ampersand wrote:
& from Calgary checking in ... long time lurker, first post, so please be gentle ...
Am I being paranoid, or is there something decidedly fishy about this whole situation? Back when they fucked up in June, they sent an email out the very next day apologizing and explaining the situation. (They called it a "snafu", which is pretty amusing; I wonder if they know what that acronym stands for?)
This time, there's been no email, and no announcement on the Buzztime.com site (although they have changed the dates on the rules page). All they've done this time seems to be that one fairly brief Facebook post. Now, way back when they shut down the official forums, BT swore up and down that players would never have to sign up to Facebook or Twitter in order to stay informed about the games ... so why break that promise now? (And incidentally, kudos to whoever posted the link to that Facebook post. I don't see how I would have known the story otherwise.)
Reading through the replies on that post, BT's story seems to be changing. At first, the scores were being dropped "due to repeat content". Then, as people started protesting that they didn't think the game was a repeat (and so far as I can tell, not one player has yet confirmed that they got a repeat or partial repeat game), they started saying that "some bars" were served repeat content. But they won't say who, or how they knew this, or even whether the affected bars were among the 80 finalists.
They keep insisting that because these mystery sites were served repeat content, they need to drop the scores to "keep a level playing field" -- but surely, just the fact that some sites were served different content should be enough reason to consider the playing field uneven. Why do they keep harping on the repeat aspect?
Sorry for going on at length -- I guess I should just write this off as another in a long line of Buzztime cock-ups. But I do think there's something more to the story here ...
&
Golly, Ampersand! I don't think there's a conspiracy, just normal BT incompetence. Judging by the rest of your post, thought, you'll fit in just fine around here! Welcome to the boards.