This past weekend was the "guilty pleasure" of a 54-hour marathon trivia contest. Between 8am Friday and 3am Monday I got about 7 hours of actual sleep, and in between (to make a long story short) we managed to amass 7355 points, a 10th place finish, and a trophy! It was Freshly Squeezed's first top-10 finish in the Stevens Point contest ever, and we were the only "new" team in the top 10 (everyone else was already adding to their trophy shelf). The phone call at 12:30am inviting us down to the station for the awards ceremony made the last year's preparations well worth it. I'm almost caught up on sleep already, which is good since I have a 20km run next weekend to prep for and then the Madison half-marathon a few weeks later.
While this is the second top-10 trivia finish this year for us (we took 6th assisting the Voodoo Dolls in the St. Cloud State KVSC trivia contest in February), this is the most meaningful of them. Now we just have to keep it up, fix our mistakes (we finished approximately 4000 points behind 1st place), and try to get back into the top 10 next year!
A little picture of our trophy and the team "quote book" where funny things said during the contest get recorded (or at least things that seemed funny at the time). The invitation to the awards ceremony is written in there as well.
"We have a little get together each year down at the station - by invitation only...and we'd like Freshly Squeezed to be there!"
