Wirral Quiz League

Welcome to the new 2024/2025 season of the Wirral Quiz League-please find below notes concerning the forthcoming season.

AGM-WIRRAL QL-was held in June 2024

2 proposals were raised in recent AGM and passed unanimously:

It was agreed that the local Mimir Competition would take place on a Monday evening rather than the present Thursday-this is an attempt to increase attendance. It will still be held at New Brighton Cricket Club on Monday 17th February 2025.

Secondly-It was decided to re-introduce refreshments at League matches. It was also decided that this was not compulsory but that all teams should be aware of which teams are opting so that they can decide not to provide refreshments to those opponents.  To this end I will compile a list of teams opting out which will be circulated so please let me know only if your team are UNABLE to supply refreshments. 

Also, at our AGM, we discussed ideas on how to expand the league. It was suggested that we hold an Open Day, possibly a Saturday, and issue an invitation to local schools, colleges, clubs etc  to participate in team and table quizzes. We would need a suitable venue and volunteers to organise such an event-please contact Pam or me in the first instance to take this idea further.

LEAGUE COMPOSITION-Clarence Rovers and Browns of Division 2 have resigned from the league after many years-as there were no new entrants the league would now consist of 2 equal divisions of 9 teams.

In view of the reduction of teams it was decided not to include “blank” weeks and incorporate a mid-season break.

The main amendments to existing teams are as follows:-

Tia the Hazel Gnome have changed their name to Zelda the Giant Hoe

Thingwall Exiles  have changed their name to Heswall Aces

Oxton Conservatives are now to be known as Oxton-same venue

McKies Magpies have a new venue-Stanley’s Pub, 83 Seaview Road,Wallasey,CH45 4LE phone  07354 022491-same playing night Monday

There are a few minor changes to email addresses etc but these will be incorporated in the new handbook and the web site will be updated.

Early season fixtures are attached-please note the later start date this term.

ABSENT FRIENDS TROPHY-this new Wirral only Handicap competition proved very successful last season and will take place again at the end of this season. I have assumed that all teams will wish to enter-please advise me if you do NOT wish to take part.

Please note that the Riley Cup, the Handicap competition for Wirral AND Liverpool teams will still run in April 2025

MQL CHALLENGE CUP-Wirral participation in this competition continues to be poor. It is now played on line on Wednesdays during the season and teams are now permitted to field 1 player from another Wirral team. Please reconsider entering this prestigious tournament.

MQL PAIRS/BUZZER QUIZ -these competitions will take place as follows:

PAIRS-Prescot Cables FC Prescot L34 6HB 8pm Wednesday 23rd September 2024 8pm

Pairs are drawn on the night-All Wirral players welcome.

BUZZER QUIZ-Hoylake Parade Community Centre Saturday 15th February 2025

Any player wishing to represent Wirral should contact Pam for details.

PRESENTATION NIGHT-will take place this year at Oxton Conservative Club on Sunday 29th September 2024 8pm-in addition to the Prize Giving the evening will involve a meeting of the Wirral Quiz League and the Wirral Pairs Competition. As in previous seasons we will extend an invitation to our friends from the Liverpool Quiz League.

Handbooks will be distributed on the night-all trophy winners should attend and all teams are encouraged to support this event.

Can holders of existing trophies return their awards for re-engraving if you haven’t already done so.

Please ensure that you pass this newsletter to other members of your squad.

If you require any further information on any of the points raised-let me know

JIM ECCLESON-SECRETARY WIRRAL QUIZ LEAGUE-0151 653 8649-07380 602824

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

For those of you missing quizzing, St Joseph’s Parish Centre, home to our Division One team Holy Joes, is holding a charity quiz on Friday 3 May. A poster about the event is below. Contact the venue direct for more information or to register a team.

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!

Ted Riley Quiz Cup Competition 2024

Thirty-one teams will be competing for The Ted Riley Quiz Cup this year.  Clicking on a team's name below will take you to the relevant page on the Wirral or Liverpool website, with contact details and location. 

All correspondence will be by email.

The full draw is available at the competition page - click on the trophy ->

Competing Teams with Handicap

Clicking on the team name will take you to their page, sowing contact and location details.

Electronic Questions Distribution

Twenty of the thirty-one teams have agreed to this method of questions distribution.

When they are at home they will receive the questions by email and the away team will be sent the second part of the password by email, please ensure that you take it to the game.

The remaining teams will be sent the questions by post.

Organisation

Match Times

All games in round one, round two and quarter finals will start at 8.30pm.

Semi-finals and Final. The draw will take place at 7.50pm so that we can get a prompt 8pm start.

Scoring and timing

We will adopt the following rule for scoring and timing;

Each individual player shall be allowed to attempt to answer their own question for two points.

If they answer incorrectly, it can be attempted for one point by another member of their own team.

If this attempt is wrong, it then passes over to the opposition for one point.

Timing; 10 seconds for your own question, 5 seconds for the other team members to answer and five seconds for the opposition to answer.

Results

The winning team should send the results to me by WhatsApp or email, immediately after the game, so that I have them by 10pm on the night of the game.  Each round's results ill be emailed to each team every week and posted on www.quizliverpool.org.uk and www.wirralql.org.uk

Protests

Team captains should advise me on the Monday night, then confer on the Tuesday and advise me by 8pm of the result of their consultation, by phone or email. If the team captains fail to agree; Paul Davitt, Jim Eccleson, Keith Clare and Angela Doyle will adjudicate by noon on the Wednesday.

Spare Questions

if electronic distribution is adopted this will not be necessary.

If a Question Set fails to arrive, you may obtain a spare set from me, or one of the following;

Angela Doyle 0151 722 1054 Jim Eccleson 0151 653 8649 Paul Davitt 0151 427 7617

Should you have any queries or questions regarding the competition please do not hesitate to contact me.

Paul Davitt

General Secretary Liverpool Quiz League

07758464110

Email pauldavitt@virginmedia.com

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.