[Community-service] Trivia night planning advisory call

Tue Apr 4 21:06:07 UTC 2017

Hi Janae, and everyone,
 The basic premise of trivia night is that people come (bring themselves or bring a team, doesn’t matter) and sit   at one of  the banquet-style tables in the room.  If a person is by themselves, we help them get acquainted with some new friends at a table needing more people. Typically teams are made of eight, .
  people, and questions are asked from multiple  categories (we are thinking of three categories this year).
 each team gets a certain amount of time ( we are thinking two minutes per question) to answer each question. Answers are written in braille and once a round ends, you give your paper to the judges  and receive a new sheet of paper  on which to write the answers for the next round.
  on the matter of getting your answers down on paper,
  we don’t care  how you get the braille on the page, so long as it is legible braille with the answers in list form so the judges can more easily read them.

We ask folks to bring their own slate and stylus, but we won’t stop  you if you decide you really want to bring a braille writer     if you really wanted too. 
  between rounds we are going to read off the answers, and the judges will tally  while the game moves along. we will give score updates periodically during natural stoppages.
 The team with the most points (correctly answered questions) after all three rounds will win the game.
 In the past we would offer a cash prize, but due to the low turn out, the payout wasn’t as great for the winning team.  We are looking into ways  to drive  traffic to the event, and may consider looking into alternate forms of prizes  or rewards to  give the winning team.
 This year we are between  returning to the music format  we did  last year or going to a more general  trivia set (music, pop culture, current events (etc).
 Thoughts?,       .     
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Janae Burgmeier via Community-Service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 
> I cannot make the call but I have a lot of experience running pub trivia so let me know how I can help. I have not gone to the event before at convention. 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:01 PM, president--- via Community-Service <community-service at nfbnet.org <mailto:community-service at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>> Good morning,
>> Every year for the past few years the community service division has held a trivia night fundraiser during the national convention.
>> This year, we plan on doing the same.
>> In the past, we would get many suggestions during and after the event of the types of things we should or should not try to do.
>> This year, we want to make an effort to try to include suggestions in the planning of trivia night and would appreciate your input as we go about planning for the best trivia night yet.
>> On Monday, April 3, we will be having a call for those who would like to advise us on the planning of trivia night. Of course, if you want to do a little more than give us advice, you are always welcome to help us plan/execute this event.
>> The call will take place at 8 PM Eastern. The call in information is as follows: (712) 432-0140. Access code, 808277. If you have been to trivia night and have an idea of what you think we did well, what  you think we could improve upon, what we could try different, that would be most welcome.
>> If you haven't gone to trivia night and you think you might have an idea that could get you and others like you to come to trivia night then we want to hear that too.
>> Join us if you can.
>> If you cannot join us, then please feel free to give us suggestions. 
>> You can email any of the board individually, you can contact me, you can respond to the listserv post here.
>> Either way, we look forward to hearing your suggestions and hopefully hearing from you on Monday!
>> Best,
>> Darian
>> 
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