Hello everyone from the Buzz! World Championships Grand Final!

We’ve come to the world-famous La Tomatina festival in Bunyol, Spain to find out which one of our 14 National Champions is going to win a fantastic MINI Clubman!

It’s been 5 months since we started the hunt for our first Buzz! World Champion, and have found our best 14 National players from over 8,000 contestants.

Our stage is ready to roll and later tonight, we’ll know our one final winner!

Our World Champion isn’t just going to be the proud owner of a new MINI. They’re also going to have the once-in-a-lifetime experience of starting the world’s biggest tomato fight at La Tomatina, tomorrow. If you haven’t heard of La Tomatina, it’s a massive throng of over 40,000 people (who’ll fill the empty street below!) throwing over 10 tonnes of tomatoes in a one-hour frenzy!

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Last night stage two of Buzz! Brain of the world was held in the UK. The top Brainiacs from all over the UK made their way to London to compete for the Buzz! Brain of the UK crown. Contestants flew in from every corner of the UK including Belfast, Glasgow, Bangor, even the Isle of Man and they all came head strong, ready to battle it out to the very end.

With a few unfortunately unable to attend at the last minute due to sickness the night began with three rounds of Buzz! seeing each contestant play for a place in the semi finals. Only two from each group could go through and after a nail biting couple of rounds our semi finalists were whittled down to the FINAL FOUR.

The final four consisted of Andrew, Ian, Glen and Tony of whom you can see below in the final photo. It was a nail biting finish and the final countdown round proved that anything could happen as the contestants podiums constantly fluctuated in height, battling for that place in the World Final.

We’d like to congratulate Ian for winning stage two and being crowned Buzz! Brain of the UK. We, the UK team, would like to wish Ian all the best in the World final, we know you can do it! Go and make us proud Ian

A huge thank you must also go out to all the contestants that came to the event and competed. We hope you all had a great time.

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Hi, I’m Susana Martin, PR manager for SCE Spain, here to tell you all about our recent Buzz! addicts meeting in Spain!

The event was held in an old food market in Madrid city centre last Saturday 18 of July. The finalists were the best Spanish players from the first round of the World Championships competition held in May, and played through Buzz!TM ¿Qué sabes de tu país? online on PlayStation Network.

The finalists, aged from 18 to 48, met last Saturday face to face for the first time with the aim to become the Spanish national Buzz! champion. After a really close competition, Juan María –36 years old and native of Madrid- prevailed over the rest of competitors in the very last minute of the last round minute.

He will be the one to represent Spain at the Buzz! : World Championships Grand Final that will take place on the 25th and 26th of August at a very special location. We wish Juan María the best of luck for the big day!

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Hi guys,

Just to let you know that the Buzz! HQ and Studio spaces are now back!

Take on all comers and prove you’re the biggest brain in PS Home…

And remember, if you want to see your PSN ID up in lights, you too can submit questions for the quiz via MyBuzz!

Jump on in and happy buzzing!

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Hey there, I’m the website producer for MyBuzzQuiz.com. Our usual Buzz! expert, Rob Rutter, is on holiday this week so he’s asked me to step into his shoes and let you know that this week we’re celebrating the first anniversary of the official Buzz! community website; MyBuzzQuiz.com.

Even now, one year on, we’re still seeing more than 4,000 brand new quizzes being created on the site every week by MyBuzz Fans. This all adds up to a massive collection of over 1.75 million quizzes ready for you to play right now – that’s equivalent to 350 Buzz! discs, or 115,000(ish) episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

MyBuzzQuiz is open to everyone – you don’t need to own a PlayStation to take part, simply head to the site and start creating your own quizzes – or just play the quizzes already there. However, if you do own a PS3 you’ll be able to upload your MyBuzz! web quizzes to your console to play in-game. All pretty cool!

So huge thanks to everyone who’s created their own quizzes and helped keep the MyBuzz! community site such good fun for us here and all the Buzz! fans over the last year.

Here’s a look at the most popular quizzes on the website for each of our language communities – be sure to head over, check them out, have a play and add your feedback:

• English – merlinpants: “Trick question quiz” (15,200+ plays and counting…)
• Spanish – alex8496: “UEFA EURO 2008” (9,400+)
• German – ChrisTheKing911: “WM-2006-Quiz” (8,000+)
• French – erwan44: “terminez la chanson ….” (7,800+)
• Dutch – PrimeNL: “Maak deze Nederlandse Hit af…” (3,200+)
• Norwegian – powergitt: “Lurespørsmål” (2,300+)
• Italian – VFR800m: “completa la canzone 2” (2,200+)
• Swedish – Fictionman: “GODIS” (1,950+)
• Portuguese – MadeiraMan: “Só Música Pop!” (1,600+)
• Polish – nightrunnerPL : “MetallicA cz.2″ (1,470+)
• Finnish – Routamaa: Mitenkäs se biisi menikään 2 (1,450+)
• Danish – Morteno: “Klovn ‘Serie’” (1,100+)

So here’s to another quiz-filled year. Now for some celebratory cake *nom-nom-nom*

Cheers, Ian

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