The trivia league taking a broken world by storm.
What is AST?
- A head-to-head daily sports trivia division
- 12-day "Fortnights" occurring at least 6 times per year
- Matches Monday through Friday only
- Twenty-four hours to answer five questions
- Defensive strategy to stymie your opponent
- Promotion/relegation from one Fortnight to the next
Sample Questions
Obscure
Somewhere between water skiing and surfing exists a sport in which a rider with his feet in bindings is towed behind a boat, and attempts aerial tricks off the crests the boat leaves in its…trail. What is this sport called?
Wakeboarding
Basketball
Alaska is the only state without a single Division 1 basketball program, but there are four states which boast just one, and in each of these, the school bears the name of the state. Name the school fitting this criteria whose D-1 basketball alums include Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle (who transferred to Virginia for his junior season) and former Bulls head coach Jim Boylen. Notable non-basketball alums include Paul Kariya, John Tortorella, and Stephen King.
University of Maine
Obscure
What chaotic, fictional “sport” was described in one academic paper as a "constant connecting and disconnecting of parts, the constant evasion of rules or guidelines based on collective creativity." It has included, per the sport's Wiki, the following elements: Soccer balls, flags, masks, numbered signs, songs, croquet mallets, an "invisible sector," a hobby horse, shuttlecocks, a volleyball, buckets, sacks, water balloons, "vortex spots," and "time-fracture wickets."
Calvinball