Sony unveils Buzz! World Championships

By Robert Purchese Published 15 April, 2009

Hunt for a UK champion begins.

Sony is hunting for the UK's cleverest Buzz! player to represent the nation in a real-world quiz showdown.

Hopefuls will need to upload their best solo Buzz! Brain of the UK score to a National Leaderboard to enter. The competition opens on 22nd April and closes on 22nd May.

When finished, the top 32 players will tackle each other in a national final, before one victorious UK champion emerges.

That champion then faces international champions at a real-world quiz showdown at a top-secret location later this year. Star prize will be a Mini Clubman car.

Buzz! Brain of the UK - released late last month - offers 4000 localised questions about the Queen and kilts and shamrocks and something Welsh. It offers little else, and costs GBP 20 without wireless pads.

Look out for our thoughts on Buzz! Brain of the UK later this week.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • jjolley #1 3 years ago

    I think this is a great idea. I'd be interested in who wins. Certainly a nice idea for the casuals.

  • danathjo #2 3 years ago

    no love for plain 'ol Buzz? :(
    apart from more questions what's the difference between the last 2 versions?

  • Brianstorm #3 3 years ago

    there are lots of union jacks on it and the game modes have been tweaked slightly...

  • X201 #4 3 years ago

    @designerheadache

    Remember to factor in that they only have 40 members of staff and this time around Sony told them to make the game for 21 different territories.

  • Weezer #5 3 years ago

    The worst thing is that you get Jason Donovan speaking to contestants 'in their own language' - cue toe-curlingly bad (and slightly distasteful) collection of 'regional accents'. Dreadful.
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 17:20

  • Loser #6 3 years ago

    Weezer

    That sounds like something I might be willing to exchange 20 pounds for.....

  • smelly #7 3 years ago

    >Remember to factor in that they only have 40 members of staff and this time around

    ONLY?!?!?!

    You do realise what sort of games can be made with "only" 40 members of staff?

  • Weezer #8 3 years ago

    @ Loser - I said it was dreadful, I didn't say I wanted to get rid!

  • Machetazo #9 3 years ago

    @Loser - why not get your own copy? The shopto ad in the article shows that they have some in stock for just that price.
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 23:58

  • Brianstorm #10 3 years ago

    Although it's not much different, the questions are definitely more current and my wife + me and our friends who have it favour the sofa v sofa on the brit version over the old one. worth 19.99 if you liked the original.

    The trophy situation is a real weird one, they have copied the entire trophy list, including the mybuzz ones and there is no mybuzz feature currently in the new one, making a platinum impossible... strange.