showdown snafu

MIKDNA · **Joined:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:55 pm **Posts:** 12

We had to remind ourselves not to hit "4" when it came time for the final wager.

Like it mattered.

tommyk · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:37 pm **Posts:** 70

What's the cutoff for the Players Plus bonus points in Showdown again? I forget. Sure hope I got my Players Plus points.

tommyk · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:37 pm **Posts:** 70

MIKDNA wrote:

We had to remind ourselves not to hit "4" when it came time for the final wager.

DOH! I screwed that up. That's why I ended up in 12th place at Teasers.

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2295

MitchWolf wrote:

So you say take the snafu enhanced scores and award the trophy to who mess up the countdown round the least????

Not at all, I'm saying this should be the throw out score for all locations. Again, there is a specific reason why we play best x of x+1 every tournament.

BO

MIKDNA · **Joined:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:55 pm **Posts:** 12

tommyk wrote:

What's the cutoff for the Players Plus bonus points in Showdown again? I forget. Sure hope I got my Players Plus points.

IIRC, it was 22K.

Barbie · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:20 am

Our question du jour at Danny K's was "The English word for nappy means what in the US?" We aced the pyramid and final question.

ranger · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:27 am **Posts:** 630

Sadly, I had a couple of people with me tonight who haven't played for quite a while. Don't know if I'll get them back to the bar soon.

Dubious · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:16 am

At least now we know that the "Atlantic Slave Trade" was discontinued first. The P+ cut-off was 25,000, and we all got 4,000 points whether reached it or not.

No big deal. Malfunctions happen. Computers are only human.

blumax · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:21 am **Posts:** 122

MitchWolf wrote:

This is from Buzztime Trivia Guru - Red in Facebook:
Hey everyone, so here's the update: As many of you know, Showdown was a bit, shall we say, screwed up tonight. Our OPs team is looking into it, although I suspect a gremlin of some kind

It looks like Player Reward Cards got credit for the game. If your site is part of the Travelling Trophy competition, we will be tacking on an extra week to make up for tonight's debacle.

Why do the poor gremlins get blamed for everything? Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.

B

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:49 am

They should just throw this week out of the tournament and not extend it. Next week is a holiday week and a lot of people are going out of town.

stevej84 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:30 am

tchoiniere wrote:

They should just throw this week out of the tournament and not extend it. Next week is a holiday week and a lot of people are going out of town.

This week is the holiday week here: the people who were interested in the game showed up. too bad we didn't have a game.

So far this year, my site has had one network-wide repeat game, one site-only repeat game due to a connection problem, one other week where the first three questions were missing and then last night's "experience".

That is an error rate of more than 15%.

Its a miracle that we still get 12-15 players each week at our site

Add by edit: The Showdown is flagged on personal stats as a repeat. I suppose that is better than the alternative

vapid · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:52 am **Posts:** 26

If the game had continued correctly, I think we would have done well. Freakanomics answer was pre-called. So was Atlantic slave trade. The "article" answer was pre-called the first time and everytime after.
HEADS SHOULD ROLL...

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:59 am

tommyk wrote:

What's the cutoff for the Players Plus bonus points in Showdown again? I forget. Sure hope I got my Players Plus points.

You never fail to amuse, Tommy. I do hope we meet someday.

Condor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:04 am

One further bit of embarassment for the BT crew:

Last night they threw a consolation party for Boston's of newburgh, In (because they apparently screwed up the scoring for the Bostons Showdown tourney and I complained about their problems loud enough, so they threw a local party) during the Article showdown and the NTN rep had to stay the whole evening. Actually sorry I wasn't there.
Condor

FrankC · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:27 am

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

stevej84 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:54 am

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

My scores for Glory Daze, BB and Speed all registered. as they did for most players..the hall of fame is up.

The "perfect score" for SD this week was 48,000. Looks like there were only 27 players with this score.

If the later CD and BT games were repeats, it didn't seem to be reflected in the network leaderboards. I even managed a couple of top 100's with very mundane scores

Where did you play?

Falcon · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:14 am

blumax wrote:

MitchWolf wrote:

This is from Buzztime Trivia Guru - Red in Facebook:
Hey everyone, so here's the update: As many of you know, Showdown was a bit, shall we say, screwed up tonight. Our OPs team is looking into it, although I suspect a gremlin of some kind

It looks like Player Reward Cards got credit for the game. If your site is part of the Travelling Trophy competition, we will be tacking on an extra week to make up for tonight's debacle.

Why do the poor gremlins get blamed for everything? Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.

B

As someone who has to drive nearly two hours to get to the nearest NTN site, and can afford to do it only once a week, I was naturally very disappointed last night, and feel like asking for a refund of my $30 for gasoline (good luck!).
If there are any staff left in Carlsbad who care about what happens to the system, they must be as upset as we are, so there is no point in running them down further. What they do not seem to realize, however, is that there should be not just an acknowledgement of a screw-up, but an apology, and a better ecplanation than "gremlins" if they want to keep our support. And these should be posted on the forums, not just on "Twitbook", or whatever it is. Of course, we're still waiting for the same things for the repeat of January 5.

FrankC · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:40 am

stevej84 wrote:

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

My scores for Glory Daze, BB and Speed all registered. as they did for most players..the hall of fame is up.

The "perfect score" for SD this week was 48,000. Looks like there were only 27 players with this score.

If the later CD and BT games were repeats, it didn't seem to be reflected in the network leaderboards. I even managed a couple of top 100's with very mundane scores

Where did you play?

Diamond Lils in Roselle, IL. I just checked and apparently Diamond LIls has not reported out, yet. The CD and BT games were definitely repeats, but Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed were new.

Barbie · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:46 pm

I suspect the inmates are running the asylum. Just a thought.

tommyk · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:37 pm **Posts:** 70

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

The 9 p.m. CD game didn't seem to be a repeat to any of the four or five us who played it at Teasers. I left right after that.

tommyk · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:37 pm **Posts:** 70

Barbie wrote:

I suspect the inmates are running the asylum. Just a thought.

I'd love to run an asylum. You gotta go to school for that?

FrankC · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:25 pm

tommyk wrote:

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

The 9 p.m. CD game didn't seem to be a repeat to any of the four or five us who played it at Teasers. I left right after that.

Maybe we had additional problems beyond the Showdown blowdown. Anyway we stopped playing Trivia, as soon as we began recalling the number of the correct answer before they were shown. We played Password which turned out to be a lot of fun. I had never played it

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:10 pm

-BO- wrote:

MitchWolf wrote:

So you say take the snafu enhanced scores and award the trophy to who mess up the countdown round the least????

Not at all, I'm saying this should be the throw out score for all locations. Again, there is a specific reason why we play best x of x+1 every tournament.

BO

Oh ok BO. Thats cool

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:14 pm

stevej84 wrote:

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

My scores for Glory Daze, BB and Speed all registered. as they did for most players..the hall of fame is up.

The "perfect score" for SD this week was 48,000. Looks like there were only 27 players with this score.

If the later CD and BT games were repeats, it didn't seem to be reflected in the network leaderboards. I even managed a couple of top 100's with very mundane scores

Where did you play?

Hooters of Fairview Heights, IL

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2295

FrankC wrote:

More than the Showdown game is messed up. None of our scores for Glory Daze, Brainbuster, and Speed our showing up. Also all the games after Speed were repeats. This is the biggest screwup for BT that I can remember.

This doesn't even make the top 10. And I know you were around for the 25YOS 1st night fiasco less than a year ago.

BO

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