Last Call Trivia runs a full-evening show with wagered rounds, a halftime question and an all-or-nothing final. Quizado gives you the same shape of night to run yourself, on your own screens, on the night you choose.
Last Call Trivia sends a trained host to run a wagered multi-round show in your bar; Quizado is the software that lets your own team run a night with the same shape, and keeps the teams and the standings in your account.
A show that needs a trained host in the building only exists where the company has hosts. Their schedule site lists the bars they reach; a lot of good rooms sit outside it.
Quizado needs a connection, not a route. A bar an hour outside the nearest city runs the same night as one downtown.
Hosted shows usually start at 7 or 8 and last about two hours. If the only free slot in the diary is your busiest night, the quiz fights the kitchen for the room.
You set the night and the start time, and you move both when a holiday or a game gets in the way. Nothing has to be rebooked.
Hosted trivia is a fixed cost per show. In a slow month you are paying the same for eight teams as you did for twenty.
A software plan is flat. Run one night a week or three, in one venue or in a second one, without the cost moving.
When the league, the standings and the app are the company's, the teams follow the company. If the booking ends, so does the reason they were coming.
Your league and your season table live in your Quizado account under your venue name. The standings are a reason to come back to your bar specifically.
A house format is consistent by design. That is a strength for two years and a problem in year three, when the same eight teams know exactly what is coming.
Rebuild the running order whenever you like. Drop in a knockout round, a majority-rules round or a full Family Feud night without asking anyone.
A corporate party in your function room, a staff night or a birthday all mean booking another show at another cost.
Your plan already covers it. Build a custom game for the group, run it upstairs on a laptop, and put the score on the TV in that room.
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The Wager round type lets teams stake points on their own confidence. The app applies the stake and the result, so nobody is checking a column of ones, threes and sixes at the bar.
Teams scan the QR code on your screen and play in the browser. There is nothing to download at the door, which is the difference between a walk-in team playing and not bothering.
The display shows the question and the countdown, so a round ends when the clock ends. You do not need a song playing to tell the room how long they have.
Name That Tune questions are part of the app, and Music Bingo cards come in on Hospitality Group. You supply and license the audio, which means the playlist is yours rather than a house one.
Leagues and seasons run across weeks under your venue name, from Trivia Pro up. Teams chase a position at your bar, not a national ranking.
Everything you write or generate stays saved. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, and after a season you are rebuilding a night from your own material in ten minutes.
Last Call Trivia publishes its format for players, and it is worth reading before you build anything yourself. Their site describes a multi-round general knowledge show with bonus questions, a halftime question and a final, run with music playing between the questions.
The scoring is what makes it a game rather than a quiz. Teams assign a point wager to each question in the early rounds, so a confident answer is worth more than a guess. The host reads each question once and teams submit their answer and their wager through the app while a song plays. One round is a hidden theme round that pays a bonus if a team spots the thread running through it, and the final is multi-part with a wager that is lost entirely if any part is wrong.
That design does two things. Wagering keeps a team that had a bad first half in the game until the last five minutes, and a fixed shape means the kitchen and the bar know when the room turns over. If you build your own night, keep both. A running order with a wager round, a mid-point breather and a big final is a better night than eight rounds of the same thing.
The strongest argument for running trivia in-house has nothing to do with the fee. It is that everything the night produces stays with the venue. Team names, week-by-week standings, the questions that got a laugh and the ones that fell flat, the season table people argue about in March. On a hosted booking, most of that sits in the company's system, because it has to; it is what lets them run leagues across many bars.
In Quizado, all of it lives in your account. Leagues and seasons come in on Trivia Pro and run under your venue name, so the table on the wall is your table. Multiple venues sit in the same account, each with its own teams, which matters if you have a second site or you are a group with three rooms. Question packs and anything you write or generate stay in a library you keep reusing. From Trivia Pro up, your logo is on the big screen and on the player phones, and custom fonts and colours are on Hospitality Group, so the night looks like your bar rather than an event that visits it.
The trade is real, though. What a hosted company gives you along with the show is an audience that already follows it, and a host who has run the format hundreds of times. When you take the night in-house you are also taking on the marketing. Put it on your own social accounts, in the newsletter and on the sandwich board, and expect the first six weeks to build slowly.
Last Call Trivia does not publish a venue rate, so ask them for a quote before you compare. A hosted show is usually quoted per night and covers the host, the questions, the app and their promotion. Quizado is a flat monthly plan with a free tier, so the interesting number is not the invoice, it is the hours.
Break the week down. Building a two-hour running order takes about twenty minutes: pull a built-in pack for the general rounds, generate one themed round on Trivia Pro and read it through, then set the wager round and the final. Setup on the night is ten minutes for the display and a QR test. The show itself is the two hours it runs. Nothing happens afterwards, because scoring finished when the last answer landed and the season table updated itself.
So call it three hours a week, from somebody who is on the schedule anyway, and falling as your library fills up. Whether that is cheaper than a host fee depends on your wage cost and on whether the person doing it is any good with a microphone. If your best candidate hates public speaking, do not do it: a bad in-house host will empty a room faster than no trivia at all. If you have the right person, the hours are the whole cost and the night becomes part of the bar.
There are venues where paying for the show is the cheaper answer.
These are the reasons operators give for taking the show over.
Build a first running order that looks like the show your regulars already know: several short rounds, one wager round, a break in the middle and a big final. Familiar beats clever in week one.
The free plan hosts up to sixteen players, which is enough for four or five teams. Use those four weeks to train the host and find out where the wifi is weak.
Move to Trivia Pro, start a league so the standings carry across weeks, and put the table somewhere visible. Then do the marketing the company used to do for you.
If you host for a trivia company, you already know the craft: pacing a long show, reading a question once and clearly, and keeping a table that is losing badly in a good mood.
Quizado is a way to own the other half of the job. The account is yours, so the private bookings you turn down or pass on can become your own work: office parties, wedding weekends, brewery anniversaries, charity nights. You build the game once and it stays in your library. Paid plans let you run more than one venue from the same account, which is exactly how a freelance quizmaster with three regular gigs needs it to work.
None of that requires you to leave the company that books you. Keep the routes, and use Quizado for the nights they do not cover and the venues that ask you directly. Start on the free plan, run one small private game, and decide from there.
Last Call Trivia is a produced show with a trained host, a tested scoring format, music between questions and a following that travels between the bars they run. Quizado is not a show and does not arrive with an audience. It is the console, the questions and the scoring, handed to somebody who works for you. If nobody in your building wants that job, book the show and enjoy the night off.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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