There is a major problem with the scoring of Six which we believe affects BYOD locations.
We have recently begun playing at Bull's Eye Sports Pub in Brooklyn NY, which is a "Bring Your Own Device" only location. We have observed repeated scoring problems with Six.
The first is receiving the final round bonus. If you answer all six final questions correctly, you earn 4,000 bonus points.In the last few weeks, we have done so at least three times and have not received the bonus. Here are pictures and screenshots of the scores from last night:
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As you can see, people got all six questions right, sometimes even a perfect 21K, but no bonus.
Unfortunately, this is not the only problem with the scoring. When you compare the scores reported game night to the official scores posted the next day, you see that Buzztime takes away even
more points:
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The point drop is usually 2,500 points, but not always. One of last night's players dropped only 500 points.
These scoring errors cost us almost 6,500 points average last night. Had it been scored correctly, we would have come in a close second to Walsh's. After the dual chop, we came in a distant fifth.
We believe this only affects BYODs. We never saw this at Doc's, and we believe the locations we compete against are not BYOD-only.
This doesn't affect Countdown and Countdown-style games.
I wrote Buzztime Customer Service two weeks ago, got no response. Sent another email today with the photos you're seeing and mentioned it on their Facebook page.
This does not exactly encourage one to play in next week's tournament.
This isn't supposed to be a handicap league. Walsh's hardly needs it.
But if BYOD-only locations are the only option left for new locations, what does problems like these portend for the future??