Pen & Paper Hosting
Pen & Paper is old school!
In the beginning, all Trivia Mafia trivia events had paper answer sheets - they were a full 8.5"x11" with a black-and-white image round on the back. These were printed in bulk and mailed every two weeks to hosts, along with a replenishment of pens (and third place prizes, which would either be some Trivia Mafia-branded item or a sponsored item, like roller derby tickets or a pizza cutter from a health care website). By February 2020, we were running about 160 events per week, thus mailing out over 300 sets at a time.
When we stopped mailing these out, we saved over $13,000 in shipping costs, as well as reduced the amount of waste that came from wrapping each set of sheets in plastic (and mailing 20 sheets in each set, nearly double what most hosts were actually using, meant tons of sheets were just tossed).
When we returned to
