Jim Gray
Jim Gray
competition five four friday itself last register team won year
The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.
breaking good month
When a good month is just breaking even, there is no making up for the bad.
plug pull
Did they pull the plug on us in a way that I just think is despicable? Absolutely.
almost court entirely high people police school teams time together weird work
We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made up almost entirely of high school teachers. We had a team that was all police and court workers. It's a time to get together with your friends and that's typically the people that you work with so we have these weird little bunches of people.
air basically hour nine questions
Basically we do about nine questions an hour over the air on KVSC.
If we had a little more snow, it would have been nicer.
enforce influence laws workers
We need to enforce the laws that are existing. But I am acknowledging the big influence workers have on our economy.
announce looking pirate questions start year
They compile it and in August, when we announce the theme, they start looking for some theme-related stuff. So this year there will be some nautical questions and pirate questions.
challenge people pick runners team town wants
We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.
few hovering past teams
We've been hovering right around 70-75 teams the past few years.
energy oil
We're an energy city. In my lifetime, it doesn't get better than $60 oil and $11 gas.
fast good interested looking pick
We're still looking for volunteers. The good shifts go fast so those that are interested need to get down here and pick out a time.
across challenges competition famous far few george guy lake question running safety team
There is the question of safety in doing some of those other things. We have done a few things like that in the past. There have been some team challenges to do things. There's the famous guy running across Lake George, this is like 20 below, running across Lake George with nothing but a jockstrap. That's been done, but as far as the competition it's question based.
equally gets people phone picking volunteer
Some people find it equally as entertaining to come down here and volunteer on this end because you're the person picking up the phone answering. It gets to be kind of frenzied and it's fun.