Vacant / Engaged

[grecian]

There isn't much entertainment value in watching some smartarse regurgitating trivia that he has sat at home learning, though. I don't understand why the company would give away a million quid for a show which is no more entertaining than someone winning 16k.

I disagree with that too - I think that seeing a £1m winner on the show is vastly more entertaining than someone struggling to £16k, in much the same way that seeing a finals board topping score on Fifteen to One was always much better than seeing someone win the show with 41 points. That said, I expect the production company have weighed the entertainment factor against the financial cost factor and decided that financial cost is the more important one...

[fotherz]

Your view is one of a seasoned quizzer!

I don't think millions of viewers would be entertained much more than usual by someone getting everything right. Its only fun if the contestant is NOT sure of themself.

Interesting news re: auditions. I suppose that means we can expect the same demographic as appears on Big Brother to start appearing on WWTBAM.

From the website:

"If we think you'd make a great contestant, we'll get in touch..."


Personally I think thats infinitely preferable to watching middle-aged geeks play. If I was in charge of the show I'd do everything possible to keep pro quizzers OFF the show.

[QuizMaster]

They should make the show into an actual SWP. (It is one anyway). If they made people stump up £5k apiece to sit in the chair, then they'd weed out all the chaff and get a decent standard of people on it, the cost of entry becoming its own selection process.

And the public would get far more entertainment out of watching some local Pub Quiz geek lose his shirt on a banal pop music trivia question.

[Istenem]

They should make the show into an actual SWP. (It is one anyway). If they made people stump up £5k apiece to sit in the chair, then they'd weed out all the chaff and get a decent standard of people on it, the cost of entry becoming its own selection process.

And the public would get far more entertainment out of watching some local Pub Quiz geek lose his shirt on a banal pop music trivia question.

good point well made

[Northern Monkey]

Never ceases to amaze me how slow the winning times are for the "put these in the correct order bit".

Should have seen me on my driving theory test- that is also in SWP format and I swear I must have set a new record. Good to put the highly honed ability to rapidly select a correct answer out of a choice of four to good use.

[Nil Satis]

Fulham?
Are you really him?

Nil Satis refers to Everton I think! Is FULHAM the person who racks up big scores on Football Crazy around London? I've noticed the name before certainly. Wonder whether he's on here.

Just to clear up the confusion, Nil Satis does indeed refer to Everton (still Top of the League :wink ; what Dolan was referring to was the username 'David Healy', whose namesake (assuming they aren't in fact one and the same!) has already scored two goals for his new club Fulham.

As an aside, what is the best Football Crazy score anyone has ever achieved? I played on one in Reading a week or so ago which looked like it had been reset and managed to get 2000+ points. It only won me £3 but it was by some distance my best score on that - it gave me two or three really lucrative bonuses early on and I kept all my lives long enough to deal with a few of the general subject headings that appear later on in the game.

[q-time]

I played on one in Reading a week or so ago which looked like it had been reset and managed to get 2000+ points.

So Nil Satis has been to Reading.

That buggers up my afternoon quiz plans - the machines will all be empty!

QT

[grecian]

As an aside, what is the best Football Crazy score anyone has ever achieved? I played on one in Reading a week or so ago which looked like it had been reset and managed to get 2000+ points.

Great work. My best is an 1800 in the City. It only got me £2 or £3 as well, but I was pleased with the score none the less.

[Nil Satis]

So Nil Satis has been to Reading.

That buggers up my afternoon quiz plans - the machines will all be empty!

QT

Not at all. I work in Reading but there are lots of machines to go round and I only play a few a week - there aren't really any games/machines left that are 'must plays'. You should still find plenty to keep you occupied and amused. The Football Crazy score in question (if it hasn't been removed) is in O'Neills, which has an Ind:e with a few decent games and a Paragon with almost none (Deal or No Deal excepted).

The only place I'd advise you to avoid is a place called The Horn over towards The Oracle - last time I was in there, I kid you not, the landlord was feeding dead mice to one of his pet snakes on one of the pub tables! I'm not particularly phobic about snakes (or dead mice) but it certainly makes you worry about their hygiene standards!

[David Healy]

Fulham?
Are you really him?

what Dolan was referring to was the username 'David Healy', whose namesake (assuming they aren't in fact one and the same!) has already scored two goals for his new club Fulham.

Time to confess. Having kept up the pretence for so long I made a schoolboy error by posting a message at the same time as the real David being on the pitch in front of x000 people. I am not THE David Healy.

Oh well, here's to another hat trick next Wednesday night.

[Cardinal Sin]

This is as devastating as finding out Father Christmas didn't exist