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Here comes ... Jivebotic!
Posted by GC2
on
12/18/2008 03:50:00 PM
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player interviews
A guy you've probably seen on the leaderboard here and now has been Justin Barr. We know him as Jivebotic, the guy with his own 12seconds portal and good-looking Web site.
He won the Decision 08 challenge last month, dominating the field in a runaway. And Ringorang is one of the games he enjoys.
Jivebotic might be in the middle of the pack now, but he's shown in the past that it doesn't take much for him to storm to the top.
He spent a few minutes talking to us in this interview.
GLENN: How did you find out about Ringorang?
JUSTIN: I saw the awesome posts from Ringorang on 12seconds.tv and was intrigued ...
GC2: You won the Decision 08 challenge. Are you a political junkie or were you just "on fire" for those 2 1/2 weeks?
JB: A little from Column A, a little from Column B...I developed a good strategy, focused on hitting "Bonus City" and spent a ton of time playing. In an effort to solidify my lead, on the eve of the last day I slept with the computer on and volume turned all the way up. I woke up every hour an answered the question. I eventually turned it off and missed the 5am - 7am questions.
GC2: Fill out this sentence, then explain: I waited to ___________ because I was waiting for a question from Ringorang.
JB: I waited to eat lunch, go to sleep, pick up family and friends from work, shower ... Ringorang has played me hard.
GC2: We've talked about a lot of possible additions and changes to Ringorang. If you were in control and could make only one change, what would it be?
JB: I'd like to see some sort of incentive for users to start playing mid-week or rather, for users who are not in the top 20 and have little chance to make it to continue to play throughout the week. An awards or badges system perhaps (something that doesn't cost ringorang money). For exmaple: Get 10 Q's correct get a badge/icon. That would require user profiles and at that point I'd throw in the idea of building the first social networking community for trivia buffs. Also more specific games would be sweet (music, tv, movies)
GC2: I know you from 12seconds.tv. What makes 12seconds so cool?
JB: 12seconds is an amazingly easy way to share what you're doing with family and friends. Typing is sooo old school. Video's the only way to go. There's an incredible community of users there that makes the site so much fun to use.
GC2: What other athletic or electronic games do you play?
JB: 2 years ago I had a Softball team, we came in 2nd place in our division and most of my team had never played baseball/softball before in their lives. Nowadays I play a lot of Call of Duty and Rock Band on the Xbox, Wii Sports and Mario Kart on my Wii and lately way too much World of Warcraft (I'm not a geek, I promise!)
GC2: What weekly challenge should we do in a future Ringorang contest? Politics again? Football? Music? Other?
JB: TV. TV. TV. Music would be cool too. TV would be nice because I'd have a great shot at placing in the Top 3 again...but I'd love to learn something as well. Perhaps a week on car maintenance or investment techniques would be more beneficial to me ...
He won the Decision 08 challenge last month, dominating the field in a runaway. And Ringorang is one of the games he enjoys.
Jivebotic might be in the middle of the pack now, but he's shown in the past that it doesn't take much for him to storm to the top.
He spent a few minutes talking to us in this interview.
GLENN: How did you find out about Ringorang?
JUSTIN: I saw the awesome posts from Ringorang on 12seconds.tv and was intrigued ...
GC2: You won the Decision 08 challenge. Are you a political junkie or were you just "on fire" for those 2 1/2 weeks?
JB: A little from Column A, a little from Column B...I developed a good strategy, focused on hitting "Bonus City" and spent a ton of time playing. In an effort to solidify my lead, on the eve of the last day I slept with the computer on and volume turned all the way up. I woke up every hour an answered the question. I eventually turned it off and missed the 5am - 7am questions.
GC2: Fill out this sentence, then explain: I waited to ___________ because I was waiting for a question from Ringorang.
JB: I waited to eat lunch, go to sleep, pick up family and friends from work, shower ... Ringorang has played me hard.
GC2: We've talked about a lot of possible additions and changes to Ringorang. If you were in control and could make only one change, what would it be?
JB: I'd like to see some sort of incentive for users to start playing mid-week or rather, for users who are not in the top 20 and have little chance to make it to continue to play throughout the week. An awards or badges system perhaps (something that doesn't cost ringorang money). For exmaple: Get 10 Q's correct get a badge/icon. That would require user profiles and at that point I'd throw in the idea of building the first social networking community for trivia buffs. Also more specific games would be sweet (music, tv, movies)
GC2: I know you from 12seconds.tv. What makes 12seconds so cool?
JB: 12seconds is an amazingly easy way to share what you're doing with family and friends. Typing is sooo old school. Video's the only way to go. There's an incredible community of users there that makes the site so much fun to use.
GC2: What other athletic or electronic games do you play?
JB: 2 years ago I had a Softball team, we came in 2nd place in our division and most of my team had never played baseball/softball before in their lives. Nowadays I play a lot of Call of Duty and Rock Band on the Xbox, Wii Sports and Mario Kart on my Wii and lately way too much World of Warcraft (I'm not a geek, I promise!)
GC2: What weekly challenge should we do in a future Ringorang contest? Politics again? Football? Music? Other?
JB: TV. TV. TV. Music would be cool too. TV would be nice because I'd have a great shot at placing in the Top 3 again...but I'd love to learn something as well. Perhaps a week on car maintenance or investment techniques would be more beneficial to me ...
