Last night I played trivia at an event put on by Electronic Arts. It pitted the cream of Australia’s gaming cognoscenti in a battle of, well, pretty useless knowledge, to be honest.
We were split into teams of four or five, so I joined up with three of the lads from IGN. Officially we were known as IGNotaku; unofficially, however, we quickly adopted the title Team Awesome.
Pre-tournament favourites Gamespot fell at the first hurdle as we finished the first round tied in first place with Good Game. Ausgamers clawed back our lead thanks to some bonus points during the celebrity head round that followed.
Through rounds three and four we remained neck and neck, meaning it all came down to a one question “who am I?” tie-breaker. IGN’s Patrick Kolan kept his cool to correctly answer Master Chief and we won.
A winner is Team Awesome.
Trjn
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:09 PMWhat are the odds that every team unofficially dubbed themselves “Team Awesome”?
Nath
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:26 AMI surely did when I went to trivia with my mates once.
who am iiiiii
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:11 PMA “who am I” tie-breaker?
I love those!
Josh I
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:14 PMWell done, Dave.
Nworb
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:40 PMCongratulations! I love trivia nights.
Jay
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:45 PMWas about to write a comment questioning how Master Chef is incorporated into gaming, but then i re-read the last sentence.
Until that Master Chef DS game comes out (if there isn’t one already), it should never be mentioned on this site again!
Andrew
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:50 PMCan you give us an idea of the kind of questions they asked
Blahrgh
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:16 PMWhat did the questions cover ? I’m curious.
Michael
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:18 PMWant a medal? ;)
kaltses
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:23 PMand the prize was…?
oggob
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:36 PMlol…
Congrats on the win, enjoy the brews tonight, would have loved to have come into the city for the AU Kotaku meet, but already had plans…
just get a photo of Crecentes Hair! :p
Adam Hoddinott
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:23 PMThat’s great! Congratulations! What were some of the questions?
James Murchison
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:36 PMGo Patch!
iZac
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:42 PMGrats
James Mac
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8:54 PMNice work lads.
Shane
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 9:08 PMCongrats to Team Awesome!
Stephen Alexander
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:08 PMCongrats guys!
Ben Latimore
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:35 PMHeh. Good to hear you won. What sort of questions were they?
Dunnowhathuh
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 11:26 PMHaha, congrats.
Jickle
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 11:35 PMDid the staff of whichever team lost all get fired?
Alex Portlock
Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 2:31 AMSounds like it would have been a lot of fun :D
Skarteh
Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 4:44 AMHahaha epic job :D Poor Gamespot. Good effort by GG evidently :)