REACH wrote:
To ANON and others: Spectator Sports, Albuquerque NM had the top 6 Player scores, for a Site average of 61,723 Points. Does anyone know for sure that they are a Borg bar that uses electronic devices to Google search for Answers? If so, is that one possible reason the Site scores were not published at
https://www.buzztime.com (to deny them a recorded #1 Site ranking)? Have they ever participated in all-wetware tournaments, or have they been banned?
I would like to know because Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON could have been denied a #1 Site score of 55,854 Points, closely followed by #2 Mad River, New York NY with 54,565 Points.
61,723 Points out of 63,750 max. is still very impressive, and it is hard to see how Googling would help in the Questions that are limited to 4 or 5 seconds (e.g. in the Lightning Round). So I welcome INKY, NOTME, PJS, KISSS, AKDIVA, ZIPLOK, JOYSTK, ATLAS, YUCCCK & BEMEUP to defend Spectator Sports and their #1 Site score, if deserved.
The scores are up on the BT site now (I sent a friendly note to them yesterday, and it looks like they figured out whatever the problem was).
No, Spectators has never played in any all-wetware tournament. From people who know first-hand (e.g., BLZBUB), the folks there are unrepentant computer-users, and thus have always been ineligible for such contests.
While computers would be of limited help on the last few Lightning Round Questions, for computer-using teams this is more than made up for by the fact that most of the points are up for grabs over the last six questions, and there is no time penalty at all for the five pyramid questions on which most games turn. If you can run a clean pyramid round by looking up stuff at relative leisure, that would more than make up for maybe missing the last lightning round question.
I think my all-time favorite story of the long-time rivalry between BLZBUB's wetware Albuquerque team and its cross-town rival had to do with a regional, multi-week, cumulative-points tournament a number of years ago. The two teams were close going into the final week, with Spectator's holding a small lead. Some friends of BLZBUB's team went to Spectator's that night with their computers, and spent Showdown downloading huge files using the free wi-fi there, consuming nearly all of the available bandwidth. For some reason, that week Spectator's just happened to have a terrible final six questions, and BLZBUB's team pulled out the tournament win.