Torquemada wrote:
Just posted on their Facebook page - it begins August 10. From that point through the announced September 21st end date, it's a seven week event.
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| Author: | Torquemada [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silence? |
Buzztime has been running promos this week for a new Smartest Bar game, which they say will be on "Wednesdays this summer." There's nothing on their web site, nothing on their Facebook page, and nothing here about it. Does anyone know anything they can share? I asked the owner of my usual hangout, Sinclair's Cloverdale, and he mentioned something mildly troubling. He hasn't received anything from Buzztime about it; in fact, he hasn't gotten any communication from them in months. They used to send him an email every week at a minimum, telling him about game usage. He tells me that he hasn't received a single email from anyone there in a very long time. TFM |
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| Author: | Nomar [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
They just posted about it on their Facebook page: Coming soon, Wednesday nights through Sept. 21. |
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| Author: | BUD [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Well at least it's not on Mondays. But Wed is just as bad for BWW Gaithersburg. Live trivia elsewhere takes over. Thur would have been ok. I'm still hoping Clint is working on a Spotlight/Playback combo tournament. Any chance on that Clint? |
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| Author: | CVAVRA [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 1:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Same. Thursdays would have been better for the tourney because we wouldn't have the live trivia conflict. And yeah, here's hoping we get that Spotlight/Playback combo. Good luck tonight, incidentally. |
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| Author: | xtrain [ Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Nomar wrote: They just posted about it on their Facebook page: Coming soon, Wednesday nights through Sept. 21. I just looked on the Facebook page, and found nothing about the supposed tournament. |
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| Author: | Torquemada [ Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
xtrain wrote: Nomar wrote: They just posted about it on their Facebook page: Coming soon, Wednesday nights through Sept. 21. I just looked on the Facebook page, and found nothing about the supposed tournament. https://www.facebook.com/buzztime/?fref=ts about two posts down right now. They've now added that it "Starts in August." Nothing else yet. Nothing at all yet on the Buzztime web site. TFM |
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| Author: | Torquemada [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Just posted on their Facebook page - it begins August 10. From that point through the announced September 21st end date, it's a seven week event. |
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| Author: | MitchWolf [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:13 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc | ||
Torquemada wrote: Just posted on their Facebook page - it begins August 10. From that point through the announced September 21st end date, it's a seven week event.
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| Author: | ampersand [ Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Torquemada wrote: https://www.facebook.com/buzztime/?fref=ts about two posts down right now. They've now added that it "Starts in August." Nothing else yet. Nothing at all yet on the Buzztime web site. TFM And with one week to go, still nothing on the Buzztime site (at least not under "Happenings" ... don't know where else they'd post it). Remember when Buzztime promised us that we would never have to use Facebook or Twitter to stay up to date? & ETA: Okay, according to the email I just got, the rules actually are posted on the website, but there's no link to it from anywhere except the email ... |
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| Author: | whales [ Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Kindly tell us more about the rules? I opted out of e-mails from Buzztime years ago. |
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| Author: | ampersand [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
whales wrote: Kindly tell us more about the rules? I opted out of e-mails from Buzztime years ago. Sorry, shoulda thought to post that. Here's the secret link: http://www.buzztime.com/smartestbar/rules A couple highlights: Looks like it's a U.S.-only competition (boo!) and they imply that each of the first six weeks will have a different topic (arts, sciences, games, etc.), and then a final "championship week" with the topic being arts. It's not clear whether they're debuting a new game format (good luck with that, BT, that's always gone so smoothly before) or whether the guy that put the rules together just doesn't know how Six works. & ETA: Looks like there's finally an official link up on the BT site. And Canada is still excluded from the competition. Thanks, Obama. |
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| Author: | kaufman [ Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
ampersand wrote: whales wrote: Kindly tell us more about the rules? I opted out of e-mails from Buzztime years ago. ETA: Looks like there's finally an official link up on the BT site. And Canada is still excluded from the competition. Thanks, Obama. |
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| Author: | ampersand [ Fri Aug 05, 2016 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
kaufman wrote: Last I checked, he wasn't the one talking about building walls. True enough. Here, let me change it: Thanks, time-travelling future President Trump! & |
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| Author: | CVAVRA [ Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
According to this little pop-up they provided at Walsh's as a promo, the themes are: Aug. 10: Old Stuff (Arts) Aug. 17: Comedies (Shows) Aug. 24: Go Big (Science) Aug. 31: Parties (World) Sep. 7: Kings and Queens (Past) Sep. 14: Football (Games) Sep. 21: Championship Week Wondering if all the questions for that night (say, the Arts) will be related to that topic. That would at least make sense. |
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| Author: | liljol [ Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
Well, hell. The e-mail promo for this said "Old Stuff (Museums)". 
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| Author: | spotes [ Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smartest Bar Summer 2016? And, Buzztime marketing silenc |
kaufman wrote: ampersand wrote: whales wrote: Kindly tell us more about the rules? I opted out of e-mails from Buzztime years ago. ETA: Looks like there's finally an official link up on the BT site. And Canada is still excluded from the competition. Thanks, Obama.If he would promise to build a wall between us and all of the Canada questions in the database (and have them pay for it with the windfall from their lucrative back bacon empire), he'd have at least one more vote that I could think of... |
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