Over how many weeks should you run your trivia night? Should you set a time frame at all?

Its an individual choice for each venue and a depends on what each venue wants to achieve.

For some venues the question is answered before they start. These venues maybe running the trivia night during the shoulder season only. They know before they start that after eight or twelve weeks they will be changing out the night for something else, only to do it again in the next off peak period.

Some venues run the night over the fixed period and have an overall prize with teams carrying points from night to night. Whether you go for the overall prizing is a factor of how you will promote the night. As the trivia night is only being run over a short period you will want to have advertising to get it up and running asap. This will generally mean bigger and better prizing than used in a venue that is building a trivia night for the long term.

If a venue has a quiet night year round that they want to fill then the best way is not to run the trivia night for any fixed time but just see what happens. I have helped set up trivia nights for a twelve week period only to have it running every week five years later. Rather than telling patrons that the night will run in perpetuity, take a "We'll see" approach. As long as the night is growing or full why would you want to stop it. Especially once you have done the hard work of building it up.

This doesn't mean the quiz can't have a hiatus for a couple of weeks or even months of the year. A stoppage for short period can actually revitalize the night, but stopping the night for an arbitrary change or for changes sake is counter-productive, and to me non-sensible.

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