So I've been hosting trivia night for a few months now, and have recently started working a 4th night during the week (translation: straight cash, homey). In my time as host (the trivia company's official title for people like myself is "trivia jockey". Woof.), I have been witness to brawls, chug-offs, threats, propositions, and some other weird stuff. Anyway, here are a few thoughts I've been batting around on the trivia scene:
- Team names that deal with current events are my favorite, when clever. I interact with a number of savvy and fairly intelligent people each week as part of my work, and I am almost always impressed with the humorous (not former professional wrestler Hugh Morris) names. While these can sometimes be distasteful ("So what brings you to Fargo, anyhow?"), they're at least clever, and are demonstrative of an audience who is up-to-speed with what's going on in the world.
- I secretly enjoy the continuity of names, mostly because it just means that the teams who play behind them are there each week (I'm talking to you 'nerf or nothing', 'love kills slowly', 'dumpster babies', and 'the team that yells "hey"'). I like to use my imagination and tell myself that this is at least a tiny bit attributed to who's hosting (and the mass love for my failed attempts at growing facial hair).
- It's puzzling to me that people will often ask for me to give them the correct answer when they hand in their answer sheets...you're being read the answer AT THE END OF THE SONG. What's the problem?
- I can't stand people who use their phones during trivia. It's a fucking GAME, people. If you can't play a simple game like this- which really has no stakes, since it IS free to play- on your own merit, what's the point? AND more often than not, it's the teams who are struggling to begin with, so it's not even amounting to anything substantial!
- There's a fine line between loud and obnoxious. On occasion, it becomes tough to distinguish the difference between the two and where people fall.
- I thoroughly enjoy my job. It really is often the hightlight of my night (or, in some rare occasions, my week). I like what I do and hope that the people who come out to enjoy trivia enjoy it, too. I try to incorporate some questions of my own and added stuff to the mix.
Anyway, I've decided to pick up writing again. Expect an update on a writing project in the near future. That's all for now. Keep it comin'.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment