ANON wrote:
Everyone who only had a pad, though, was S.O.L. If you logged out and logged back in again, you were only given three options to play, none of which were Showdown. The same was true for those boxes that we restarted using the hard reboot hole at the top. Then, sometime toward the end of the Countdown Round, the pads all came back online again.
This is happening frequently at our local BWW. We only play there on Saturdays, and by my count it's happened around 30% of the time the last couple dozen Saturdays we've played there.
It usually happens right before the 8pm Countdown game. Three weeks ago, it happened, we couldn't play the first round of the 8pm game, then at the C-break, the tablets/logins started working again, and the rest of the game was fine.
Last night it happened again at the exact same time. This time, the manager on duty said "maybe the wire plug in was loose and someone accidentally knocked it out, I'll go restart the game." So, he restarted it, we were able to log in and play four questions in the second round, then the tablets froze up again at the next C-break, and they were unable to get them working again after that.
We could still watch the questions on the tv screen, we just couldn't log in to the tablets.
I don't think I want to frequent this particular BWW anymore, given how their tablets for trivia can fail at any time & do fail far too often. Once in awhile can happen to any site. But 30% of the time is way too high of a failure rate to play.