Hoooo my goodness, looks like it’s time for our first ever World Cup of Quizzo!

In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been having a blast exploring the new Virtual Quizzo world with you all, and your feedback has been overwhelmingly uplifting. So, as promised, we’re pleased to roll out our first official Virtual Quizzo “season”, starting Monday, May 4th. The league will be built World Cup-style- you register your team, and you’ll be randomly assigned to a Group with 3 other teams to start the season. Here’s the breakdown:

3-Week Regular Season (single-team format)

Each week your team will play in a single-team session where it’s just you and the host- the same format we’ve been doing every weeknight during this pandemic. You’ll be shooting for a high score as always, but you’ll also be playing “against” another team in your group, trying to rack up a strong win-loss-tie record in the Group Play standings.

Tournament Play (head-to-head format)

Depending on how many teams register, we’ll have at least one tournament bracket with seedings based on win-loss-tie records and total average scores. These games will be played in a head-to-head format using two breakout rooms in Zoom.

In summary, every team will play a minimum of 4 games- 3 regular season, and at least one tournament game. The deeper you go in the tourney, the better your value.

The Price: $160 per team. Yeah it’s slightly more than you’re paying for a quiz now (unless you advance in the tourney), but in return we’re going to add badges for accomplishments such as perfect rounds and high scores, create an overall Top 10 ranking system based on the numbers, and we’ll have some fun prizes and stuff to give away as well. You’ll also get to lock in your time for three weeks in a row instead of one.

(If you don’t wanna join the World Cup, rest assured…we will still be doing a la carte quizzes.)

Team Logo: If you are going to play, we’re going to request that you create a team logo. It can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. I find Canva to be super user friendly for stuff like this.

Sign Up: To enter the World Cup, sign up here. To pay and lock in your slot, send $160 to @jgtquizzo on venmo or johnny@johnnygoodtimes.com on Paypal.

We’ll be posting records, stats, and all sorts of team features & highlights throughout the season. And yes, we’ll have prizes for our top teams. Whether you’re competitive or just a casual quizzer, this is sure to be the highlight of your quarantine. Register now!

Hey there fam. We’ve got several openings still available for quizzes this week. You can sign up here. And heads up…we’re actually doing two different quizzes this week, so if you want to play once on Mon/Tuesday you CAN play again on Wed/Thur/Fri. Here are the ones available as of 12:30 Tuesday afternoon:

TUESDAY

J Michael: 8:30 PM, 9:15 PM

Carl: 10 PM

WEDNESDAY

J Michael: 7 PM

Carl: 10 PM

THURSDAY

Chip Chantry: 6:15 PM, 7 PM

J Michael: 7:45 PM

Erin: 9:15 PM

FRIDAY

J Michael: 7 PM, 7:45 PM, 8:30 PM

Congrats to the Sofa Kingdom, who scored the first ever perfect score. Here are all of the scores for this past week.

1. Sofa Kingdom 52
2. Cool Cats and Kittens 50
3. Hallmark Hot 49
4. Expired Walmart Meat 49
5. It’s All Pipes 48
6. Shaved My Legs for This 47
7. Covidiots 44
8. Hangin’ Tough 44
9. Smartinis 44
10. Au Bon Pandemic 43
11. Underground Bard 43
12. OK Doomers 43
13. Quick Question 42
14. Chasing Olive 41
15. Pop Fit Studio 41
16. Yacht Rock 41
17. We Get it You Watched Tiger King 40
18. The Quaranteam 40
19. L Ron Hubbard 39
20. El Tigre 39
21. Tuesday Night Quizzo Club 38
22. Schmitt O’Honey 38
23. Carole’s Husband 38
24. 1666 37
25. Is Quarantine Over Yet 37
26. Cark in a Whig 37
27. Self Contained Hootenanny 36
28. Together Alone 34
29. Happy Birthday Adam 34
30. COVID Baskin 34
31. Jawn of the Dead 33
32. Socially Distant 32
33. Quarenteners 30
34. 1 Team 1 Dream 30
35. Bourbon Brothers 30
36. Meat Sweats 27
37. Not Last Place 27
38. Below Basic 27
39. Funemployment 24
40. Core-intine 22
    

And then there were eight. The first and most notable fact is that four of them are Locust Rendezvous regulars: Zodiac Killer, The Jams, Synchronized Trampoline, and Babysitters Fight Club. The Social Distance Warriors rep O’Neals and Duane’s World reps Founding Fathers. Careless Fister is a crew from my old North Star days, and Lamination Station reps Birra. It’s been a hell of a run, and we’ll wrap the tourney up next week. Sign ups start tmrw. Thank you, everyone, and look forward to more hijinks next week!

Hey there folks, we’ve got some openings for tonight’s quiz. If anyone wants to forget about the pandemic for a half hour and instead laugh with their friends, go ahead and sign up here.

Alright gang, you can now sign up for this week’s virtual quizzo here. Almost everyone who plays it once plays it again. If you haven’t played it yet, it’s fairly simple: you and your team meet with a quizmaster in Zoom. He goes through the questions, you guys discuss and your captain gives the QM the final answer. It’s kind of like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire except that there’s like 5 or 6 of you. Oh, and there’s no millions. But there is a lot of fun. Hope to see ya this week!

The tourney isn’t the only game in town, as we’ve also got our regular season matchups. Shout outs to Yacht Rock and Not Last Place for top scores this past week.

1. Yacht Rock 47
2. Not Last Place 47
3. Underground Bard 46
4. Pearls of Wisdom 44
5. Core-entine 43
6. Expired Walmart Meat 40
7. Pop Fit Studio 39
8. Below Basic 38
9. 1666 & All That 38
10. Divine Nonchalance 38
11. Mad Princes 38
12. The Quarantiners 37
13. Cool Cats & Kittens 37
14. The Smartinis 36
15. El Tigre 35
16. My, My, My Corona 35
17. OK Doomers 33
18. Pietro’s Return 33
19. The Covidiots 32
20. Hangin’ Tough 32
21. Quick Question 31
22. Team Tom v Team Darcy 31
23. Together Alone 28
24. Testes Factory 28
25. AB- 27
26. Jawn of the Dead 25

Wow! What a Round Two! This is what #Aprilmadness is all about. The #1 overall seed falls to the legendary Jams team that critics said was past its prime. Duane’s World and Sofa Kingdom, the two winningest teams in JGT quizzo history, in a 51-50 battle for the ages, determined on the final question. Tiger Queens, the 46th seed out of 48, advancing to the Sweet 16. The Zodiac Killer missing one question in Round One and then not missing another one. You want narratives? We got narratives. On to the Sweet 16 this week!

As I told several teams this week, I stumbled down a wormhole of awesomeness this past week. The TV was on on this past Sunday with nobody really watching it. Some awful rerun was on called “Lottery Changed My Life”. Mostly just morons talking about how they spent their lottery winnings on a car or some dull shit. Then suddenly and unexpectedly, it took a turn. A 19 year old named Jonathan Vargas won $35 million in a Powerball lottery in 2008. But unlike the other bozos who all bought cars and McMansions and other boring shit, Jonathan decided to blow his cash on something entirely different: a female wrestling league. It was a terrible investment, and an even worse product. The rap promo above was almost certainly the worst rap song ever recorded (other than pretty everything that Post Malone has ever done.) The production quality made GLOW look like Les Miserables. Vargas became a “character” in his own production: JV Rich, who in various skits regularly had the Wrestlicious girls hanging out with him at his mansion. In other words: HE DID EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITH THE MONEY IF I HAD WON THE LOTTERY AT AGE 19. The league lasted one year, and after that and a couple of other bad investments, JV Rich was flat broke. But who cares. In 100 years, nobody will care about a car or a mansion, but Wrestlicious is FOREVER. Shout out to JV Rich! If you want a more complete history of the league, this video is well worth 10 minutes.