The World Series of Pop Culture is a VH1game showtournament program. The first season was taped in New York City from April 29 - April 30, 2006 at the Ziegfeld Theater. The top prize was $250,000 provided by Alltel Wireless. The tournament first aired on July 10, 2006, concluding on August 3, 2006. The hosts for the first season were Pat Kiernan and Lisa Guerrero. The inaugural competition was won by Atlanta-area residents Mason Spencer, Jodi Roth and Alexandra Clark, collectively known as El Chupacabra. They split the $250,000 cash prize, and won an entry for Season 2.
Almost Perfect Strangers had an 'almost perfect' Sweet 16 round, in which they answered every question correctly, with the exception of a steal from the opposing team, Men of Vision.
In one instance, two contestants from El Chupacabra and We're What Willis Was Talking About exhausted the list of possible tiebreaker answers, which necessitated a second tiebreaker. Notably, they listed the Idol finalists in order from the first to the fourth season. The team members also provided an equal number of correct answers in the second tiebreaker, which led to a third tiebreaker. El Chupacabra finally broke through in the third tiebreaker, with one correct answer to zero.
Even though the Semifinals were to be continued along with the Finals, VH1 revealed the teams that would be in the Finals by showing a commercial with the teams following the first showing of the Semifinals.
The final question of the competition dealt with the name of the fictional college attended by Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Both players failed to provide the correct answer, Hillman College.
Velvet Rope Revolution team member Dave Callaham co-wrote the 2005 feature filmDoom.
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike team member MacArthur Antigua was previously a contestant on an episode of The Weakest Link.
El Chupacabra team member Alexandra Burris appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire on June 9, 2009. She won $50,000 before time ran out, carrying her game over into the next day.
Highly Effective People teammates Drew Hunter, Catherine Lamb, and Adam Sass were all members of the LA-based sketch comedy group, Wet Cookies.
After the Tournament
El Chupacabra, as defending champion, returned for the 2007 tournament, where they lost in the first round.
The members of Cheetara would go on to replace Lisa Guerrero as backstage interviewer for the 2007 tournament.
Martha Scales, a member of I Heart Jake Ryan, appeared on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" during pop culture week, where she won $25,000
