The End of an Era at Donovan's Reef: No More NTN

Today, we have the goodbye celebration for an old friend at Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. After close to 20 years, the place is dropping NTN, the National Trivia Network, now called Buzztime.

We have spent many hours enjoying food, drinks and comraderie at the place dating back to when the Stewarts took over the place. We have made Top Twenty many, many times during that run and have been visited by many out-of-towners who came because they saw out name up there so often.

However, due to people moving away (and one major player died), the number of players have dropped tremendously and so few play it now, it is just not worth the $500 monthly charge to play it, so the new owners are dropping it. I don't blame them. I would have dropped it a year ago.

That's a lot of money to pay out if you're not getting a lot of people sticking around to play it.

We're having a going away party today for it, and hoping to get one last round of rankings.

Sorry To See It Go. --RoadDog