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lewser · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:25 pm **Posts:** 1028

FrankC wrote:

Jethro, I played a couple of times at the bar in Boulder where you played, when my youngest son was going to the U of C. I do not remember the name of the bar, but it was a fun place.

Harpos

Jethro · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:45 am

lewser wrote:

FrankC wrote:

Jethro, I played a couple of times at the bar in Boulder where you played, when my youngest son was going to the U of C. I do not remember the name of the bar, but it was a fun place.

Harpos

After disagreements with the owners, we stopped playing at Harpo's, and they got rid of Buzztime a month or two later, as we were the only people who played. Of course, the place was pretty regularly packed, and yet nobody played trivia. Interestingly, the typical crowd there was the 20-something year old Buzztime tries so hard to appeal to, and none of them thought for a second about playing trivia. As I have said many times before, the only college kids I have ever seen play trivia (myself and my friends) have as much interest in Trendalicious bullshit as the average 50 year old trivia player. Playing trivia will never be "cool."

stevej84 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:15 am

Jim wrote:

I am the only player at half the sites I walk into.

this is unfortunately understated. For the five sites closest to where I live, 2 are busy from about 5:00 pm ot 7:30 pm ET, the other 3 may have a single player about half the time. After that time, on every night other than Tuesdays, there is on average 1 player for all five sites combined

One of the reasons I curtailed most of my game play is that I'd gotten tired of playing alone almost all the time.

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

The "only person playing" situation is the norm here in Hillbillyville. Even in Morgantown, there is rarely anyone else playing.

There are a couple of people who play at my site lately, but they arrive when I'm leaving around 8:30 or 9:00.

And then there are those who quit when I show up...EGADS!!!

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2292

I just discovered to my surprise that my official "home" location (Scorcher's Akron) dropped trivia recently. I had not played there much since we welcomed my son into the world a few years ago, but I always thought they had a lot of use for the system--it was often hard to get a fully-charged box.

Oh well...

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

Well, speaking of NTN Buzztime's Site-Poor Backyard, it has become site-poorer by two sites. The first is Q's Restaurant in Oceanside, once a Spoons, and the site of NTN Buzztime's kickoff for The Season.

The other is Joe's Pizza in the Clairemont Mesa district of America's Second Saddest Sports City, which had been an alternate site for me and other Pacific Beach Bar & Grill players. I'm also getting the sinking feeling that the site where I've been banging away on Friday's, Gilly's Bar in North Park, may also soon discontinue.

BGTUNA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:13 pm

Jethro wrote:

As I have said many times before, the only college kids I have ever seen play trivia (myself and my friends) have as much interest in Trendalicious bullshit as the average 50 year old trivia player. Playing trivia will never be "cool."

You know that and I know that, but Buzztime really seems to covet that non-existent group. They may play until they find someone they want to go home with.

I wonder when the last study they did on the ages and interests of their players. I understand the need to always cultivate new players, but they seem to be doing it at the expense of those of us who have been playing for over 15 years.

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

liljol wrote:

Well, speaking of NTN Buzztime's Site-Poor Backyard, it has become site-poorer by two sites. The first is Q's Restaurant in Oceanside, once a Spoons, and the site of NTN Buzztime's kickoff for The Season.

The other is Joe's Pizza in the Clairemont Mesa district of America's Second Saddest Sports City, which had been an alternate site for me and other Pacific Beach Bar & Grill players. I'm also getting the sinking feeling that the site where I've been banging away on Friday's, Gilly's Bar in North Park, may also soon discontinue.

Well, that sinking feeling unfortunately proved to be prophetic, as this past Friday, I and others were told that Gilly's Bar will not be renewing their subscription, which IIRC ends February. :cry:

As it was, most of the players that were playing there Fridays had already all but moved to JT's Pub & Grill, a lil ways from one of the three Stuart Anderson's Black Angus stores that reinstalled last year (Friars Road).

After the last week of The Season on 1/27/2012, it is all but certain that I'll be changing my Friday routine to end up at JT's. That first Friday in February could be more than a lil interesting, as it will also mean a change from my usual Friday eating place from a Souplantation in Point Loma (not far from another NTN Buzztime site, Kristy's MVP) to another a few long blocks walk from both JT's and Black Angus Friars Road.

Given these events, I am now getting the very bad feeling that NTN Buzztime's Site-Poor Backyard is slowly but surely reverting to once again becoming a Horribly Site-Poor Backyard.

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

I just noticed the other day that the Tavern on Milam (formerly the Tavern on Gray) in Houston had closed its doors. The Tavern lost its lease on an easily accessible, popular location when the property's owner decided to put up condos; it got a new spot, but it was a less desirable location, and apparently the expenses of the move combined with drop in revenue did it in.

This was sad because the Tavern was a place that did know how to develop a trivia crowd. It had a lot of boxes, fairly well maintained, and it had both trivia and cards up on multiple screens. As some of those screens were outside, we could see driving by that Tavern had Buzztime. On Tuesday nights they put up a $50 prize for the winner of Showdown, and had a good number of regulars coming in to compete for it. They also knew how to use the special tournament features of the cards channel to give their many live poker players something to do in between live games.

The site will be missed.

Brooke/AARDVK

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