Apolyton Pub Quiz Championships

[Frozzy]

Right, here are the current contestants (hoorah!)

European
Provost Harrison
Kassiopeia
Immortal Wombat

Pacific
Method
mrmitchell
Enigma_Nova
KrazyHorse

[JohnT]

Back in my younger days I would win my friends $50 of free beer every weekend at some bar that had a trivia contest every night. My secret? I wasn't drunk.

[Frozzy]

[Frozzy]

Righty-ho, the channel for the Championships is #pubquiz
If you don't know how to get there, got to http://apolyton.net/chat , then click on "Java Chat". When logged onto the chatroom, type in /join #pubquiz and you are there.

The tournament format is as follows (subject to change):

You will play 3 games against competitors in your conference. You will challenge them to a match, and you may not challenge anyone twice unless you have challenged everyone else in your conference. At the end of the "Round Robin", the 4 people with the highest win percentage* in their conference will advance to the next round. Then a straight knockout ensues with 1st in the conference playing 4th, 2nd playing 3rd, winners play in the Conference final, with the grand final being played between the winner of the Pacific Conference playing the European Winner.

*percentage is worked out by your win/loss ratio (e.g. 1 win and two losses is a 33% percentage). The tie breaker for those with the same percentage is the amount of questions correctly answered.

I hereby announce the first match-ups will be in the period December 5th - December 8th. You will need to challenge somebody in your conference to a match-up. It is up to you to get a quizmaster for your match in this period, however this should hopefully not be the case in the play-offs.

[Frozzy]

Oh, and please note that sign-ups are by no means closed, and will continue until the date of the first game.

[Enigma_Nova]

You'll obviously need some way to overcome lag and ping.
For an American GM, the American contestent has a whole 0.2 more seconds to think about their answer - which is quite unbalancing given that my reaction time is 0.15 seconds...

What you'd have to do, is do a 'ping-time-test', and then guage time responses.
The simple way:
Have the GM say "3"
Then a second later, say "2"
Then a second later say "1"
And have everyone anticipate when to say "0".

This will give a decent idea of everyone's ping time, with reaction time negated.

As for me, my net is laggy, and is pre-emptively blamed for any loss I incurr.

[Method]

i dont think that'll be too much of a problem...if anything you'll have an advantage anyways, since Frozzy is in New Zealand.

[mrmitchell]

I fear that any effort to counter lag will overcompensate. If you're lagged, you're lagged. Sorry. If it were for money or something it might be a little more considerable but it's just a cheap title.

[JohnT]

I can't imagine that a bunch of people volunteering to perform "question" duty in a quiz game not of their devising are going to worry about lag. I was actually going to sign up, but then I read the lag post and said "why bother."

[Immortal Wombat]

Method has a cool avatar. I challenge Method.

[Method]

hrm, kassi, IW, PH...tough field. Very well, i accept your challenge

[Enigma_Nova]

Krazy - Mobilise the zigs. All your base are belong to us.

[Drogue]

I'm up for it, if I can still join. Eurozone of course I want to see Kassi vs Method again. They were always close

[Method]

pish. you're all too smart for me. IW happens to be the equally-as-evil-as-the-other-three-evils who challenged me first

[Drogue]

However he's in the other conference than you See Frozzy's earlier post.

Speaking of which, I challenge Provost