Hi,
Apologies if this issue has been brought up before.
Can you please allow players to create their own teams instead of the host having to create them?
For us, for our live in person trivia nights, this would save a lot of time as Logging in of players/teams is cumbersome and confusing sometimes as players don’t know which team to choose etc.
They take forever to choose a team name etc.
If they simply could login pick a team name and be ready to start it would make our life so much easier. This is even more difficult when we are hosting virtual games where players are playing as teams.
Any help on this would be awesome.
Love your product!
Garry
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Hi Garry,
Don’t know if this will be of help, but for my virtual team events, I premake teams in advance, basing their names on parts of a sandwich. Team Bacon, Lettuce, Pickles, etc. For live events, don’t let them decide, give them a token with a team name or picture; this could be nothing more than cutouts that you print at home. For virtual, don’t let them decide. Once you have enough players send them to random breakout rooms, then immediately close the breakout rooms, which usually takes 60 seconds. In Zoom you can name breakout rooms before the event. Whatever breakout room the player is sent to is their name. When they come back from the breakouts have a slide with the Crowdpurr QR code and URL/Game code showing and a link in the chat. Apologies if I misunderstood your ask and none of these suggestions are of help.
Jimmie G
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@garry And just to be clear, I don’t work for Crowdpurr. I just love the product like you and use it for many of my events.
Jimmie G
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Hi Jimmie,
I like the idea of pre-printing team names to be handed out!
Thank you!!!
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We have never allowed players to create their own Advanced Teams because we always assumed it would be way too problematic and confusing.
Such as knowing who on the team is going to create the team first. We assume you’d end up with duplicate team names, confused players not knowing which one to join, then having to correct the resulting mess.
It’s just simpler… to create the teams ahead of time.
@RossN
I am revisiting this in the hope you may change your mind.
Our game’s QR codes are displayed on screen by our hosts at the start of the trivia night, before our hosts signs teams in.
Inevitably people see the QR code and scan it, and then they have no team name to choose because the those names must be entered by the host…
Is allowing players to create/enter their own team names something you would consider allowing?
Even as an optional setting which can be turned off?
Most of our teams only use one device so the “captain” would simply create the team name.
Sometimes it’s time consuming to have to go to every table and get into a discussion about average points and signing them in etc. It would speed up the signing in process on the way we run our crowdpurr games…
Thanks in advance!
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If this is the case, then Basic Team Mode works perfect and does allow entering your own team name.
For now, there’s not an easy way to have teams enter their own team name in Advanced Team Mode.
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Thanks Ross.
Basic mode does not eliminate the time needed to sign in every team.
I hope someday you reconsider this.
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Perhaps there’s another way to go about doing this?
You could present the QR code for a Text Answer Poll with a single option “What’s your Team Name?”
Then you can create the Advanced Teams based on those poll responses.
This way your participants can sign in early, but not have to sit and wait on the trivia game.
You could even throw in other poll options as you see fit. Maybe you planned either a Music or Picture round and the participants can vote which one they get.
I used to sneak polls in between rounds including a vote for the best team name for a bonus prize. Polls can be a fun way to interact with your participants.
- I haven’t been the main user on our account for some time and it looks like there’s no longer the ability to send participants to a different experience. I guess this was replaced in favor of multi round games? Makes sense, but sad to lose that option.
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I guess I’m not following what you mean by this. Basic Team Mode signs in all the teams as each team leader signs in. Crowdpurr manages them as participants on the Experience Dashboard. Is there some other sign-in process that you’re doing outside of Crowdpurr? How would making Advanced Team Mode allow players to create their own team any different?
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Definitely didn’t lose this option. You can still do a Next Round to any other type of experience (e.g. poll, social wall, bingo game) and then back to a trivia round.
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I see what you mean about basic mode, but…
Most teams who play our game only use one player’s device. but not all.
So our hosts still have to go around and sign in every team (name) whether only one player is answering or more than one player. We have some really large venues with lots of teams to be signed in. We want to offer advanced teams to allow more than one player to answer for their team, should they choose.
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I see. Maybe you could show the Presentation View and hide the QR code and the URL (both of these are options). Then do one of the following ideas:
- Email us your team name a teams@garry.com (e.g.)
- Show a QR code to a public Google Doc where they enter their team name
- Pass around a clipboard
Then after you’ve added all teams manually in Advanced Team Mode, then you enable the QR code and URL on the Presentation View. They then join and choose their team.
I get what you’re saying though, it’s time consuming and cumbersome to manually collect and enter the Advanced Teams when you still want to have that play-mode where it’s one-or-many team members.
The “cumbersome” part is the same problem we would have in implementing it. Duplicate team names, misspellings, “Oh hey wait I meant to be on that team!”, “Hey combine our teams please!” It’s all stuff that we think would be hard to manage at the Crowdpurr level too which is why we just make you as the host enter and manage the teams. So everyone, for sure, chooses their one and only correct team.
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Makes sense. Thanks Ross.
It’s not worth ending and I’m sure we’ll survive!
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I think maybe it’s been mentioned before but the ability to import a list of team names from a CSV would be great.
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