We participated in the very first online pubquiz between ourselves in Timms Coffee House and the Black Bull in Trimdon. We won! This was great for a number of reasons. It was a great boost as we were just recovering from the floods. The other reason was that the Black Bull had what they thought was an ace on their team – Prime Minister Tony Blair (pictured below). He turned out to be no help at all and we trounced them. This led to a whole string of Community Challenges which grew in size until it covered the entire country. We even had a Euro Challenge. We had a TV crew with us at the time so you can enjoy the atmosphere at Timms in the video below.
Tony Plays for Trimdon
This event was in the very early days of UK online and captured the interest of the network and came to the attention of BECTA and in particular a guy named Alastair Clark. Between Becta through Alastair, Teesside Uni through Steve Thompson and ourselves in Skinningrove we took this idea to the nation and indeed the world.
After the first one there was a challenge across the UK.
Then there was the Euro Challenge – Click Here For Skinningrove Eurostars .
And then there was a 52 team UK wide community challenge and the moderators were trained in Skinningove
And the most recent was the “Two Tribes” challenge between the Maynard Arms, Carlin How and Toad Hall Arms, Moorsholm.
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