Score Board

Captain Gnome: 13, 644.35

Nerd Alert: 11,812.69

Fish Sticks:6,930

Your Mom: 1,037

The Dragonballerz: 400

Pintayak:15

Team Chris: 0

TJ McGough (Bad Ass): 0

4PM Check-in

Dear Tricathletes,

Bring one backpack filled with as many random items as possible to the 4PM check-in at the Business field. You will be competing with the contents of the backpack. The backpack must be zipped shut and no items may be strapped to the outside. Items in backpack pockets are okay as long as they don't radically exceed the pocket capacity.

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Trica Promo Video

Thanks to Matthew McAllister for his exceptional promotional video.
Trica Promotional from Matthew McAllister on Vimeo.

Intro Video

Noble Tricatheltes,

I have a project for you. Now that your teams are starting to assemble, it's time for your first item. Make us an intro video celebrating your marvelous team of 5. Bring this to the midnight check-in for bonus points and get a leg-up on the competition.

Videos should be between 3 and 10 minutes and highlight the strengths, weaknesses, and lack of inhibition of each team member. Points based on badassness and production quality.

Heart,
Trica Gnome

Easter Sunday

Dear Tricathletes,

Just to clarify, this year's Tricadecathlonomania is NOT on Easter Sunday, save for the 1 minute at 12:00AM. The event is ALL DAY Saturday. Think of it as starting on Friday night (the 10th) at 11:59PM. I hope that clears things up. See you all soon.

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Team Formation and Midnight Check-in

Dear Tricathletes,

The Midnight Check-in will be at the Northwest Corner of Farrand Field by the Music Building and Baker on Saturday, April 11th.

Remember to start getting your teams ready, you just have a little over a week. Teams must have the following positions and cannot be over 5 people.

• Team Name
• 1 Team Captain
• 3 Teammates
• 1 Cameraman
• 1 video camera (or a digital camera but this will make it a lot more difficult)

Bring this team to the midnight check-in on Saturday, April 11th.

See you all there.

Heart,

Trica Gnome

A Word on Cheating, Bribery, and Foul Play

In the words of the national Trica site:

"Bribe your judges, cheat your opponents, and find loopholes in the system. All of these things are encouraged."

Happy Hunting!

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Trica History and Trailer

Dear Tricathletes,

It's time that you know the origin of this quest. It began in the little college town of Northfield, MN in 2001. The national Trica website puts it well:

"The Tricadecathlonomania was created in the year of our lord, 2001 by Alex Robins and Tad Johnson of Northfield Minnesota. In that year, this 24 hour long scavenger hunt first occurred. The concept of a scavenger hunt is a simple one, teams go out to collect objects and return them by grace of god to the judges for points, and the team with the most points wins. Well, with the advent of Polaroid cameras and handheld video recorders, a new breed of scavenger hunt came forth. This allowed items to become larger, less tangible, heavier, grosser, and pretty much more righteous."

The prize for winning this epic quest is nothing short of eternal glory. The winning team ascends to judgehood and becomes responsible for writing the list for and judging Tricadecathlonomania 2010.

If you want to find out yet more about Trica history and the format of the hunt you can check out the wikipedia page for the national Trica.

The trailer for the 2007 Trica is available here.

You may be wondering why we're not taking part in the national Trica here at CU. This is because a local Trica allows us to write a list relevant to CU and Boulder instead of the watered-down, generic Trica list that needs to apply to Tricathletes in both Northfield and Richmond, Virginia.

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Facebook

If you would,

Join the CU Tricadecathlonomania event and friend me for more updates and info for this year's Trica.

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Spread The Word

Dear Tricathletes,

Your to-do list:

1. Let friends know about this year's Trica on Saturday, April 11th

2. Friend me on facebook. It wouldn't accept my real name so I'm under "CU Trica" instead

3. Join the event "CU Tricadecathlonomania" for even more updates

4. Start assembling your 5-person teams

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Prepare for Eternal Glory

This year's Tricadecathlonomania will begin at midnight on Saturday, April 11th. As usual you will be in teams of 5 with one camera between you. You will have 24 hours to complete as many of the 288 items as possible. I'll give you more info as we get closer to the date, mainly in the form of my favorite items from previous years.

Happy hunting!

Heart,

Trica Gnome

Old List Items

Dear Tricathletes,

Here's a handful of items from the 2004, 2005, and 2006 lists. The items on your list will be of the same caliber and absurdity. You may recognize some of them from the posters you see around the halls. Enjoy!

The 2004 List

1. Have one team member dress as each: a matrix agent, a justice league member, a Muppet, and an inanimate object. These outfits must be worn to all checkins (excepting list handout) and in all video/photographic evidence. [300]

4. Make a sculpture of George Washington crossing the Potomac out of various meats. [60-90 depending on quality]

8. a cordless or tailless mouse. [50 pts]

51. Make the most defensive birthday cake possible [60 pts]

64. Make DUCK tape. [20-80]

71. Make a giant mousetrap game used to capture small children. [90]

99. Make pork on the cob. [20]

108. Make a Pikachu doll that actually delivers an electrical shock. [175]

111. Donate sperm [75 pts for males, 175 pts for females]

131. Rant "flash flood!" in a crowded theater. [45]

169. Utilize a car and someone in the trunk to the fullest potential. [70-150 depending on hilarity]

179. Make a homemade urinal. (bonus for complex plumbing, [+20-50])[65]

180. Make the most offensive birthday cake possible. [20]

196. Brush your teeth with Elmer's glue. [25]

239. Put on an erotic puppet show in a mall. [90]

240. MUTILATION: Bad Hair day. Shave it all! (bonus if all are shaved, [+100])[head=80, eyebrows=150,

armpits=20, legs=30, back=20, chest and stomach= 50, butt=50, nether region=100]

244. Proof of at least one team member holding a Tricadecathlonomania sign at a location 100 miles away. [150]

270. Everyone in the group covered in butter going down a slide simultaneously. [65]

The 2005 List

12) Proclaim that today is "tuna Tuesday" and hand out samples to passersby. [50]
19) Make a new periodic table including all of the standard elements, plus the following: Turbonium, Delirium, Testiculum, Hot Fudge, Progerium, and BOOM! Tough Actin’ Tinactin. (Points based on hilarity of  Greek names and atomic symbols along with placement accuracy) [60]
32) Poop in a time capsule, label it "The Decline of Western Civilization," and bury it. [40]
34) Eat fruity pebbles and milk out of a geode. [20] (Bonus if geode looks like geodude crying [+20])
42) Fail a pregnancy test. [20] (Bonus if stick turns green [+10])
59) Make a detailed topographic map of Middle Earth out of materials typically used for gingerbread houses. [80]
144) What is the 127th word spoken in "Hook?” [10]

154) F@cking annihilate a lawn gnome. [40]

160) Find an illegal pad. [20]
167) Advertise an extremely personal fact in a very public place (you need signs, pamphlets, etc). [10-60]
169) What is the mass of the earth, in stones? [30]
188) Help an elderly person (flop) jaywalk across the street. Sing "Breakin' the Law" by Judas Priest the whole time. [70] (Bonus if elderly person (flop) is also singing [+60])
190) At the end of the day, eat a sandwich made out of the following: bread, mayo, tomatoes, black olives, lettuce, salt/pepper, oil, vinegar, and this list. [30] (Bonus if you can prove that it was prepared at Subway [+30])
192) Who were the full cast and crew of cannibal the musical? [20]

229) Find an abnormally large eating utensil. (Points based on magnitude above average size) [10-60]

235) Put a pancake on a bunny's head. [40]
238) Enter a Burger King restaurant and claim that you are a messenger from the lord of the White Castle with an urgent message for the Burger King. (Alternate: Enter a White Castle and claim to be an emissary from the Burger King who is poised to invade.) (Points based detail and elaborateness) [60]
277) Make a seven-minute short film in which two ninjas battle for the honor of their respective families, using dialogue taken only from "Green Eggs and Ham." [20-100]

 

The 2006 List

8} Go into stores in only t-shirt and shoes. [40] (Thong-[30])

12} Make a poncho out of shoe laces. Wear it. [15 points/ size (XL,L,M,S), maximum of [60] points] (Infinity-[60])

21: What key does a housefly hum in? [15]

23) Make an illustrated list of the next five reincarnations of Mr. T. [25]

24) Write an ode in iambic tetrameter praising the best Power Ranger. [20]

30) Make a sexier Fanta commercial. [60]

31} Allow a leach to suck on your back for three minutes straight. [60]

34) Rewrite this list by hand and replace every a with an @, every e with an *, every I with an !, every o with #, and every u with ^. Replace the first half of the y’s with &. [200]

38) Make chicken soup for the soul, using shredded pages of the book, chicken soup for the soul, as noodles. [20]

43} Be forced to use gorilla tactics. [1-20]

68} Dress up like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings and stop traffic: “You shall not pass!” [60]

73) Make a Chewbacca mask out of team members’ hair. [80]

82} Roshambo someone for their ice cream cone. [10]

84} Eat a bowl of cereal, replacing the milk with vegetable oil. [20]

91}Treat a Lawn gnome to dinner and a movie, and then a spa like mud bath (w/ cucumber eye-covers). [60]

100} Gimp my ride. [15]

117}   Hold a sex seminar for the public using donuts and hotdogs as props. [100] (Bonus if eaten [20]) (Bonus if eaten by non-Tricadecathlonomania participants [40])

123}            Try to trade in a Tonka or matchbox car for a real life sized car at a dealership. [20]

133)            Make a short Veggie Tales episode using solely curse words. [45]

137]            Find a priest, a nun, and a rabbi walking into a bar. [80]

149)            Make a pair of boots designed for hedgehog wrangling. [15]

155]   Find and experience Buttocks [10], Botox [40], bollux [20], and just plain ox [20]. (Bonus if all items complete [20])

161)            Blend up a (cooked) steak slurpie. Drink it in all its gooey glory. [50]

165}   Buy a big bottle of lotion and a National Geographic and tell the cashier that the two purchases aren’t related. [30]

172)            Create a hollowed out bible to conceal yet another bible. [30]

186}            Scream moaning sounds in a confessional. [30]

188}            Have an “Herbal Essences Experience”, using exclusively peanut butter and Cheeze Whiz. [45]

191}            Mutilation: Cut off your eyelashes, eyebrows, and radically and permanently change your hair. [250]

251]            Find a recording of a giraffe making whatever noise giraffes make. [40]

256:            What is the most cost effective way to purchase 10000 calories of food at McDonalds? Do it. [55]

261}            Advertise “Steroids for babies” in a public place. [25]

262}   Have your whole team walk really slowly through an intersection. [20] (2 point bonus/ car honk you illicit, maximum of [20] points) (Bonus if dressed as the blind [30])

263}   Walk into a Hot Topic wearing the preppiest clothes you can find and ask at least 3 customers why they shop in such an “icky” store. [30] (Bonus for wearing a pink polo with a popped collar [10])

280}            Convince a toddler to head butt you in the stomach. [15]

281)            Make a pet out of items found in the trash, love it and don’t let anyone else touch it. [45]

284}            Prove that although it is a Banana in your pocket, you are indeed happy to see me. [10]

 

Get ready!

Heart,

Trica Gnome