Bother’s Bar Game Night 8: Champion of Champions #bbgn

By | October 20, 2017

Saturday, 9pm-midnight UK,
Here and on Youtube

Join us as we celebrate two years of Bother’s Bar Game Night with the inaugural Champion of Champions special as we bring back THREE of the six previous champions (because the other three couldn’t make it), TWO moral victors shafted by the Arbitrary End Game, ONE person who claims to be the Champion of a hockey mode of an old MMO and A COMPLETE LOSER to explore the brand spanking new Jackbox Party Pack 4.

And as ever, Team Audience can ruin the whole Champion of Champions vibe by turning up and winning the night for themselves. And as one game requires 16 players (on top of everyone else voting for results), the audience stand their best chance ever of going into the Arbitrary End Game with a big advantage. To play go to www.jackbox.tv and enter the room code on the screen. There’s about a six second delay in watching along but relevant information will turn up on your phone at the relevant points.

Comedy games of knowledge, strategy, creativity, bluff and luck – we’ll have them all and we’d love you to join us. The stream will be running both here and on Youtube on Saturday night.

Edit: LIVE at 9pm!

21 thoughts on “Bother’s Bar Game Night 8: Champion of Champions #bbgn

  1. Joseph

    Thanks for the fun, games and commentary tonight guys : ), but I am going to have to stop participating in these events as I have been locked out of my Twitter account now for the second time : (.

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      1. Joseph

        I had Twitter open twice (one on the home feed page thing so I could tweet, and the other page on the #bbgn hash tag posts), so unless it was because of that, I have absolutely no idea.

        I also don’t post that often on Twitter, so for stuff like #bbgn and #bbsdh its the only times I am really active on Twitter (posting quite a fair bit within short spans – so not what I normally do on Twitter).

        It’s happened before in a previous night, where I got my account locked after only 4 tweets 🙁

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  2. Matt Clemson

    Thanks for hosting again, Brig. A great night, and a brilliantly tense finale. I’ll take a thoroughly undeserved third!

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      Some FUN FINAL FACTS:

      * Numbers were placed using Random.org.
      * It was going to be 100 squares originally until realising that that meant having to make 100 squares and animating them all.
      * Genuinely had no idea about that transition so quite pleased to discover it. My Powerpoint knowledge remains “slightly above functional”
      * Pleased the final was tense, the maths was a bit gut instinct but it worked out roughly as intended.

      It’s not easy coming up with end games, they have to be a bit arbitrary, they’ve also got to be simple enough that the audience can play along with in some capacity whilst not really being there. I’m thrilled that they’ve worked out so far, in the main. And if they go wrong at least it’s funny.

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          1. Brig Bother Post author

            Don’t forget your CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS PRIZE Andrew is guaranteed entry to the Jackbox 5 Game Night next October (provided you can make the date)! Hurrah!

        1. David B

          If you can be bothered, what were my odds of a win on that last pick?

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          1. Brig Bother Post author

            Because I said a tie would give you the win, 12 in 27, anything from 6 gold upwards.

            What was left on the board:

            Golds:
            1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 15, 30, 30, 35, 40

            Silvers:
            1, 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 30, 40

          2. David B

            Thanks. I feel less bad now. It felt like 75% at the time.

  3. Andrew Sullivan

    Kinda felt like a ‘Bit of a Wasted Journey’ for me, but still had SOME fun all the same. I didn’t really gel well with this batch of games compared to others, which led to my rather pitiful score. Maybe I’ll just watch from now on.

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  4. Andrew, the Yank

    Even apart from my success, I was very pleased to have the chance to join you all again. It’s been quite a while, so it was nice that this worked out right before I move next week to a new state and job. Thank you so much, everyone, especially you, Brig.

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  5. Nico W.

    Wow, that was the best Game Night ever! Thanks to everyone participating and special thanks to you Nick for organising. I wanted to go to bed before Monster Seeking Monster, but it was just too much fun!

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  6. David B

    For a 4th incarnation of the series, this was a lot of fun. I went in pretty blind to the new games and found they all offered good experiences.

    Quiplash is probably my favourite Jack game so Survive the Internet offered similar laffs. Loved its deadpan presentation too. I think with Bracket and Monster we kinda found the funny organically, even though it wasn’t immediately obvious where the entertainment was. I’m struggling to see how Civic Doodle is funny ha-ha rather than funny-odd, but I guess it can’t be easy coming up with new drawing games.

    9/10, would play again. Especially if I’m not shafted by the end game AGAIN.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      I thought it ended up being a fairly strong selection of games, although it’s a pity some of them go on 5-10 minutes longer than I’d like – Enough About You, intended as a comedy ‘meet the panel’ thing, took half an hour (this is why we don’t play Tee KO – takes too long, too much downtime, and Earwax only really got a look in last time to bulk up the selection a bit) – they’d previous got good experiences down to a 15-20 minute runtime.

      Also Jackbox scoring tends to annoy me a little bit. I’m not sure what the point of audience points are if they’re going to be so small they don’t affect the game particularly. I think you’d need to scale it a bit, but for a decent sized audience getting 25% picking your bluff should be worth around the same as a panellist picking a bluff I reckon.

      I also think the bonus for winning a round of Bracketeering is a bit too big, especially considering the peanuts everyone else gets for not winning. I know the bulk of the points for most people will be in the prediction, but 2000 points for winning the triple blind feels way too high especially when nobody scores (practically) anything else for progressing. It’s also a game, like Quiplash, that *needs* as many people as possible to extract the maximum fun out of it – great fun for streaming, probably not as good with four or five round a telly.

      Perfectly happy to add all of them into the mix I think which is as good a recommendation as any, with the caveat I wish MSM had a bit less downtime, probably a game better played IRL than streamed for viewers, but provided enough laughs that I’m OK with including it again.

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      1. David B

        In their defence, though, we have the luxury of always maxing out the number of players whereas – I’d presume – the majority of plays would feature, I dunno, 4-6 players on average?

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        1. Brig Bother Post author

          Yes probably, although I think they’re quite clearly aiming at the more streamer friendly market these days. I think the stalwarts (Drawful, Fibbage and I think in the new pack Civic Doodle, MSM, probably Survive the Internet) work basically fine at home, I saw a playthrough of Bracketeering with four players and they didn’t seem to be enjoying it a great deal.

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