Trivia match 1

[Macalaure]

Team 2 on the other hand did not send any PM

Ummm, yeah... our team coordination wasn't the best, I guess. I think I was the last to pm the others yesterday. I caught a flu around the end of last week and couldn't think much at all, so I just hoped that somebody else could still get online before the deadline. We didn't have an idea anyway (although, of course, in hindsight, it seems awfully obvious).

This was fun! Where can I sign up for the next?

Originally Posted by Legate

As to what could be upgraded in the game, I think only that we could, for further games, realize Mac's idea and make two-people teams. I am not sure how it worked in the second team, but I believe this game could be completed with just two players on each team (of course if they were still present). Of course four people means more possible ideas, but there will be, I believe, better interaction just between two people and mainly, still every member seeks the answer for himself. And in that case, it does not make a difference whether the people are two or four.

A problem was, that almost all the time at least one person's pm inbox was full. With smaller teams this should be less of a problem. I also think that the match would be even more exciting with more than two teams.

[The Might]

Ok, so there we have it.

For the next one we need a moderator firstly, and then all others sing up and once we have enough we can start.
We'll try the 2 member teams I guess.

So any other takers?
Also, any ideas about improvements for the rules?

PS: Don't want to say I said so, but I do remember posting that Inboxes should constantly be kept as empty as possible.

[Folwren]

I enjoyed myself, though I was of little help when the questions were from the UT.

One suggestion I have is to make certain that all contestants had read the books being quized on. I haven't read all of the UT, so that posed problems. Solutions to that problem is either drop a book if not all of the people had read it, or not allow anyone to join who has not read all four books.

It was fun. I won't be doing it again - life is stressful and I didn't have much time to think and look things up for the game, so I didn't do it justice.

-- Folwren

[The Might]

I guess it is sufficient if one in a team has read them.
Dropping HOME and maybe, maybe UT would be ok, but I am not even considering to participate in a game without LotR, The Hobbit or the Silmarillion.
The questions have to be after all a bit more difficult then the usual trivia stuff, and I wanted them to be difficult to answer.

[Folwren]

No...don't drop the LotR, Hobbit, or Silmarillion. You don't necessarily have to even drop the Unfinished Tales, I just said it would be best if all of them had read it.

It almost worked to have just one player know all the books, but it didn't quite. As you notice, the two questions that we did not get were both from Unfinished Tales - it was obviously our weekest point. For me, it was the only book I had not read, and I don't know about my fellow teammates, but there it is.

-- Folwren

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by The Might

I guess it is sufficient if one in a team has read them.

I'd disagree at this point, TM. If some people have not read the book at all, they can stand on their head but they won't find the answer however much they try. It is kind of stupid to spend several hours in browsing different books just to realize in the end that you could not in any way find the right answer because it was not in any book you have.

On the other hand...

Originally Posted by The Might

Dropping HOME and maybe, maybe UT would be ok, but I am not even considering to participate in a game without LotR, The Hobbit or the Silmarillion.

My opinion on this is that even UT should stay It's just personal, though, but I believe most of the most interesting stuff is in there. Maybe we could make two kinds of games, depending on the current interest of players: a "non-UT" and an "UT" version; and we'd choose which version will be played depending on the current players.

As to the inboxes, I believe it's necessary to have at least five spaces free, that means at maximum fifteen messages in your inbox whenever you are leaving the Downs. (And with only two players in a team, the five spaces might suffice quite nicely.) Because in the four player teams, you need to count with at least three PMs coming from your teammates, and it may happen that someone else PMs to you at that moment, so... at least I did so and never had the problem (though sometimes it was close).

[The Might]

You should stop playing that confusing WW game, that only creates PMs that unnecessarily block incoming trivia PMs.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by The Might

You should stop playing that confusing WW game, that only creates PMs that unnecessarily block incoming trivia PMs.

There is no confusing WW game running now. The only game PM that came to me during the course of the Trivia match was from the Paper Telephone (and that was when there was just the last question remaining)