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Here's a blow by blow account of this year's San Diego Pro/Fan trivia match. The theme, as suggested by Kurt Busiek, was JLA and Avengers in honor of the forthcoming JLA/Avengers book. The restriction, as decided by Tom Galloway in his role as match organizer, was that the match would cover all of the JLA from Brave and Bold #28 through the end of the first JLA series, and Avengers would go from #1 through #277 (aka last issue of the Siege of Avengers Mansion storyline).
Players were, for the Purple Pros, Len Wein, Mark Waid, and Kurt Busiek. Carlos Pacheco was supposed to play, but didn't show up for reasons I didn't learn. For the Black Ink Irregulars, aka the Snapper Carr/Rick Jones Fan Club, it was Tom Galloway, Sidne Ward, Tim Lynch, and John Sardegna.
Yep, I both organized and played. The usual organizer, Jim Hay, had the bad timing to get married two weeks prior to the con and didn't have time to do it. I drafted David Goldfarb to serve as question editor, and sent out some requests for writers to send questions to David. The questions below were written by (in alphabetical order) Tom Brevoort, David Goldfarb, Jess Nevins, and John Wells. I don't know who wrote what question, with one exception noted below; perhaps David can annotate that. David emailed the questions to Joe Helfrich in San Diego during the con, who got them to Jim, who was able to serve as moderator and buzzer system provider as usual. Thanks to all who helped out.
And now, here's the match. I'm sure that I've matched up each question with who answered it, and that the running score totals are accurate. I may have misassociated some tossup/bonus pairs (i.e. the bonus was not the one asked for that tossup), since Jim reordered them from the original order that I was worked from on this post (early in, Jim started trying to save bonuses with only one answer to be used as tossups for when we'd run out of those, since whenever both teams missed a tossup, there'd otherwise be an extra bonus left over). I am sure that for each bonus, I've correctly noted which team got to try to answer it, and whether it was answered correctly.
Kurt, Sidne, Tim, and John are encouraged to correct and add to this report. And yes, I chose to refer to myself in the third person below. After each tossup question is the initials of the team who got it, and the name of the person who got it. Consultation was allowed on bonuses, making it too difficult to note who answered that type of question.
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