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I enjoyed playing at the BWWs in Bridgeport, WV and Huber Heights, OH. I have had a bad experience at two local BWWs were I tried to play. The operative word being "tried". I did not get to play.

Fortunately, I have seven mom and pop sites within 8 miles of my house and have played at 4 of them. We have picked up 4 new locations within 10 miles in the last couple of years. However, only one site has any real Trivia action which is Diamond Lils where I will be playing tonight.

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Frank

Buzztime added a whopping 115 new sites in March, up from 4077 to 4192. Either the economy is improving or someone lit a fire under Buzztime's sales department.

Also the last seven old one-channel sites have been upgraded, although six of the seven still don't indicate they are reporting out.

Just an interesting side-note:

Buzztime has gone to a strictly numeric designation for sites vs the alpha-numeric system they were using. I noticed a new Montana site with a site code of 36129. The site count as of March 31st was 4192 - if my math is correct, looks to me like like a retention rate of about 1 in 9 overall since Buzztime/NTN's conception.

It would be kind of neat to know what location has the lowest site code/longest longevity of the currently active locations. I don't have the expertise to scrape this data, but I would be willing to bet someone on this forum does.

Dante? Pink Pig? Scar? Bad Bob?

My home bar has a site ID of 5803. I did not start playing there until the year 2000. I was told that they got the game two or three years before. I know that Teasers was one of the earliest bars in the Chicago area to get NTN/Buzztime and their site ID is 689. The bars with the lowest ID numbers may not still be around.

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Frank

I mentioned this multiple times on the BT forums, the answer is the Tender Trap in the Chicago area with a site id number of 2. The reason I know this is because NTN always used to post playoff brackets for QB1 with the site id number on it, and at that time Tender Trap always made the field of 64. The lowest I ever played at was Humperdink's in Addison which at the time had an ID number of 37.

But, just to prove I can still be a prick, how hard would it have been to plug in a number into the appropriate URL: http://www.buzztime.com/site/x where x represents the site id number. Start with 1, doesn't work. Try 2, hello Tender Trap.

BO

7 is Yankee Doodles

Thanks for the history and the tip, Bo. Although it is no longer active, #1 does still come up -- "Area 51, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego". It even has a phone no., in case someone wants to try to revive their interest.

Because of a surfeit of curiosity about such things, I had to check for the earliest Canadian one. Of those still listed, #24, Original Chaps of Burlington, ON, appears to be earliest. It was last active in Dec. 2007, but still has 13 players associated with it, three with more than 8 000 000 plus points. Melrose Cafè of Calgary is the earliest still-active site in Canada, at #45.

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"What mighty contests rise from trivial things!" - Alexander Pope, 1712.

"Beauty is truth, and truth beauty", John Keats, 1820.

I don't think the info is present.

Hillbilly Nation now has 26 sites on the Site Finder.

Morgantown is up to 6 sites, while Charleston has added 3 new sites at downtown locations.

Looks like another road trip down south next month...EGADS!!!

None of the new sites are chain store related, which always makes me happy.

Buzztime nation is losing two sites in western new york. BWW Elmwood/Regal and BWW Amherst (both show up as BWW Buffalo) are closing 5/31/10. I will pretty much no longer have any sites to go to, which is going to be quite a lifestyle change.

A modest gain in the Buzztime site count for April, up 20 sites from 4192 to 4212.

Is the BWW Transit Road location staying open?

What about the French Pub in DePew?

Transit is closing also (it's in Amherst). I just found out about the French Pub and it ends up being about 3 miles from home. It's a small place but it will be worth a look.

For 2010, Buzztime peaked out at 4212 sites as of April 30. It's been a slide since then to 4076 sites as of December 31, That's a drop of 136 sites from April, with 56 of those occurring in December alone. Not a warm fuzzy feeling.

What's even worse is that other sites, that I'm aware of, are contemplating dropping Buzztime. One of our sites' owner has told me that if it weren't for our playing Tuesdays, Buzztime would be gone. We have gone in other days, as well, just to ensure that the game remains.

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Well been watching this thread for awhile now.

I just notice something that might mean the site finder numbers are not real. I know this site still does not have BT active and put in the cancel notice at mid December for the 1st of January that they will not be keeping BT.

Metro Sportz Bar (Phoenix, AZ)
Site Detail | Review this Site


IMHERE
Sep 23 2010 02:41PM
reviewer had recently played at this site at the time of this review
This site Buzztime service is down for two months.
It should be back up the END of October start of November of 2010.
Even though this shows.

Last Reported: 1/3/2011
Trivia Rank: 781
Activity Rank: 3838
Site ID: 34628

You can not play from right before I did my site review. It is still updating each day.
I have notice looking at other states also the same 3838 activity ranking is showing for other sites. Are they in limbo as Metro Sport(Z) is? And what about other sites if you do the activity ranking after the (coming soon) that sometimes are around for ever then gone. Then some sites after it with no ranking at all.
Just something that intrest me...........

Hillbillyville ended the year with 25 active sites. Some new sites replaced some old sites. Most of the growth has been due to the tidal wave of BWW popping up.

287 sites in Canada to begin 2011

35 BC (9 interior), 63 AB (23 Cgy. 14 Edm.), 6 SK, 4 MB, 170 ON (100 Tor. area, 9 North), 1 QC, 1 PEI, 4 NS, 2 Nfld. and 1 in Norman Wells, NWT. Nothing for the Yukon, Nunavut, Labrador or New Brunswick

I'm sure there were a lot more than four sites in Winnipeg alone a little while ago, than what Manitoba's showing now
Oddest site location: Delta Sun Peaks, BC, at least an hour's drive from the nearest primary highway. Must be a ski resort

I wonder if premium games air a half hour later in Newfoundland . . .

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There are 206 in Ohio, down from more than 280 back in 2007. Still, I know that is plenty and we are fortunate to have so many.

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340 sites in Florida to start the new year.

I've also been following the site count within 25 miles of my zipcode and 2010 was not a good year. Seven additions were offset by thirteen losses, as we dropped from 61 down to 55. Still, that beats a lot of areas and some of the places we have are very good options for trivia players.

The site finder is now showing there are fifteen Hooters NTN installations "Coming Soon" in Florida. None of them are on the west coast unfortunately but perhaps they will eventually hook up some of their places around here as well. Hooters has a lot more restaurants than BWW around here. A lot of the Hooters NTN sites will be installed around the Orlando area.

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<--805 NTN Buzztime sites visited as of 11/13/2018...

F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

We went to play showdown last night. Our bar The Green Oak system was down or so they said. We went around the corner to A.J. Gators to play and we were told that they had dropped the game. The reason being was that Buzztime hit them with a hefty cost increase. I looked at the site finder this morning and saw that seven sites in Tidewater area are dropping the game. I have also noticed that showdown their premium game is only drawing between 6 and 7 thousand people where it once drew 10 to 11 thousand.

The Green Oak's problems stem from management, nothing buzztime had done. This was a place that regularly had ten or more people playing during the afternoon and just abut that many playing at night.

So any guesses if buzztime makes it to the end of the year??

Well, Tony, they lost another 22 sites in January. Now down to 4054, the lowest it's been since July 2009. The high point since I've been keeping track was 4212 sites in April 2010, and it's been downhill ever since.

Not surprised at AJ Gator's dropping it. Remember this past summer when we couldn't find 6 working Playmakers? Not sure if the reason was a BT rate increase or the fact that they didn't care too much for the product, judging by the lack of the game ever being on when we walked in and the condition of the Playmakers. Still, it was an easy location to get from the motel room.

The Green Oak saga still keeps me guessing. A small pub filled with a group of good, loyal players (and Marcus...EGADS!!!) that does things to drive away paying players just baffles me.

As for BT making it until the end of the ...I hope so. If not, the end of April will be your last opportunity to make it to Hillbillyville for WVBTO IV. Ye best chart a course for NW, Captain. And bring along Kenny & TOMCAT.