Online Quiz League UK - Newsletter - 2024-04

OQL Season 12 has now reached its end. Thank you to every player, reader, setter, and editor for making it another brilliant season! Here’s our newsletter regarding everything that has happened of late, everything running now, as well as a look to the future events that OQL are running.

OQL Season 12

Congratulations to all our division champions and promoted teams from Season 12. Here’s the list of all our champions and other promoted teams:

Division 1 – Champions – Mangoes; Runners-up – Motley Crew
Division 2 – Winners – The Zoomsbury Group; Runners-up – Spiral Scratch
Division 3 – Winners – Lions of the Isles; Runners-up – The Mighty Atoms
Division 4 – Overall winners, and Division 4B winners – SQF
Division 4A winners – Quizish Empire - Also promoted – Strong Fauna and Buckfast at Tiffany’s
Division 5 – Overall winners, and Division 5B winners – Rando Calquizzians
Division 5A winners – The Other One - Also promoted – Bee Reel and Periodically Tabled
Division 6 – Overall winners, and Division 6B winners – Let’s Get Quizzical
Division 6A winners – Calderdale Colts - Also promoted – Nemesis and Koan and Punishment
Division 7 – Overall winners, and Division 7A winners– Lucky Dip
Division 7B winners – The Infamous Table M - Also promoted – Spread Quizzingly and Universally Challenged
Division 8 – Winners – Elephants in the Zoom; Runners-up – Shouting Answers at the Television - Also promoted – NewEggs and 500 Miles

Congratulations to all teams, and commiserations to all relegated teams. We are sure you’ll be on the promotion campaign next season!

Jon Jacob Cup Season 12

This month saw the finals of the Jon Jacob Cup, the handicap cup where teams from all divisions play each other in an exciting battle for the Cup, Plate and introduced this season, the Super Cup, open to the top 16 teams from the previous Cup tournament. Congratulations to the winning teams!

Cup – Champions – Nemesis (Div 6); Runners-up – Tricky Cheese Triangles (Div 6)
Plate – Winners – MK Jeds (Div 4); Runners-up – Veni, Vidi, Bon Jovi (Div 5)
Super Cup – Winners – Oxford Dingoes (Div 4); Runners-up – Dartologists (Div 1)

A huge congratulations to all the teams on another excellent cup run, an event which proves to be one of the most exciting of the season as well as a great way for teams of all divisions to quiz against one another!

OQL Season 13

Season 13 starts on Wednesday 8th May and we are currently open for registration. New teams and players can register via:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/Online_Quiz_League_UK_-_Register

The deadline to do so is Friday 3rd May.

Returning teams have until Friday 3rd May to register to return for Season 13. The quickest way

to do this is for the captain to select that they are returning via:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/Online_Quiz_League_UK_-_My_Page.

You can also let us know you’ll be returning by registering via the website or dropping us an email to confirm you’ll be returning.

After registering for Season 13, teams will need to complete payment of the entry fee. Payment details can be found below. You can register for multiple seasons to receive a discount. It's £70 a season but if you sign up for two seasons, you'll pay £135, three seasons for £195 and four seasons for £250. Brand new teams pay just £55 for their debut season. Here are the dates for the upcoming seasons.

Season 13 – 8th May to 17th July 2024
Season 14 – 4th September to 18th December 2024
Season 15 – 8th January to 23rd April 2025
Season 16 – 7th May to 16th July 2025

Payments should be made via bank transfer to:

Tide Bank Account
Online Quiz League
Sort Code 04-06-05
Account number 15269534.

If your team are not based in the UK, then please go to PayPal.me/OQL to complete the payment.

Brain of Online Quiz League (BOOQL)

Brain of Online Quiz League is an individual competition that takes place during the summer season of each OQL Season. We have made a few changes to the competition for 2024 and you can read all about how it will work via the website at:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/Brain_of_Online_Quiz_League

Registration for BOOQL 2024 will open shortly after Season 13 of OQL has commenced.

OQL Quiz Weekender

For the weekend of 26th -28th July 2024 OQL are running our first ever quiz weekender. 3 days of incredibly fun quizzes as well as a fully catered party on the Saturday night in the fantastic seaside resort of Blackpool. Entry for all 3 days of quizzes and the party costs just £140 per person and we have also arranged discounted hotel rates at the venue for the event. Full details of the event and how to register are available via our website at

https://quizcentral.net/weekender/

OQL Buzzer Quiz

We are delighted to announce that the OQL Buzzer Quiz for 2024 has been booked. We will be returning to Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Kings Heath, Birmingham on Saturday 23rd November. This event is one of the quiz highlights of the year as 55 teams will descend on Birmingham to participate in this buzzer quiz. All teams are guaranteed at least 8 matches, and entry costs just £125 per team. Registration opens at 7pm on Monday 6th May and the competition will likely fill up extremely quickly. Full details are available at:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/Buzzer_Quiz_-_About

Places are sure to fill up fast, so get your team together and register quickly to avoid disappointment!

International Culture Challenge (ICC)

Season 7 of OQL’s International Culture Challenge is currently open for registration. This is one of our hugely popular individual competitions which uses the Mimir format, where players face three other opponents in an individual game. This quiz focusses solely on the ‘highbrow’ subjects of quiz, art, history, geography, science, culture and much more. Don’t worry - there’s no need to know about the latest TikTok trends for this quiz!

Entry is just £30 per player (£25 for your first season) and all players will play 9 exciting quizzes in the Mimir format. The competition commences on May 20th and the deadline to register is May 18th. Full details of the competition and how to register are available at:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/International_Culture_Challenge.

Live VIII

OQL’s Live VIII continues to run regularly. These are our individual written quizzes where all players sit the same questions. In these quizzes, we crown our overall champion as well as our subject champions. Registration has closed for April, but our next event will be June 29th and will take place at venues across the country. The Live VIII questions for June will be written by Innis Carson and Jon Stitcher, and afterwards, venues will host the fun team and buzzer quizzes. Watch our website for more details on how to sign up, and a list of live venues that will be hosting the event.

OQL International Quiz

We recently ran our first ever individual written international quiz which was attempted by over 300 players across 15 countries on 4 continents and Jack Pollock of the UK emerged as our first ever champion.

We’re thrilled with all the positive feedback we’ve received, and the OQL team are excited to work on this event to make it bigger and better in 2025!

That’s everything for now! We hope you’re all enjoying anything you’re playing in OQL and if you’ve any questions about anything within this newsletter please email us at:

info@onlinequizleague.com

Best wishes,

OQL Team