A quiz league.
A weekly quiz with a season table brings the same teams back. Here is how to score it fairly, and how to keep it without a spreadsheet.
Scoring a season
- Points for beating tables, not for raw scores. Win a twelve-table night and take 12; come last and take 1. A big night counts for more, and a hard quiz does not punish anyone.
- Best of N nights. Count each team's best eight or ten nights, so a team that misses a week for a wedding is still in it.
- Show attendance and average place beside the points: it settles arguments.
- Team names change. Match them however the table types it (“The Quizards”, “the quizards”), and let the host fix the odd one by hand.
On the night
- Pick the league in night setup, or on the night you planned. The table goes up on the TV in the lobby.
- At the end, tonight's result goes in by itself and the new table goes up.
- Take a night out if it should not count (a practice night, a broken quiz).
One league, several hosts
A venue with more than one quizmaster keeps one table: on the Venue plan, up to five hosts share the venue's leagues and quizzes, so whoever runs Tuesday adds to the same season.