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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
Country Club
In 2022, all four grand slams employed the same final set tiebreaker format for singles, likely ending for good the era of all four majors having different systems. A year earlier, in 2021, these were the systems employed, in no particular order:
1. No final set tiebreaker (players play until one wins by 2 games)
2. Final set tiebreaker to 10 points at 6-all game score
3. Final set tiebreaker to 7 points at 6-all game score
4. Final set tiebreaker to 7 points if both players reach 12-all game score
From 1-4, in order corresponding to the descriptions above, list the grand slams that matched the format listed.
French Open, Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
Basketball
While the game in the previous question was strange but beloved, this game is strange and despised. The first basketball game on the SNES, it had the name “Combat Basketball.” Players could play as violent on defense as they wanted while dodging bombs and other obstacles. This sounds fun but it definitely was not! It’s viewed as one of the worst games on the system. The game was endorsed by a fitting player though. Which notoriously physical defensive stalwart lent his name to this awful game?
Bill Laimbeer
Uncategorized
The preceding nine answers include the first names or nicknames of nine men. (Number 9 is a homophone.) These nine names are connected in infamy because of events that took place in what year?
1919