TRASHionals, 3/31-4/1/01

Results: Northwestern (Adamle Conference, Thoro Division)
(Robert Flaxman, Tyler Johnson, Justin Mauger, Dana Schwartz)

    Remember that because this is TRASH, schools aren't always directly represented, although that was actually the case with a fair number of teams here.  But team names aren't schools, they're created as pop culture references.
    Team scoring here was done in North American Soccer League style: 3 points for a win, two points for a tie.  You also got an extra point for each 100 points you scored in competition.  We finished the first day (playoff placement rounds, essentially) with 41 points - seven wins and 20 extra points (we at least passed 100 in every round but one).  Despite losses in rounds eight, nine, and ten, we rebounded with a surprising win over the Craig Barker (I'm pretty sure that's his last name, but I apologize if it's not) team Mike Keenan Employment Agency, LLC.  Another Craig-led team, Fever Dog, had whooped our ass pretty soundly at Ann B. Davis, which made this surprising, at least to me.
    The low point of the day, meanwhile, had to be losing to the other "Crouching x, Hidden y" team, whose entomologically-inspired name was not nearly as creative as ours.  Plus it was our second-worst round scoring-wise.

    Then came Sunday, which was significantly worse than the first day because we managed to slip into the top bracket in the playoffs.  That, in and of itself, sounds pretty good, except it means we're playing all our rounds against guys who were in college when I was in grade school.  Well, a lot of them, anyway.   So while we played a couple close games, we more often got blown out, and didn't help ourselves out much in the close games by laming the wrong bonuses and giving away free points (in a game we lost by 45, the score was tight on the 19th question when Tyler answered Head Over Heels to a question - which would have been fine except it was my buzzer that was lit).  Well, you can't win them all.  Or in this case any of them.

Round One: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 215, Dog's Bollocks 165
Round Two: Breakfast at Chippendale's 115, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 65
Round Three: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 325, The Bald and the Booty-ful 15
Round Four: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 235, Almost Shameless 160
Round Five: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 241, Friendship at the Front of the Lines 210
Round Six: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 350, Do Androids Dream of Inflatable Sheep? 85
Round Seven: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 205, Camryn Manheim Steamroller 190
Round Eight: Dude, Where's My Buzzer? 196, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 150
Round Nine: Tonight We'll Paint Your Corpses Red 275, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 220
Round Ten: Crouching Tiger Moth, Hidden Dragonfly 155, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 130
Round Eleven: Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 285, Mike Keenan Employment Agency, LLC 245

Playoff Round Robin

Round One: Steve McQueensryche 290, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 90
Round Two: BATTLEPLANET!!! 330, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 60
Round Three: Steel Margolises 220, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 205
Round Four: Almost Shameless 250, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 205
Round Five: O Gerbil, Where Art Thou? 340, Crouching Tyler, Hidden Flaxman 170

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

   No one's asking you to care about it.  Powers are in bold (except there are no powers in TRASH), neg-5s are in italics with the real answer following.  Anything in plain text was just ten.  TRASH also has weird stuff like audio clues.  These have been highlighted in red.

Round One
"Paul Simon - You're the One" (really David Gray - Babylon)
Leprechaun: In the Hood
Mann's Chinese Theater
Listerine
Celtic Pride

Round Two
Toronto Film Festival
Dean Koontz

Round Three
Green Jacket
Forrest Whitaker
"BC-Miami" (really Stanford-Cal)
You Can't Do That on Television
"Jerry West" (really John Havlicek)
Mad Magazine

Round Four
DMX

Round Five
Blink 182
Coronation Street
North American Soccer League

Round Six
Abracadabra
Blues
Stuckey Bowl
Calder Trophy
The Great Santini
Marat Safin
Superman
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Round Seven
Matinee
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Bye, Bye, Bye

Round Eight
Blazing Saddles
Wesley Willis
Egg cream
The Weakest Link

Round Nine
Michael Bolton (no, they did not play a Michael Bolton song - they played a clip from Office Space)
Johnny Bench

Round Ten
"All that Jazz" (really The Jazz Singer)
Love Stinks
"Sleepers" (really Dreamcatcher)
"Shag" (really Linoleum)

Round Eleven
Play Misty for Me
"Manchester United" (really Liverpool)
Trade Federation

Playoff Round One
Lambeau Field
The Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards

Playoff Round Two
Funky Winkerbean
George W. Bush

Playoff Round Three
"The Secret Diary of Desmond Q. Pfeiffer" (really The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer - yeah, how much does that suck?)
Jacqueline Susann
Radioland Murders

Playoff Round Four
Martini
K2
Spencer Tracy
Otis Redding
Ed Grimley

Playoff Round Five
Mad City

PPG: 26.25