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Having lived here before and having recently returned as a resident, I wanted to use some of my skills to keep the grey matter turning over. One of the things I wanted to do, was get back into quizzing, having had a lengthy and successful (thankfully) career within the entertainment, management and night time economy trade, I just wanted to be doing something useful. I have been out and done quite a lot of research and taken part in numerous quizzes of all types and am surprised to say the standard was pretty poor. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or anything like that, but the standard of presentation, the equipment and the attitude of some owners is pretty patronising and doesn’t do the paying public much service when the standards are so low. I appreciate that businesses have had a rough time of it with COVID and everyone is fighting for a smaller footfall because of all the restrictions etc, but surely that is not a signal that standards should drop. I was out last Friday evening and popped into a local hostelry that serves nice Guinness, the presenter was absolutely shocking, he was three sheets to the wind, the sound system was like a home hi fi and he couldn’t operate that properly, people could not hear outside and I wondered why we should accept this poor standard? If anyone is interested in discussing a proper structured plan for their operation, then please feel free to get in touch, no obligation. I have got a portable modern beautiful sounding set up, I have various components to do a real proper fun quiz, with props and a wealth of knowledge and experience in promoting venues and being successful in making strong sessions for your business. I would like to think I can help and improve the standards that seem to be sadly lacking at the moment, but time will tell and I only hope that some bar owners see this and take it in the spirit that it is intended. Stay safe.

In a lot of areas you would not be allowed to “broadcast “ a quiz outside, because of noise, legality or licence issues.

LOWSUN10 wrote:Having lived here before and having recently returned as a resident, I wanted to use some of my skills to keep the grey matter turning over. One of the things I wanted to do, was get back into quizzing, having had a lengthy and successful (thankfully) career within the entertainment, management and night time economy trade, I just wanted to be doing something useful. I have been out and done quite a lot of research and taken part in numerous quizzes of all types and am surprised to say the standard was pretty poor. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or anything like that, but the standard of presentation, the equipment and the attitude of some owners is pretty patronising and doesn’t do the paying public much service when the standards are so low. I appreciate that businesses have had a rough time of it with COVID and everyone is fighting for a smaller footfall because of all the restrictions etc, but surely that is not a signal that standards should drop. I was out last Friday evening and popped into a local hostelry that serves nice Guinness, the presenter was absolutely shocking, he was three sheets to the wind, the sound system was like a home hi fi and he couldn’t operate that properly, people could not hear outside and I wondered why we should accept this poor standard? If anyone is interested in discussing a proper structured plan for their operation, then please feel free to get in touch, no obligation. I have got a portable modern beautiful sounding set up, I have various components to do a real proper fun quiz, with props and a wealth of knowledge and experience in promoting venues and being successful in making strong sessions for your business. I would like to think I can help and improve the standards that seem to be sadly lacking at the moment, but time will tell and I only hope that some bar owners see this and take it in the spirit that it is intended. Stay safe.

Loud and cheeky presenters, simple questions and noisy singalong music keeps the punters happy and, drinking.

I don’t think bars would entertain serous quizzers with a slower pace and, I don’t think the current clientele would welcome tough and challenging questions.

I mentioned that customers could not hear the questions outside, however the quiz was inside, about 4 metres away and loud and cheeky presenters are all well and good, but some of them I have seen, who work regularly are about three out of ten, one is a good 6-7, the rest are dross from what I have seen, borderline embarrassing.

LOWSUN10 wrote:I mentioned that customers could not hear the questions outside, however the quiz was inside, about 4 metres away and loud and cheeky presenters are all well and good, but some of them I have seen, who work regularly are about three out of ten, one is a good 6-7, the rest are dross from what I have seen, borderline embarrassing.

The measure of how successful they are is, how many punters has the bar got in, not, how professional they appear or sound.

A bar will not continue employing a ‘Quizmaster’ if there’s no trade.

Please let us know where and when your quiz is, if you get a venue.
Thanks

Sounds great. It would be nice to have a different attitude to quizzing. I agree some quiz masters are bad and embarrassing but not all. We just keep trying different bars in the hopes we will find what suits us.

The bars obviously want people who are going to buy plenty of drinks and can become quite rowdy, not everyone’s cup of tea.

One of the supposed ok quiz masters went on for five hours, I kid you not, five hours, people were pie eyed by 10pm, is that what people want or does the quizmaster think that by keeping them their for five hours is ok? It loses what it should be about, fun and entertaining, not falling asleep at some drunk bore fest. Still, each to their own, if they accept poor standards, then more fool them.

LOWSUN10 wrote:One of the supposed ok quiz masters went on for five hours, I kid you not, five hours, people were pie eyed by 10pm, is that what people want or does the quizmaster think that by keeping them their for five hours is ok? It loses what it should be about, fun and entertaining, not falling asleep at some drunk bore fest. Still, each to their own, if they accept poor standards, then more fool them.

I'm all for a challenging quiz but, its what only a few like. The majority, however, want a fun time and, bar owners want a full till.

In the U.K. my wife and I go to a Quiz once a week at our golf club. 60 questions into 3 rounds and a Marathon handed out after round one. People take turns in running the quiz. Not much drinking as we all have to drive.
Personally, we don’t like the quizzes in Quesada and tend to stick to the Spanish bars.
The point I wanted to make is that we all try to set questions where the winning table will have a score of around 45 out of 60 in the main quiz. We try to ensure everyone can enjoy the quiz and feel they are in with a chance and the challenging questions will decide the winners. If questions are too hard and the people cannot work the answers out, or have no clue about the answer, then they will just turn off and not enjoy the quiz at all.
If you are as good as you say you are, then it cannot be difficult to convince a landlord to run a quiz and give you a try. You need to go out and canvass some. The footfall will decide if you are good or not.