League Structure Everyone playing in the league is playing for points.  You earn points by answering questions correctly.  The more you know the better you will do.  All-Star Pop Culture differs from your average Pub Quiz by creating cumulative points over a "season".  Points are totaled over a 12 week season to determine who is the best Pop Culture trivia team. A $10/team fee is collected, with 50% going to the nightly prize pool, 25% going to each division's winner, and 25% going to the Championship prize. All money paid by teams is available for the teams to win.

The Season – Teams of up to 6 players will compete over 10 weeks of qualifying game nights.  Points are cumulative over the 10 week season.  The format for the 10 weeks of qualifiers is the same as  your average Pub Quiz, where all teams answer the same questions at the same time, trade sheets and grade the answers.  Teams must use minimum 1 player from a previous night of current season to use the team name (and accumulate points under that team name).  Each night will have the following format:

• Every Category will fall into 1 of 5 Genres: Movies; Television; Music; Personalities; Ephemera
• Each round will be comprised of questions from 1 single Category.  Categories can be general (ie: Oscar Winners), or very specific (ie: TV High Schools)
• Each night will have 6 rounds of 10 questions each
• Teams receive 1 pt. for each correct answer in a round (no negative points for answering incorrectly)
• Half-time (between round 3 & 4)  will have a Multiple-Choice question worth 10 pts (also no negative points for answering incorrectly)
• After round 6 there will be a “Final Jeopardy” Bonus Round.  This single question is valued by each team (see below), up to 20 points (negative points for wrong answers!)

The Final Four – The #1 ranked teams from each Division according to the standings after 10 weeks of play will be invited to compete in a Final Four Quiz in the post-season, for the 2 Championship slots.  In addition, the 2 teams with the next highest scores across both Divisions will be invited to the post-season as 'Wild Card' slots. Teams are comprised of up to 6 players, 3 of which MUST have played a minimum of 6 games throughout the season.

• the 4 teams will compete in a 4 round quiz
• Each round will be comprised of 10 questions from 1 single Category.
• Teams receive 1 pt. for each correct answer (no negative points for answering incorrectly)
• The teams with the 2 best scores after 4 rounds of play will move on to the Championship immediately following the Final Four (tie-breakers will be used to determine winners).
• Teams traveling from Divisions outside of Seattle will be provided with hotel accomodations, but travel expences will be covered by the teams themselves.

The Championship –  The 2 winning teams from the Final Four compete for the Season Championship.  Teams must use the same players from Final Four or forfeit the Championship.  Format will  be head-to-head competition:

• The team with the higher score from the Final Four round will elect to receive questions first or last
• The Championship will consist of 2 halves, with 12 questions to each team in each half
• Each team will hear their question and have 30 seconds to submit a correct answer as a group
• If the team cannot answer correctly in the alotted time, the opposing team has 10 seconds to offer a correct answer for a "steal"
• Teams receive 3 points for correctly answered questions, and 1 point for a steal.
• Teams will receive a list of 24 categories at the beginning of each half, from which all questions will be asked.  All categories will be chosen from ones that were used throughout the qualifiers in the season.
• Opposing Team will get to choose the category the receiving Team will answer from for each question.
• Once a category is used, it is no longer in play and cannot be used again, thus creating an offensive/defensive strategy for each team’s category selection process.
• In the second half, Teams will have an optional “multiplier”.  Multipliers will double the amount of points a team can earn.  Each team will have 1 multiplier available for use on any of the 10 questions they will receive in the second half.
• If a team chooses to use their Multiplier, they do so after they hear what category has been chosen for them by the opposing team.  If they answer incorrectly and the opposing team steals the question, the multiplier is in use and will increase the steal points for the opposing team.
• Team with the highest score at the completion of the the second half is declared Season Champions. Tie-breaker questions will be used if necessary to detrmine the winner.

Trivia Night Rules Please try to follow these rules whenever you are participating in an All-Star Pop Culture night

• No electronic devices allowed.  Please turn off all Blackberrys, laptops, or PDA's. Cell phones are strictly prohibited (please leave the room if you need to use your phone)
• Do not shout out any answers, correct or not, even as a joke.
• Please wait until the end of the round to request questions be repeated.
• For the night of the event, the Quiz Master is always right, and his answers are allways correct.  If you feel you find a situation where you believe his answer is incorrect, you can dispute it by following the procedure on the Scores page.
• Please eat and/or drink while you are participating.  Jillian's is kind enough to let us host this league there, please show your respect and give them some business.

"Final Jeopardy" Bonus Question & Hint Each week of the qualifying season will feature a Bonus question at the end of the quiz.  The Bonus question can range in how many points it is worth according to the team.  There will also be a hint released each week that will give some insight to the answer.

• The Genre and Category for each week's Bonus question will be given with the Weekly Hint.
• The hint will be posted within 24 hours of the previous week's event (usually when the scores are posted).
• The hint can take the shape of text, a photo/image, audio, a movie clip, or even a link.
• When teams sign in each night, they must declare how many points they wish the Bonus Question to be worth.  This amount cannot be changed once submitted. If nothing is declared their Bonus question is worth 0 points.
• If a team answers incorrectly, the amount of points they declared will be deducted from that night's score.
• A Team cannot set their bonus question at more than 20 points.