Mind Games

Introducing a new prime time television program that will begin airing on KSBI TV this fall. A 21st century Oklahoma academic competition “Mind Games”.  The program will bring together teams of students from Oklahoma colleges and universities in a weekly battle of the brains.

During the run of the competition the students will be competing for scholarship awards totallying $200,000!  The format will be similar to athletic brackets with teams competing over the fall and spring semester.  The team winning the fall competition will compete against the team winning the spring competition for the title Grand Champion and honor of being the best mind game school of the year.

       The Chickasaw Nation has signed on as the title sponsor for the program.  “Mind Games” will be produced at the KSBI studios and air in prime time each week.  All teams will receive scholarship awards either as a consolation prize or as the weeks winning team. Teams will include three competitors and up to three alternates who may be substituted in during the games.   The “Mind Games” will begin taping in mid-September.   The field for each semester is limited to the first 16 teams who return their team registration. 

       The KSBI Mind Games will utilize the toss-up/bonus format.  Questions will come from all areas from Adam Ant to Zoology.  The bulk of the questions will come from the areas of science, history and literature.  Fine arts and humanities will be the next emphasis area followed by geography, current events and pop culture.  Each category has a full range of subcategories to assure the questions are varied and current.