In a very intense business meeting last night around a big conferencence table, the decision makers of Xtreme Team Trivia, debated back and forth for hours. O.K so it was not really very intense and it was over free steaks from Harrah's and about 3 hours of Black Jack! The decision makers (Mike Shortino & The Big Dog) of Xtreme Team Trivia came to a decision that we will now allow the use of electronic devices 365 days a year!! Electronic Devices will now be allowed during Championship Week, Regional Finals and at the 4 Major Championships each year! so get ready to google, Call People, use your cell phones and Laptops and have more fun playing Xtreme Team Trivia than ever! Xtreme Team Trivia where the trivia is so Xtreme....."Cheating Is Encouraged"
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What's the point of allowing cheating at the finals? This seems like a very bad idea.
This IS a bad idea. It will now reward the fastest googler in the room. Where is the challenge in that?
Because of this news, some of us that are members of The Finer Things Club have decided that we may be done with trivia.
This has now become a researching contest. If I wanted to figure out who was the fastest googler, I definitely wouldn't go to a bar to do it for 4 hours on a work night!
Competing against others to see who actually knows the most useless crap was the fun part! Please reconsider this change!
I concur with all of the other comments. Please give us a good reason why you are encouraging cheating. More and more teams are dropping out because they do not support the use of phones to cheat.
I have heard from the DJ's that the majority of teams support it, but I haven't seen any of them. Most of the loyal teams at our bar are talking about quitting or already have quit because of this. As of this post every comment is against it.
I don't see any logic at all in this. Letting teams look up answers because they don't know them kinda takes the game out of it. It would be like entering a pool tourney and rolling the ball in with your hands and saying, "Oh, well I couldn't make that shot". It may placate the drunk idiots that just happen to be there playing for the night, but if you have to cheat all the time it can't be fun for you. You wouldn't want to do it on a weekly basis. You wouldn't go back to the bar every week to walk up and stick darts in the dart board. You would either practice and get better or not play at all. I can't think of any sport or contest that is, or would be successful without rules. The challenge is what makes it fun. If googling a bunch of stuff is fun for you, stay home and write an essay.
My team has played every single week for the last 2+ years, but this is likely to be the end for us. If this is going to be how it is, that is fine. Run your company how you see fit, but calling it trivia is false advertising. Call it what it is. Xtreme Speed Googling
As the leader of the Cobra Kai, I speak for my team to say that allowing cheating makes it no longer trivia. The other posters are correct when they say that it is now a google search contest. Since time is not really a factor the research doesn't even need to be done quickly. This is a very disappointing revelation and hopefully you will rectify this situation ASAP.
I know that the Cobra Kai have been regular attendees at XtremeTeamTrivia shows, but after talking with my team, this is the end of the line for us. We understand that it must be difficult to try an enforce the no cheating rules, but the rewards far outweigh the extra effort it would require for your DJ's to police. However, it is absolutely no fun to get beaten every week by people that don't actually know the answers but rather look them up online, or use V-Cast or Iphone applications to gather correct answers. In the past it was worth dealing with the cheaters because we knew that they had no shot at winning in the finals. That is no longer the case because of this rule change.
Additionally, at this point why bother enforcing any rules at all? If "cheating is encouraged" then are there really any rules? Can we just not bother following them because "cheating is encouraged." I and the rest of the Cobra Kai have really enjoyed xtremeteamtrivia, but that is because we enjoy trivia. We do not want to go out and spend ours doing research after work, we want to go and play, but it is clear that is no longer an option, which is too bad.
Finally, I see that the only posts you have received on this issue have all been against the change. Who exactly likes the change? If there are not people that like the change then why would you want to alienate your clients? Furthermore, even if there are some in favor of this change, and I am fairly certain that there are some people in favor of this (although I don't know any off the top of my head), it seems that your more passionate players, the ones that posted here anyway, are opposed to this change. Hopefully, you will rethink this idea and work to eliminate cheating altogether.
Sean, Mike-
You are losing business. You have taken the fun out of trivia for the almighty dollar. I have let you know of this consistently. For those of you reading this, Side Pockets Blue Springs does NOT allow cheating, and has the best payouts in the city. We are the first bar you had for this show, and will not play by the cheating rules. It is stupid, and you are going to lose business, probably mine if you don;t realize people come to our bars to compete, not to prove they are the best googler.
I am disgusted, and so are my players anf most of the teams I talked to at the finals at Tangos. Just play it square-why is that so hard? Afraid some players won't stay because they actually have to think?
I pay good money for this show, and you don't seem to listen well so here is my public challenge-make it fair-Sean that means you.
If you want real competition with the best prize-Side Pockets Blue Springs
BAR ROOM BLITZ TRIVIA DOES NOT ENCOURAGE CHEATING, CHECK 'EM OUT AT WWW.BARROOMBLITZTRIVIA.COM
I'm a bit late to this thread, because I'm new to this. I just want to say that I love the cheating concept, it's awesome.
Fine, go start a non-cheating trivia contest, there's room for both kinds.
It just seems futile to try and fight the cheating and try to enforce it. It's like trying to stop steroids in baseball.
It's not like there is that much time to do the googling, and that in itself is a skill to know keywords to search, and my experience is the end result is a healthy mix of the guy on your team that knows Wall of Voodoo upon hearing a clip and then the googler with a smartphone searching for a movie quote.
I for one (and I know not the only one) LOVE the fact that cheating is encouraged.
Thanks guys!
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