Masters of Trivia plans worldwide Middle-earth quiz event at FAN EXPO Dallas

Masters of Trivia says it will run a free, worldwide Middle-earth trivia championship at FAN EXPO Dallas on Sept. 13, 2026, with in-person players at its booth and remote players answering the same questions on one shared leaderboard.

The company says the event, titled One Quiz to Rule Them All: The Middle-earth Championship, will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Central time at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. It says no app download is required.

Masters of Trivia says the competition is free, open worldwide and designed to rank players together in real time.

Masters of Trivia says FAN EXPO Dallas runs Sept. 11 to 13, 2026, and expects more than 65,000 attendees. The release says the convention is also marking the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring with a reunion of the film's principal cast.

The Dallas event follows a Dragon Ball tournament the company says it held at KamehaCon in San Antonio from Aug. 21 to 23, 2026. Masters of Trivia says that event drew more than 300 players, and that four competitors answered all 30 questions correctly. It says first place was decided by average response time, with one second per question separating first from second.

For Dallas, the company says the quiz will use 90 scored questions, plus two unscored warm-ups, across three tiers called Fellowship, Ranger and Loremaster. It says the per-question timer will be 18 seconds, up from 15 seconds in San Antonio, and that ties will be broken by average response time.

Masters of Trivia says standings will be certified after review and trophies will go to the top three finishers. It also says all top 10 players at KamehaCon scored 29 or better, and that prizes there were awarded in person at the booth.

The company attributes the format to lessons from the San Antonio event. Founder and CEO Dom Einhorn said the KamehaCon tournament showed that at the top of an expert fan community, speed becomes the discriminator when knowledge is no longer the constraint. Chief brand officer Dr. Hanh Nguyen said a convention hall concentrates expertise and that online fans can compare who read the material more carefully.

Masters of Trivia says its platform was founded in 2005, offers more than 100,000 quizzes across 17 categories and serves more than 300,000 monthly active players in 196 countries. The release also says the company’s rewards system is powered by the MOT utility token, which it describes as an SPL token on the Solana blockchain and a consumptive utility token under the Wyoming Utility Token Act.

The company says the tournament is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by FAN EXPO HQ, Middle-earth Enterprises, the Tolkien Estate or any Lord of the Rings rights holder.

What happens next is the Sept. 13 championship in Dallas, where Masters of Trivia says it will open the competition to both on-site and remote players during the convention weekend.

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