I get by with a little help from my friends…  

WE ARE: The NASCRAG Team…

2010: Polychromatic Newtist Colony    Cheer: “No shirt, no shoes, no problem!”  We voted against T-shirts, for a variety of reasons.  One reason is that that we don’t need another T-shirt (unless it says Nascrag) and the other reason is that newtists wouldn’t wear T-shirts.  :-)  We picked up a new fun friend to join our team and we were very happy with their excellent role playing skills .   If I remember correctly, we managed a third place win.  ( But my memory is completely blinded by that ravishing outfit that we modeled at the awards ceremony.)

Two of our Plaid Chameleons decided to wander in 2010.   Their team, Random Encounters  came in fourth place.  We don’t think that was an accident.

2009:  Polka Dot Geckos Destroy Tokyo

This year, our NASCRAG team got hit with a puzzle that we couldn’t solve coming into 3rd round; with disastrous consequences. We didn’t finish 3rd round before 11 pm, and thus lost a ton of points. — We went from 2nd place coming into round 3 to 11th (out of 12 teams in round 3).  Ouch.  Oh well.  It was a fun adventure regardless.  We had made our own totally cool t-shirts, (I *geck0* Tokyo)  so we really didn’t need the NASCRAG “winner” ones.

“Itty bitty lizards, total cosmic destruction.”

2008: The Rainbow Lounge Lizards at Uncle Toby’s Tiki Bar
“You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both together, you put the lime in the coconut then you feel better…”

WINNERS  (To our great astonishment after squeaking into round 3 as the alternate team after our very unfortunate round 2!)  The difference between first and second place was the two points that we got  when we put on the “Killer” T shirt and our BO was soooo strong that we could activate the security device from the distance of 10,000 miles….

2007: The Plaid Chameleons “Embrace your Inner Plaid, Dude.” “It isn’t easy being green, and red, and blue and orange”  “Blending is for Geckos”.    This year our team motto should have been: No winning. No T-shirt.  But we were somewhere in the upper half of the top 10.
 
2006: Drunken Undead Monkeys (Does anyone remember anything from 2006?)
“Drunken Undead Monkeys:  Ate My Dice!”   There is no winner t-shirt in the drawer from this year.

 2005: Riddle ‘N Rescue Squad (Our battle cries were children’s jokes that are too painful to remember. Trust me on this one.) Best “Daphne” Character.
2003: Da Corleon Family “Da Team You’se Can’t Refuse!”(We made it to third round and still haven’t figured out what happened after that!)
Best “Cassandra” Character.   But one of our Plaid Chameleons, did win with Barf Bag Puppet Show. (And they were a pick up team!)

2002: A Touch of Class “Yes, the champange is Korbel!” “Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?” “When you care enough to send the very best!” (Winners! & Best Team Name too!) 
This was the year that we wore suits and dress up clothes and brought table linens, chocolate covered strawberries, a waitress, cheesecake, table service, crystal, cloth napkins and a partridge in a pear tree.

2001: Survivor 2.5  Downtown Milwaukee “Outwit, Outplay, Outbribe!” (Second Place)

2000: Happy Meal Rejects “Would you like fries with that?”(Third place)

1999: The Pez Communion Cult “Eat from the neck of the savior!”( Second Place)

1998: Al’s Fashion Slaves “Help me! Help me! Help me!”(Third Place)

1997: Giant Albino Penguins “We don’t need no stinkin’ battle cry!” (Best Team Name)

1996… there were other priorities.  They involved blood and much screaming and crying and cursing.   Those memories are fading  but the consequences are with us forever.

 

1992-1995: During this time period we had such glorious and wonderful team names and battle cries that we have had to expunge them from our collective consciousness due to their exceptional brilliance overshadowing and interfering with all aspects of our daily lives.

We sincerely apologize for any disappointment on your part. —Those names really were good… They were immortal monikers such as..

1993: Pizza and a Six Pack

1992:Night of the Living Dead Alvis Impersonators.