Friday, January 25, 2008

Your Special Quizo Tournament of Champions Rules Update

As promised.

The rules of the tournament will go thusly:

Each week for 8 weeks the teams that finish in the top 5 will get points, from 5 points for first place to 1 point for fifth place. In the ninth week, the teams that finish in the top 5 in point totals will compete in a Final Trivia Battle for the majority of the prize pool. There will still be normal Quizo in the week of the Final Trivia Battle, with the added bonus that the winner of said Final Trivia Battle will not actually be eligible for the normal Quizo prizes.

The prize pool will be generated through teams competing in the tournament donating $5 per team, per week into said prize pool. Unless people want to make it $10. I'm certainly not averse to the idea. Note that even if you are convinced that you can't possibly win the whole thing it is in your interest to contribute to the pool every week for reasons I shall get into shortly.

In addition to earning Tournament points for finishing in the top five, bonus points can be obtained in the following ways, even if your team doesn't finish in the top five:

- 1 bonus point for playing on a team with 3 or fewer people. 2 bonus points for playing solo. Note that you still get this if you're normally on a team with 6 people but in some given week you're the only one who shows up. (Meaning that even if your team can't make it some week, at least send one person.)

- 1 bonus point for the team with the "best wrong answer" every week, decided arbitrarily by me.

- 1 bonus point for getting a 10 in any non-money round on each night, which will be especially useful when I pull out the really ridiculous speed rounds, which I will. (you can only get 1 of these per week)

- 1 bonus point for, in weeks with a particularly interesting geography question, the team that draws the "best map" on an answer sheet, also arbitrarily chosen by me. This does not necessarily mean the most geographically accurate map, as you've probably guessed.

- 1 bonus point for being the only team in the bar to get any single question right (again, limited to 1 per week).

- Other bonus points distributed by me under exceptional circumstances, again determined arbitrarily and, quite possibly, unfairly. There was talk of rewards for "lightening my mood" but I have Vicodin for that, which is much more reliable.

The team limit, as per normal operating procedure, is 6 people in any given week. However, over the course of the Tournament of Champions you may have as many as 8 different people in total on your team (that is to say, if someone can't make it one or two weeks you can swap a different person in). You can still only have 6 people on your team in the final, though, and for the final all 6 must have played at least once in the Tournament.

At the end of the competition, in addition to awarding the team that wins the Final Trivia Battle the majority of the collected prize money, numerous other awards will be given out, NHL-style. These include but are not necessarily limited to:

- The "Mr. Consistency" Award: to the team whose individual nonzero scores over the course of the tournament have the lowest standard deviation (look it up if you don't know what it means).

- The "Alias Pseudonym Undercover" Award: to the team who, over the course of the tournament, has the highest ratio of points (regular Quizo game points) scored to team members each week.

- The "My Freaking Ears" Award: to the team that finishes individual games above Das Boot the most times, thus preventing you-know-what.

- The "Who The Fuck Are You" Award: to the team full of people no one has ever seen before who are only showing up these 9 weeks for the money and stupidly think there's any chance I'm going to let them win the actual prize.

- The "Blast From The Past" Award: to the team that finishes the highest in the final standings out of the group of teams we haven't seen in a while but who will show up again for this. Darg Whores, Delicious Bass, Gym Shorts No Underwear, Dr. Seydow and others, I'm looking at you.

- The "Dirty Godless Whores" Award: to the team that wins the money round the most times over the course of the tournament.

- The "Put The Book Down And For Chrissakes Go Outside" Award: to the team with the highest aggregate point total (regular Quizo game points) over the course of the tournament.

- Anything else I can think of that seems vaguely amusing at the time.

Awards may range from cash to candy to whatever the hell I think of when it comes down to it.

That's all I can think of at the moment. If anyone has any questions let me know.

Monday night, then, the Tournament of Champions begins!

JLK

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