wwtbam tournament on itbox

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:35 am

only just noticed this, i tend to shy away from tarrant reincarnations.
how are you esteemed gentlemen getting on with it?

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:56 am

On Saturday I posted a national top ten score but not under the name 'Grecian'. I got all fifteen questions right but wasn't quick enough to challenge the very top scores.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:00 pm

I answered all 15 correctly in a 'locals' pub and wasn't even the highest score in the pub! I won on the old standalone WWTBAM tournament a few times three or four years back but fear that this one isn't going to be worth pursuing, especially at a £1 a pop.

I did have a few goes on the online version when that first came out a couple of years ago but the quickest scores on there were so unrealistic that they must have involved some sort of IT trickery to slow the website down - they were at least as quick as picking A, B, C or D at random then choosing that before the question had even appeared, and getting that right over and over again. Similarly the monthly prize was being won by people who were playing the game several thousand times in a month, unless they had some clever way of faking the 50p per game payment.

Not much more interesting than The Mint then or (even worse) Make Your Play - if anyone has missed that classic, it's the new programme of choice for weekend night owls/insomniacs and took over 2 hours on Saturday without a single correct answer to TEA - - - - -; given that the four answers were TEA CHINA, TEA SHIP, TEA GLASS and TEA JAR, that's not really surprising is it?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:04 pm

Is there an echo in here?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:40 pm

hello hello hello

out of those TEA~ phrases not a single one is in my desk dictionary (1681 pages). very shoddy state of affairs. by the time you have stayed awake watching that dross for however many hours your brain is probably so browbeaten that it accepts 'tea ship' as a valid answer because you kind of think you read somewhere that the cutty sark carried tea.

never mind that a tea ship is called a tea clipper.

c.f. buzzle.

but i digress

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:06 pm

Nil Satis wrote:I answered all 15 correctly in a 'locals' pub and wasn't even the highest score in the pub! I won on the old standalone WWTBAM tournament a few times three or four years back but fear that this one isn't going to be worth pursuing, especially at a £1 a pop.

Must have been a good pub Nil Satis! I'm not yet sure whether it's worth playing but I would say that my fifteen questions were not answered with any particular speed but were enough to get me something like 2,183,000 and ninth place nationally (as of Saturday afternoon so it's probably gone down a bit since then). Staying in ninth place would have got me c. £150 I think, so compared with the £3 I've invested in this at various venues so far (the first two of which I didn't score particularly well), it's looking reasonable.