Quizzo Tonight!

We’re back in action tonight, and yes, the Locust Rendezvous quiz is on Wednesday this week. Action starts there at 6:15 p.m. Truth be told, there’s good competition at the Vous right now but not that many teams, so you’ve got yourself a shot of scoring JGTSI points tonight. Furthermore, they’re offering Abita Purple Haze for a mere $3 a pint and Lager Light bottles for $2. At the Black Sheep, it’s been a packed house lately. If you’re playing tonight, I would highly suggest getting there early to get yourself a table. Oh, and one team took up my offer on facebook and scored two bonus points. But the offer is still on the table for another team. If you’re looking for points, this is a good way to earn them. I’ll have a new chance to earn points on facebook tomorrow morning.

Question of the Week

What Irish writer famously said, “He was a bold man who ate the first oyster”?

JGT Summer Invitational Scores After 3 Weeks

Here they are folks. Steak Em Up has a comfortable lead, but then things get interesting. Mostly usual suspects at the top, but there are a number of teams just outside the Top 10 (actually 11) looking in. And with a several more wrinkles in the weeks to come, I think we could see a lot of movement in the Top 10 of this leaderboard.

First Half Stats at Locust Rendezvous

Here’s the stats from the first half of 2010 at the Vous. The Jams continue to be the class of the bar, but Magnus is putting up really good numbers thus far this year as well. The Inglorious Barristers, meanwhile, seem to have a condition I like to call “the Narcotyzing Dysfunktion” (a knack for 2nd place finishes.)

First Half Stats at O’Neals

Here are the records, top scores, records, winning %, and winning streaks at O’Neals this year through June 30th. The Savage Ear is by far the most successful team this year, especially with Ivan the Trivial dropping out of contention. Lambda has good numbers, but merely used O’Neals as a warm up for Quizzo Bowl…they haven’t played since April. If L. Ron Hubbard continues to show up at O’Neals, however, I think they could start making a run at the Ear.

Midway Point Totals

Johnnie of the Duane’s World Crew is a man who loves numbers. I kind of like them too, so when he volunteered to keep track of quizzo winners and losers, I was all over it. He added up everything through the first six months of 2010, and I just plugged it into Google Docs. Today I’ll post several bars, and tomorrow I’ll post more. Enjoy! (I’ll have stats for the JGTSI up as soon as I hear back from Mike Minion about last week’s top finishers at the Westbury.)

Jams Win Blowout at the Vous

First Place: The Jams 112

2nd Place: Magnus ver Magnusson 84

3rd Place: Inglorious Barristers 82

Ear/L. Ron Rivalry Continues to Heat Up at O’Neals

First Place: The Ear, Not Your Typical Orifice 108

2nd Place: L. Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics 102

3rd Place: Insert Topical Team Name Here 97

We End Week 3 With a Tripleheader!

It’s a rarity these days in competitive sports (such as quizzo), but we are keeping the tripleheader alive tonight! Three chances to earn points in the JGT Summer Invitational. We kick it off at Locust Rendezvous at 6 p.m.* The first Thursday quizzo in Vous history. What regulars are coming? Who knows? This could be a great chance to score points. On to the Ugly American at 8 p.m., where things have been off the hook for the past two weeks. I would definitely either make a reservation or get there early to get yourself a seat. Action starts at 8 p.m. Finally, we wrap it up at the Bards at 10:15 p.m. It’s starting to look like the good ol’ days at the Bards again with some big crowds lately. Want to thank everybody who came in on Tuesday and brought the place back to life after several quiet Tuesdays. Let’s keep the party going tonight.

*If anything changes between now and quizzo, I will let you know here on the site, but it looks like all systems go for tonight at the ‘Vous.

Question of the Week

In 1960, George Steinbrenner (above, shaking hands with Jerry Lucas) became owner of this ABL team, the first pro sports team he ever owned. He lost a lot of money when the team (and league) folded in 1962.