We returned on this past Thursday to The Diner in the Thompson Toronto, with excellent and amazing company in the red neon glow south of King on Bathurst! Would an emerging regular team win the Golden VHS on just our second event at The Diner, or would newcomers stake their claim at this brand new location?

 Trivia Classic  came to an end, with the M. Night Shaym-Aliens return to The Diner, as one of two returning teams in fact! Three points behind were The Team Formerly Known as Prince, this team who were expected to leave early for Lizzo but got hooked in (and Lizzo wouldn’t go on til later anyway) had a one point lead on Team B.S., who were visiting from Portland! Three points ahead of Team B.S. were Mio Trio, the returning Blondies from last week alongside a non-Blonde as well! Two points behind the Trio who would eventually gain a forth member were We The North East, with Pinky and the Brain a point behind them to end juuuust outside of the top five!

 Game Show Games  saw Team B.S. grab the TOP TEN in Countdown Takedown and take the lead, when the M. Night Shaym-Aliens were left pointless! Pinky and the Brain grabbed eight points, while The Team Formerly Known As Prince picked up six! Grabbing the TOP TEN in Survey Says were Mio Trio, while Team B.S. nabbed eight points, and the M. Night Shaym-Aliens once again were left pointless, joined this time by We The North East!

Then in  Tri-Pardo , the first category chosen was by the M. Night Shaym-Aliens who rolled eight points, followed by Pinky and the Brain who rolled for TWENTY on the second category, while Mio Trio rolled for sixteen. This meant that forty-four points were on the line in round three. Continuing their momentum after round two, Team B.S. gained the most points, with thirty-six points from the second and third questions. The M. Night Shaym-Aliens and The Team Formerly Known As Prince both also got the second and third questions correct, but lost eight points on the first question, for a total of twenty-eight points!

 Trivia Finale  wagering then led to a diverse selection of possibilities, but with Team B.S. going back to Portland, they weren’t looking on leaving points behind! This meant that they were going all-in, and all other teams would just hope to gain a lucky break on the incorrect answer! This would not be the case however, and the M. Night Shaym-Aliens would finish in third with eighty-eight, while The Team Formerly Known As Prince would end the night as runners-up with 107 points!

Winning their FIRST GOLDEN VHS on their first (and possibly only) night out were TEAM B.S. who finished the night with an impressive 134 points, powered by the momentum of their second and third rounds, to go with their strong first round.

Congrats one more time to B.S. and thank you to everyone else who came out to compete at The Diner in the Thompson Toronto! Keep an eye out for details on upcoming Trivia Club events at The Diner, no doubt in the coming weeks!

It was a new day for Trivia Club in Toronto, and our inaugural event at our new location, the Thompson Diner! Joining us were both long-time competitors, well traveled and well decorated within Trivia Club, and also an ample selection of teams new to the game, more familiar with our new location then with Canada’s Greatest Game Show!

 Trivia Classic , at this event including a selection of Game Show Games within the round, finished with new faces in the lead as In It to Win It grabbed the top spot after round one! Three points behind them were the M. Night Shaym-Aliens: First Class! A two person team on the night, the Shaym-Aliens were a welcome sight for Trivia Club, as Trivia Club’s veritable house team they’ve always traveled well! Half a point behind them were Chicago Beef Salamis, celebrating both their first night of trivia and their friend’s imminent move to Chicago! Half a point behind them were Blondies, who themselves had a one point lead on David Bowie’s Corporate Whores! The Corporate Who's were making their first appearance since their win at Farside on September 5th of last year! Outside of the Top Five (top five top five) were It’s Nice to Have a Friend, who had a two point lead on Ilana, and then rounding out the field were Ditsy Diners!

 Tri-Pardo  then brought out a two point question rolled by In It to Win It, followed by a fifteen point question rolled by It’s Nice to Have a Friend, and finally a sixteen point question rolled by the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, giving thirty-three points to win in round two at The Diner, weighted towards those second and third questions! Grabbing those second and third questions and gaining the lead from the five spot were David Bowie’s Corporate Whores! It’s Nice to Have a Friend shifted into second place with a fifteen point correct answer! The Shaym-Aliens kept their answer field blank, and were now half a point behind Chicago Beef Salamis, who answered the first and second answers correct but got the third question incorrect and thus lost sixteen points to end up with a net one point added!

 Trivia Finale  answers saw Chicago Beef Salamis and Ditsy Diners’ incorrect answers leave them with zero points outside of the Finale Top Five, while In It to Win It doubled up and finished with fifteen points for fifth! Finishing in fourth were Blondies, while It’s Nice to Have a Friend finished third! The runners-up for our inaugural Trivia Club at the Thompson Diner were the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, who finished with 63.5 points!

That meant our INAUGURAL GOLDEN VHS CHAMPS at the Thompson Diner, and winning their TWENTY-FIRST championship overall… were DAVID BOWIE’S CORPORATE WHORES with 104.5 points! Having kept close after round one, they answered the high leverage questions that they needed to in round two, before putting all but twenty and a half of those points on the line in the Finale! David Bowie's Corporate Whores also join the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, Cunning Stunts, and Matt & Pat (as individuals) to win a Golden VHS at five different locations, with the Whores winning at Cardinal Rule, Hitch, The Rec Room, Farside, and now Thompson Diner, which also makes them the only winner so far of each of our active locations in Toronto!

Congrats once again to David Bowie’s Corporate Whores, and thank you to everyone who came out to our inaugural night of trivia at the Thompson Diner! We’ll see you all again in THREE WEEKS at The Diner, on THURSDAY September 19th! Remember you can reserve your table ahead of time, and we look forward to bringing you even more of Toronto’s Greatest Game show just south of King and Bathurst!