True enough, but there is an “I” in both “Win” and in “Victory”. 
That’s salary. They all share equal playoff and WS winnings. 
Wow. I also play on a live trivia team, and it has never come up that somehow one person on our team should have a larger share of the bar cash than someone else. We split the amount ($15, $25, or $50) equally between whoever shows up that night - even if they weren’t there for the previous game (we can’t use the bar cash the same night we win it, so we use it the next time.)
Sometimes I’m the ringer, sometimes someone else is the ringer on my team. I would never even dream of tallying the score and figuring out who should get what percentage of the bar cash based on how many questions they answer. If we win by three points, which three point question did we get that another team didn’t? If that happens to be the only question one of my team members answers correctly, should that team member get the lion’s share of the bar cash?
I would quit playing with my team if anyone suggested such a thing.
founding member of the Judge and Jury TFO team
I do the occasional pub quiz and I sometimes find myself in a position where I am the dominant contributor - I think a better approach is to try to pause a bit before blurting out the answer - it turns out that other people do know the answers, after all. I can’t get my head around the idea of wanting a bigger share of the pie. It’s primarily for fun, isn’t it?
It would have been nice of them to pay for your whole meal if they were so blown away by your performance. That’s the sort of thing that would have occurred to me later on, ‘Wait, we totally should have let him have the whole prize! Ah well.’
Why not bring an additional person who’s only job is to keep track of who answers what? Whoever has the most points in the end gets the dollar amount equal to their percentage of correct guesses within the team. Whoever gets the least has to eat dog food.
Wow. I see that you have already decided against it but that’s just fucking crazy. I’ve been the trivia ringer a couple of times. I’d do it more except for I hate bars. It never occurred to me to ask for a bigger prize. Isn’t it fun to be the ringer?
That’s simply self entitlement on steroids.
The only thing I’m confused about is the prize. You said you got enough to cover about half your check, yet you personally paid for almost all of your meal? Shouldn’t the fair thing have been to split it up so everyone just pays half of what they would have owed other wise? How did you end up owing almost your whole pre-prize bill? 
That’s not so bad. I have evidence that 44% of the current Justices of the US Supreme Court believe this to be true… in a manner of speaking.
I think my head just exploded.
Incidentally, is that the one after the right to cable TV and before the one that says that farting in church is punishable by death?
So if I have $30 in drinks and another guy had $4 in drinks I should get $15 and he should get $2?
I don’t know, man. The way I see it, you owe your team dinner. It seems that the other teams have wisened up to your presence and are upping their game level. Soon enough, your friends will be back to being also-rans but at an added cost.
Now seriously. You go there to play and to have fun. Winning is a nice plus and free dinner from it a bonus. Just as you would elsewhere, you split the bill (by whatever method you normally use).
What happens to the other guy in your team who answered, let’s say 20 of the 98 points? Does he get something? At what point would you have to start cranking out a formula to determine what each member has to pay? Don’t make check time a nightmare.
This kind of question coming from one of my teammates would no doubt induce a booze fueled hands on the hips angry rant from old lobstermobster. Youre upset that anyone had to pay even though you did not win a friendly game at a bar…that exchanges food items for money credits? You want to divide up payments based on percentages of points won for your team that didn’t even win the contest? Are you the type of guy that splits a salad and makes the other person pay for more of it because he saw them eat more of the feta cheese? You think you should be monitarily rewarded for being a ringer that not only doesn’t earn a majority of points scored, but can’t even carry his team to first place? Worst…Ringer…Ever {ringer? I hardly know her} And monitarily rewarding your smugness will in turn monitarily punish the rest of the team for not skipping their high school prom and memorizing the trivial pursuit cards.
I think the team needs a new ringer that knows what i means to be on a team and is not turned off to the concept that you have to pay for things at businesses.
I think you should kick the stupid people off the team and then, I’m not what would be next but after that BIG PROFIT!
One option would be to select new teammates to ensure you always win first prize.
Yeah, trivia night. Nothing compares to the looks of awe mingled with a touch of fear on your friends’ faces when they realize just how much you’ve got stuffed in your brain. I mean, they knew you were smart, but it seems they didn’t quite get just HOW smart.
Everybody can contribute, it’s good to have a team. You answer the science, history, geography, literature, art, language, politics, current events, and pop culture questions, and they can cover sports.
Or is this just me?
I suck at trivia.
Really suck at it.
That’s because most trivia is actor/actress/sport related and I just don’t follow that stuff.
However, several years ago the local bar had a trivia contest frequented by people from work. The CFO and other high ranking ‘old geezers’ played there. There were other similar teams from other companies. The competition was…intense.
I was drug along one day despite my protestations that I suck at trivia because someone was sick that day and their sub was out of town.
I was then asked to join the team permanent over who I was playing for…even though I suck at trivia…
Why?
I could only answer maybe 1 question in 12…but it was usually the one that nobody else could answer This slight edge (and it was slight) was usually enough for the team to go from 3-4 place to 1.
If they had split the tab by ‘contribution’, I’d have gotten next to nothing.
That tears it! I’m expatriating. Oh how I wish you were joking about this Robardin
Rilch, Meh, the way I see it, when it comes to stuff with friends, it all comes out in the wash eventually. Go play, have fun, pat yourself on the back for achieving “ringer” status and don’t worry about the money. Life’s too damn short.
When I was on the high school Brain Bowl team, we gave each other nicknames based on answers that person knew and nobody else did. I was “Horsepower”; we also had a “Doolittle” and an “Ottoman”…
What is 550 foot-pounds per second?
I was the ringer on my bar trivia team and never minded splitting the winnings evenly as even though I answered more questions correctly in most rounds, the ones that the other members answered were things like sports and current music that I had no clue about and every point was needed (we never won by more than the value of two questions). What I did resent was that there were four people on our team: me, my best friend, my cousin, and his girlfriend, and cousin’s girlfriend was COMPLETE AND TOTAL ballast. She was there to stare blankly and blow my cousin later, that was it, BUT she received 1/4 of the winnings, and I couldn’t kick her off the team because my cousin DID earn his keep (he was our sports guy and there was always at least one sports question) and if she was off the team he’d have left because he’s the most Meow-POP! guy I’ve ever met with every girlfriend he’s ever had. So, I grinned and bore it.
I miss that free money though. I think we came in third once ($25 off the bar tab) and second a couple of times ($50 in bar coupons) but most weeks we were number 1 ($100 cash).
Hey, think of what you have in common with Patrick Ewing, Rocky Colavito, Ted Williams…
This reminds me of a line from one of my kid’s Batman tapes.
Batman - after Robin screws up - : Now I know why Superman works alone.