BUD wrote:
Buzztime trivia is alive and doing quite well not far from that BWW in Bangor. I'm sure you've been to the Sea Dog? Some don't play as a team but others certainly do. Plenty of players there, maybe not for Showdown but they do well other days and on CD.
Rollie's in nearby Belfast also has a good following, cool bar in a beautiful town.
I'd love to see a bar in Boothbay Harbor get BT, nothing close to there.
Oh and welcome back.
I've played at Sea Dog many times, especially before BWW existed here. I think only one time in the past two or three years there was another player. And the visibility of the screens is awful. I like to look at the TVs, not just down at the tablet. I go home with a sore neck every time I sit at the bar there and stare almost straight up to see the screens.
When I started playing in Auburn, AL 25 years ago, all 20 boxes would be out most night and each box had a team of several people around it. My own team had a half dozen players for most of the big games (Six, or whatever it was called back then -- Trivial Pursuit? and Showdown.) There would be scores of people involved on the "big nights". I just don't see that up this way.
I'm usually the only one playing at BWW, too. It gets very lonely and sometimes I think I'm seen as that eccentric old man hanging out at the sports bar and ignoring the sports.
When I'm in MA, I play at BWW Danvers, and there used to be a good contingent most nights maybe a dozen or so playing. The culture there was individual play, and then a crew of four people (I think) showed up and collaborated so most of the old players stopped coming. Don't get me wrong -- they're good players, and any of them playing solo would be very competitive. Now, other than Thursday nights, when they are there, there is usually no more than 3-4 people playing. And often just me and my trivia friend. Or just me, if she can't take it.
I like Belfast and even know the former mayor. I used to live on the coast, but a bit further up than Belfast. And now I am a half hour night go Bangor, which is an hour north of Belfast. So... not high on the list But if I'm down that way some evening, I certainly will check out Rollie's.
I worked in the summer in Bah Habbah a few years ago and there were two places across the street from each other. Sometimes it was pretty good there.
Oh, well, I'm just a grouchy old faht, I guess.