 – using 8, purchasing 1
Rural Jurors – 4 -using 4, purchasing 2
Say Car Ramrod – 5 – using 5, purchasing none
Set Phasers to Stunning! – 8 – using 8, purchasing none.
United – 14 – using 11, purchasing none
5 lb Sack -5 – using 5, purchasing 6
#9 – 10 – using 10, purchasing 7

This is the maximum number of seats your team has earned.
What is now required of every team is a HARD COUNT of attendees for Saturday.
This is a non-negotiable RSVP.
ie, if you say 8, you will bring 8. If you bring 6 after saying 8, you will be charged $10/seat ($20).

It is imperative that you grasp fully the gravity of what we are telling this week pertaining to rsvps, cell phones, team structure, etc.
Extra chairs will be sold after RSVPs are recv’d.
Your default RSVP is 6 or less. If you do not RSVP, you get 6 chairs or whatever you have earned.
Reply to here, or on FCT’s facebook page, or tell your trivia DJ firsthand, but make sure you follow the following set of instructions:
1. First, tell us the number of the seats you earned you are taking.  If you take them and don’t use them, you’ll be charged $10 per unused chair.  You do not HAVE to use every chair you earned in the cumulative – you may RSVP a lower #.  You DO have to use every chair you RSVP.
2. Second, tell us how many seats you would be willing to purchase ($10 per chair).  You are not guaranteed more chairs, but if they become available, we will allocate some for you depending on how you answer.

So, your responses should be given like this:
- Team ________ qualified for 8 chairs but will only require 7.
- Team ________ qualified for 8 chairs and will use them all, but would be willing to purchase 2 more to get to 10 total.

Understand what a HARD count is, people, and make one by Wednesday at 11:59 PM or you get an auto-RSVP…

MTM XII Final Cumulative Standings

Bobby: and so it ends..

Blind Pig – United (3) – 92
Rash (5) – 84
Jimmy Jams (6) – 79

Earlliance (3) – 70
Phasers (4) – 66
Denim (3) – 57

Amici -

Earlliance (3) – 91
United (5) – 72
Jimmy Jams (5) – 64

Denim (2) – 62
Rash (6) – 48
Kittens (5) 44
Fact Hunt (5) – 33

Congratulations are in order for Earlliance for winning the cumulative phase of this year’s March Trivia Madness.

Skol!

Brent: Now, instead of a weekly high score, you have a chair column.  This is how many chairs your team has qualified for.  You do not have to use every chair listed.  This is simply how many you have earned should you want to use them.  There should be more chairs available via the chair auction ($10 per chair) later in the week, but the availability is as yet undecided/unknown.

Stay tuned to this website AND Full Contact Trivia on Facebook, as well as the Triviaheads page on FB, for details re: Saturday, RSVP deadlines, etc.

Let the high holy week of Full Contact Trivia begin!

TEAM	TOTAL	Base Scores	Performance	Attendance	Chairs
Earlliance	1326	1059	267	208	U
Bobby Brown	1249	1057	192	265	18
Ray-Ray’s Partay	1185	1017	168	164	16
United	1146	987	159	197	14
Muffins	1126	994	132	170	13
Jimmy Jams	1076	983	93	238	10
Denim Chicken	1061	956	105	172	10
Buckhead Rednecks	1053	927	126	110	12
Fulmer’s Fat Ass	1013	974	39	67	10
#9	1010	902	108	216	10
Robot Monkeys	997	949	48	100	8
Oedipus	921	876	45	117	8
Challenged	894	828	66	195	8
Phasers	884	851	33	156	8
Pabst Playboys	879	819	60	139	8
Old Yeller	854	809	45	78	6
Rash	837	807	30	154	6
Kramerica	821	788	33	66	6
Experience	809	779	30	67	6
Chipper’s Lipper	804	756	48	77	6
Kitten Mittens	801	774	27	147	5
Migrating Coconuts	778	748	30	140	5
Say Car Ramrod	716	692	24	54	5
5 lb Sack	692	683	9	87	5
Fact Hunt	576	558	18	48	5
Fetus	500	500	0	39	4
McNuttski	324	309	15	12	4
Dirty Mike	253	250	3	24	4
Maroons	236	227	9	11	4
Rural Jurors	226	220	6	20	4

MTM XII: Week 10, Thursday’s update

Bobby: Monkey Barrel’s cumulative comes to a quiet close with a big win for Denim Chicken (6) – 79 over Playboys (6) and a surprising Pint of Wisdom (3) sniping performance points from #9 (5) 41..

Tuesday @ The Monkey Barrel is no more. Next Tuesday, tryJeffrey’s Sports Bar or The Elder Tree Public House.

TEAM	TOTAL	Base Scores	Performance	Attendance	Week Base
Earlliance	1309	1051	258	201	83
Bobby Brown	1249	1057	192	265	110
Ray-Ray’s Partay	1185	1017	168	164	101
Muffins	1126	994	132	170	91
United	1106	962	144	189	67
Denim Chicken	1061	956	105	167	89
Buckhead Rednecks	1053	927	126	110	96
Jimmy Jams	1042	955	87	223	51
Fulmer’s Fat Ass	1013	974	39	67	92
#9	1010	902	108	216	96
Robot Monkeys	997	949	48	100	96
Oedipus	921	876	45	117	94
Challenged	894	828	66	195	100
Phasers	884	851	33	152	82
Pabst Playboys	879	819	60	139	82
Old Yeller	854	809	45	78	112
Kramerica	821	788	33	66	98
Experience	809	779	30	67	90
Chipper’s Lipper	804	756	48	77	78
Kitten Mittens	801	774	27	142	59
Rash	786	762	24	143	39
Migrating Coconuts	778	748	30	140	67
Say Car Ramrod	716	692	24	54	56
5 lb Sack	692	683	9	87	82
Fact Hunt	576	558	18	48	52
Fetus	500	500	0	39	68
McNuttski	324	309	15	12	86
Dirty Mike	253	250	3	24	0
Maroons	236	227	9	11	92
Rural Jurors	226	220	6	20	0

MTM XII: Week 10, Wednesday

Bobby: BBvBoE (9) win Brewhouse, trivia’s deepest and most talented location with an emphatic 110. Kramerica (4) remind the assembled that they too are worthy and should be watched carefully with 98. FFA (5) continue their resurgence with 92.

Also -

Earlliance (3) – 81
Muffins (5) – 79
Gluttons – 73
Fetus (5) – 68
United (1) – 67
Oedipus (1) – 20

Brent: Canton’s cumulative comes full-circle… Week 1, night 1 was won by Challenged in triple digits. Week 10, night 3… Challenged (100) wins to close out a fun 10 weeks at FCT North…

Ray-Ray – 82
Cantonese Warriors – 73

Coconuts and Lipper also show, but not particularly well. But Coconuts got a sports question, and Lipper knew Frank Black… so they got that going for them… which is nice.  As usual, Johnny’s is busy with non-MTM teams.

TJ: Robot Monkeys(7) -9- -96-
Denim Chicken(7) -6- -86-
5 lb Sack(7) -3- -82-
Jimmy Jams(4) -51-

Clint:

kitten mittens 59 with 8 players

yunited 58 with 3

fact hunt 52 with 4

rash had 39 with 2 players

phasers had less than 50 with 5 players

Darby: Old Yeller (8) 112 – and I will go on record as being my pick to win the final game.
#9 (3) 96
Experience (4) 90
Earlliance (1) 74
The rest were non-tournament teams.

Thanks again and Good night!

Brent (again): 5 lb sack is currently weighing their options, so I’ve included them on this leaderboard to let them see where they stand.  Looks like 5-chair territory, and the only other team that would be affected by their entry would be Fetus, who would be bumped into the 4-chair group.

Also, last night mathematically sealed the cumulative championship for Earlliance.  This is their 2nd cumulative title, having won the first cumulative in the ‘competitive’ era in MTM VIII (prior to MTM VIII, cumulative scores were not closely tracked week-to-week and not readily available for teams to know where they stood).  This also breaks United’s streak of 3 consecutive cumulative titles, a very impressive feat worthy of much recognition.  So, congrats Earlliance, and additional congrats to United – that could be a feat unmatched again.  Earlliance has passed along the following:

Also, congrats to Bobby Brown vs. The Board of Education, who have clinched 2nd place!  This is at least 2 consecutive years in the top 3 for the Board… Well done!

Ray-Ray is still technically not mathematically clear from Muffins or United yet, but in all likelihood, they will clinch 3rd tonight.  Muffins trails by 59 points and can score a maximum of 62 more in the week.  United trails by 79 and can score a maximum of 86.

Many more battles to be decided throughout the cumulative, so enjoy the last few days of this March Trivia Marathon!

TEAM	TOTAL	Base Scores	Performance	Attendance	Week Base
Earlliance	1309	1051	258	201	83
Bobby Brown	1249	1057	192	265	110
Ray-Ray’s Partay	1185	1017	168	164	101
Muffins	1126	994	132	170	91
United	1106	962	144	189	67
Buckhead Rednecks	1053	927	126	110	96
Denim Chicken	1052	956	96	161	89
Jimmy Jams	1042	955	87	223	51
Fulmer’s Fat Ass	1013	974	39	67	92
#9	1010	902	108	211	96
Robot Monkeys	997	949	48	100	96
Oedipus	921	876	45	117	94
Challenged	894	828	66	195	100
Phasers	884	851	33	152	82
Pabst Playboys	873	819	54	133	82
Old Yeller	854	809	45	78	112
Kramerica	821	788	33	66	98
Experience	809	779	30	67	90
Chipper’s Lipper	804	756	48	77	78
Kitten Mittens	801	774	27	142	59
Rash	786	762	24	143	39
Migrating Coconuts	778	748	30	140	67
Say Car Ramrod	716	692	24	54	56
5 lb Sack	692	683	9	87	82
Fact Hunt	576	558	18	48	52
Fetus	500	500	0	39	68
McNuttski	324	309	15	12	86
Dirty Mike	253	250	3	24	0
Maroons	236	227	9	11	92
Rural Jurors	226	220	6	20	0

MTM XII: Week 10, Tuesday

Bobby: Treehouse saw only 3 tournament teams in the house with 7 overall playing.

In the end Oedipus do work(5) – 94, followed by BBvBoE (6) – 84, and Muffins (7) – 55

Tuesday Jeffrey’s Sports Bar, in Braselton saw 10 teams and an old franchise rising up to take 1st place for the 1st time in quite some time. Maroons (3) – 92 look crisp and sharp in front of #9 (6) -89, and Purple Stain – 85 cot blocking Earlliance (3) – 83, and Phasers (2) 82. Playboys (5) finish in 6th and the rest of the room is not competitive.

Brent:

Competitive game in Canton tonight sees Ray-Ray (98) outduel the Buckhead Rednecks (96) for top honors. Chipper’s Lipper hangs on for 3rd (64). Coconuts (47) and Ramrod (56) and Challenged (51?) also make appearances with every one of them still in play for 1st after question #19… Well written game courtesy of TJ & Darby…

TJ: BBvBoe(10) 98
Muffins(3) 91
New Team 81
United(1) 52
Earlliance(1) 26

Darby: Finals from MoBarr. Denim Chicken (5) 89. Pabst (3) 82.
Dumbasses in back (4) 68.
A hairy situation (4) 54.
#9 (5) 38.
Full bush (3) 37

TEAM	TOTAL	Base Scores	Performance	Attendance	Week Base
Earlliance	1309	1051	258	197	83
Bobby Brown	1228	1045	183	256	98
Ray-Ray’s Partay	1170	1017	162	160	101
Muffins	1126	994	132	165	91
United	1085	947	138	185	52
Buckhead Rednecks	1053	927	126	110	96
Denim Chicken	1046	956	90	154	89
#9	997	895	102	208	89
Jimmy Jams	991	897	87	219	0
Oedipus	921	876	45	116	94
Fulmer’s Fat Ass	918	882	36	62	0
Robot Monkeys	892	853	39	93	0
Phasers	884	851	33	147	82
Challenged	882	825	57	188	97
Pabst Playboys	873	819	54	133	82
Chipper’s Lipper	804	756	48	74	78
Migrating Coconuts	778	748	30	136	67
Rash	747	723	24	141	0
Old Yeller	733	697	36	70	0
Kitten Mittens	733	715	18	134	0
Kramerica	717	690	27	62	0
Experience	716	689	27	63	0
Say Car Ramrod	716	692	24	54	56
Fact Hunt	521	506	15	44	0
Fetus	432	432	0	34	0
McNuttski	324	309	15	12	86
Dirty Mike	253	250	3	24	0
Maroons	236	227	9	11	92
Rural Jurors	226	220	6	20	0