Is it…celebrating when a trivia team has a trivia host queue up “their” song and they proceed to dance to it after they’ve won? Or is it grandstanding?

A grandstanding scene in the 1998 film BASEketball, where the players begin to do the “Riverdance.”

Keep in mind, this was merely a regular season game, and not a semifinals or tournament game. Also keep in mind this was only a mildly competitive trivia spot (though I’d like to think when my team shows up we give them more of a run for their money than the regular teams with whom they have to battle). Not saying this as a bragging point, but…the more teams the merrier – and the better the teams are in the room, even more the merrier! Victories need to be worth SOMETHING after all, don’t they? Maybe that’s just me, but I’ve always felt trivial victories taste all the better when you’ve trounced truly worthy adversaries than when you’re merely a big fish in a little pond. Like being a fifth grader winning a kindergarten trivia competition, if you will.

My own trivia team has, on occasion, sung our “fight song” after certain trivial victories. Yes, we have a fight song, and Brad sings it very, very badly (yet enthusiastically)! But not so much during regular season games – we tend to reserve such…”grandstanding” for special victories, such as tournaments.

I have no problems with trivia teams celebrating their victories. But in this case, I’m gonna say a couple of fist-bumps and a couple of clinks of glasses of “victory drinks”  would have sufficed! Making yourselves the center of attention by dancing was a bit…excessive IMHO. How about taking your show on the road and winning a first place at the Corner Brewery on Wednesday nights? Or Haymaker on a Tuesday or Wednesday?

Again, not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, and I’m not trying to be nasty. I just felt this needed to be said.

Enough about trivia for today! I need to get dressed for a walk!