Wirral Quiz League

The Challenge Cup Final this year was contested between Oxton of the Wirral League and Ringers of the Warrington League.  You can watch the match by clicking on the link below.

As is usual at this time of year, all Wirral Quiz League players ar cordially invited to take part in the Liverpool Quiz League's Pairs Competition.  This will take place on 3rd June 2024 at Aigburt People's Hall at 8pm on Monday 3rd June.

Details of the location can be found here:  Aigburth People - Quiz Liverpool

Match 17 will be played on 29^th April 2024

Congratulations to the Plasterers Arms who last night won the Absent Friends Trophy after narrowly missing out in the final last year. It was great to see the event supported by so many spectators.

In the semi-finals, Plasterers defeated Wallaseyans and Nelson's Fifth Column beat Soapsuds.
The Final was a close affair with Plasterers just pulling ahead at the end.

Well done to Jon, who scored well in both matches, and his team and from Nelson's a good score by Frances in the semi and Mike in the Final kept Nelson's in it right till the end.

Many thanks to all teams who participated, it was a very enjoyable competition and the Group phase worked well, so every team had at least 3 matches.

Great thanks are due to Caroline from Soapsuds for providing the wonderful refreshments,
And last but not least, thanks to Kris for providing all the questions for the 6 quizzes - well done!

Hope you all enjoy a good summer and look out for the WQL AGM which will be held some time in June.

Round 1 - 8th April

Round 2 - 22nd April

The Semi-final line up has now been completed with Plasterers Arms and
Soapsuds joining Nelson's Fifth Column and Wallaseyans.

Finals night is on Monday, 15th April at the Lever Club, starting at 8pm.
The Semi-Final draw will be made on the night. There will be refreshments available and all teams are cordially invited!

The Wirral Quiz League Season has now come to an end and Congratulations to Tia The Hazel Gnome who won Division 1. Runners-up were Oxton Conservatives.

Congratulations to Aardvarks, who won Division 2 and are promoted along with Clarence Rovers and they replace Nelson's Fifth Column and Wallaseyans who are relegated.

The Martin Prendergast Trophy winner was Jim Eccleson, who narrowly beat defending champion Wayne Shaw. The Andrea Jones Trophy for Division 2 players was won by Steve Lomas, with another Aardvark, Martin Heale, as runner-up. Well done to all players.

Finally, the Wirral MIMIR heat was held on 22nd February and the winner was Jim Eccleson. Other finalists were Steve Lomas, Jon Stitcher and Richard Speechley.

We now look forward to the Absent Friends Handicap Trophy to be played throughout March (fixtures are here) and Finals night at Lever Club on April 15th. Good luck to all participants.

The final from this year's Buzzer Quiz is now available to watch.  Misfits took on Yorkshire at the end of a fine day's quizzing.

The Wirral team gave a valiant defence of the Shield but fell just one point short in the end. In the last round of matches, the team comfortably defeated table-toppers Liverpool 2A with Joe Davies getting a full house! In the final close match, the team beat Warrington and Mike McDonough registered 19 points in both games, In the other match, Liverpool 2A overcame Ormskirk and so won the Shield for the first time since 2016. Congratulations and many thanks to all those who represented the Wirral in this year's competition. 

As the current League season is reaching its finale, we're now preparing for the second Absent Friends Trophy.

This is a Handicap competition for Wirral teams and this year we have 16 entrants. This means there will be four groups of four teams, with each team guaranteed three matches. The top two in each group will go forward to the Quarter-Finals.

The groups will be drawn at the end of the season based on final league positions and handicaps calculated based on average scoring.

Matches will be played on Mondays and Tuesdays with the following schedule:

Week 1 - w/c Monday 4th March;

Week 2 - w/c Monday 11th March;

Week 3 - w/c Monday 18th March;

Quarter-Finals - w/c Monday 25th March;

Semi-Finals and Finals Night - Monday 15th April (this is a blank week in the Riley Cup schedule) venue still tba.

We hope all teams enjoy the event and that it will be as successful as last year's inaugural event, won by Joey's Nomads