You already own the screens. On a dead Tuesday in the off-season, put a quiz on them instead of a highlight reel nobody is watching.
A sports bar lives and dies by the fixture list. When there is a derby on, the room runs itself. When the season breaks or the schedule gives you a Monday with nothing but a repeat, the same twelve screens are showing wallpaper to eleven people. Trivia is the cheapest way to give those nights a draw, because you are not buying anything new. The screens, the sound system and the staff are already on the payroll.
Quizado pushes the quiz to any TV or projector through an external display window, so the main screen becomes the game board while the rest of the room keeps whatever you normally show. Players scan a QR code, join in a phone browser and buzz in from their seat. The host console locks the first buzz it receives and shows it on the board.
That matters more in a sports bar than anywhere else, because sports bars are loud. A shouted answer is a scoring argument waiting to happen. Typed answers and phone buzzers take the judgement call away from the person holding the microphone.
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Type a league, a decade or a single club into the AI generator and get a full round back. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro, so a manager can build a round on last season in a spare ten minutes.
Send the game board to one TV, a projector or the big wall screen. No rented display, no second box, no change to your existing feed on the other screens.
Players buzz from their own phone and the host console locks the first buzz it receives. Nobody has to work out who shouted loudest across the bar.
Save a quiz and reuse it whenever the schedule leaves a hole. Duplicate last week, swap two rounds and you have a new night in ten minutes.
Questions appear on the screen and on every player phone, so the quiz still works if you have commentary running quietly on the side screens.
Run a standings table across weeks on Trivia Pro. Regulars chase a season title the same way they follow their own team.
On the Hospitality Group plan you also get host-run Family Feud and Jeopardy, which work well as a one-off event between seasons.
The weeks with no fixtures are the weeks your regulars find another bar. Give them a reason to stay.
Run a short round in the hour before kick-off to pull the crowd in earlier.
When the volume is up, a quiz that depends on hearing the host does not work.
Draft nights and supporter club meet-ups need a structured hour, and a quiz is it.
Do not schedule your quiz against your own best night. If Thursday is your busiest broadcast, a quiz there just competes with the thing that already works. Open the fixture list for the next two months, find the weeknight that has the fewest matches, and put the quiz there. That is usually a Monday or a Tuesday, and it is exactly the shift where an extra thirty covers changes the week.
Once you pick the night, do not move it. Trivia crowds are habit crowds. A team that comes three weeks running will keep coming for a year, but a team that turns up to a cancelled quiz usually does not come back. If a big fixture lands on your quiz night, run the quiz early and finish before kick-off rather than skipping it.
Keep a saved game ready for the weeks you did not plan for. Duplicating last week and spending AI credits on Trivia Pro to refresh two rounds takes under ten minutes, which is short enough that a manager will actually do it on a busy afternoon.
Less than you think. If every round is sport, you win the twelve people who already know everything and lose everyone who came with them. The pattern that fills rooms is two sports rounds out of six, with the rest split across music, film, general knowledge and a picture round. The sports fans still get their moment and nobody at the table feels like a passenger.
Within the sports rounds, spread the difficulty. One question on a famous final, one on a club nickname, one on a rule most people get wrong, and one genuinely hard question for the specialists. Knockout and Wager rounds are useful here, because they let a confident table gamble on the subject they know best.
Team names are half the entertainment in a sports bar, and the rivalry writes them for you. If you want a list to seed the first night, our bar trivia team names page has plenty to steal, and the good ones will be on your screen by week three anyway.
Decide in advance what happens to the other screens. The simplest arrangement is one screen for the quiz, sound off elsewhere, and a short announcement at the start telling people where to look. If your room has a natural front, put the game board there. If it does not, use two screens on opposite walls so nobody is craning.
Give the host a fixed spot rather than letting them wander. Guests need to know where to look when something needs explaining, and a host who circles the room with a microphone spends the whole night repeating themselves. Everything that matters is on the screens, so the host is there for pace and personality.
Both the host device and the player phones need internet. There is no offline mode, and a bar with patchy signal in the back booths will produce complaints that look like software faults. Test the far corner of the room on a phone before your first night.
The full feature tour of the self-serve quiz your regulars play on their phones.
A list of team names to seed your first night before the regulars invent better ones.
What the host sees, how the display window works and how to train a bartender.
Every plan side by side, including which one unlocks leagues and season tables.
Install the host app on the laptop or tablet already behind your bar.
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