Another year, another LONG drive to Point for me to join in, this time including a drive through the recently reopened Pigeon River Gorge section of I-40. If that sounds familiar, it was the section of Interstate that was partially washed away by the flooding from Hurricane Helene when it hit western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Living in Asheville through that was an incredible experience. The way the community came together, as well as the outpourings of support from all over the country, was awe inspiring and emotionally overwhelming from time to time. The area is well on its way to recover, and most areas are back open for business. The hardest hit areas may take years to be back to "normal", and the landscape will never look exactly the same. The gorge section is a perfect case-in-point, as it is currently two lanes separated by an 8-inch high yellow curb, with very slow travel speeds...but it was reopened through some true miracles of engineering in less than 6 months.
Besides that, the drive does annually make me question my sanity, but once the contest gets rolling that all goes away (even when the contest doesn't get rolling for a few extra hours!). Not sure what your personal thoughts were about submitting answers by Google Form, but I know that once we got the hang of it, I think it made the contest a little less stressful, and therefore a little more fun. I know calling in the answers is part of the game, but I've always accepted it as a necessary impediment from tradition, and if it goes away, I won't miss it. For me, it really is worth it to play this crazy game that allows us to forget the world for a long weekend, have fun with friends we may seldom see, and just, for a minute, relax.Â
This marks the 24th Annual* Trivia Power Rankings. Third contest written by DAC and Alex, and there hasn't been a slump yet. They really are making it their own while still keeping with the style and traditions from the past decades. The questions ranged from easy to ridiculous, with all the fun and frustration each entail. Always good when you can experience all the highs and lows in the same hour! This year's results seemed to have more ties and gaps between places where a single question made the different than I can recall ever seeing. The rankings have seen some change, with a good bit of shuffling even amongst the top teams. A hearty congratulations to Dad's Computers for pulling off the five-peat (and posting the first-ever PERFECT TPR score!), Festivus and Fursuit have swapped places, with Fursuit sneaking ahead into 2nd. Dad's lead has grown to 0.7057, and the gap between Fursuit and Festivus is 0.1522. Lactation is still holding on to 4th, and Triple Deception has moved ahead of both Network and UUU for 5th.
A few teams disappeared from the list again this year, but I was also able to add a few teams either back in because y'all reached out and let me know your name change history, or let me know you'd finally been playing at least 5 years (please keep doing that!). We're at about 135 teams being tracked (meaning they have been playing with approximately the same name for at least 5 years). I'm fairly sure there are still more than a few teams who could have a score listed but don't (if I find the time, I'll try to track you down), but as a reminder, it takes 5 years of data to generate the first score. If you have been playing 5 or more years with a name I can't trace (or was unable to trace this time around), or just haven't traced, let me know, and I'll do my best to get you added. Anyway, here are the numbers. 2025 scores & places used came from the 90FM Trivia website. If you disagree, please email (otistrivia@gmail.com) and we can discuss a better method.
Like the BCS (or golf), the lower your score, the better you are...or at least that's what the math says. I used data from the 2019-2024 contests (excluding the 2020 EiT), so, if your team didn't play all 5 years, or if I couldn't figure out your name changes from year to year, or I just didn't get around to tracing your history, you aren't listed. If you'd like to be included in this TPR, email me (otistrivia@gmail.com) your team names/places from the 2021-2025 contests, and I will be happy to make the changes.
Team 2024 2025 TPR TPR
Place Place 2024 2025
Dad's Computers 1 1 0.4979 0.4567
Trivial Fursuit 2 2 1.2661 1.1624
Festivus 3 3 1.1608 1.3146
Lactation Nation 7 8 3.0752 3.7319
Triple Deception 10 4 5.2328 3.7736
Network 9 6 4.4444 3.9398
UUU 5 7 4.3852 4.3682
Tin Man 4 9 4.8289 5.1924
Burnouts+Yaargh! 8 5 7.2665 5.5487
Graduates of a Lesser God 6 11 6.2985 6.5423
Freshly Squeezed 13 13 7.9400 8.2474
Cakers 11 17 6.4377 8.6729
Never Trust a Baby with a Mustache 19 14 13.7613 11.2933
Ah Bin Hyp-mo-tized! 21 16 13.0108 11.4778
Astro Wolfpack 17 19 11.4459 12.0483
Gene Autry's Ninja Warriors 20 15 14.8469 12.4114
WRTM 26 12 17.8064 13.4424
Late Night with Bob Keeshan 16 25 12.6918 14.7638
Assume the Position 25 18 16.6628 15.0096
The Choirboys 14 22 17.3078 16.7435
Beerpigs 28 23 21.9611 19.9318
beerB! 31 20 29.6694 20.2200
Help Wanted 40 24 28.1734 23.0316
Profound Confusion 22 38 21.2116 24.1550
Raging Tyrannosaurus of Dispair 24 28 29.5659 26.8653
Khiroko 41 29 34.1879 28.0076
Whatsamatta U 18 53 16.0270 28.9995
Dead Girl Girls 37 40 28.0452 29.7985
Team Beer and Company 46 33 37.7923 32.2315
Wake Up & Go to Sleep 51 41 38.0186 35.5288
Substation 34 45 33.6654 35.6190
Middle Urinal Smells Like Peaches 32 32 40.5937 35.7834
Poopsmiths 42 34 44.5524 35.8113
Zim 35 44 35.7557 36.3275
For Reasons Everyone Already Knows 27 52 29.8097 37.1680
Spermologist 56 37 43.6774 37.6980
HOH 30 51 33.7021 38.7727
90FMSI 45 43 42.2596 39.5894
Mutated Members 38 55 32.4671 39.9073
Grecian Formula 54 49 39.9881 40.4757
Shipoopi on Rice 52 27 56.4724 41.7624
Good Night Irene 53 48 43.5035 42.8972
Bongwater Cretins from Hell 29 64 32.3582 45.8807
Bugeaters 59 36 58.1762 46.2447
TDSTR 48 60 41.7720 47.7923
Keystone Kops 57 42 56.6962 48.6121
Same Time Next Year 67 59 52.2326 50.8975
Brownstar 62 55 62.7817 56.6789
Norwigan Loonery 71 62 62.1605 59.8650
Kitshnickers 67 57 68.4428 61.6663
Scholars of Gallifrey 64 66 63.4840 63.9018
Particle Truckers 44 74 55.6559 64.2948
All Of Us Nuts 64 72 63.3714 65.9908
Dyslexics 78 64 71.0831 66.7941
Threat Level Midnight 61 88 52.3906 67.8378
Six Feet Under 50 82 57.5479 68.2448
Wii 60 47 90.6273 71.1862
Franzia 63 69 71.4812 71.8486
Honey I Shrunk Their Minds 86 68 81.1070 71.8807
Unpainted Huffheins 79 81 68.4683 73.2236
Four Books & a Finger 73 73 74.5728 73.5813
BPLS 69 84 68.7048 76.1481
Big Band Theory 70 83 72.6127 77.6469
No One Knows 77 79 79.2047 79.5033
Tarboosh 58 93 69.1427 83.1502
"We Got Drugs, We Don't Need Underwear" 87 77 -- 83.7006
Shave 76 78 90.8311 84.2374
Sylvester 109 75 108.687 93.3540
The Other Pack 103 85 -- 94.1875
Eight Equals 85 110 78.1117 95.9543
Draw Putrid Dirt Upward 94 106 86.7475 99.0131
The Pickles 75 90 97.3413 99.3492
Yoda's Academy of Polish Wisdom 95 87 109.721 101.948
Sparky's Dead 88 97 103.665 103.837
Village Idiots 89 117 77.3756 105.501
Fossil Fuel 96 98 107.867 109.991
Midnight Madness 124 68 139.530 110.027
There's No Crying in Trivia 99 99 110.993 111.834
Horshack 93 101 109.246 112.748
Nana's 104 108 110.473 113.254
Nasonville Nitpickers 114 91 141.367 120.852
Shot Club 105 76 -- 124.888
UWSP: Underwear With Special Powers 80 112 118.564 129.878
Pirates of Suburbia 108 115 128.421 131.841
Killer Beez 102 123 117.610 136.200
Stinkvoid 123 94 159.294 136.263
Ned 113 122 126.881 137.392
Watts Up 72 71 -- 139.362
The Establishment 117 114 149.055 140.991
Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies 110 121 -- 141.691
Amherst Whale Watch 107 116 143.398 143.309
The Losers 124 126 142.729 150.592
Servants of the Beer God 116 127 149.271 156.691
Darth Vader's Lunch Box 127 119 166.592 160.376
P-Nuts 112 138 161.464 180.087
Sine Nomine 133 137 174.759 184.312
Einstein's Illegitimate Children 140 118 222.573 189.797
Where the Hell is Adam? 134 135 -- 196.411
Terrapin Station 106 89 239.335 205.444
Driving Miss Dottie 154 136 223.249 211.278
The 4 Balls at UW Arnott 145 143 213.152 214.705
Grolsch 155 148 229.930 228.688
We Got the Funk and No Wagnalls 170 158 -- 272.292
Screaming Carrots 141 157 302.389 290.056
Well We Still Don't Have A Name 158 164 416.589 319.661
Trivia Squids 177 174 307.187 335.584
Bubba Grump & His Testy Tentacles 145 171 321.021 336.008
John Doe 152 200 -- 365.629
Mazomanie Gandy Dancers 192 175 1753.19 384.143
MHD 161 198 249.778 389.498
Shake Rattle and Troll 188 190 351.562 395.349
Chronically Mad Cow Berkebeiners 181 178 393.765 395.834
Tune Squad 166 204 313.754 404.187
2 Peas in 2 Pods 188 179 480.199 441.094
"Relatives, Lord Help Us!" 193 196 418.169 459.733
"Phones Down, Phones Down in the Back" 210 214 375.967 516.293
Pinky's Brain 199 202 -- 520.731
Genskow Beef 191 201 507.947 565.348
Cliff the Rooster Banks @ UWCU 197 213 491.640 606.029
Donkeys Ablaze 183 227 283.743 617.370
Ralph and Company 204 189 773.298 685.818
Trivia Central 202 223 470.990 690.396
Brother Love's Traveling Trivia Show 214 209 786.925 712.245
Blue Bullitz 212 224 651.318 794.662
Linwood Floodwatchers 233 222 906.851 900.580
Chi Chi Rodriguez Energy Bands 235 237 1285.98 1319.05
Longpigs 240 234 1484.20 1329.46
Close-Enuf Construction Co 250 244 2062.29 2044.81
Thought Police 129 263 214.050 2210.21
Armadillo Appreciation Society 182 263 462.249 2349.72
CBF 226 265 1690.10 3429.47
Committee to Punch Oliva in the Face 260 257 4064.45 4154.52
Team Jinus 273 268 8432.20 7444.51