what am i going to do now?

Oh noes! The guys who run my monthly quizmail have decided to pack it in at the end of the year. *Hyperventilates*

They cite the growth of the Internetz (which they can't operate) spoiling their clever ruses i.e. it's actually possible to find the answers in the time allotted. Also, the Royal Mail is not efficient enough. Considering they posted this month's quiz on Tuesday and I got it today that seems pretty weak.

No, the current conspiracy theory on my chat group is that they have proved fallible on so many ambiguous or just plain wrong answers that they have decided to cut their losses and run. Actually their lack of online skillz may be true. The wealth of information has allowed mere mortals to find alternatives to their absolute answers and as there is quite a bit of money involved it's just safer to stop. They have tried to find more obscure questions and pictures to try and catch us out with stuff that's hard to find via search engines and wikipedia and they are obviously finding it tough.

You may recall, or probably not, the great tank dispute of January which unhappily coincided with their revamped league system that allowed only people with all answers right in the top champions league. As that month included a provably wrong answer, to award £1000 prize money to people with the wrong answer was just ... wrong.

All hell broke lose on the chat group and several members threatened never to sully their minds with the quiz again. Now that threat has abated there was further controversy this month with wallabies for which they had to eventually consult the head of Zoology in New South Wales. His response showed that the answers they had (both of them in fact) were wrong. They still marked them right. It won't do.

In other news I have been temporarily promoted to Second in Department until Christmas. More money. Squee!! Meanwhile:

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what am i going to do now?

Oh noes! The guys who run my monthly quizmail have decided to pack it in at the end of the year. *Hyperventilates*

They cite the growth of the Internetz (which they can't operate) spoiling their clever ruses i.e. it's actually possible to find the answers in the time allotted. Also, the Royal Mail is not efficient enough. Considering they posted this month's quiz on Tuesday and I got it today that seems pretty weak.

No, the current conspiracy theory on my chat group is that they have proved fallible on so many ambiguous or just plain wrong answers that they have decided to cut their losses and run. Actually their lack of online skillz may be true. The wealth of information has allowed mere mortals to find alternatives to their absolute answers and as there is quite a bit of money involved it's just safer to stop. They have tried to find more obscure questions and pictures to try and catch us out with stuff that's hard to find via search engines and wikipedia and they are obviously finding it tough.

You may recall, or probably not, the great tank dispute of January which unhappily coincided with their revamped league system that allowed only people with all answers right in the top champions league. As that month included a provably wrong answer, to award £1000 prize money to people with the wrong answer was just ... wrong.

All hell broke lose on the chat group and several members threatened never to sully their minds with the quiz again. Now that threat has abated there was further controversy this month with wallabies for which they had to eventually consult the head of Zoology in New South Wales. His response showed that the answers they had (both of them in fact) were wrong. They still marked them right. It won't do.

In other news I have been temporarily promoted to Second in Department until Christmas. More money. Squee!! Meanwhile:

( Sports roundup )