Wirral Quiz League

A Happy New Year to you-I hope you enjoyed your Xmas break and are looking forward to the recommencement of our League programme next week

With regard to our forthcoming Mimir Competion-please note that the date shown in the handbook is incorrect - the event will take place a week later than shown on Thursday 22nd February 2024

The venue is the same at New Brighton Cricket Club as is the start time of 8pm

Can you please pass this message to your squad - We have changed the playing night to Thursday to accommodate those players in the Online Quiz League to attend

In past years the turnout has been a lot less than expected so please try to encourage your team mates to attend what is always an enjoyable evening

Regards

Jim

LEAGUE

The season starts on Monday 18th September and all teams should have received details of the early season fixtures. Teams are reminded that the new start time is 8.30 p.m. with a fifteen minute leeway. Good luck to all participants.

PRESENTATION NIGHT

This will take place at Oxton Conservative Club at 8 p.m. on Sunday 24th September 2023. As usual, in addition to the presentations of trophies to last season’s winners, there will be a Pairs Competition and the new season’s handbooks will be ready for collection. It’s a big room, so let’s fill it!

The semi-finals and final will be played upstairs at the Lever Club on Monday 20th March 2023

A draw will be held at 7.45 p.m. to decide which teams play each other and the matches will start at 8 p.m. There will then be a break for refreshments before the final.

There is plenty of room for spectators, so come along and support your second favourite team if you’re not involved.

Fixtures and results for the Hanicap Cup can be found on this page:

Online Quiz League are running their inaugural individual championships on Saturday 25th March.  Around 300 players have already signed up to play at venues up and down the country.  The day involves a written individual quiz featuring 200 questions across a whole manner of subjects and then two fun team quizzes in the afternoon.

This is looking like being the biggest event of its kind ever in the UK and one of the venues is the Cross Keys, a pub in Liverpool city centre.  There are currently around 15 spaces left available there and it would be great to see those spaces filled with MQL players.

For more details and to register please go to  https://quizcentral.net/qc/Individual_Championships

As the season is finishing earlier than usual, a short handicap cup competition, for the Absent Friends trophy, has been arranged. This will be a knock-out tournament, with the first round on Monday 6th March, the second on 13th March and semi-finals and the final on 22nd March. The semis and final will be played at the Lever Club. Matches must be played on Mondays, with the usual start time of 8.45 p.m. unless teams wish to mutually agree a different time.

With two late entries, sixteen teams are taking part and the first round draw is below. Home teams are shown first and the numbers following the team names are the handicaps.

Magpies 25 v Taxes 18

Heinz the Male Goat 3 v Aardvarks 16

Shipwrecked 18 v Roundheads 17

Oxton Cons 7 v Wallaseyans 12

Lever Club 29  v Nelsons 14

Joeys Nomads 10 v Extras 8 (will be played at Extras venue)

Gladly Stoned 0 v Plasterers 13

Thingwall 12 v Soapsuds 5 (will be played at Soapsuds venue)

This competition is being run by Kris Jones of Aardvarks who has sent full details of the rules to all nominated team captains. Results need to be notified to him as soon as the match is finished.

Congratulations to Neil Wright of Soapsuds who scored his second full house of the season in a match against Thingwall.

The Wirral heat of the Mimir Individual Competition will take place once again at New Brighton Cricket Club this year

The date is Wednesday 15th February 2023 commencing 8pm and the competition is open to all Wirral Quiz League players

Wirral are normally allowed 7 qualifiers to the further stages of this competition which this year will also take place at New Brighton Cricket Club on Wednesday 22nd March.This event will involve other qualifiers from the other areas of the Merseyside Quiz League

To comply with Martin’s wishes, his funeral was private.

His family has arranged a get together on Friday 27th January at New Brighton Cricket Club where friends and family can meet to talk about Martin and their memories of him.

The room has been booked from 1.30 p.m. until 5 p.m. and quizzers, past and present, who knew Martin and would like to attend can drop in at any time and stay for however long suits them.

New Brighton Cricket Club is in Wallasey, postcode CH45 5DE, for anyone who hasn’t previously attended.

The Presentation Night for the 2021/22 season and Pairs competition were held at Oxton Conservative Club on 25th September 2022.

Division One Winners – Gladly Stoned	Division One Runners-up – Oxton Conservatives
Division Two Winners – Gasworks Gang	Division Two Runners-up – Plasterers Arms
The Martin Prendergast Trophy for the best individual score in Division I went to Jim Eccleson	The Andrea Jones Trophy for the best individual score in Division 2 went to Steve Lomas who couldn’t attend on the night but received his trophy the next day
The Wirral MIMIR trophy was won by Jim Eccleson	The Pairs Competition was hotly contested, with Jim Eccleson (Oxton Conservatives) and Fiona McDougall (Shipwrecked) seeing off their opponents