As the name suggests, you enter the individual quiz league as an individual, not as part of the team. The league is broken into divisions, with each comprising nine players. Currently there are two divisions, but we are always keen to add more.
Each season consists of eighteen matches, with nine different quiz sets. There are four players per match, and every player plays eight matches, missing one set, often - but not always - because they wrote the set. The format is sometimes named Mimir.
Each match consists of four players, each assigned a seat from 1–4 (this is designed to balance out so each player is in each seat twice per season). A match conists of five rounds of twelve questions, with each player, in order of their seat number, being asked three consecutive questions per round.
If you answer your own question correctly, you are awarded a point. If you get it wrong or pass, this is passed to the other players for a bonus attempt. Initially the questions are passed over in seat order, to answer for a point, but the more bonus attempts you make - whether right or wrong - will push you back in the order for future bonuses. Therefore with bonus guesses you have to weigh up whether your guess is worth wasting a bonus attempt. If you decide that it's not, pass and the bonus will be moved on to the next person, or, if you're last in the list, will be recorded as an X. While passing on bonus questions will help by keeping your bonus attempts down, there is nothing to be lost in guessing your own questions.
The winner of each match gets four league points, with two for the runner-up, one for third and no points for fourth. If any places are level, they are determined by tie-breakers.The first tie-breaker consists of the same three questions asked to each player in isolation. If there is still a tie, any tied players repeat this process with three more questions. Any players still tied answer a nearest the bull question to finally divide them.
Still not sure? Watch this video by All Things Quiz which explains everything. Or you can contact us to play as practice match.