BII beats Purple Pros 195-85

More details Monday, but Usenet's Black Ink Irregulars beat the Purple Pros in the annual (except for last year) San Diego Pro/Fan. The topic this year was JLA and Avengers, in honor of Purple Pro Kurt Busiek. The BII jumped out to a 105-0 lead, followed by a run by the Pros to make it 125-90. But the BII pulled it out at the end, winning by a 195-85 score.

We also learned that Len Wein still can't get questions about his own work (being beaten to the punch on it by BIIer Tim Lynch) and that Kurt does remember his own work, both getting the toss-up related to it and giving a correct answer on a bonus on his work after the BII missed.

Total Pro-Fan record goes to Pros 5, Fans 3.

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Congratulations!!!

Erm for those of us who have never attended San Diego by virtue of living on a completely different continent, could you explain what this contest is and who makes up each team, besides those mentioned here?

Yes!! BII, representin'! Great work, team!

...Loren

Har! I took the Vegas bookies on this bout for all they had!

'I'll get my revenge on all of society! I'll build a mighty criminal empire!'

Jeff Meyer, N.C., N.Q.D.Y. [Not Quite Dead Yet]

© 2003 by Jeff Meyer

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It's the annual fans (exclusively rac'ers?) vs. pros trivia contest at the San Diego Comic Con. I don't know who was on each team this year. Tom does a good job providing details on the match, so no doubt those are in the forthcoming post he promised above.

Tom

I may have been on the winning team this year, but I didn't answer a single question myself. At least I didn't cost the team any points, though. And my performance matched that of Carlos Pacheco for the pro team.

I checked google for the old threads and put this win/loss chart together:

2003 JLA/Avengers (fans) (BII 195-85) 2002 no match [replaced by 'Beat the Geeks'] 2001 Super-teams (PP 135-125) 2000 works of Jack Kirby (PP 225-85) 1999 pre-Crisis (emphasis on Batman and the Legion) (PP 140-130) 1998 pre-Crisis Superman (PP 150-135) 1997 Silver Age (BII 195-160) 1996 no theme (BII 280-125) 1995 no theme (BII wins)

I note that during the 1998 threads, you claimed it was 2-2 instead of 3-1, and that error has continued. Using contemporaneous discussions, I see it as tied 4 matches apiece, not 5-3 in favor of the Pros.

It's a group of four pros versus four fans in comics trivia: the Rich Morrissey Pro/Fan Trivia Competition. The pro group's core typically consists of Kurt Busiek, Len Wein, and Mark Waid, (aided and abetted from time to time by luminaries like Tom Brevoort, Marv Wolfman, and Roger Stern) while the fan group's core typically consists of whoever Tom Galloway can round up (Rich was on the fan team for years until his death in 2001; the team usually consists of RACers, who have included Jim Drew, Jim Murdoch, Tim Lynch, John Sardegna, David Goldfarb, Alfred Day, Pete Bickford, Eric Sturgeon, Elmo, Sidne Ward, and me, among others over the years).

In previous contests, there is a tossup question where a person hits a buzzer when he thinks he knows the answer (penalty points if you incorrectly guess an interrupted question). If you get it right, you get points and get to pick a category of questions, and as a team you collectively discuss the answer. Get that right, you get more points. Winner has the most points when time runs out or the questioner runs out of questions.

Will the questions and the answers (from both teams) be posted?

Um, can I have a reference on the 1997 result? The score looks right, but I think that you have the result reversed. That's the year which has inspired Tom to bore us all numerous times with, 'But only by one question, that we would have got if I hadn't spaced out!'.

As far as I can recall, Rich was only on the fan team in 1998