Welcome to Nerd Sports. In today's episode, my professional team of
keyboard warriors will be taking on the Trinity Western Spartans women's
volleyball team. On the one hand, we're feeling pretty good cuz I mean, come on,
it's a women's team. How hard could it be?
On the other hand, these women were apparently the national champions in
2015. So, uh, all we can do at this
point is hope that our bag of tricks will be enough to keep them at bay.
I'm Dennis. Um, I'm Taran Luke. Nicholas
John Morton. Lor Sebastian. My name is Colton Potter and my height is 5'5 on a
good day. I'm Katie Danny, 61. I play middle. Nikki Cornwall. I'm 510. I am a
setter on this team. I'm Bri O'Reilly and I'm 6 feet. Not only have I never
played volleyball, but I've never even seen a game, but I did read the rules. I
am 170 CN, 65 kg. Um, I've been playing
volleyball since I was in grade seven. I've played in championships,
provincial, national. And you think you'll win today? Definitely. I
definitely think we're going to win today. And I'd say that my athletic ability is
a solid B minus. Sporting. What? Sporting experience.
I don't have any athletic experience. I know how to run. Run.
Yes. Yes. I can hit a ball in my on my
hand. That's all. The last time I played volleyball was in the one week PE unit
in grade 8. How high can I jump? Great question. And let me answer it with a
demonstration. Like a foot. I played for
2 years in grade five and six. I was okay. And now I'm apparently the captain
of the team.
I don't have to pee now.
wondering.
They're all really tall. It's intimidating. Well, they look like
they could literally crush me. I'm only tall compared to normal people. I'm not
tall compared to sports people. We haven't seen them block yet, so they
might be really good jumpers. You never know. I think they got some hearts, but
I don't know if heart's going to be enough to beat us today. That's number 256.
Pretty fashionable.
Uh to win, we are going to have to cheat really, really hard. It's the Keyboard
Warriors taking on the number one ranked team in the nation, the Trinity Western
Spartans women's volleyball team. Brandon alongside Tyler Denwy. I think
that they're probably in a bit of trouble today. Brandon, what what can we
expect from the girls team? They're going to come hard and heavy. They don't
drop many sets even against the top teams in the CIS. So, I'll be shocked if
these guys can put up much of a fight of them at all. Taran claims to have never
touched a volleyball in his life. Uh, he knows there's a ball in a net with
regards to volleyball and you get the ball over the net. It's basically ping
pong with people, right? I feel like that's a pretty honest bio. I don't
think he has ever touched a volleyball. They got the right number of players on
the floor. That's a good start. They're doing a paper rock scissors actually to
see who gets to go first. Oh, the handshake. That's good. Even
that looked awkward. All right, let's let's get this thing underway. What do
you think the chances are this thing gets over the net? I'm going to say
zero. Not at all. And the ball's in over.
Serves a beauty and a quick strike from the
Spartans. It's interesting. You know, I think the keyboard warriors have to take that as a
small victory. Nobody got injured on the play.
Well, they got a return, unfortunately.
Oh. Oh, just out of the reach there. All
right, this is her sixth straight serve. She's going to have a seventh. Still no
injuries on the keyboard warrior side. I'll be shocked if we can get through this without any. Oh, a nice little bump
there from Lun and not sure what Taran
was doing or why he was blaming his uh partner on that play. It looked like he
was trying to point some fingers when he clearly didn't move at all to make the
play that he had. And now L unit's going to call timeout. He seems to be the
leader of this squad. Huddle up, guys. Okay, we're calling timeout. One of the
many that we might pick. Okay, guys. Main advantages of their team, they are
faster, stronger, taller, and better.
talented more talented practice. Yes. Okay. Let's see what we can do about
their visibility. Okay. What's the move here that uh the keyboard warriors have
in store? Lionus clearly the uh the spokesman for the group. Taran wants to
be as far away from the group as girls as possible. It's like so the girls are
wearing the hats. I'm not sure what this means. Is that obstructing their view?
Cuz I don't think it's going to matter. We're back on her way. Cornwall loses a
hat. It doesn't matter. Oh, what a dig. Oh, look. This is the rally of the night
so far, Brandon. And it's over. Oh, they
got a point. It's over. Everyone go
home. My goodness. Taran almost went down a hard on a celebration. Did you
notice that while the group went together, he went down to one hand to
keep himself up and never got actually congratulated by anybody on the team.
Sort of looks like a Tolken character you might find in a Lord of the Rings movie. He hit Money Man in the back of
the head with his serve and is laughing about it.
Oh, that one hurt.
Another point for the Spartan women.
It is interesting. Notice that Lionus is even struggling kicking a rubber chicken
across the floor. This is actually probably a better tactic, but the issue
here isn't necessarily whether or not they're holding a rubber chicken. It's whether or not the keyboard warriors can
get the ball over the net. Oh, nice
return by Murka. And the keyboard warriors are on the board again. Oh,
nice dig by Lunit, but he just has no support. Dennis had he didn't want
nothing to do with it. He jumped. I don't know if you want to call it a jump
necessarily is more of like a shutter stutter step, but he moved anyway. So,
the the cowboy hats didn't work. The chickens, eh, it got them a little
flustered. Now, after another timeout, looks like they're bringing out the oven mitts. Not going to lie to you, I think
this is a real poor tactic. I don't see these oven mitts really affecting them that much. Like if they want to win this
game, they got to pull out the big guns and pull them out fast. Yeah, they need to pull out some string and tie their
hands behind their back. That might help them win this one. So now the girls have
to wear a cowboy hat, hold a chicken, and wear an oven mitt. And it still
didn't matter. The ball's over. Alunit bumps it to Money Man. He was having a
strong game, but then decided I feel like strong game's a pretty generous
term for what he's been having this afternoon. Girl side, Tyler, it's just
been no mercy. Just one after another. You're really putting these guys at a
health risk the longer this match goes on and Ela with a nice little bump and
Taran can't get it over. My goodness, you can't fake that position he got his
back into and where the ball actually hit his hand. Contortionist in a circus
sole would have been proud of that. Oh, they got one over. Got another one over.
There you go. That's the challenge at the net I was looking for, Brandon. And
there's a point. There's a point. Now, I want to go back to what I said on the previous point. I said America Net needs
a challenge at the net. He challenged at the net on that one. They won the point.
Wonder if I should put down the playbyplay headset and go down and guess
coach this team for a while.
And another unfirst error from the ladies and they're just giving them away
right now. The Warriors, the keyboard warriors, they're exploring a tactic
that I would have thought would have been good for the women is just get let them make mistakes, right? The less they
have to do, the better. Okay, I'm feeling good. Okay, next point wins.
Well, Brandon, looks like Lionus has called his standard next goal win
scenario here. Judging by the pace of
play thus far tonight, I'm not sure this is going to be any benefit to the
keyboard warriors, but let's see what happens.
Nice little serve there from
Luke gets it over and now Taran with the
two-handed slap
Well, Tyler, mercifully, this one's over. I don't know if it was exactly how
they thought it'd go, but nonetheless, I think uh the girls definitely put one on
them this afternoon. We scored one point. We scored one legitimate point
against them. It all went downhill from there. I enjoyed it more than I
expected, and I was getting not good, but less bad at the end. I think Golden.
How do you think you did?
Yeah, volleyball is fun. I I like
volleyball.
All right, guys. We gave him a good fight, but uh I think we'll have to give
this one to him. Huge thank you to the Trinity
Western women's volleyball team. You guys were absolutely fantastic sports.
Huge thank you to the Langley Event Center for allowing us to be here today.
And a huge thank you to you guys for watching. Don't miss any more Nerd Sports because we are going to have some
fantastic additional episodes coming. See you next time.