mrgray wrote:
Buzztime Trivia!
Short, crisp game that had way less pop culture than Countdown. As a plus, you got more questions per hour during the day when they had this. Not to mention more High Score Tables per hour. Does anybody else feel they should bring it back?
You're going to be in the minority here on that opinion, here's why.
First off, you're way off in your assertion that BTT had way less pop culture than CD. By definition (from BT itself by the way) BTT had 50% pop culture which the players detested. The current iteration of CD has far less, perhaps as little as 15-20%. By intentional BT design, they admitted they player base detested the BTT content and removed many of the pop culture questions from the CD database. In short, CD has much less pop culture than BTT.
BTT had 10 questions per game while CD has 15, so which is more useful in determining the best player? Naturally that would be the game with more questions, the more questions the longer the cream has to rise to the top. In a 10Q game, if you missed one you were toast, no way to make the national board. In most games, if you bled even 1 point your chance to win the nation was ruined. It was simply a poor method to determine a game winner.
Yes, you got more questions per hour, but since it was a flawed game with asinine content, nobody much cared.
Naturally, you are entitled to your opinion, but many players here are in favor of longer games and tougher questions.