Add me!
I will spend prize on hookers and cocaine

By vintage, what do you mean? I do like the Matchbox and Hotwheels models. The fictional ones, not so much, but the ones based on actual cars I like. My brother and sister think I'm crazy since they view them as toys to play with, while I not so much. (I'm running on about Mattel in a Jeopardy thread, seems odd.)

dont let me in

Edited 5/21/2021 12:45:44

By vintage, what do you mean?

Whatever you want, my dude. If you win, you can pick whatever as long as it's about $60.

To sweeten the pot I'm thinking of adding a lottery for participation and/or a prize for group winners. Any ideas?

I'm only on for a few hours at one time per day, will it still be possible for me to participate?

Yes. If there's difficulties, I can work on scheduling or make adjustments as needed. I might shuffle groups especially for this.

Then yes, I'd like to participate.

We need at least 15 more participants before we can start (and ideally a lot more), so I'll sweeten the pot a bit. Here's some additional prizes (1st still wins LTM):

Lottery (Participation Award): Everyone who plays all their matches (in group and, if they make it, knockout stage) and didn't place 1st/2nd/3rd will be entered in a drawing for Yearly Membership (or equivalent)
Group Winner Awards: The 8+ Group winners get 500 coins each (or $5 equivalent)
2nd Place Prize: Second place winner gets Yearly Membership + 1500 coins (or $30 equivalent)
3rd Place Prize: We'll have a 3rd place match between the two people who got eliminated before finals for Yearly Membership (or equivalent)
4th Place Prize: 500 coins (or equivalent)

You can pool your prizes together (e.g., if you win a group + win the lottery + place 4th, you are entitled to $25 worth of prizes in some form). To allow for pooling, the prizes will all be distributed when the whole tournament finishes. I'll DM everyone who wins a prize on Discord and on Warzone (assuming I am not permabanned by then) and we can work out the details of how you want to receive your prize. You're welcome to be creative as long as it's not inconvenient or troublesome for me.

The total prize pool has now gone up from $60 to $165+ (we might get more Group Winner prizes if we get more than 8 groups). I hope this spurs some participation, ideally in the next 24 hours so we can start on time. :)

I notice a lot of you Europeans are shy to compete against us Americans in a trivia contest. Come prove the superiority of your education system! Even if you don't know the answers to the music and film questions, you might be able to just guess your way to the top by typing fast. Plus there's all sorts of categories- like cheese, French names for things, classical composers, European cities- that advantage people outside the US.

Edited 5/14/2021 18:56:52

Count me in

I will not send you 5,899 pennies or contribute $58.99 toward a fund to hire a samurai to intimidate your estranged ex-wife so she worries about the kids' safety and lets you spend more weekends with them

I was just about to ask for 5899 pennies to pay a ninja to stalk a non-existing enemy i don't have!

Very cool idea lavrov, sadly my english is too bad to be able to get anywhere near the top, so i will stay away from this....

The lottery is there to compensate for that, so you can get $15 for just playing. Plus you never know how well you will do. You might even get a category that's Dutch names for things.

I'm in!

TL:DR but I'll play

I will join, but only because half of the questions is "translate this from Spanish to English", or "translate this from English to Latin".

Edited 5/15/2021 03:45:05

sign me up yo

I am in

In 100%
Thanks for organizing this, this is totally cool, and adding prizes (especially essentially just monetary prizes since we can ask for same value of something different) is above and beyond. 10/10

Signed up, and I think that started it :)

We still need 4 more. Then I'll draw the groups and we'll start the tourney.