BUD wrote:
We now have Live Trivia on Wed. from 730 to 930. Very good, challenging game. We play BT at the same time against about 12 teams who are not playing BT. It's very strange, these other teams are good at trivia yet have never picked up a playmaker and only come in on Wed nights for the live trivia. ??
Getaway has Live Music Trivia once a month, on a Friday or Saturday (usually Saturday). The place often gets pretty packed for that, although surprisingly -- and thankfully since it starts during Playback -- rarely do any of the teams pick up a playmaker to play buzztime.
Although, when they first debuted this event at Getaway, a lot of teams mistakenly thought they had to use the playmaker to play Live Trivia. As a result, I think we barely had 5 boards for Playback that night. That made us grumpy that night
The live trivia game is very weak (Playback is a real trivia game) so we never play it unless we're really bored or they're short on teams.
The prizes are also extremely weak - usually there's three rounds played per night. For reach round, $5 off your bar bill is given to the first place team, $3 to the second place team, and $1 to the third place team. And that's not even per player - it's for the entire team.
Despite the meager prizes, the place still often gets jam packed for the event. We don't understand why either.
But it's definitely a cash cow for the bar's bottom line.