Subject: A suggestion for the Team vs Team game
Posted by: GuruOfTrivia
Date: May 15 10
As the leader of a fairly new team I sometimes see that my team is doing very well in the Team vs Team game, and hope that our score stays high through out the day--and then some one gets a low score and brings the team down. I think that a good addition to the Team vs Team game page would be a little box where the team leader could post a daily message regarding whether or not others should play that day, and risk bringing the team down. I don't want to exclude people, and am not sure if this is the best solution to this problem. I'd love
to get your opinions!
Posted by: GuruOfTrivia
Date: May 15 10
As the leader of a fairly new team I sometimes see that my team is doing very well in the Team vs Team game, and hope that our score stays high through out the day--and then some one gets a low score and brings the team down. I think that a good addition to the Team vs Team game page would be a little box where the team leader could post a daily message regarding whether or not others should play that day, and risk bringing the team down. I don't want to exclude people, and am not sure if this is the best solution to this problem. I'd love
to get your opinions!
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honeybee4 
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It is a team game so every team member should play if they want to. I know that sometimes I am at the bottom of the players and sometimes I am toward the top. I have apo;ogized for a low score but I would never expect one of my team mates to. The object is to have fun and learn something. Reply #21. Jun 07 10, 8:39 PM |
tezza1551
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Agree with honeybee... sometimes, I do quite well on a topic I don't expect to.. e.g the Team Heroes topic today was US Civil War, about which I cheerfully admit I know less than nothing. However, I got 9 right, learnt a bit and was quite pleased with myself. I think asking people not to play is against the whole point of the site.. it is after all called FUNTrivia !We are NOT playing for sheep stations ! Reply #22. Jun 07 10, 9:47 PM |
milesprower18
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I agree with everyone who said that anyone in a team who wants to play the team game should be allowed to. I guess it would be ok to have a team where you can tell people they couldn't play if you REALLY wanted to as long as everyone knows before joining the team. You just might not have very many (if any) members that want to be a part of the team. In my opinion though, everyone should play for fun and try to do their best, and they should not feel bad if they get a low score because it happens to everyone sometimes. Reply #23. Jun 07 10, 10:39 PM |
Evil Sorcerer
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Why would you want to keep people away from playing the team games? It should be a fun game, not a game that brings people down by telling them their help is not wanted. I wouldn't want to be on GuruofTrivia's team. Reply #24. Jun 10 10, 4:30 AM |
spidersghost43
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This site isn't played for money so there is no reason to tell anyone to not play. If you suggested that i skip playing that day I would immediatley quit that team. Reply #25. Jun 10 10, 4:57 AM |
dsimpy
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I think some people are being a bit harsh on Guruoftrivia here! He asked a question, got a strong response, and has been big enough to acknowledge he got it wrong and didn't think it through. Let's stop flaying him! On my first team when I joined FT, those who scored badly in TvT were told by the team leader not to play, were pretty publicly tore into on the team message board, and were 'disappeared' from team membership 'in the middle of the night' without explanation to other team members. Some of us - better scoring TvT players actually! - got tired of this abuse and left to set up our own team. Our name - Comedy of Errors - is an explicit pun on the fact that we all make mistakes but that, after all, it's meant to be fun. Reply #26. Jun 10 10, 9:37 AM |
Hermit007
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I'm a fairly decent TVT/Heroes player, but I don't always get top scores. I was briefly on a team a couple of years ago where high scoring was obviously important, I was terrified to play and chance getting a low score! I didn't last long there. I would never kick anyone off for having a bad day and getting low scores, in fact they all get a 'Well done, good game' type message on the team boards. I'm sure they all do their best, both the fast and the slow, and that's all I can ask for. How did the Jokers Wild team do yesterday in TVT? We ranked 100/103! :) Reply #27. Jun 10 10, 11:23 AM |
| Christinap
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Like Hermit I am an averagely decent player in both games, but from time to time I get either a topic or a set of questions that I just completely bomb on.Doesn't stop me tackling the topics I don't know anything about, sometimes I surprise myself and know more than I think, but if anyone told me not to play (which my Team Leader has never done and would never do) I would leave that team like a shot. Reply #28. Jun 11 10, 3:54 PM |
looney_tunes
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I enjoy the sense of working as a team rather than an individual in the TvT game. It is the only one that I do not complete every day - if I start and think I have had to guess too many, I back out to keep from dropping my team's average. I feel a bit disappointed when that has to happen, but I also feel a warm glow because now I belong to a team, and can act on behalf of the others, not just myself. Before I joined an active team, I played every day, but if felt pretty aimless just getting the points without being part of building a team score. In all the other games, I play no matter how little I know (it's a shame that Alternative Rock was not a category about interesting geology) or how slow I usually am on the Piece of Cake quizzes. I get the fun of doing my best, and if it counts towards the team score that's a bonus. Reply #29. Jun 12 10, 6:48 AM |
lesley153
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dsimpy #26 "Let's stop flaying him!" I imagine the posters who are still baying for his blood are the ones who are far too busy and far too important to see how the debate has developed. There are some who don't even seem to notice when a thread has been closed. Most threads attract at least one poster who'll say they haven't read the previous posts but here is their opinion. If they aren't interested in what other people have to say, why should we be interested in what they think? Reply #30. Jun 12 10, 9:08 AM |
postcards2go
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Well said, Leslie. It just makes sense (at least to most of us) to read what others have said before posting. Reply #31. Jun 12 10, 9:32 AM |
| Hermit007
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Heya Christinap, Can I steal yer cute avatar? Reply #32. Jun 12 10, 10:53 AM |
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