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

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

Heart,

Trica Gnome