This is a rubbish pub quiz prize?

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I live in a fairly expensive area (London) and I went to a pub quiz recently where my team came first and won the prize. The prize was a £40 bar tab (less than we had already spent on our drinks, team of 4) which was awarded to us at the end of the evening ... obviously, as that was when the quiz was finished and all scores totted up. We'd have enough to drink at this stage. But we were given a £40 bar tab which had to be used within one week.

Well, none of the 4 of us want to go back to the pub and spend it within a week! Going to Pub Quiz is a once every 2 or 3 months event for us, none of us in the team would go to a pub and spend that kind of money every week.

It's obviously ok (first world problem!) but we won't be using our prize. But it's a shit prize, yes?

And yes of course I know pubs have had a terrible couple of years. But so have their punters. If they wanted us to come back to the quiz they would have given their prize better consideration. Aibu?

Maybe you should apply to join a professional quiz team OP seeing as prizes are your goal? Hope you're good enough, they're a tad more demanding than down yer Local.

Meanwhile, maybe hand off your bar tab prize to the Team who came 2nd?

Or raffle out your prize, or dunno, sit on a plank over water and get dunked in when you get a question wrong, for 30p a go.

We won a £25 pub voucher in the summer at a random pub quiz. Then we won the rugby club prize of £80 cash between us.
£40 bar tab to be spent within a week is naff. I’d prefer my voucher or cold hard cash.

Seeing as it's only a bloody pub quiz, not Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it seems perfectly reasonable.

A few years DH and I visited a nearby pub and, on finding they had a quiz that night we entered. And won! The prize was a small amount of money. However, someone then explained that it was the done thing to donate the prize money to the Hospice. Fair enough. Oh, and by the way, the winners were expect to set the questions for the following week

Fortunately we had been involved in a quiz league elsewhere so still had a stock of good questions we could pull together in time.

Standard for a pub quiz. It’s to try to get you to make it a regular thing and visit the pub more.

I agree with this. The whole idea of a quiz is to create interest and drum up trade - it isn't a magnanimous altruistic act. That's why you never get pub quizzes on Friday or Saturday nights.

one had sort of a jackpot type game at the end of the night that you paid extra to enter and often rolled over, so sometimes that prize would be a couple of hundred pounds.

Many years ago, a group of us did a really enjoyable pub quiz every single week, and they had a rollover, amassed from the £1 per person entry fee, where they picked a number at random from 1 to 50 out of a bag and, if your team had scored that amount exactly, you won the money. This was in addition to the prizes for 1st and 2nd and obviously completely a matter of luck.

There was quite a long run of very low numbers being drawn out, so the prize ramped right up to about £500. Word got around and, suddenly, the pub was packed on quiz night with people who were there solely in the hope of scooping the big one. They had every right to do so, of course, but all of us regulars were desperately hoping that it would eventually go to one of our teams - you know, the people who had actually paid in all those £1s and turned out just as often, even when that prize would be £30 or less.

On weeks when the jackpot number matched the score of more than one team, the teams were given the choice to split the prize 50/50, if they both agreed, or to go to a tie-breaker for the lot if one or both teams didn't want to split it. You could always tell the regulars, who would always split it, from the bounty-hunters, who would always insist on a tie-breaker in the hope of getting it all.

To add, as a general rule, the pub aren't going to run a quiz and give away as much as (or more than) the amount of extra money that they make from having the quiz. If you're expecting a local pub to charge £2 entry fee and then give away several hundred pounds in hard cash, you really aren't thinking it through.

It's a very standard promotional tactic to give away a specific prize that both draws attention to what you sell and which will cost you less than the retail value of that prize.

If BMW had a big competition, you would expect the top prize to be one of their cars and not for them to buy you any make of car of your choice to a certain value, or a cash equivalent of the retail price. Not when it costs them much less than the market value to give you their own product and also brings them publicity with a big showy prize handover.

To be honest, your 'rubbish' prize would be a great prize if you were a regular: friends turn up for the quiz each week and, whenever they won the previous week, they get their first round (or more) for free - sounds great and a real incentive to keep on coming back.

To add, as a general rule, the pub aren't going to run a quiz and give away as much as (or more than) the amount of extra money that they make from having the quiz. If you're expecting a local pub to charge £2 entry fee and then give away several hundred pounds in hard cash, you really aren't thinking it through.

This is a very fair point, actually. The quizzes I referred to upthread (with prize money in excess of £100) have entry of £10 per person, not £2, so it’s not a sensible comparison. I wasn’t thinking.

Well tonight I won a pub quiz and received a voucher for an overnight stay in the pubs accommodation. I live five minutes away.

I think £40 is a good prize but a bit odd to have only a week to spend it.

Well tonight I won a pub quiz and received a voucher for an overnight stay in the pubs accommodation. I live five minutes away.

The perfect excuse solution for those relatives visiting from a distance who are fine in small doses, but who drive you up the wall if they stay over in your house

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll not going to lie, that thought did cross my mind!

Last one I went to the prize was Haribo

Seeing as it's only a bloody pub quiz, not Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it seems perfectly reasonable.

^^

Quite

Seems generous to me, our pub quiz has a ten pound voucher for the pub …. No one but strangers claim it . Locals give it back and the pub puts £10 to charity.

If it's cash you're after, you'd be better off asking for a job behind the bar.

It’s a pub. What do you think they’d give you as a prize?

Wow, I think this is the first time I have heard of anyone moaning about a pub quiz prize! You enter the quiz for the entertainment, camaraderie and fun of winning. Any prize is incidental. Give it away if you can't use it.

Ah - either go and speak to the landlord and ask if you could use the voucher in 2 weeks rather than one week / trade it in for next quiz entry fee or just think you had a lovey evening for a modest price.

What you spent on your drinks is immaterial . The evening the pub has put on is what made it fun ( I guess ) and that is why you and your friends enjoyed it and stayed.

Aim for second place next time to avoid disappointment.

Our local pub quiz was free to enter and the winning team got vouchers for eight pints of beer. If it’s a pub manager they have to account to their employer for anything they give away . Regulars entered for the glory of winning .

@WhatDidISayAlan

I’d be fine with that. The one at my uncle’s cricket club quiz is a pound in, and the winner gets a tray of Warburton’s goods (raisin loaf, crumpets, potato cakes etc) cos the treasurer works in the finance dept of the Warbies offices in Bolton 😁

Heh heh! That's really made me chuckle .

I didn’t even think there were prizes! I was due to go to one last week but didn’t in the end, what the prize was didn’t even cross my mind. You are being a bit miserable complaining about it particularly as you only paid £2 to enter!

Ask the pub to extend the use-by date? Give it away on a local FB group or similar, perhaps in exchange for a charity donation? Or give it back to the pub and suggest they up the stakes for next week?

Like others, I don't think that it is a rubbish prize -- but it is rubbish if they didn't make it clear that this was what the prize was at the outset.

I've done a number of pub quizzes. Not that we usually win. The prize is standard but I think 3 weeks would be a fairer time period.

Ours also had a higher or lower type card game, from memory you had to get 6 or so correct and the jackpot was a few hundred pounds.

There was a small group of us that started to go to a pub quiz in a nearby village quite regularly. We weren't locals, but there wasn't a quiz in our local pub. We were quite good and won quite a few times, which I don't think was very popular. The last prize we won was 4 bottles of out of date guinness. We stopped going.... It wasn't the shit prize, it was the fact that they obviously didn't want us there 😞

Yeah that’s rubbish and I’d have been annoyed too. I remember as a kid winning a similarly shit prize on a radio phone in competition. It was two cinema tickets that could only be used on Tuesdays and Weds, during school hours I knew straight away that I’d never use them.