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Remington Davenport

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120 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

I built a whole website and a schedule, and every team has their own home bar.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

You either play home or away.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

I keep track of individual scores and team scores.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

And it's tournament play.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Five people from each team compete.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

You play in a seven point match if you're an intermediate and nine points if you're advanced.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Everyone gets a league shirt, comes with their registration.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

And then I give out prizes and trophies and stuff.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Now we're in the fourth season and this season was actually 235 people, which was really cool.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Nasty.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

It's a great question because I'm very, very hardcore and I have a zero tolerance for bullshit.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

This sucks to say.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

This is not the case for everyone.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

I've met a thousand wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

But there can be one bad apple that really screws your entire tournament experience.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

And you may never want to come back because a man was super misogynistic for whatever reasons.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Maybe you beat him, maybe just simply for sitting down at the table.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

These are things I've experienced.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

If there's consequences for bad behavior, then we can start to change things.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

For decades, a lot of people were like scared that Backgammon wasn't growing, so they weren't necessarily kicking people out.

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