So Topix is staying on Sat. night after the Season is over??

What a bunch of crap as is the split feeds for east vs west.

2008 all over again.

I'm staying out of this - for now. Although I have some of the same concerns as others posted on this forum, I'll wait to see what actually happens.

By staying out of it, you are approving the change. Once the change happens BT won't reverse it and nobody on the East/Central timezones can ever get a 'national' victory unless you go perfect. I will see to that..

NFL Players was fun. Felt it was very easy with it all being current players. What question threw people off?

NFL Players was fun. Felt it was very easy with it all being current players. What question threw people off?

I was told BT said Philip Rivers wears #14 (I didn't play I am in protest until I want to drink, and done after Feb28th).. Tim Tebow is a Patriot and Rivers wears 14, next Magic Johnson starred for the Celtics..

All of us picked out Rodgers right away...

All of them.

Good game, Tim. Your bar was #2, on the network, and I suspect you were the major reason why.

-- RWM

That's great but it doesn't change the fact there were two correct answers to the question. At our bar Rivers was listed before Rodgers so we hit Rivers first.

Thanks. If anybody had listened to me on #15, we would have been #1. Al outthought himself then Tom and Dave went with him. I called Suh right away but then they said that he isn't from Africa, let alone Cameroon.

So Topix is staying on Sat. night after the Season is over??

What a bunch of crap as is the split feeds for east vs west.

2008 all over again.

I thought last night's Topix (Greek and Roman Gods) was tough, and I definitely didn't have one of my best games. Congratulations to those who did well.

I suspect a larger turnout next week for George Washington.

-- RWM

I also expect a larger turn out next week as it will be the next to last TOPIX game that won't be a repeat for the Mountain and Pacific timezones. You of course are giving the changes a chance, since you won't be stuck with repeats, correct?

If I'm not mistaken, next week will be the last week without feeds. And I think that the split schedule is a bad idea, in part because much of it is not necessary. Topix should be scheduled for 5:30pm PT and not split. That would leave it as it is now.

I would prefer not to discuss Buzztime's Folly on this thread though.

-- RWM

Tonight's game was comical. By my count, at least half of the questions were from 2008 or later. It was probably even closer to two thirds of the questions that were 2008 or later, but I lost count). I know the weekend Topix games as of late have been greatly skewing in the direction of the "target demographic." Buzztime's belief, after all, is "these are the questions that our players want!"

When not one single bar can score over 11800 for a Topix game, I think it's safe to conclude, buzztime, that these are NOT the type of questions that your players want. It took away from what could've / should've been a fun Topix game and relegated it to, as one player who texted me after the game labeled it, "a complete waste of time."

But that wasn't even the comical part.

The comical part was one question in the game asked which C&W group had a hit single with "Love's Lookin' Good On You."

I knew it because I have the album and I've seen them perform it in concert several times, but that song was NEVER RELEASED AS A SINGLE.

the only thing I can think of is perhaps the writer meant to write "Lookin' For A Good Time" and someone proof read it and changed it to the other Lookin' song on the album. That's giving them a huge benefit of the doubt, though.

But if they intentionally wrote "hit song" with "Love's Lookin' Good On You" in mind...then that's just a really bad question.

Tonight's game was comical. By my count, at least half of the questions were from 2008 or later. It was probably even closer to two thirds of the questions that were 2008 or later, but I lost count). I know the weekend Topix games as of late have been greatly skewing in the direction of the "target demographic." Buzztime's belief, after all, is "these are the questions that our players want!"

When not one single bar can score over 11800 for a Topix game, I think it's safe to conclude, buzztime, that these are NOT the type of questions that your players want. It took away from what could've / should've been a fun Topix game and relegated it to, as one player who texted me after the game labeled it, "a complete waste of time."

Not a waste of time for the bar who had the 11,800 average! Congratulations to them, whomever they are.

A challenging game, where no bar can average 12K or no individual can reach 14K can certainly be fun, but it depends on what the questions are and if the game is at least interesting.

-- RWM

They were the WV crew, with TIEFLY and ZEBRA and especially TOLLE, there was no way they would lose a "Love Lyrics" game...