Sign ups for the Sunday Night Lab is now live. Each week we try out new types of rounds, scoring systems, etc. It’s free to play, and we donate 50% of tips to charity. The charity we’re donating to this week is Nourished, who provide healthy meals to over 1300 memebers of frontline hospital workers while also supplying business to local restaurants. It’s a great way to show our support for true Philly essentials while also helping our friends in the restaurant biz, so I was excited to partner with them. (If you’d like to donate without playing, contact Ryan at ryanschu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) Hope to see you Sunday night!
Starting a little early this week with sign ups for next week for our general quiz. If you haven’t played before, it’s pretty simple: you pay $30 and pick your time and put your captains email address. You can have up to 8 players on your team. You’ll get an email from your quizmaster with your zoom address the day of the quiz and forward it to your teammates. Then you’ll meet your quizmaster at the allotted time, your team will work together to answer questions, and the QM will keep your score. At the end of the week, we’ll add up the scores and post them. Hope to see ya next week!
Quizmistress Erin runs her own quiz on Fridays at 5:30 and I’ve been playing most weeks. It’s a ton of fun, and her third round is always a “Family Feud” round which is kind of hilarious. She’s been using answers she uses online, but she wants to start doing some of her own “polls”, so I thought some of you would get a kick out of being a pollster. It’s kind of hilarious and will take like 3 minutes. Just go to the google form and answer the questions. That easy.
Things are pretty damn interesting as we head into Week 3 of our tourney. (You can view the full standings here.) Tiebreakers are done by total points. This does NOT account for our four wild card slots. Let’s go pool by pool and see what our playoff picture looks like:
GROUP A:We’ve got a hell of a matchup right out of the gate, with Three time Quizzo Bowl champs, the Cracked Eggheads, going up against the Cinderellas of April Madness, the Tiger Queens. Both are 1-1. Pretty simple: winner advances to Serie A tourney, losing team plays in the Serie B tourney. The Mad Princes are in the Serie A tourney already and the Texas City Players Club is in the B tourney.
GROUP B: This one is way more complicated. 1team1dream, after a heartbreaking OT loss last week, has to face off with the 2-0 Au Bon Pandemic. If Au Bon Pandemic wins and Internet Explorer wins vs Testes Factory, ABP and the Explorers advance. However, if 1Team wins and Testes Factory wins, then 1Team and ABP advance. If 1Team and the Explorers both win, then we’ll have a 3-way tie for first and the two teams that have scored the most points advance. Which will be interesting, because 1Team1Dream and Explorer both have scored 70 points through two weeks. Au Bon Pandemic has 81, so they’re almost certainly going to the Big Dance. FINALLY, believe it or not Testes Factory has a very small chance of advancing. If they, OK who are we kidding, they really have no chance.
GROUP C: Things just got MUCH simpler. The Zodiac Killer and the Queso Regionale are advancing. They play this week to determine who will be a 1 seed. The Axis of Evil Knieval were a team the oddsmakers liked who broke a lot of hearts with last week’s loss.
GROUP D: One of our two Groups of Death, it’s the only Group where all four teams have scored 79 or more points through two weeks. April Madness champs the Social Distance Warriors are up against There’s No I in Quizzo. If the SDW wins and Duane’s World wins over El Tigre, Duane’s World moves on. If There’s No I wins and Duane’s World wins, we’ll have a three way tie for 1st and it will come down to points. If SDW wins and El Tigre wins, then SDW advances and we’ll have a three way tie for 2nd, which will come down to points. I suspect we’ll have at least one wild card slot come out of this pool.
GROUP E: This is a damn good pool, with the top three teams separated by a grand total of 1 point. Pretty simple: Expired Walmart Meat is in. The other spot will go to whomever wins the Careless Fister vs Lamination Station contest.
GROUP F:Boyz II Menehune and Yacht Rock are in. They play each other this week to determine which will be the #1 seed.
GROUP G:I Shaved My Legs for This is in. The winner of Super Spreaders vs Is Quarantine Over will be the other team to advance to Serie A.
GROUP H:DelCovid-19 is in. The winner of Underground Bard vs Divine Order of the Grease Pole will advance as well.
GROUP I: Shout out to Group I, one of only two groups to have ALL of their logos done. If Pearls of Wisdom defeats Not Last Place (who are, indeed, in last place) and Covideo Killed the Radio Quiz beats Quiz Yo, then PoW and Covideo will advance. However, if PoW wins and QuizYo wins, then we’ll have a 3-way tie for first determined by total points. If Not Last Place defeats Pearls of Wisdom and Covideo defeats QuizYo, then we’ll have a three way tie for 2nd determined by total points. Got that? Me either.
GROUP J:Branch Covidians are in. Other slot will be determined by the winner of Missing Heads vs Together Alone.
GROUP K:Missing Wuhan Scientists are in. Winner of three time Quizzo Bowl champs Lambda vs. Covid’s Metamorpheses will get the other slot.
GROUP L: The other group of death, this is, rather remarkably, the only Group where all the teams are 1 and 1. So the winner of our two games, In the Lead vs Queefer Sutherland and Ukraine in the Membrane vs L Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics, will advance.
GROUP M: Could Sofa Kingdom not finish top 2 in their pool, despite being the second highest scoring team in the entire tournament? They certainly could. If they lose their matchup with Pop Fit Studio, they’re done (though they’ll likely still get a wild card slot). Cool Cats and Kittens are in.
GROUP N:Sweet Hats and Babysitters Fight Club are both in. Synchronized Trampoline, first runners up in April Madness, won’t be making the Serie A tourney.
Profession: I manage a community cancer clinic in Delaware County, PA.
List three of your favorite places in Philly. Ashburn Alley. John’s Roast Pork. That part of 95 by the airport where you can hit 100mph without the cops noticing.
What one album would you want with you on a desert island? Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
What reality show would you be an absolutely terrible contestant on? That one where you eat bugs or whatever.
What would be your theme music if you were a professional wrestler? “Fake” by Five Finger Death Punch (my character is “heel who hates wrestling”)
What famous person do people tell you that you look the most like? Jake Gyllenhaal
What would be your dream job? Crane operator but not on one of those cranes that sit on top of the building they’re building, that’s too scary, call the other guy for that.
What was the worst job you ever had? 2nd string quizzo host
What show/movie/series should people be watching while quarantined? The West Wing. It takes 7 years to finish and entertains the question, “What if America had a chance?”
What’s your favorite dessert? Mallo Cups & Peanut Chews & refrigerated Kandy Kakes. All one course.
Sign ups are live for this week’s regular quizzes! Even if you’re not in the World Cup, you can still have fun with your friends and play with some of our best quizmasters, all for just $30 per team.
For those of you who haven’t done so before, the game is played as follows: you and up to 7 of your teammates join a quizmaster in Zoom, who asks you three rounds of 8 questions each and keeps your score.
Just wanted to make sure that you guys knew where to find the scores updated throughout the week. You can go to the Tournament tab on the right, open that page, then hit results. Or you can just go here and click the “Group Play Schedule” tab at the bottom. You can also check the standings the same way, or click here and hit “Standings” at the bottom.
Time for another Sunday lab, where we’ll be experimenting again this Sunday. It’s free to play, just sign up here and I’ll send you a zoom invite Sunday afternoon. Tips are accepted, and 50% of all tips go to PPEHRC. We raised $150 for charity this past Sunday, so thank everyone for their generosity! Hope to see ya this Sunday.
