Bucc Bowl

Saturday June 13th – time for cheap hair and no shoes. Yes – Buccaneer Bowl strikes again.

After the last 2 performances, I have to admit I didn’t have high expectations for this one, but we went along nonetheless. I was a little concerned about my speed as I hadn’t been going to much trivia, and the lag monster had made itself my very special friend over the last couple of days.

The scene of the crime - er event - before I said goodbye to characters

For me though, Bucc Bowl, like most things, isn’t all about winning. It’s about taking part and having a laugh. The last Bucc Bowl event I either looked at the questions and thought ‘huh?’, or I saw the question at the same time as 10 answers, so not much opportunity for me to take part. I figured this time had to be better, and I could only hope that the lag monster would find a few other friends to play with while we were there.

Apologies to all the teams there, but as soon as I get there it’s off with those characters so all I see is odd names and bits of ship. I was greeted though by a very cute player indeed. A little chipmunk called Devin came to greet me. She surely won the prize for cutest player on the day.

Devin attempting to put the opposition off by biting their ankles

It was nice to see some new players there – both new trivia players and old faces too, and thanks to early organisation from Lette we started pretty much on time. The puns had started before the event got under way, and much as we moan about them, it’s these puns that keep us going. And I’m sorry, but as long as Mael is on my team – bad puns or not - you can’t chuck him overboard until the end!

Unlike last time, I wasn’t the only one of Trumpton Trivia online at the start, Ana and Mael were also there - sadly no sign of Stiggs. Despite several frantic im’s hoping they would go through to e mail, he never actually made it. So we were down to just 3. And all Brits at that, so any US questions were right out for us.

Trumpton - ready and raring to go

Usually at these events I get 2 right – pretty average. First question – I got 2nd place – good start, it meant I faced the prospect of a pretty boring 2 hours. This however, turned out to be my best Bucc Bowl yet, and I got in the top 3 in 5 questions. I even scored in the question about US Presidents – unheard of!


Unlike last time, I did get to see the questions. I didn’t get to read them – but I got to see them. It was a case of ‘which volcano................’ and off everyone went with volcanoes. ‘Which brand of mustard .....................’ and off everyone went with mustard. I other words, pick out the obvious word and go for it – read the question afterwards. I also knew a few more of the answers, which made it easier to join in. It was nice to be able to do something other than watch text scroll up my screen. Although we only practically score points for coming in the top 3, I personally think it’s an achievement for anyone if they get in to the top 10. The time between the answers is miniscule – so well done anyone who got any answer into chat at all.


I did some post event calculations, and I worked out where my total put me on points for the day. I won’t say where I came but I am a very happy bunny. We pulled together as usual and managed a much better performance than our previous 2 contests. We managed 6th place again, but we did make some decent money this time, and I for one certainly enjoyed the day a lot more. I’d like to thank the lag monster for leaving me alone at least for those 2 hours at the weekend. Unfortunately he more than made up for it after the event, and I ended up re-installing Second Life altogether.


The only problem we seemed to have was the usual Group Chat. This has been particularly dire recently, and a few teams couldn’t even get a group im open. I gave up and opened a conference call, but I don’t think all 3 of us stayed connected. Hopefully for next time Linden Labs will have resolved the chat thing (As I write that last comment, I am surrounded by flying pigs), and that will make things run all the more smoothly.

Lette, Thornton and Lillian did a tremendous job as always, and thanks have to go to them for their time, and also their money.

Despite Lette offering to host Chaos trivia completely naked if anyone toppled the Triviators, they won again. They were tempted to throw the game but their competitive spirit took over. They did get some stiff opposition this time, so maybe next time someone will take their crown. Trumpton have won before – so who knows – maybe we’ll do it again!