“Scholastic Games,” is weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio, in the heart of mid-America. It is produced from January through May of each year. This week’s offering, another post-school-year encore show from 2024, is that year’s “Wilccard Competition,” a playoff between the two highest-scoring losing teams in the first round of competitions. Designated “wildcards” are teams that, in most years, achieved higher losing scores than most of the winning scores, so they are given a second chance. Avoiding elimination like other losing teams, the winner here will advance to the program’s quarterfinals in playoffs for the annual county academic championship.
The teams are from Firelands High School in Oberlin, Ohio, and Midview High School. In Grafton, Ohio. Both of these schools are perennial competitors on Scholastic Games. Midview is a past winner of our academic championship, an honor which has eluded Firelands so far.