Expired Walmart Meat in the Lead After Two Weeks of Summer Slam

Here they are, folks, our scores after two weeks of Summer Slam. Expired Walmart Meat has the lead, followed closely by the Zodiac Killer$. Cool Cats and Kittens are third, newcomers Quarantine Spirit are 4th, and World Cup winners Underground Bard are in 5th.

SUMMER SLAM! Scores After Week 1

Here they are folks, our rankings after Week 1. Shout out to Expired Walmart Meat, the only team with a perfect score and the lead after one week. A few other things to note:

Average Tie-breaker differential is some crazy ass thing Carl came up with to be a tiebreaker in our standings. A 0% tiebreaker differential is the best you can get…it means you got the tiebreaker exactly right. So last week a few teams were right that Roy Sullivan got struck by lightning 7 times. On the opposite end of that spectrum, There’s No I guessed that he got struck 77 times, which I can’t stop laughing about.

One thing that you’ll see when you click on the standings is a team logo and a link to a bunch of the teams. That’s because most of the teams in our World Cup created team pages and logos. If you’re playing in the Summer Slam and wanna create a team page…great! Just create a logo (I find canva helpful) and send me an email at johnny at johnnygoodtimes.com with your team bio. For an example, check out the Cracked Eggheads.

Alright, look forward to seeing you this week!

Sunday Night Quizzo

We are going to be raising money once again for the Young Fathers United. We raised $85 for them this past Sunday, let’s see if we can get over $100 this Sunday. As always the quiz is free, though we do encourage a donation, as it helps out our fellow Philadelphians in need.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far…Since we started in late March, Sunday Night Quizzo Lab has raised over $2000 for orgs such as PPEHRC, the Anderson Monarchs, and Nourished. Furthermore, with $20 of each teams buy in for SUMMER SLAM going to PPEHRC, we just raised another $1000 for them this week. If anyone wants to go beyond donating to the quiz, and instead wants to volunteer for any of the wonderful organizations that we’re fundraising for, shoot me a line (johnny at johnnygoodtimes.com) and I’ll get you in touch with the right people.

Wanna sign up for this Sunday? You can do so here.

Our theme this week: MOVIES.

Updated Top 20

Wanna see your team on the Top 20 list? Join the SUMMER SLAM! and see how you fare from week to week. Shout out to our six teams who make their first appearance on the Top 20 this week.

Social Distance Warriors (same). Tied for the 5th highest score this past week. A finalist in both of our tourneys, they head into Summer Slam as our top seed.
Underground Bard (same). Their win in the World Cup keeps them at #2 for now, but after a 13th place finish this past week, the #3 team is breathing down their necks.
Cool Cats and Kittens (+3). They’ve dominated many Sunday nights, and now they’ve been #1 on back to back weeks of regular season games. They could be #1 within a week.
Boys II Menehune (-1). Took the week off, but finished 3rd last week.
Zodiac Killer (+1). Second highest score last week, 9th highest this week.
Expired Walmart Meat (-2). Tied for 4th last week, tied for 10th this week.
Lambda (+1). An impressive 2nd place performance this week.
Yacht Rock (+2). Tied for 4th last week, 4th this week.
Careless Fister (-2). Tied for 5th this past week.
Au Bon Pandemic (Previously unranked). Tied for 4th last week, tied for 5th this week.
Covid’s Metamorpheses (Previously unranked). Tied for 5th this week, and tied for 7th last week.
Hot Bleach Injection (Previously unranked). These New Kids on the Block have a bunch of hits! 7th place last week, 3rd Place this week.
Duane’s World (-1). Tied for 13th this past week.
Super Spreaders (Previously unranked). Tied for 16th this past week, 10th last week.
Sofa Kingdom (-4). Slip slidin’ away.
Pop Fit Studio (previously unranked). 21st last week, 10th this week.
Branch Covidians (-8). Didn’t play this week, 14th last week.
L Ron Hubbard (-3). 15th last week, 29th this week.
Babysitter’s Fight Club (-2). 16th last week, a complete train wreck this week.
Stately Plump Buck Mulligans (Previously Unranked). 13th last week, 21st this week.

This Week’s Scores

Congrats to the Cool Cats and Kittens, who had our highest score again this week. Updated Top 20 coming out later today. Have to think they’re going to move up from their current #5 spot. Here were all of our team scores from the past week.

Cool Cats and Kittens	52
Lambda Lambda Lambda	48
Hot Bleach Injection	46
Yacht Rock	45
Au Bon Pandemic	43
Social Distance Warriors	43
Covid’s Metamorphoses	43
Careless Fister	43
The Zodiac Killer$	42
Pop Fit Studio	40
Expired Walmart meat	40
Underground Bard	40
Duane’s World	39
Below basic	39
Narcotyzing Dysfunktion	39
Tony! Toni! Menehune!	38
Super Spreaders	38
The Missing Heads	37
Quiz on my Face	36
Together Alone	36
Stately Plump Buck Mulligans	35
There’s No I in Quizzo	35
Chasing Olive	35
City Tap	35
The Quarantiners	34
1team1dream	34
Carole’s Husband	33
Synchronized Trampoline	33
L Ron	32
Hallmark Hot	32
Not last place	32
Quick Question	29
Babysitters Fight Club	29
FFSF	29
Joshy Rich’s Close Touch Salon	29
Socially Distant	28
Kings of Leon	26
Meat Sweats	26
Jawn of the dead	25
Tuesday night Quizzo club	25
The Escape Artists	24
Red Dong	19
Dobby’s Sock	16

SUMMER SLAM! Sign-Ups!

For those of you who have signed up and made a deposit for SUMMER SLAM! feel free to sign up for the first four weeks of SUMMER SLAM! You can pick your QM and your time for each week. No signing up for a slot until you’ve signed up and made your teams deposit. Sign ups are here.

Wanna know more about SUMMER SLAM!? You can find more info here.

Please note, I’m on vacation for Week 3, so teams can sign up for me for weeks 1, 2, and 4 but grab someone else for Week 3.

Play the Sunday Quiz, Promote Charity for Young Dads

Carl’s gonna take the reins on Sunday night for this week’s quiz. Which, as several of you have rubbed in my face lately, is JUST FINE. If I hear one more time, “Carl would have given us credit for that” or “Carl’s quiz is so much more fun” I’m going to lose it. Jerks.

Anyways, if you want to sign up for a special Father’s Day edition of the quiz, you can do so here. I’m psyched about the charity we’re raising money for on Sunday as well. Young Fathers United works with young fathers in the Philadelphia area, some of whom have never had a father figure in their own lives but who want to be good dads. 50% of tips this Sunday night will go to YFU.

I spoke with the gentleman who runs the organization, Archye. They run three 13-week programs each year and he told me that due to COVID, funding was becoming an issue, and he was incredibly thankful that we were reaching out. If you’d like to donate and aren’t playing the quiz you can still donate by venmoing me at @jgtquizzo and posting YFU in the note, or you can go directly to their website and donate there.

Last week our baseball quiz raised over $600 for the Anderson Monarch baseball program, we raised $200 for the Nourished Nurse Program at Penn, and we have raised over $1000 for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights campaign in the past three months. I cannot thank you guys enough for your generosity! I’m pretty damn lucky to be surrounded by such an awesome group of people. (Except for those of you who heckle me about Carl. Come on, he’s not THAT good. Geez.)

Time for The SUMMER SLAM!

Alright folks, time to move on to our next hare-brained scheme! It’s called SUMMER SLAM 2020 and the breakdown is as follows:

THE ESSENTIALS

GAMES: 8-week regular season, starting the week of June 22nd. You can play every week, but only need to play 5 times to qualify for regular season prizes and/or the culminating event on Sunday, August 16th.
FORMAT: All regular season games will be in the single-team format- just you and your quizmaster, at evening times of your choosing Monday through Friday. The August 16th SUMMER SLAM! event will be in the breakout-room format.
PRICE: $280/team for the 8-week regular season (which averages out to $35 per game).
SIGN-UPS: quick & easy via this Google form.

THE BELLS & WHISTLES

The average of your team’s top 5 scores will determine your regular-season ranking.
We’ll keep track of rankings on the website as we go, as well as an ongoing Top 20 list…if you missed it last week, we’ve got a top 20 posted now. We’ll have a new one posted Saturday.
After Week 7 of the regular season, the top 30 teams will earn a spot in SUMMER SLAM! on August 16th (see below). Week 8 will be a wild card week: the top 6 teams who haven’t earned an automatic bid will receive an at-large one.
Carl and I will host an occasional live show on Facebook on Sunday nights discussing our top teams and inviting some team members onto the show for interviews.
PRIZES will be given for various regular-season categories, including our top 4 regular season teams and some funky ones beyond just the top teams in the rankings.
SUMMER SLAM! will be a full 5-round quizzo event, featuring entertainment between rounds and CASH PRIZES- think Quizzo Bowl gone virtual. The winner receives the Cliver Cup (named after Andy of L Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics, who inspired this whole idea). And yes, we promise that Carl will run the tech.
Payment details:
- You don’t have to pay all at once; just get us $100 by this Sunday and the rest by July 6th.
- Of the $280, $20 will go to the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights campaign. If we get, for example, 50 teams, that’s $1000 for a terrific local charity.
- If you play fewer than 7 times, we’ll send you back you back $35 per game fewer than 7. But you have to play 5 times to be eligible for the big event.
- There will be an extra buy-in to the ultimate SUMMER SLAM! event, hence the cash prizes.

And yes, all things SUMMER SLAM must be capitalized and said with enthusiasm. Otherwise, don’t say it at all. Hope to see you this summer!

Sign Ups for This Week!

Here ya go, gang, sign ups are live for this week’s quizzes! $35 to play, just your team with a quizmaster of their own, with $5 going to charity.

Congrats to Cool Cats and Kittens!

Shout out to Cool Cats and Kittens whose score of 50 was the highest of anyone last week. Here are our full final standings. We’ll see how this affects our top 20, coming out later this week!

1. Cool Cats and Kittens	50
2. Zodiac Killer$	49
3. Backstreet Boys II Menehune	48
4. Au Bon Pandemic	47
T-4. Expired Walmart Meat	47
T-4. Yacht Rock	47
7. Covid’s Metamorphoses	46
T-7. Hot Bleach Injection (aka Bologna Strong)	46
9. Kings of Leon	45
10. Super Spreaders	43
T-10. The Quarantiners	43
T-10. Hallmark Hot	43
13. Stately Plump Buck Mulligans	42
14. Branch Covidians	41
15. L Ron Hubbard	40
T-15. Lambda Lambda Lambda	40
16. Missing Wuhan Scientists	39
T-16. The Covidiots	39
T-16. Sofa Kingdom	39
T-16. Babysitters Fight Club	39
20. FFSF	38
21. Pop Fit Studio	37
T-21. Core-entine	37
23. Quiz on My Face	36
T-23. Hydroxychloroquine Latifa	36
T-23. Quick Question	36
26. Below Basic	35
T-26. Synchronized Trampoline	35
T-26. The Missing Heads	35
29. City Tap	33
T-29. TNQQC	33
31. Together Alone	32
T-31. Meat Sweats	32
T-31. Cark in a Whig	32
34. Dobby’s Sock	31
T-34. Not Last place	31
T-34. Carole’s Husband	31
37. Brandon Muthafuckin’ Grotesque	29
38. Joshy Rich’s Close Touch Salon	27
39. There’s no I	25
40. What About Bob?	24
T-40. Socially Distant	24
T-40. 1team1dream	24