Merseyside Quiz Leagues

The Merseyside Quiz Leagues' Annual General Meeting will be held online at 7.30pm on Sunday 16 April.  The Agenda and Minutes of last year's meeting can be found here.  Please contact the General Secretary or a member of the Council for a link to the meeting.

This is an annual event that returns this year after a few year's enforced break.  QLL have booked the Counting House in the City of London on Sunday 18 June and have now formally opened registration. https://www.quizleagueoflondon.co.uk/home/default.aspx

Doors will open at 11.30, and the latest time to start the rally quiz will be 1 pm. This event also stages a knockout tournament for the Don Bissett Trophy, of which MQL are the current holders.

The Merseyside Heats of the 2023 Mimir individual tournament were held on Wednesday 22 March at New Brighton Cricket Club, Wirral.  Congratulations to Dag Griffiths (S&F), Colin Foster (Warr), John Hall (Warr) and reigning Mimir champion, Jim Eccleson (Wirr) on reaching the Final of this year's competition.  That Final will be held at the MQL Presentation Evening at Aigburth Peoples Hall, Liverpool on Wed 17 May.  Results can be seen here.

Semifinal 1 - John Hall (Warr), David Smith (Warr), Jim Eccleson (Wirr), Brian Thompson (Liv)

Semifinal 2 - Alan Gibbs (Orms), Dag Griffiths (S&F), Colin Foster (Warr), Mark Kerr (Liv)

Online Quiz League are running their inaugural individual championships on Saturday 25th March.  Around 300 players have already signed up to play at venues up and down the country.  The day involves a written individual quiz featuring 200 questions across a whole manner of subjects and then two fun team quizzes in the afternoon.

This is looking like being the biggest event of its kind ever in the UK and one of the venues is the Cross Keys, a pub in Liverpool city centre.  There are currently around 15 spaces left available there and it would be great to see those spaces filled with MQL players.

For more details and to register please go to  https://quizcentral.net/qc/Individual_Championships

Congratulations to Wirral who won the 2022-23 President's Shield by the narrowest of margins.  The team of Joe Davies, Pam Baker, Steve Lomas and Mike McDonough won their final two matches to put them level with the holders Ormskirk.  Wirral ended with a superior match points difference to take the title.  Full results here.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this season's competition including the team secretaries and Dag Griffiths of MQL..

The Presidential Challenge a one-off knock out competition will be held at 8pm at Aigburth Peoples Hall on Wednesday 15 March.  This year it will be contested by Liverpool 2A and 2B, Ormskirk and Wirral.