Did you watch Schlag den Brig 2 LIVE? Did you watch it on catch-up? Then we’d very much appreciate having a go at this exciting feedback form so we can make it better in future. Thanks!
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Did you watch Schlag den Brig 2 LIVE? Did you watch it on catch-up? Then we’d very much appreciate having a go at this exciting feedback form so we can make it better in future. Thanks!
I thought this show was amazing even with the slight blooper after the “Treasure Hunt” – not sure if it was edited out after the live show but if was fun to contact “The Quiz God” (although no reply)
But the game did get quite tense with Dan gaining an early lead and thought maybe he’ll beat Brig.
Looking forward to show 3 (if you do one), but one suggestion is if we could have a few more time checks so those of us streaming on things other than a PC can gauge how out of sync we are as there were times with “the public vote” I wasn’t sure if my vote was included or not.
At worst, the live feed is about 25-30 seconds out so – as long as you weren’t in DVR mode – we left PLENTY of time to get your votes in. Maybe too much time, actually.
All of the charades games had 39 votes, so that meant that nearly everyone who was watching participated in the vote.
Thank you for everyone who’s replied to our Schlag den Brig feedback survey. We’re still collecting responses, so if you watched some or all of the broadcast, we’d appreciate your comments using the link above.
Using the responses we’ve had so far, here are some statistics and comments to complete the loop:
50% of people watched live, 30% watched some of it live and 20% watched it entirely on YouTube at a later date.
During the broadcast, my on-screen statistics were telling me that around 30 (dropping to 20) people were tuned in during the broadcast. However, that doesn’t quite tell the full story. We know from the voting interactivity that around 45 people took part so realistically we had 50+ pairs of eyeballs watching live. It’s very possible the Google statistics were inaccurate, and/or that some of you were watching at home in groups – which is nice to see.
Nevertheless, we were probably hoping for a slightly larger audience than Schlag 1. When we asked you why you thought the numbers were down, no clear picture emerges. Many of you thought it was a complex variety of reasons. In some ways this was reassuring in that we’d not done anything wrong. Also, most people didn’t seem to be jaded by the prospect of 5 hours of internet watching – it was usually the weather, TV or social engagements that were to blame.
Everyone enjoyed the Outside Broadcast sections, with 60% rating them ‘excellent’. Opinion was split as to which video was better. The audience interaction sections (during the charades and poetry games) were even more emphatic, with 80% rating them ‘excellent’.
Of the games played, all of them were well received with the exception of the Shape Sorting game, which most people rated as OK or Poor. This is understandable, but it was put halfway through the show partly to give me and Lewis a bit of a break to catch up on other things before the second half began. But, we will take this feedback on board and try something more visual next time. Book Treasure Hunt received the highest rating, with Poetry, Snooker Golf, Radar, Speed Charades, Tetris Words, Who Knows More?, Copycat, Boku and The Toaster also receiving mainly Good or Excellent ratings. Moose or Bunny? split opinion the most.
For Mercedes Memory (mainly rated Good or OK), some correspondents didn’t seem to realise that we’d put the answers to the quiz as captions during the ‘walking around’ bit of the video.
There seemed to be a noticeable marking down of games we had ‘borrowed’ from the real Schlag (in this case, Backwards Music, Who Knows More? and The Toaster). This is fair comment, as it’s always nice to be surprised by new games. That said, personally I think there is some fun in re-running a select number of Raab games for the benefit of an English-speaking audience – especially for the quizzes which we normally can’t join in with during the German show.
Also, a fair sprinkling of people didn’t really know what Schlag den Raab is all about – for instance, some people suggested we should do first to 8 games instead of points, or have more players. Our version is meant to replicate the experience of a full evening of Raab, with games running to the time they take rather than any set schedule.
Nearly everyone thinks we’ve got the variety of games and the playalong factor just right, which was nice to know.
Most people think we should do Schlag 3 in Autumn 2014, so – if we have enough support from people who would like to see another live event – we will consider that.
Thanks again for your comments so far.
I think part of the markdown for the Actual Raab Games is because… they aren’t very good, as far as Actual Raab Games go. The Toaster is pretty much second only to the infamous tablecloth game in terms of comically bad Raab ideas, and while there’s nothing objectively wrong with the other two as concepts they pale in comparison to similar games (Who Knows More with Sortieren and Blamieren, Backwards Music with that “guess the song based on the voxpop singing” game from the first two SdRs). I also think the TV-theme-theme did more harm than good to the playalong value, but that may just be a non-Brit thing.