Season 4 last call!

Apr 02, 2022

Last call for Season 4!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to put out one last call for Season 4. (You can join at any time, but if you can get this week's quizzes in by Monday morning you'll be caught up and fully competitive.) Thanks so much to everyone who's joined already — feel free to disregard this email (and don't forget to submit your quizzes in if you haven't yet!)

For everyone else, I just wanted to highlight a few aspects of the league. If you're interested in playing in the league and receiving the Mon-Fri trivia quiz newsletters, here's the link to join:

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A novel scoring system

There are 5 questions on each quiz. Typical one-point-per-question scoring would lead to only 6 possible outcomes: 0,1,2,3,4, or 5. In this league, you get 5 points for the answer you're most confident in, down to 1 for the answer you're least confident in. So you can score anywhere from 0 to 15 on a quiz, and I think that big increase in the possible scoring outcomes is a good thing. Five different people could each get 3 out of 5 correct, and they could easily all end up with a different score (3 correct could result in anywhere from 6-12 points). Also, the confidence points are really testing your knowledge on a second level — the quizzes are about not only what you know, but how well you know it.

The quiz show canon

Having spent more hours than I'd care to admit preparing for a certain quiz show, I feel like I have a pretty good idea of the kind of thing that comes up. I am hitting you hard with quiz show content every weekday, and every question you get wrong is a question that could come in handy one day when you need it (and in my experience, like losing poker hands, you tend to remember the questions you get wrong when you're competing.) Not that you have to have game show ambitions to enjoy the league, of course. But even if you don't think you'd ever be at that level, you might be surprised how fast you can improve. You really might be closer than you think.

Weekly deadlines

This is just a small thing, but if I can help it, I don't want anyone to fall behind because they didn't have time or forgot to play the quiz one day. So I try to give everyone more time with the weekly deadlines, and I send out reminder emails to those who haven't submitted yet as we get closer to Monday morning. If you're swamped during the week, you can probably knock out a whole week of quizzes in 20-30 minutes over the weekend if you want.

Here's that link again