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Author:  scar [ Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Press Release on Redskins Jackpot Game
http://www.redskins.com/news-and-events ... 8aa5865aa6


Washington Redskins Partner With Buzztime To Provide Fans With Interactive Entertainment Year-Round

Posted Apr 4, 2016

Redskins Public Relations

2015 Media Guide

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA. —The Washington Redskins have partnered with Buzztime, (NYSE MKT: NTN) a leader in interactive entertainment and innovative dining technology for bars and restaurants in North America, to drive fan engagement through competitive digital gameplay.

“Buzztime manages an immersive trivia and entertainment platform that will enable Washington Redskins fans to stay connected with the team year-round,” said Terry Bateman, Washington Redskins Executive Vice President. “Redskins fans are passionate about the team and we are proud to partner with a company that will bring our fan base a unique, fun way to stay engaged. This partnership will deliver a new opportunity for fans to get together in bars and restaurants and interact with the Redskins. We believe this experience can potentially expand throughout the country.”

“Buzztime is honored to be the Washington Redskins’ choice for fan engagement through interactive digital entertainment,” said Ram Krishnan, Buzztime CEO. “We are excited to present Buzztime’s most popular game, Jackpot Trivia, as a platform for the Redskins to rally their fans in bars and restaurants all across the area. We have a track record of attracting players, increasing guest count and lengthening visits at venues that host Buzztime events. We believe Buzztime players and Redskins fans will have great fun through multiple seasons of gameplay rewarded with chances at awesome Redskins’ prizes.”

JACKPOT TRIVIA

Buzztime’s Jackpot Trivia is a highly popular on-demand trivia game played on cutting-edge tablets that gives players the chance to draft their favorite content categories and use gameshow style boosts to assist when they are stuck on a question. Jackpot Trivia has been expanded by Buzztime for Redskins fans to enable league-style play for 9 week “seasons” of competition, with the ability to win prizes throughout. There are four seasons planned in 2016.

PLAY FOR PRIZES

Season one of Jackpot Trivia, presented by the Redskins, begins on April 8 and runs through June 9. The grand prize for the first season will consist of one trip for the winner and a guest to the Washington Redskins away game in London on Oct. 30, 2016. The grand prize is presented by Bud Light in partnership with the Washington Redskins. Participants must be 21 years of age or older to win the grand prize for season one. Top players compete to earn prizes through play of Jackpot Trivia at participating Buzztime locations. For more information, including terms and conditions, please visit: http://www.buzztime.com/rs-jpt.
Author:  BUD [ Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Press Release on Redskins Jackpot Game
Go Redskins, way to get things going with BT. But what the hell with linking to Jackpot???

There are plenty of games on the scheduled network without having to go to these unscheduled, kiddie games like Jackpot with no rankings or scoreboards. It's BT's way to slim operations down. Games with no rankings will be the future.

Jackpot is terrible, it's too short, not much fun and no one plays it. Sure it gets some quick hits and people switch off it quick, that counts as a play so BT can say it's getting numbers. The Kids may like it I'll guess.

I was looking forward to this Redskins promotion, but not so much now.
Author:  ranger [ Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:18 pm ]
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No way I'll play that crap. And if BT moves to unranked games, they will end up in the toilet.
Author:  scar [ Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Press Release on Redskins Jackpot Game
BUD wrote:
Go Redskins, way to get things going with BT. But what the hell with linking to Jackpot???

There are plenty of games on the scheduled network without having to go to these unscheduled, kiddie games like Jackpot with no rankings or scoreboards. It's BT's way to slim operations down. Games with no rankings will be the future.

Jackpot is terrible, it's too short, not much fun and no one plays it. Sure it gets some quick hits and people switch off it quick, that counts as a play so BT can say it's getting numbers. The Kids may like it I'll guess.

I was looking forward to this Redskins promotion, but not so much now.


Well, last time they took the rankings away they capitulated pretty quickly.
Author:  liljol [ Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:01 am ]
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Well, hell. Given that these Jackpot Trivia games will only be available in The Beltway, what's the big fucking deal?? :roll:

Before anyone asks, should those miserable, sad sack, suckass san diego chargers :lol: do something like this in Buzztime's Site-Poor Backyard :( , this lil old grumpy bastard will likely not bang away at it either. ;)
Author:  BUD [ Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:33 pm ]
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Well, the game is not only inside the Beltway, it's also in Montgomery county and Prince George's county MD, where our only BT choice happens to be. It's also in all of Virginia.

We'll just have to leave MD and come to the site poor backyard. :mrgreen:
Author:  ranger [ Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:08 pm ]
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Road trip to Liljol's place!
Author:  liljol [ Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:17 pm ]
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Nuts. Stay in your own backyards. :lol:
Author:  BUD [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:42 am ]
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ranger wrote:
Road trip to Liljol's place!


Sounds like a good idea!! It's been a while since we interrupted Liljol's peaceful evening of banging away. :mrgreen: Last trip to Southern CA was 8 1/2 years ago I think, 2007.

That trip had us visiting Shannons of Long Beach and TGIF La Jolla among others. Great time at both.
Author:  liljol [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:48 am ]
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BUD wrote:
Sounds like a good idea!! It's been a while since we interrupted Liljol's peaceful evening of banging away. :mrgreen: Last trip to Southern CA was 8 1/2 years ago I think, 2007.

That trip had us visiting Shannons of Long Beach and TGIF La Jolla among others. Great time at both.

Well, hell. Shannon's survives :) , but TGIF La Jolla is long gone. :cry:
Author:  c0braje7 [ Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:38 pm ]
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We made the decision to go with JPT because of its on-demand nature. When we are working with partners that want to maximize their reach, having an on-demand option can be appealing since they know they will get more eyes on the game. There is always room for scheduled games and we still use them (Academy of Football as an example). Its really more about what Buzztime and its partners feel is the best fit for the players and the goals of the partnership.

JPT sponsored by the Redskins actually has multiple leaderboards. We added a new trivia league points scoring system to that version of JPT only in that target marketing. each week players compete to win tours of FedEx field and Redskins Park. 2 people each week based on their league points win. Then the top player at the end of the 9 week season will win two tickets to London to watch the Redskins play a preseason game. Those prizes are all based on league points (with game score being the tie breaker if needed).
We are also throwing a party at the top location at the end of the season based on the total gameplay.

The Trivia League feature is new to JPT and we plan to expand it based on what we learn from this initial 9 week season. We would like to make it a nationwide offering with options to expand to include things like player driven leagues in the future.

If any of you get a chance to play I'd love to hear your thoughts about how we integrated the ad breaks into the game. One of the issues we've had with JPT is that the game moves so fast you can't go get a drink or have much of a conversation while you are playing.
Author:  scar [ Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:50 pm ]
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Thanks for that info.
Author:  BUD [ Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Press Release on Redskins Jackpot Game
c0braje7 wrote:
We made the decision to go with JPT because of its on-demand nature. When we are working with partners that want to maximize their reach, having an on-demand option can be appealing since they know they will get more eyes on the game. There is always room for scheduled games and we still use them (Academy of Football as an example). Its really more about what Buzztime and its partners feel is the best fit for the players and the goals of the partnership.

JPT sponsored by the Redskins actually has multiple leaderboards. We added a new trivia league points scoring system to that version of JPT only in that target marketing. each week players compete to win tours of FedEx field and Redskins Park. 2 people each week based on their league points win. Then the top player at the end of the 9 week season will win two tickets to London to watch the Redskins play a preseason game. Those prizes are all based on league points (with game score being the tie breaker if needed).
We are also throwing a party at the top location at the end of the season based on the total gameplay.

The Trivia League feature is new to JPT and we plan to expand it based on what we learn from this initial 9 week season. We would like to make it a nationwide offering with options to expand to include things like player driven leagues in the future.

If any of you get a chance to play I'd love to hear your thoughts about how we integrated the ad breaks into the game. One of the issues we've had with JPT is that the game moves so fast you can't go get a drink or have much of a conversation while you are playing.


Hi Clint, thanks for joining Scar and thanks for the explanation of why to use Jackpot for the Redskins promo.

I am a big Redskins fan and I have played the Redskins version of Jackpot a few times in between regularly scheduled network games. It was quite slow I thought, you hit an answer right away and you wait forever for the clock to tick down, way slower than CD or LT. Then no break between the end and the start of the next game as you said. I would have liked the Redskins promo used with scheduled games. I feel your partners would have a far better reach and tons more eyes on the game that way. Maybe an experiment for season 2 could involve CD. I'll guarantee that would get more reach to more players and also those all important non players.

The scheduled games are what people playing BT (and not playing) see on the TVs. Very few people see Jackpot, only on the tablets, never on TV. I don't think the on demand feature is getting much reach at all compared to where the promo could be. It's like you have relegated it to a 2nd tier.

I did see the ranking screens, they seem pretty good. However, they are just weekly and season totals not rankings from the game just completed. Players want bar and individual rankings for the just completed games. That's what we come out for, we meet up on certain days at certain times to play a schedule of games against the rest of North America. On demand games, usually played solo, are not a draw at all. Sure the 1st time players and BWW kids may stumble on it, but it's not a draw to come back several times a week for years and decades on end like CD, LT and the Prime games are.

Getting the Redskins on board was a huge deal. I would love to see The Redskins involved with a top level promotion like Dr Pepper was. But please don't make the qs ALL about football (that was a turnoff), just tie it into the already produced CD games.

Keep up the good work, we do realize how hard it is with the reduced numbers of BT employees and remember the scheduled and ranked network is the big draw.

Thanks for listening.
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