52 Ten Week Winners! 52 Automatic Bids handed out to Xtreme Team Trivia Championship #7! Sunday Night September 21st @ 6pm! we have had overwhelming response from "most" of our teams how excited they are that Electronic Devices will be allowed at the Championship! Teams have expressed that they are excited they will have a chance to compete against the top Xtreme teams in the city! Now it will be cool to see if our top Xtreme teams are up to the challenge! we will find out this Sunday night, what teams will join our 10 week winners at Xtreme Team Trivia Championship #7!
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Looking forward to it...
For those of you that aren't, theres an Eagle's song that comes to mind.
If the teams that are using the electronic devices still can't keep up with the top teams, maybe they should be allowed to look off of other team's answers. Or maybe they can be supplied with the answers before the match. Anything to even the playing field.
Dorv's comment is actually the first I've seen on blogs or heard at a show that supports cheating.
In response to Dorv's comment about an Eagles song coming to mind... I think for most of us it would be "After the Thrill is Gone"
These are the comments left in the last post about how everyone was excited about cheating being allowed.
Blogger cornelius74 said...
What's the point of allowing cheating at the finals? This seems like a very bad idea.
August 18, 2008 2:55 PM
Blogger Andy said...
This IS a bad idea. It will now reward the fastest googler in the room. Where is the challenge in that?
August 21, 2008 12:22 PM
Blogger Bets said...
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!
August 23, 2008 4:48 PM
Blogger DARREN said...
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.
August 25, 2008 4:39 PM
Blogger elvinparlsley said...
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
August 28, 2008 7:34 PM
OpenID telbowski said...
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.
September 4, 2008 7:46 PM
I see what you guys are saying. Also, keep in mind those that are OK with the change are necessarily looking for a place to vent about it, which is why I don't think you see comments about it here. The team I play on has been playing for a while, with cheating and without, and have done quite well at the finals at the Voodoo. I'm probably one of the best "googlers" in town, but at the same time, I would keep playing if they change the rule the other way.
I sat at a show last night where the team pulled out a laptop, and still couldn't get 3 questions right a round. Just because you can google doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
At the end of the day its a business decision. From what I've heard, bars that allow cheating were generally considerably busier than ones that did not. You've got to think, its Big Dog and Shortino's job to make money for their clients, not necessarily to keep us ALL happy. If this maximizes their revenue by getting more "randoms" to play, then "you gotta do whatcha gotta do."
I hate to see some of the old teams go, though. Not all of them, though. One of the teams I've heard that's vented the most is the team that pulled one of the lowest moves I've ever seen... Told us they turned in their answers already, and asked us what one was. Then, flipped over their answer sheet and wrote down the answer we gave them. I'll take googlers over that BS any day.
I'm glad we're not the only ones!! It was a hard decision to stop going to trivia, because my team loved the excuse to get together to hang out during a busy week. Even with regionals tonight (and still being in 3rd place - without cheating & attending for 2 weeks), we thought, "What's the point?"
Good luck to all the laptop teams. I'm sure it will be loads of fun!
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