Just thought I'd post in an actual trivia thread instead of having 7 worthless free for all threads cluttering the top of a trivia forum. Hell, just for kicks perhaps I'll just bump real threads and force the trash threads completely off the first page.

I've notice a lot more entertainment questions in regular CD games again.

And saw 4-5 CAR q's while playing on Saturday. I was much happier when those qs went away for a while.

I quit playing yesterday due to all of the Entertainment questions. First chance to really play in 4 days and felt like I was playing Blur or Trendalicious. In one CD game, the first 4 of 5 qs were entertainment related...plus a frickin' hunchback car question.

And what makes me so disgruntled is...there are new sites open just up the road...that AREN'T a BWW, but I don't want to play the product that I saw yesterday afternoon ANYWHERE.

A chance to play at sites where I don't have to program out repeat SI Trivia or Newcastle Hour long trivia about bullshit would be great. Different beers & food options, but BT is reverting back to the old 15 minute/10 question data bank Gen Whatever questions.

Hell, I might actually look at what's in the computer game thread to see some other options to BT.

^It does seem like Late Shift has finally resorted back to the old 15 minute Buzztime game. I haven't been getting to the bar early enough to play much Countdown, but if the current Countdown has resorted back to the pre-split Countdown, then it would be nice if buzztime dumped everything pre-split & just go back to one network and alternate between two 15 minute games & one 30 minute game again. It's just so boring to play a 15 minute game after 15 minute game until the cows come home. They need to sprinkle late night Countdown games in the mix to break up the monotony.

On a related note, most people can see that the Countdown content has changed somewhat in the past few weeks. Whether this is due to more entertainment or car questions or whatever, I'm not sure, but I'd rather have this incarnation of Countdown versus the easy game we had the prior few months with a 15000 (usually several) in each game. So, if you had to pick between what we've been seeing in the past few weeks versus what we had the few months before, which would you choose?

^It does seem like Late Shift has finally resorted back to the old 15 minute Buzztime game. I haven't been getting to the bar early enough to play much Countdown, but if the current Countdown has resorted back to the pre-split Countdown, then it would be nice if buzztime dumped everything pre-split & just go back to one network and alternate between two 15 minute games & one 30 minute game again. It's just so boring to play a 15 minute game after 15 minute game until the cows come home. They need to sprinkle late night Countdown games in the mix to break up the monotony.

Yesterday during the 5 PST CD game there were 8 music questions. If wanted to play Playback I would go out Saturdays. On the flipside, in the past 3 weeks I have seen ONE sports question, no sports premium games, no sports questions in countdown why bother.

If I wanted to see sports questions, I would have played more Sports IQ when I still had the chance.

I think it's okay for Countdown to be a little harder, but I don't want to see an excesssive number of entertainment or sports questions. Regardless of difficulty, I for one would rather see science, history, or geography questions than movie or modern music questions. (I realize that other people have different prefernces, and I can respect that.) Prior to about a month ago, I generally liked the type of Countdown questions being asked, but there were just too many repeat questions, hence all the high scores.

As for Late Shit I got a little turned off at that game when it seemed that about eight of every ten questions asked were about some movie or some music group. If clark is correct about there only being < 30% entertainment, maybe I should go back to playing it more.

-- RWM

Excessive sports questions have never been a problem for Countdown. Rather, given sports' enormous contribution to trivia, it can be far more easily argued that sports have been grotesquely underrepresented in Countdown. A fair representation would probably be an average of slightly more than one question per game, while the reality is that unless you play a sports theme game or Six, you are more likely than not to not see a single sports question than your entire evening.

If you don't believe that, look at Buzztime's rarest badges. All of the sports badges will be way down there with the religious-themed ones.

Oh, I believe it. One of my rarest badges is the "Attacker" (soccer) badge, for instance. But for every one question asked about soccer, I am asked 20 questions about sports that I couldn't care less about. -- RWM

Oh, I believe it. One of my rarest badges is the "Attacker" (soccer) badge, for instance. But for every one question asked about soccer, I am asked 20 questions about sports that I couldn't care less about. So, if I am never asked a sports question while playing Countdown or Late Shift, I wouldn't even notice, let alone miss the sports questions that much.
-- RWM

I've gotten sixty sports badges without a single soccer question.
Well, technically, I've had two soccer questions but they were awarded different badges for some unknown reason.
I can only dream of this fantastic world you envision where the attacker badges fall like manna from the sky in such abundance...

Of course you wouldn't notice they haven't asked 20 sports questions total in CD in the past 6 months.

I didn't think I would see the day that no SPorts Trivia games existed on the Buzztime Network and it is now.

Yesterday during the 5 PST CD game there were 8 music questions. If wanted to play Playback I would go out Saturdays. On the flipside, in the past 3 weeks I have seen ONE sports question, no sports premium games, no sports questions in countdown why bother.