Buzzer - Revision history

Aisling Skeet: /* Model-specific information */

2025-05-11T18:25:56Z

Model-specific information

Aisling Skeet: /* Model-specific information */

2025-01-30T23:47:27Z

Model-specific information

Aisling Skeet: Added Kitsunes

2024-11-24T12:42:29Z

Added Kitsunes

Matt Weiner: /* Gallery of buzzer systems */

2024-05-25T20:02:39Z

Gallery of buzzer systems

Kevin Wang at 17:14, 15 February 2024

2024-02-15T17:14:47Z

Matt Weiner at 01:21, 21 December 2023

2023-12-21T01:21:15Z

Matt Weiner: /* History of Quizbowl Buzzers */

2023-12-18T20:08:36Z

History of Quizbowl Buzzers

Matt Weiner: /* Gallery of buzzer systems */

2023-12-17T18:08:34Z

Gallery of buzzer systems

Matt Weiner: /* History of Quizbowl Buzzers */

2023-11-22T02:06:02Z

History of Quizbowl Buzzers

Matt Weiner: /* Model-specific information */

2023-05-07T05:32:37Z

Model-specific information

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 |[https://github.com/Amekyras/kitsune Kitsune]
 |Yes
-|$200/£150
+|$~185/£140
 |Debuting in 2024, these buzzers are extremely compact, hardwearing, and easy to repair. They are also cheaper than most other sets on the market, and can be produced in a range of colours. Power is provided via a USB-C port, which can be fed from a laptop, power bank, or phone charger.
 |The buzzers do not come with a USB-C cable, so teams will have to provide their own (any USB-C phone charging cable will do). The buzzer is also a little quieter than some sets.
 |-

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 |[[Aisling Skeet]]
-|Kitsune
+|[https://github.com/Amekyras/kitsune Kitsune]
 |Yes
 |$200/£150

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 ! Advantages
 ! Disadvantages
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 |[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ 4 D Designs]

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 File:maplin-quizzer.jpg|Manufacturer: Maplin<br>Model: Quizzer/Priority Quiz Buzzer. This system was published as a schematic in a UK electronics hobbyist magazine in 1993, with instructions on including any desired number of individual activators|alt=alt language
 File:Gameshowpro-learningware.jpg|Manufacturer: Learning Ware<br>Model: Game Show Pro|alt=alt language
 </gallery>

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 Almost all [[tournament]]s require some number of teams to bring buzzers in order to have enough to run the tournament properly; for this reason, [[Tournament director]]s usually offer a discount to teams that bring a buzzer.  When too few buzzers are present, teams must play [[slapbowl]], where buzzing is indicated by slapping the desk or saying something like "buzz." This is no longer common in the vast majority of modern quizbowl tournaments.
-Online tournaments typically use an online buzzer system like [[Buzzin.live]], which functions for players in much the same way as an in-person buzzer. It is possible to use USB buzzers attached to players' computers as the activator for online buzzers, though this is not necessary and generally either a mouse or a phone touchscreen is used. While physical buzzers may use pure electronic hardware logic to determine who has buzzed first, online systems used in serious tournament play must account for varying Internet speed/lag through various approaches, in order to actually determine who has buzzed first in real time rather than who has the best connection to the server.
+Online tournaments typically use an [[online buzzer]] system like [[Buzzin.live]], which functions for players in much the same way as an in-person buzzer. It is possible to use USB buzzers attached to players' computers as the activator for online buzzers, though this is not necessary and generally either a mouse or a phone touchscreen is used. While physical buzzers may use pure electronic hardware logic to determine who has buzzed first, online systems used in serious tournament play must account for varying Internet speed/lag through various approaches, in order to actually determine who has buzzed first in real time rather than who has the best connection to the server.
 ==History of Quizbowl Buzzers==

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	[[File:Bible bowl schematic.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl]] [[File:Bible bowl schematic 2.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl (back)]]		[[File:Bible bowl schematic.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl]] [[File:Bible bowl schematic 2.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl (back)]]
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		+	Instructions on building a modern computerized buzzer set using a printed circuit board may be found [https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1719&context=physics_facpub here.] This document is from 1996 but presumably all fully electronic buzzers work basically the same way.

	==Choosing a buzzer system (2019 Em Gunter post)==		==Choosing a buzzer system (2019 Em Gunter post)==

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 File:Creative-engineering-gsm-plus.jpg|Manufacturer: Creative Imagineering<br>Model: Lockout Plus|alt=alt language
 File:Edinsights.jpg|Manufacturer: Educational Insights<br>Model: Quiz Bowl buzzer set|alt=alt language
 </gallery>

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	To be usable in quizbowl, buzzer systems now have some kind of light that indicates who buzzed in first, as well as a sound that alerts the reader to stop reading the question and look for the light. Some older buzzer systems used a mechanical bell or other physical device instead of making a "buzz" sound. All currently manufactured systems play an electronically synthesized tone of some kind, with the QuikPro being closest to an onomatopoeiac "buzz" sound. Most current systems use two or more tones of different pitches and/or lengths, so that which of the teams has buzzed can be determined by sound alone before searching for the individual player using the lights.		To be usable in quizbowl, buzzer systems now have some kind of light that indicates who buzzed in first, as well as a sound that alerts the reader to stop reading the question and look for the light. Some older buzzer systems used a mechanical bell or other physical device instead of making a "buzz" sound. All currently manufactured systems play an electronically synthesized tone of some kind, with the QuikPro being closest to an onomatopoeiac "buzz" sound. Most current systems use two or more tones of different pitches and/or lengths, so that which of the teams has buzzed can be determined by sound alone before searching for the individual player using the lights.
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		+	[[File:Bible bowl schematic.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl]] [[File:Bible bowl schematic 2.png\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl (back)]]

	==Choosing a buzzer system (2019 Em Gunter post)==		==Choosing a buzzer system (2019 Em Gunter post)==

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 |[https://rolls.com/product/GS76RL Rolls]
 |GS76RL Game Show Controller
-|Yes
+|?
 |Lists for $189 new though currently sold out, not sure if more are being manufactured
 |Compact but still has individual lights