I don't know about others on here,but the various tournaments on the Paragon machines are something I taken very little notice of.When they first had tournaments - quite a few years ago - I thought they were quite a good idea and I did win a couple of prizes.The other day though,I pressed the wrong part of the screen and discovered there was a Tri Towers tournament running,with an attractive prize pool of 0.00 pounds.The next machine I played,I had a look at the House of Tiny Treasures tournament,it had still a number of plays to go,31 - some poor lass had the top 10 scores,don't suppose there's much chance of her actually seeing that tenner.
Again,like so many things,they could be doing so much better.Grecian was saying in another thread that the attraction of a major prize encourages play.That seems good logic to me (although as an aside,I think mendez was saying that people would like a decent play for their money - I take that point too),so why not have national daily tournaments running with a decent prize? The leaderboard could be continuously updated so people would know what the current high score was.I don't quite know how the technology of a quiz machine works,but that should be possible nowadays.
And while I'm on the subject of what should be possible:while playing a sit and go on online poker the other day,I was wondering if that basic idea could be exported to quizzies.People playing on machines across the country playing against each other,with the company taking a rake.No problems with pro players then.
I don't know about the feasibility of those ideas,but I feel that the quizzy can survive but needs modernising a little.As well as the classic man vs machine format,I think it needs to offer something a little bit more and up to date.
Tournaments and doing a bit more
Yeah I can see Quiz Party floating on the stock exchange for £5b in a couple of years and the likes of you playing celebrities like Simon Cowell heads up for millions! Quiz playing would be popular and cool and you'd have eric cantona helping with the advertising, pretending to be a quizer! 
Going skint....
Lol bubbles..bubbles wrote:Yeah I can see Quiz Party floating on the stock exchange for £5b in a couple of years and the likes of you playing celebrities like Simon Cowell heads up for millions! Quiz playing would be popular and cool and you'd have eric cantona helping with the advertising, pretending to be a quizer!
Cheers bubbles,I've trademarked 'Quiz Party'.Eric Cantona's not getting involved in the advertising mind,although the lass who asks him if he's a farmer can be.bubbles wrote:Yeah I can see Quiz Party floating on the stock exchange for £5b in a couple of years and the likes of you playing celebrities like Simon Cowell heads up for millions! Quiz playing would be popular and cool and you'd have eric cantona helping with the advertising, pretending to be a quizer!
My own quiz business thought for the day was whether they test the question sets on different age groups. I was wondering was whether new, younger players are discouraged because there are too many questions on things they're unlikely to have naturally come across. I was thinking initially of dated popular culture "who played the minor character X in soap Y in the 80s" but there might also be a wider change in what people learn about due to the internet etc. Perhaps a targeted game packed with questions about Harry Potter, Anime and the musical attempts of Harry Styles would do well.
General Knowledge and Trivia seem useless to the younger generation, as Google and mobile phones have eradicated the need to recall very much at all. Recall of facts is just seen as self-serving and people perceive you as a show off. People who do like to quiz are now well served by free quiz tournament apps on mobile and tablets.
I like the sit and go poker idea, although with a £1 max stake, its unlikely to attract many. Unless it was a £1 tournament with 10 players, and even then the rake involved for having that many machines played for 1/2 hour minimum... Well the figures just wouldnt work well. In bookies, with 4 terminals in shop max, again im unlikely to see it work. Maybe Casino's would like the idea, but the footfall in uk casinos is just not big enough.
I like the sit and go poker idea, although with a £1 max stake, its unlikely to attract many. Unless it was a £1 tournament with 10 players, and even then the rake involved for having that many machines played for 1/2 hour minimum... Well the figures just wouldnt work well. In bookies, with 4 terminals in shop max, again im unlikely to see it work. Maybe Casino's would like the idea, but the footfall in uk casinos is just not big enough.
Good points from both mendez and Stubble.As regards,the question sets,I too have thought they could do with updating and including more recent stuff.There are some questions I feel like I've been answering for more than a decade.And still getting them wrong lol.Also,I too have thought that the younger generation aren't into trivia but I have seen some evidence to the contrary firsthand recently.I've been in a couple of pubs recently just for a drink and there's been a pub quiz on and there's been a lot of people in the age bracket 18-25 taking part.Last week I was at a pub where there was a pop music quiz on and nearly all the participants were quite young.The questionmaster was quite young too but the questions did cover a wide range of decades and I was quite impressed with how much the three lads sitting on the table next to me knew.Nobody played the quiz machine all the time I was in there though unfortunately! I probably overdid the poker parallel earlier,but I was thinking that it might be interesting to be able to take on people from other pubs.
Not being much on computer programming I've no idea how the games are written/work. But it astounds me that they can't just update the questions. It's sort of been done on Eliminator and I suppose PMPs (though I never played it on earlier versions) but surely having a new set of questions to bang into the programme six months down the line couldn't be that hard?muddle wrote:Good points from both mendez and Stubble.As regards,the question sets,I too have thought they could do with updating and including more recent stuff.There are some questions I feel like I've been answering for more than a decade.And still getting them wrong lol.Also,I too have thought that the younger generation aren't into trivia but I have seen some evidence to the contrary firsthand recently.I've been in a couple of pubs recently just for a drink and there's been a pub quiz on and there's been a lot of people in the age bracket 18-25 taking part.Last week I was at a pub where there was a pop music quiz on and nearly all the participants were quite young.The questionmaster was quite young too but the questions did cover a wide range of decades and I was quite impressed with how much the three lads sitting on the table next to me knew.Nobody played the quiz machine all the time I was in there though unfortunately! I probably overdid the poker parallel earlier,but I was thinking that it might be interesting to be able to take on people from other pubs.