Yes, the tourney is underway. HOWEVER, it’s not all about the brackets. If it’s about seeing your friends and having some fun, then I’ve got some good news; we’ve still got slots available. Chip Chantry has openings on Tuesday at 7:45 and 8:30, Wednesday at 9:15 pm, and Thursday at 7, 7:45, and 9:15. J Michael has an opening Thursday at 7:45. AND I’ve just added Philly comedian Pat House to the mix, with openings on Wednesday at 7, 7:45, and 8:30.

It’s a fun quiz this week, just a general trivia theme. And I’ve got a great team of quizmasters assembled. You’ll learn more about them soon.

Still no games have gone final yet, but here are our scores after our first night of action (Encyclopedophiles is hard to read, they had 41). 7 tourney teams played last night. Our high score was 46 in an impressive performance by the Jams. The Testes Factory has their work cut out for them tonight. That will be our first game to go final.

And so we enter a brave new world, one that takes place not behind a bar but behind a computer screen. But the more things change, the more they stay the same: we’ve got a lot of familiar faces, teams like the Jams, Zodiac Killer, Covid’s Metamorpheses, the Sofa Kingdom, Queefer Sutherland, the Missing Heads, and Duane’s World, who have been playing for over 15 years now. Then we mix in some new teams like the Tiger Queens, guys in Virginia who are friends of a friend of my sister. We’ve got former beloved Bards regular Pong, whose career as captain of Look Up! Look Down! ended with a move to Chicago, now able to get the troops back together. They’ll all be aiming at the early betting favorites, Boyz II Menehune, who have been destroying the competition so far in virtual quizzo. Lots of storylines, lots of excitement, as we head into battle. If you’re tweeting or posting about this to IG, FB, twitter (and you should be!), please use the hashtag #Aprilmadness. Let’s make a little history, shall we folks?

What’s up, gang? We had a great week of quizzing last week, and decided to let everybody who played last week have a shot at the tournament. At the end of the day, we’ve got TWO slots remaining, and would love to fill them this morning so we can post the brackets for the tourney! This is gonna be really cool. Go to the spreadsheet here, fill in your slot, shoot your team’s $30 to @jgtquizzo on venmo, and you’re good to go!

If you don’t want to play in the tourney but still want to get some quizzing done this week, worry not: we’ve still 10 slots left with Chip and J. Michael. Hope to see ya this week!

Hey gang, we’ve been having a ton of fun over on Zoom with the quizzes these past few weeks. But that’s not the end all when it comes to online quizzing. I really want to try a number of online quizzes out. So tomorrow we’ll experiment with one on Facebook Live. Thanks to my buddy Noah at Big Quiz Thing, we’ll have a “virtual scoresheet” for this one as well. Here’s how it works:

Tomorrow afternoon I will give post an Event Key on the JGT Quizzo Page on Facebook. You will then go to playbigquiz.com and sign in. It’s pretty daggone user friendly. Then we’ll start the quiz at 7 pm. You can communicate with your teammates any way you want. I recommend zoom, but you can text them, call them, scream at them, whatever. We’ll do a round, you’ll have a couple of minutes to finalize your answers, then you’ll submit them and we’ll move to the next round. This is a beta test, it could be a train wreck, but what the hell, let’s play some quiz.

Ok, gang here are the scores for this week. As I said during the week, these will also act as seedings: starting this week we’re running a 48 team tournament. I’ve sent your captain an email so you can fill in your team slot. Any empty slots after 24 hours we’ll fill in with new teams.

If you didn’t play this past week, worry not: we’ll still have plenty of openings this coming week for regular quizzes. I’ll have slots posted Sunday at 3 pm. Here were our final standings last week:

Have at it, folks! Price went up just a touch, to $30 per team. Not trying to jack the price up, just trying to keep it as cheap as possible while also trying to make up some of what I’m losing each week at the bars. Hope you guys understand. We’ll keep it here at $30 for awhile.

We’re also going to be trying out a tournament Next Week (April 6th-9th) and seedings for that tourney will be determined by how well teams do this week…your score will determine your seeding next week. We’ve got 39 slots for this coming week: top 32 teams make the tourney. We’ll have more details soon. Looking forward to quizzing again this week!

Our topic for the coming week? Tigers and Kings.

Whoa, a big week of virtual quizzo. I’ll have more info about this past week and our game plan for next week later this weekend. But in the meantime, let’s look at our final scores for the week:

1. Boys II Menehune 49
2. Zodiac Killer 49
3. Feral Pogs 48
4. Babysitters Fight Club 47
5. Covid’s Metamorphoses 47
6. Not Last Place 45
7. Cark in a Wig 45
8. Encyclopedophiles 44
9. L. Ron Hubbard 44
10. Sofa Kingdom 44
11. Testes Factory 43
12. Tuesday Night Quizzo Club 43
13. Meat Sweats 42
14. Going the Social Distance 42
15. There’s No I in Virtual 41
16. Hallmark Hot 41
17. Social Distance Warriors 41
18. Synchronized Trampoline 41
19. Lambda 40
20. Covideo Killed the Radio Quiz 40
21. El Tigre 40
22. Underground Bard 40
23. Dare to Be Stupid 39
24. Dat Rona 36
25. Homeschooled 33
26. Jawn of the Dead 32
27. Socially Distant 31
28. Non Sporting Class 29
29. Big Ben 28

We had 5 teams take part in the quiz last night. We’ll have 6 more go tonight. Here are our scores thus far (top possible score is a 52):

1. Boys II Menehune 49
2. Encyclopedophiles 44
3. Sofa Kingdom 44
4. Social Distance Warriors 41
5. Non Sporting Class 29

8 new teams compete tonight!