Top 10 Stupidest Things NTN Buzztime has ever done.

AARDVK · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:30 pm **Posts:** 558

Obviously not among the first 10, but stupid nonetheless:

Inviting people via email to play in the Hooters "Smartest Bar" competition at a location that had cancelled its BT subscription.

Brooke/AARDVK
(Still mad because we otherwise wouldn't even have gone out that night, and really had no interest otherwise in playing "In Your Backyard" TOPIX, but after we made an effort to get to another location to see how we did in SIX, we stayed for it.)

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Again, not amongst the first ten, but certainly more than a lil inexplicable...

When one goes to a site's page, brings up a specific game and time, then clicks on the "top players" link (bringing up all players that have played at least one game in the last six months), then sorts by average, that sort does not order by highest to lowest (or lowest to highest) average. :roll:

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

Take a trip down memory lane to April 4 2007 when they announced the release of Crazy Golf 2.0 !

http://www.sys-con.com/node/357930

CARLSBAD, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NTN Buzztime, Inc. , a leading developer and distributor of Play Along TV(R) entertainment and technology, today unveiled the newly enhanced edition of its Crazy Golf interactive game. With expanded playing options and an updated three-dimensional design, Version 2.0 offers players improved functionality and more engaging play on new greens with graphically enhanced, realistic backgrounds.

Crazy Golf 2.0 offers an immersive virtual play-along experience with the addition of nine new island-themed holes to add variety to the game. Other changes include allowing tee-off from three origin points, three-dimensional in-game environments, and more skill-based challenge to each hole. It is also now possible to concede and take the maximum stroke score, allowing players to skip a hole if they find it too challenging.

Up to seven golfers can play at each network site, with the order of shooting rotating from player to player to keep the entire party engaged. The hour-long game features nine new "Castaway Islands" holes and updated play on the original "Buzzingham Castle" greens. Players can choose either course, or select an all-new random mode that presents a shuffled selection of exciting holes from both courses with no repeats.

"Buzztime is dedicated to offering compelling and challenging interactive games to players at our network sites," said NTN Buzztime CEO Dario Santana. "Crazy Golf 2.0 is even better than the original, with visually compelling graphics, attractive greens and increased capabilities that allow players to do almost anything they can do on a real miniature golf course, including playing the traditional windmill hole."

To celebrate the launch of Crazy Golf version 2.0, Buzztime is conducting an in-bar promotion at all of its two-channel network sites across the U.S. and Canada. Throughout the month of April, all hole-in-one shots will be recorded and players with the most holes-in-one at the end of the promotion will win fun prizes including gift certificates from major retailers. Crazy Golf can be found on Channel B at 2 p.m., 7 p.m., and 12 a.m. local time every day, and can also be accessed as a selectable game on that channel every half hour throughout the program day.

An independent market research study conducted in 2000 by Actionable Marketing Research shows that Buzztime players spend 47% more than non-players and stay 39% longer than non-players, providing bars and restaurants with more revenue opportunity from additional food and drink sales.

About NTN Buzztime, Inc.

Based in Carlsbad, CA, NTN Buzztime, Inc. has been a leader in interactive television entertainment for more than 20 years and distributes its Play Along TV games and technology through numerous platforms including its own Buzztime(R) iTV Network, which is available on TVs in approximately 4,000 restaurants, sports bars and pubs throughout North America and the United Kingdom, as well as cable TV, satellite TV, mobile phones, electronic games and books. For more information, please visit http://www.buzztime.com/.

ranger · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:27 am **Posts:** 630

Good catch Scar. I forgot that one.

cards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 am **Posts:** 553

I wonder what Dario Santana is doing these days. :roll:

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

cards wrote:

I wonder what Dario Santana is doing these days. :roll:

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liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

cards wrote:

I wonder what Dario Santana is doing these days. :roll:

Hmmm, thinking that he made a good decision by bailing on NTN Buzztime?

Rackme32 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:13 pm **Posts:** 272

scar wrote:

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tofino · **Joined:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:28 pm **Posts:** 34

BGTUNA wrote:

poman wrote:

RABBIT wrote:

Did they mess up this question or was it just not an appropriate question?

There was nothing wrong with the question. A very large percentage of the network playing base answered the question incorrectly. Obviously, it's no fun to miss the Encore question...but I could list hundreds of stupid things that buzztime has done before I'd ever put a content question on the list. But that's just me

Back on the old NTN boards (remember when they had them?), there was a collective "WTF?" when JMC was the final question of Playback. I had never even heard of them before that question. That was the point in which our friends who we had been trivia partners with for years had finally decided that they wouldn't go out of their way to play NTN on Saturday nights anymore.

Because a trivia question was hard? That's an odd way to make a decision not to play trivia anymore, and sort of supports the dumbing-down

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