This quarter's semi's were held at Horsehoe Casino in Baltimore. Have I mentioned how much I hate that stupid casino? Each week at trivia where we usually play, we have a lovely waitstaff, an awesome host, fun opponents, and yummy (if not entirely healthy) food to eat. When it's semi-final time, we get stuck at the casino where the waitstaff are quite forgetful and slow, the hosts are so slow, too many opponents to chat with, and the food is relegated to about 5 specific items (a special menu is created for the trivia people) and something I don't care about but lots of other people do - the free shots you get when you win the toss- ups are actually a dollar here at the casino. So you see, it kinda stinks. However, it's the semi-finals, so you just have to go!
So you might be wondering, how it all went. Well...there was some good and some bad. By the end of the first half, we were in second place - a vast improvement over the last time we were at the semi-finals. We were hot and were feeling pretty good about our knowledge. Then the second half comes and blows it all to smithereens. I suppose I should clarify. For the most part the second half went well. It was the last round, where the points are worth 2, 7, 12 with a 6 point bonus for getting all 3 correct. Yep, in that round we didn't answer a single question correctly. Not one.
So, by the very end, our second place became 9th place with only the top 5 teams going to the finals. So sad. But it's actually a positive. First, the next 2 Saturdays are Christmas Eve and New Years Eve - when the heck were they even going to have the finals. And second, each time we go we improve - that totally means we're going to make the finals next time, right? It's either that, or this week was a Christmas miracle. I'm not really sure which...
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