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 Post subject: Showdown Recap for 27 Sep 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ
PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:21 pm 
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Even though the game feed for the game of 27 Sep 2016 was wonky, the BWW in ABQ was able to see all of the questions before the system rolled over into the next game.

I will attempt to post a recap of the questions for this night, as the video recorder seems to have grabbed enough content to make this recap possible.

Return to this thread later this afternoon (Probably 7 PM EDT) for the recap.

Once again, any altergory questions will be welcomed.

Ken Z.

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Showdown Recap for 27 Sep 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ

Welcome to another edition of “The Keystone Cops Try to Interwebs.” The game for 27 Sep 2016 was a comi-tragic assemblage of coding and scripting errors. For locations with the new tablets there were numerous horrific flaws in how the game was seen. The biggest disconnect seemed to be the temporal offset of the questions appearing on the TV screens at a different time than they did on the tablets. The system gave the players no points on numerous questions, even though the correct answer had been pre-called and entered into the tablets when the delay between TV and tablet displays were too great.

Warm-up Round

1. A barbiturate is designed to help you: SLEEP. [No points awarded for correct answer.]
2. On November 26, 1922, archaeologists entered the tomb of: KING TUT.
3. Greece’s proper name is the ___ Republic: HELLENIC.
4. When visiting a place known as Glen Affric, you might as well see nearby: LOCH NESS.
5. The ducktail was a haircut associated with this decade: 1950’s.
6. Porfirio Diaz served seven terms as President of: MEXICO. [The countdown on the tablets began after it was over on the TV screens. No points awarded.]
7. A character in novels and a TV series, ___ works for the Miami Metro Police Department: DEXTER MORGAN.
8. Mackinac Island is a resort area in this U.S. state: MICHIGAN.
9. He made news in the Spring of 2002 as the leader of France’s National Front Party: JEAN-MARIE LE PEN.
10. ‘Sir Gawain and the ___’ is a tale from the late 14th Century: GREEN KNIGHT.
[In addition to the no-points questions, the TV screens only displayed the question in large format for ONE second before rolling over to the choices screen on WU’s 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10.]

This round was like a sunny morning where you wake up in your vacation cottage. You go to the kitchen and brew up a nice pot of coffee. As is your habit, you open the shuttered window to toss the coffee grounds out onto the flower bed. Just as you wind up to toss the grounds, a gust of wind slams the window shut, intercepting your stream of grounds and flinging them back into your face and all over the kitchen.

Coffee Ground-down Round

1. In the Old Testament, which character is a shepherd? ABEL.
2. The historic Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 is known as the ___ Act: BANKING.
3. Bosc, Iberian and Snow are types of: PEARS.
4. ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ is the title of a 1936: HUXLEY NOVEL.
5. ‘I Put a Spell on You’ and ‘Frenzy’ are songs by this eccentric rocker: SCREMIN’ JAY HAWKINS.
6. Which part of the body has three columns of gray matter? SPINAL CORD.
7. In the law, ‘precatory’ refers to something: DESIRED BUT NOT MANDATED.
8. In Ancient Rome, ___ came in two types, military and plebeian: TRIBUNES.
9. The anorak is a jacket that is also called a: PARKA.
10. ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ is a 2016 movie starring Meryl Streep as a: SINGER WHO CAN’T SING.
11. The Big Sandy, Beaver and Wabash Rivers are all tributaries of the ___ River: OHIO.
12. This bright star is found in the constellation Bootes: ARCTURUS.
[The game worked pretty well on this round. The team got 8 of 12 for full credit and third clue saves on GD’s 1, 4, 7, and 12.]

This round was like being the long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. You never knew when one of the questions might rock your world.

sCATology Round

S1. NATIONAL PARKS v business deals
CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK is famed for its: LIMESTONE CAVES. {Greek chorus.}

S2. BRITISH TV v literature
Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone are characters on this British TV comedy: ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. {KURGAN, who knows his drunks, came up with this answer.}

S3. Religion v GORDIE HOWE
In which Canadian Province was hockey great Gordie Howe born in 1928? SASKATCHEWAN. {WALACE made this call.} [The tablets were seven seconds ahead of the TV screens on this set of choices.]

S4. Litch-raw-chure v NATIONAL PARKS
In what part of the world are the Tsavo National Parks located? KENYA. {MEERA} [This one was in synch.]

S5. GORDIE HOWE v British TV
In 1963, Gordie Howe became the first NHL player to win the ___ Trophy six times: ART ROSS. [This one saw the answers on the tablets come up five seconds before on the TV screens.]

S6. Business deals v RELIGION
Ameratsu is a major deity of this religion: SHINTO. {WALACE made this call, based upon his knowledge of video games!} [Answers appeared on the tablets seven seconds ahead of the TV screens.]

The whole team lost 2000 points on this round due to lag in the system. That was even though all six answers were called correctly. The difference appears to be that the team got credit for answer pre-called, and lost points when forced to wait for the choices to appear on the tablets.

Did you ever have to finally to decide? To take one now and let the other one ride? Well take your pick…look at the TV screen for the question or focus on the tablet? What to do? What to do? Ordinarily the team sees a slight advantage by watching the TV for the question and list of choices, and then finding and punching the answer on the tablet. That was reversed tonight by as much as seven seconds. Did you wonder how this would affect the…

Frightening Round

1. A fisherman should know that spey, net, overhead, and roll are types of: CASTING. [In synch]
2. John Mackey founded this grocery chain which is headquartered in Austin, Texas: WHOLE FOODS. [The tablets readers were calling this answer 20 seconds before they appeared on the TV.]
3. If the edges of a cube are 3 inches long, the cube has ___ square inches of surface area. 54. {BLZBUB is happy to say he doesn’t need to mail his diploma in math back to Nicholls State Univ. on the ground that it didn’t take.} [In synch]
4. Storm petrels and diving petrels are close relatives of the: ALBATROSS. {JAX} [In synch]
5. Both Don the Beachcomber and ___ claim to have invented the Mai Tai. TRADER VIC. [In synch]
6. Discord and conflict are among the synonyms of: CONTENTION. [In synch]
7. It is often referred to as the birthplace of Jazz music: BOURBON STREET. [Out of synch, costing the team 2000 points.]
[Although all questions were answered correctly the team got 4900 points for this round. F2 and F7 were the culprits.]

A brief description of the round…You are at a racetrack with a camera. You want to get shots of cars going around the track with the camera. At first the cars are going slowly, and you have plenty of time to get the pic. But as the cars go faster and faster, you have less and less time to frame and snap a picture. However, on a couple of laps when you think you are ready to shoot, a mechanic grabs hold of your camera and you miss your opportunity. This is especially galling when you go back to review your photos and see that the one with the cars going the fastest is missing completely.

Py-Ram-It Round

P1. Which creature of Greek mythology was known for carrying thunderbolts for Zeus?
Choices: Centaur, Cyclops, Hippogriff, Pegasus, Phoenix.
PEGASUS. {The clouds didn’t part in our brains in time to score points.}

P2. Abolitionist John Brown formed a group called the League of ___ in 1850.
Choices; Troglodytes, Suffragettes, Ephemerals, Gileadites, Sepoys
GILEADITES. {DUFF made this call.}

P3. Who is the central character of Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’?
Choices: Anthony Plungo, Newland Archer, Gustav von Aschenbach, John Galt, Basil Ransom
NEWLAND ARCHER. {MEERA}

P4. Which animal is recognized by its long, slender body and short legs?
Choices: Weasel, Marmot, Elk, Giraffe, Ostrich
WEASEL. {JAX.}

P5. Diego Velasquez’s portrait of ___ is considered one of the world’s great paintings:
Choices: The Duchess of Alba, Blue Boy, Pope Innocent X, Mona Lisa, and Juana la Loca.
A: POPE INNOCENT X. {DUFF made this call, then vacated it in favor of Alba. The call for a split between the two came too late.}

The 2nd and 4th questions could have been answered by practically anybody just running eliminations. MEERA made a good call on P3. Group-think ran amok on P1, and DUFF apologizes for blowing P5. The team left this round with four boxes on 4 of 5 and the rest on 3 of 5 for the round.

FINAL TRAGEDY (in a night full of Buzzhead tragedies)
Topic: PEN NAMES

[The screen froze for 20 seconds after the wager timer had ticked down to zero. Then the question finally appeared.]

What 18th Century writer wrote under the pen name ‘Captain Hercules Vinegar’?

1. Daniel Defoe
2. Sir Walter Scott
3. Robert Walpole
4. Cormac McCarthy
5. Henry Fielding

The order of the eliminations was 1, 4, 3, and 2, leaving #5, HENRY FIELDING, as the correct answer. This was a late call.

Only one of the four boxes coming into the round with the 4 for 5 from Pyramid hit the correct answer in time for a full bonus.

The scores tonight were: 43545, 39370, 39090, 38194, 36373, and 34445.
Final team score: 38,502

BLZBUB could go back through the video record and compute an approximation of the score the team would have received had there been no game play errors from Buzztime, but really, why bother.

As the system was defective, there is no point of rankings or comparisons, because no one knows whether the rest of the nation saw the same errors in the presentation of the game.

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 Post subject: Re: Showdown Recap for 27 Sep 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:22 pm 
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We had similar problems. We answered all 10 questions right in Round 1, and got a score of 3500. From there it got worse. We noticed the lack of sync with the one screen in the bar (too far away to easily read), but didn't notice how we were falling further and further behind until 9:29 when we were waiting for the Final Category. We never even saw the final category; Glory Daze started on time at 9:30. The Buzztime website says we didn't play Showdown at all.

Here are the 4 altergories we played in round 3:

S1. national parks vs. BUSINESS DEALS.
In June 2016, it was announced that MICROSOFT was buying Linked In.

S2. british tv vs. LITERATURE
Poet Lawrence Ferhlinghetta (sp=?) wrote CONEY ISLAND of the Mind.

S3. RELIGION vs. gordie howe
Khawarij is an extremist sect of ISLAM.


S5. gordie howe vs. BRITISH TV
D.S. Hathaway is junior to INSPECTOR LEWIS.


--Rick Magnus
RickM, Blue Goose, playing at Jax Tavern

BLZBUB wrote:
Showdown Recap for 27 Sep 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ

Welcome to another edition of “The Keystone Cops Try to Interwebs.” The game for 27 Sep 2016 was a comi-tragic assemblage of coding and scripting errors. For locations with the new tablets there were numerous horrific flaws in how the game was seen. The biggest disconnect seemed to be the temporal offset of the questions appearing on the TV screens at a different time than they did on the tablets. The system gave the players no points on numerous questions, even though the correct answer had been pre-called and entered into the tablets when the delay between TV and tablet displays were too great.


sCATology Round

S1. NATIONAL PARKS v business deals
CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK is famed for its: LIMESTONE CAVES. {Greek chorus.}

S2. BRITISH TV v literature
Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone are characters on this British TV comedy: ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. {KURGAN, who knows his drunks, came up with this answer.}

S3. Religion v GORDIE HOWE
In which Canadian Province was hockey great Gordie Howe born in 1928? SASKATCHEWAN. {WALACE made this call.} [The tablets were seven seconds ahead of the TV screens on this set of choices.]

S5. GORDIE HOWE v British TV
In 1963, Gordie Howe became the first NHL player to win the ___ Trophy six times: ART ROSS. [This one saw the answers on the tablets come up five seconds before on the TV screens.]





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 Post subject: Re: Showdown Recap for 27 Sep 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ
PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:43 am 
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Slightly off the topic, but the lag between TV screens and tablets exists to a lesser degree all the time. That is why our Wednesday night team has the manager turn on a screen for us, ever since the BWW location replaced the "classic" playmakers with tablets. Even then, the points count down much faster on the tablets than they did on the old playmakers. No coincidence that the top three bars in the Smartest Bar competition were all using classic playmakers. If you expect to compete in tournaments, make sure your bar keeps the classic playmakers.
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