Battle

I mentioned this a while ago in the faux tweets, but a couple of enterprising young persons have come up with an interesting live knockoff of our little genre. David Sauer and Kevin Letens operate the Game Show Battle Rooms in Minneapolis.

Groups of up to twelve (or more on weekdays) can book the Battle Rooms to play game shows like Friendly Feud, Wheel of Phrases and Name That Price. You can probably figure out which shows are getting knocked off here.

The Minneapolis location is doing decent business, so the pair is opening another location in Milwaukee in November. The new location will have a beer license, which would make sense for Milwaukee, no doubt. I have visions of franchises across the country, but we haven't come to that yet.

The linked story intones: Game Show Battle Rooms tries to make the experience unique and personalized with name tags, a game show host and technical features like audio, lights and a score board to track battle points. We're not messing around. The battle is on.