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[Closed] The World-Famous STW Pub Quiz 2.0

Cougar · 2021-05-15T01:02:30Z

WE SAID WE WOULD, AND NOW WE ARE! Totally official and STW-approved! New and improved, so the previous one is old and inferior! Guaranteed at least 17% more fun! There will be prizes! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl! Free kitten with every entry! Everything in this paragraph aside from this one final sentence is an outright lie, fight me! The second STW Quiz is going to take place next Wednesday, the 19th of whatever the hell month we're in now, Octember or Fanuary or who the frank knows any more. Are we allowed outside yet? It's dark and there are wolves. I think I hear my mother calling me. As ever, your ruggedly handsome and devilishly charismatic hosts will be: @NBT: Quiz-wrangler. @RogerMoore: Zoom-wrangler. @Cougar: Wrangler-of-ceremonies. I suddenly now realise typing this that we haven't actually agreed a time, such is the gloriously well-oiled machine that we are. So I'm gonna throw a stake in the ground just now as "assemble at 7:30 for an 8pm start". This may change at the behest of my peers if I've bollocksed it up. Last time around we staggered the running order because we had no clue whether we'd get a take-up of 3,000 or 3, and in the end the Venn diagram of "people who said they were really interested" intersecting with "people who actually turned up" were as close to two disparate circles as makes no odds. But a couple of dozen folk did manage to trap and a great time was (I hope?) had by all, so assuming similar turnout numbers it's gonna be self-managing without requiring further chicanery. TL;DR - it'll be simpler to join this time around. The quiz will be played via myquiz.org so we’d recommend having two separate devices for the chat and the quiz. Please check that you can load the site in your browser of choice ahead of time. You can sign up to myquiz via various methods but it’s not mandatory, you can just play a one-off by entering the game code on the front page. The whole thing is automated once rolling, we're - well, NBT is - proposing an 80 question game which once kicked off will take 40 minutes to complete. I'd suggest setting your Zoom display name to something like ‘forum username (real first name)’ but participation in the Zoom video chat isn't by any means required and you can just play along with the game silently if you like, as ably demonstrated by Perchypanther last time who swerved the chat and still destroyed the lot of us by a very long chalk. Or you can join by voice or via text even, whatever your comfort zone. If you miss the start of the game you can still join in midway but you won't be able to score points for questions you've missed. Post-quiz we'll hang out on Zoom until everyone gets bored or falls over. As above, participation in the quiz isn't a prerequisite for joining the chat so if you just want to rock up around 9pm or later and talk bollocks for a bit then that's cool too. Any questions or to pre-register interest, please post below. Connection details for Zoom and Game will be posted on the day.

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Cougar

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Cougar – Benevolent Dictatorship is the best way to organise this stuff in my experience.

Aye. I come from Mono where I believe we invented that term.

Posted : 20/05/2021 11:13 pm

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