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Off Season Battle Bracket

March 23rd, 2015

For a while now we've batted around a number of ideas for an off season tournament of sorts to help keep your trivia skills sharp. We think we've finally come up with a viable idea.

Introducing (key intense background music) the District Trivia Off Season Battle Bracket! (duh duh duh)

Here's how it'll work:

  1. Score as many points as possible in the first month of the off season (i.e. March and September).
  2. We'll seed the teams according to points scored for that month.
  3. The second month of the off season (i.e. April and October) will be a single elimination tournament.
  4. Cash prizes to the top teams

Seeding

The top teams at the conclusion of the first off season month will be ranked accordingly. Depending on how many weeks are in the second month, we'll either seed 32 or 16 teams. If it's a 5 week month, then we'll seed 32 teams and if it's a 4 week month we'll seed 16 teams. (Remember that the trivia week and month always begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, regardless of the date.) We will reserve the right to adjust the rankings due to trivia cancellations or other factors. We'll also do our best to explain the seedings and avoid appearing to be anything like the NCAA on selection Sunday. That being said, feel free to click the envelope in the upper left and submit thank you notes for providing yet another chance to win cash.

Tournament Play

Each week of the second month teams who are paired will be "playing" against each other. This doesn't mean you have to be at the same venue. Keep playing at your regular venue. We'll compare the team scores at the end of the week and advance the highest scoring team. If your venue happens to cancel during the month, then it'll be considered a forfeit. We simply haven't figured out a better way to do this. (Again, send complaints to the envelope.)

Prizes

We'll be giving away $200 to 1st place, $100 to second place, $50 to third, and $25 to fourth. To determine third and fourth place, we'll have a third place play off the same week of the finals.

Disclaimers

This is our first attempt at the Off Season Battle Bracket, so it won't be perfect. Send us feedback and we'll do our best to iterate and improve, but any improvements may have to wait until the next off season.