Click here for more photos of the event's CHAMPS on Facebook!

It proved a subtle start to the first Grand Championship Grand Prix away from Cardinal Rule, as a smaller field of teams set an eye on the Golden VCR... at Hitch, our longest running current location, while we started a month long celebration of SIX YEARS of Trivia Club in Toronto!

 Trivia Classic  saw the house team at Hitch the Fighting Mongooses lead the field after the first round, while the bar team Wookiee of the Year were three points behind! Rounding out the tight field were Orchard Sisters!

 Game Show Games  then saw the TOP TEN in Countdown Takedown go to Wookiee of the Year, while the Fighting Mongooses played it safe and still walked away with eight points! Then in Survey Says it was a TOP TEN for the Orchard Sisters, while the Fighting Mongooses grabbed another eight points! Then in Combo Breakdown it was a back and forth and a tough yet quick ending to Combo Breakdown with Wookiee of the Year as the last team standing for FOUR POINTS!

As we tilted towards  Tri-Pardo , it was the Fighting Mongooses still with a slight lead on Wookiee of the Year, with the Orchard Sisters needing some luck to win it... and hey, I know that music, that's a late entrance for The Man with the Candy! Yes, the fourth ever Golden VHS winners at Hitch entered late on the night, with a chance to walk away with at least three points towards the Golden VCR! The Man with the Candy would gain eight points on the second question and eighteen points on the third question, getting twenty-six points on the board! Also adding twenty-six points to their name were the Fighting Mongooses! Wookiee of the Year weren't as lucky, adding eight points on the second question but losing eighteen on the third question! This put the Fighting Mongooses in a safer position for the Finale question...

In the  Trivia Finale , those Fighting Mongooses wagered 27.5 of their points, while all other teams went all-in, all to the wall... and luckily for the Mongooses, their cagey wagering would not be caught on this night!

Winning their SEVENTH GOLDEN VHS, leaving them alone as the fifth winningest team in Hitch history, are the FIGHTING MONGOOSES! They have now matched the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes with seven VHS wins since April of 2017, third most in the current Trivia Club season! This win also opens up the sixth annual Grand Championship Grand Prix with six Grand Prix Points for the Fighting Mongooses and an early tie-breaking point total of 106 points!

 09/04/18 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	CT	SS	CB	PARDO	(WAGER)	FINALE
Orchard Sisters	7.5	0	10	0	-8	(20)	-10.5
Fighting Mongooses	35.5	8	8	1	26	(27.5)	106
Wookiee of the Year	32.5	10	4	4	-10	(40.5)	81
The Man with the Candy	--	--	--	--	26	(25)	51

Congrats once again to the Fighting Mongooses, and thank you to everyone who came out to compete at Hitch this past Monday! We'll be back NEXT MONDAY for your regularly scheduled Trivia Club goodness, with the Grand Championship Grand Prix Finale on April 30th at Hitch with all kinds of GCGP goodness Toronto-wide in the interim! Remember, it's not what you know... it's what you learn along the way!

HARTMAN TROPHY STANDINGS (as of 43x17)

#	TEAM NAME	∧∨--	HIGH[EP]	HOST	SONG	TOTAL
1	The Party Andersons	--	179 [17]	197	78	1927
2	War Horse Can Dance	--	138 [09]	0	92	1715
3	The Team You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party	--	163 [17]	82	50	1694
4	Not Ready For First Place Players	--	166 [15]	105	65	1570
5	The Ignorant Sluts	--	171 [12]	276	125	1380
6	Billion Dollar Murrays	--	139 [07]	7	136	1369
7	Holtzwomenn	--	135 [04]	30	34	1088

Click here for more photos of the event's CHAMPS on Facebook!

What a night of competition, of surprises, of returning teams and surprise returns, and of course... excellent team names! We were back at Farside for the windiest night of spring, and the wind blew both ways indeed!

After the first round of  Trivia Classic , it was Guardians of the Galaxy Salon in first place! These weren't folks from just across the street, taking a night off from the salon, but in fact the returning Tiny Tim's...! The team was making their return to Trivia Club for the first time since last April, 2017! They had a two point lead on the field, with a tie in second place between Fart School Confidential, a M. Night Shaym-Aliens squad sans a couple of core members, with a name based on a true story! They were tied with Pug Grumble, the team at one side of the bar! On the other side of the bar were These Guys Win! in sixth, while Ostrich Face :| were saddled up beside the host, in fifth place!

 Game Show Games  saw our second round with our recognisable Countdown Takedown, and with Guardians of the Galaxy Salon grabbing the first TOP TEN, while Fart School Confidential grabbed eight points. Fart School Confidential grabbed another eight points in Survey Says, while Guardians of the Galaxy Salon grabbed another TOP TEN! This then led to a real back and forth Combo Breakdown between the Shaym-Aliens and Tiny Tim's..., by other names, with the Shaym-Aliens' Fart School Confidential holding out as the last team standing for EIGHTEEN POINTS!

This then brought the back and forth night around to the third round, with  Tri-Pardo  seeing who would grab the lead and if Pug Grumble could indeed play spoiler! Pug Grumble picked up eleven points, from the first question, while the seventeen points from the third question were eliminated by seventeen points in the second question! Guardians of the Galaxy Salon also picked up eleven points and finally, Fart School Confidential picked up eleven points, but lost seventeen points in the second question... meaning Guardians of the Galaxy Salon had regained the lead heading into the Finale!

In the  Trivia Finale , it was a matter of wagering and answering correctly... and on this night all teams were able to answer correctly, so it all came down to wagering. Guardians of the Galaxy Salon had wagered forty of their points, but as it turned out they needed to wager fifty or more if they wanted to stay ahead of Fart School Confidential! With Fart School Confidential going all-in, Guardians of the Galaxy Salon would have to settle for the runner-up spot on their return to Trivia Club...

With FART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL finishing the night with their TWENTY-SIXTH GOLDEN VHS CHAMPIONSHIP as the M. Night Shaym-Aliens! It's their second Golden VHS at Farside, and their first as Fart School Confidential!

 04/04/18 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	CT	SS	CB	PARDO	(WAGER)	FINALE
Fart School Confidential	34	8	8	18	-6	(62)	124
Guardians of the Galaxy Salon	36	10	10	8	11	(40)	115
Pug Grumble	34	4	0	0	11	(49)	98

Congrats one more time to Fart School Confidential, and thank you to everyone who came out to Gerrard and Broadview on this especially windy night of April! We'll see you all again in TWO WEEKS on APRIL 18th for the Grand Championship Grand Prix edition of Trivia Club at Farside, with your placement on the night going towards a sixth annual chance to win the GOLDEN VCR!

Click here for more photos of the event's CHAMPS on Facebook!

The return to #TriviaTuesday at The Rec Room brought out an exciting selection of competition to The Hall in The Roundhouse in Toronto! Would anyone roll 20? Might we see a clean sweep for prizes?! How about a First and Gold kind of night?

After  Trivia Classic , the Top Five (top five, top five) saw Scramble My Eggs in fifth, with Pizza Pockets < Pizza Pops in fourth, and Nerd Ferguson in a strong third place! Just two points outside of the Top Five were Patgies, as well as The CPAs (Certified Professional Amateurs), and Team Ramrod! This meant that winning some sweet sweet candy were The Girlie Show in second after the first, and in the lead... 7 Trends!

In  Tri-Pardo , our second round at The Rec Room, things got much more unpredictable, as 7 Trends saw their lead and held pat on all three questions! The Girlie Show has rolled for one point on the first question, while The CPAs rolled for fifteen points on the second question, and 7 Trends rolled for six points on the third question! Collectively this meant a lower then average twenty-two points were up for grabs with the brunt of those points on a tough second question! Scramble My Eggs and The CPAs got both the first and second questions correct for sixteen points, which gave them a one point and four and a half point lead on 7 Trends respectively! Just one point behind after gaining ten points, were Pizza Pockets < Pizza Pops! Gaining eight points on the second round of questions and holding at sixth place were Team Ramrod!

Finally in the  Trivia Finale , Scramble My Eggs had the lead, and wagered juuuust enough to keep... they just had to get the last question correct... BUT as it turns out they were one of two teams, along with Ramrod, who would get the question incorrect! So close but so far away, Scramble My Eggs fell to fifth! In fourth place were the first round runners-up The Girlie Show! In third, just four points off the winning score, were Pizza Pockets < Pizza Pops, and runners-up on the night... after finishing Tri-Pardo pointless, two points away from the win... 7 Trends!

This meant that winning the GOLDEN VHS CHAMPIONSHIP on the night, with seventy-six points, were THE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL AMATEURS! Sweeping in from out of nowhere on a solid second round, and a last second all-in wager for the Finale!

 03/04/18 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	PARDO	FINALE	WAGER	POINTS
Certified Professional Amateurs	22	16	38	38	76
Pizza Pockets < Pizza Pops	26	10	36	36	72
Team Ramrod	17.5	8	25.5	25	0.5
7 Trends	37	0	37	37	74
Scramble My Eggs	25.5	16	41.5	36	5.5
The Girlie Show	28	1	29	29	58

Congrats once again to The CPAs, and thank you to everyone who came to The Rec Room this past Tuesday! We'll see you all again in The Hall for our second night of the Grand Championship Grand Prix for the GOLDEN VCR in celebration of Trivia Club's SIXTH ANNIVERSARY!

ANNOTATIONS for the MARCH 2018 SCOREBOARD

• Unlike last month, when the tenth highest score was less then one fifth of the highest score of the month... March saw a much more reasonable disparity! Not only did we welcome our fourth regular location in The Ace, bringing two more twice monthly events to Wednesday and a trivia night back to our original 'hood of Roncesvalles, but when it had all shaken out, the lowest score in the March 2018 Top Ten was more then half of the highest score!
• The High Score of March 2018 belongs to a team competing at The Ace! We were very proud of our debut at The Ace and our return to Roncesvalles for the first time since The Last Rights & Wrongs at Cardinal Rule! One of the last ten Golden VHS Champs at Our Original Home, or at least part of that team Chillasaurus, were the first Champs at The Ace as Thursday Morning's Regret! This means the team holding the early mark for location high score with 126.5 points, as well as holding the month's highest score.
• The highest score at The Rec Room for March happened on our Oscar night of Red Carpet Trivia Club on a SUNDAY of all nights, with Saturday Night Live Fantasy League alumni Matt, Rob, Sarah, and friends notching 122 points as Three Holo-boards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2049!
• The two highest score at Hitch for March went to Wookiee of the Year, with the top spot and third overall for the month being the 112 points on the 26th of March, three weeks after the month's fourth highest score and giving the bar team at our legacy location, bookends for the month!
• The fifth highest score of the month, is also the highest score for Farside in March of 2018, with Trivia Newton John (the eleventh highest score of January 2018, and not the tenth highest score O'Trivia Newton John) returning to win the Golden VHS on their second try on March 21st!
• The sixth highest score of the month goes to the highest score of the month for a team that did not win on the night... with The Simple Minds losing the debut night of trivia at The Ace, but returning two weeks later to post a lower score but walk away with the Golden VHS to make up for it!
• The entire Top Ten for March 2018 is in fact up of the winners and runners-up of specific nights.
• Teams competing at Hitch appear the most on this month's Top Ten with four appearances, while The Rec Room, Farside, and The Ace all see two teams each making an appearance.
• This is the third straight Top Ten appearance for the Fighting Mongooses, making them the only team to have appeared in each 2018 High Score Board so far.
• The eleventh highest score of March 2018 belongs to Mouse Head, the other part of Chillasaurus who competed at our debut at The Ace, who finished with 63 points, which was good enough for third on the night. The next four high score in March belong to teams competing at The Rec Room!
• The Mean Team for March, with the high score closest to the scoreboard average, is... a TIE between Wookiee of the Year and Trivia Newton John!