Trivia League

Trivia League turns your Trivia nights into a team competition that runs for a whole season. Members sign up, captains draft teams every month, teams answer together on League nights, and the season ends with champions.

Status: Beta. Trivia League works and is still being polished. League nights are played in the Discord Activity, which is still rolling out (see below). It is part of the paid plans; see pricing.

Trivia has exactly two modes: Trivia (see the Trivia guide) and Trivia League (this guide). A League night is something the host chooses when starting Trivia, so you can mix League nights and normal nights.

How a season works

1. Staff start a season on the dashboard.
2. Members sign up with /trivia league signup.
3. Once a month, captains draft teams of four.
4. Teams play League nights and earn league points.
5. Titles are awarded at the end of each month and of the season.

Starting a season

Open Trivia, then Trivia League in the dashboard. Under Start a season choose:

• First month: when the season begins.
• Length: 1 to 12 months (3 by default).
• Colour roles: whether each team gets a colour role in Discord, such as League: Team Red. Rallyra needs the Manage Roles permission, with its own role above the team roles. Without it, the draft still works and the board says why.
• Team roles as their own group: shows each team's colour role as its own group in the member list. Off by default.
• Staff run the League and don't play: the server owner, anyone with Manage Server, and your Rallyra staff roles cannot sign up and are left out of the draft. Hosts still play. Off by default.

Press Start season. Only one season can be open at a time. Cancel season stops it, including a draft in progress, and nothing is paid or ranked. A server whose plan no longer includes League can still cancel a season it started.

Signing up

• /trivia league signup joins this season.
• /trivia league withdraw leaves it from next month's draft.
• /trivia league standings shows the season, this month's teams, the season leaders, and recent titles, with a standings picture. Anyone can use it.

A month needs at least 6 sign-ups for a draft, which makes 2 teams. Members who sign up after a month's draft still play: they join the smallest team as a free agent.

The monthly draft

1. A host runs /trivia league draft in the channel where the draft board should go.
2. The strongest players (by all-time Trivia points) become captains, one per team: Team Red, Team Blue, and so on. With more than 12 teams, the names go round again as Team Red 2, Team Blue 2, and so on. Anyone who signed up and then left the server is taken off the list first, and so are staff when the season says staff don't play.
3. Captains take turns picking from a menu on the board, in snake order with the weakest captain first. Only the captain on the clock can pick.
4. Each pick has a 30 second clock. When it runs out, Rallyra picks the lowest-ranked available player for them.
5. When the draft ends, team colour roles are given out if they are on. Last month's team roles are removed first.

If Rallyra restarts mid-draft, it carries on where it left off. The draft never moves points.

Need a different captain? A host runs /trivia league captain and picks a member who is already on that team. It works during the draft (the new captain takes over the picks at once) and between League nights. The old captain stays on the team in the new captain's spot, so team sizes never change.

Playing a League night

League nights are played in the Discord Activity, where Trivia runs with a private view for each team.

1. The host runs /trivia activity start with league set to True.
2. Rallyra refuses with the reason if tonight cannot be a League night: no season this month, teams not drafted yet, a draft still running, or a plan without League.
3. Members open the Activity and answer as normal. The first time they answer, they are seated with their team.

How answering works:

• Choice questions: every member votes in secret. The team's answer is the most popular first vote; a tie goes to the earliest vote.
• Short answers: the team's spokesperson types the answer. That is the captain, or the earliest arrival if the captain is away.
• Scoring: a right team answer is +1 and a wrong one is -1.
• Teams talk in Discord. There is no team chat inside the game.

At the end of the night, teams are ranked by score. If two teams are on the same score, the one with more right short answers goes ahead, and if that is equal too, Rallyra draws lots. Every team gets its own place, so nobody can tie on purpose. Teams earn league points by place: 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, then 1 for every place after. The results, with a picture of the team placings, post to your Trivia results channel.

Launching Activities inside Discord is still rolling out, so some members may see "Failed to Launch" for now. That is a Discord approval step on our side.

Points and rewards

A League night pays from the same amounts as a normal Trivia night on your server. There is no second price list.

• Each member of a team that got a question right earns that question's points, if they took part.
• The fastest right team's speed bonus is split among its members who took part. Any remainder that cannot be split evenly is withheld, never handed to someone else.
• Took part means voting on at least 70% of the choice questions asked after you arrived, and being there for at least half the night.
• A team where nobody took part finishes the night below every team that played and earns no league points.
• Rallyra files one payout request for the whole night in your payout review channel. Nobody gets points until staff press Approve. See Points and rewards.

Test mode works as usual: a full night is played, and nothing is paid or ranked.

Correcting an answer after the night

Sometimes a short answer is marked wrong that should count, for example "front" when the question bank only lists "front month". Staff can fix it once the night is over:

1. Run /trivia league correct in your server.
2. Pick the team's answer from the list (it shows the wrong short answers of the latest League night; fill in session to pick an older night from this month).
3. Optionally add a reason. It is kept in the audit log.

The answer now counts as right, the night is re-ranked and the results post again, marked "corrected". Teams the correction does not touch keep their order. If the team's members are now owed more points, Rallyra files one extra payout request in your payout review channel, and nobody gets those points until staff press Approve. A correction never takes points away from anyone.

Only staff can correct answers, only short answers can be corrected (choice questions are graded by the option picked), and each answer can be corrected once. Once the month is over, its results are final.

Titles

Titles are recognition only. They never pay points.

• Month champion: the team with the most league points in a month. Every member who played at least one night that month gets it.
• Season champion: the player with the most league points across the season. Players earn their team's league points for each night they took part in, because teams are re-drafted every month.
• Season MVP: the player with the most right first votes on choice questions. A member who has left the server is never MVP: the next eligible player gets it.

Ties share a title. Titles are awarded automatically after each month and at the end of the season. The League page shows the Season leaders (top five so far) and a Titles board with every title, newest first.

Troubleshooting

• "/trivia activity start league:True is refused." Read the reason. Usually the season has not started, there are fewer than 6 sign-ups, or this month's draft has not been run.
• "A member says they are not signed up." They need /trivia league signup first. If they sign up after the draft, they join a team as a free agent.
• "Team roles were not created." Give Rallyra Manage Roles and move its role above where the team roles should go. The draft itself is not affected.