The Southeast is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, and its bar and brewery scene has grown with it. From the booming Atlanta metro to Tampa Bay's sprawling coastal market, from Birmingham's revitalized downtown to the craft brewery corridors of Asheville and Knoxville — the Southeast has become one of Not Rocket Science Trivia's strongest and most active regions, with a network of venues that spans multiple states and reflects the diversity of a region that doesn't fit neatly...

Bar owners ask this question constantly, and they rarely get a straight answer. Trivia companies say yes because they're selling something. Bar owners who've had a bad experience say no because they're burned. Bar owners who've never tried it say maybe because they don't have enough information to decide. None of those answers are actually useful. Here's a straight answer — including the situations where trivia night is genuinely worth it, the situations where it probably isn't, and what the...

The host is the most important variable in whether a bar trivia night succeeds or fails. Better than any other single factor — better than the venue, the night of the week, the question difficulty, or even the marketing — the quality of the person holding the microphone determines whether players come back the following week or quietly decide to find a different trivia night. Most bar owners understand this intuitively. What they don't always understand is what separates a great trivia host...