Encore Question of December 15th, 2001.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with Doug CRANKY, Marla ZIGGY, and Bill MADDOG. I'm in 2nd and 3rd place with two boards going for this game as until Marla and Bill got here at 9:30pm we didn't have enough people to earn a bar score.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp....5000/5000...1st/8...ROCKET, LITBOX, METLCA and COSMO co- win round with 5000. OnBeat...10500/14000...1st/8...I win this round with my two boards...six right, two wrong, and one not answered. JukeBox...ROCKET...15505/20000...2nd/9...MADDOG wins round. ..........LITBOX...15639/20000...1st/9. Triviaoke...ROCKET...18316/28000...3rd/9...COSMO wins round and takes lead. .............LITBOX...18450/28000...2nd/9.
Disappointing Triviaoke round that I can't meet 20000 before the Encore question but no time to think about that now. Another question about Country singers for three weeks in a row? Only Garth Brooks I know well so I bookmark Vince Gill and Sammy Kershaw whereas the other two I haven't heard about.
Encore Question:...The song "No Doubt About It" gave this artist his first #1 Country hit.
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I've got no idea except I know it's not Garth Brooks. Can't find the song under Vince Gill nor Sammy Kershaw. Now time to look up one more name but I better answer something before I look up anything else. Well I've got two boards, why not split them? OK now enough time to look up Neal McCoy but I can't find him [actually it turned out all five artists were listed] and say to Doug that he's too new (post 1996) but don't change my answers.
Correct Answer:...2. Neal McCoy
NTN Extra Fact:...The song displaced Vince Gill's "Trying To Get Over You".
I end up winning with my ROCKET board. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's 15000 point standard. There is no ranking for our bar except it would be a long way from the Top 20 and the individual ranking are unbelievable. My LITBOX board falls to 5th and I only earn 1500+ for it.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank COSMO 19833 x 9917 106 LITBOX 18450 x 9225 110 ROCKET 18316 27474 21 CRANKY 17103 x 8551 113 METLCA 16283 24425 36 MADDOG 16079 x 8039 115 ZIGGY 15606 23409 41 HIPPO 8027 x 4013 135 HOTTIE 84 x 59 154
I had earned a few Player Plus points earlier in the week as I was here for a Regular's Christmas party on Monday. 4500+ more for ROCKET and 2000+ for LITBOX before the board died out. I didn't like the one hour Sports game as the questions were too difficult and the board didn't seem to let me change my answers. New Year's Eve is on a Monday but I'll to arrive well after that game is over.
Other games:...I start the evening with 1566300 as ROCKET and 89000 as LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...1644/15000...5th/5...I earn 500+ points...I'm 104th in NA...no bar rank given which was nothing but American scores...I'm here in time for the last two questions...METLCA wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...8483/15000...4th/4...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 3245th in NA...bar rank not given...didn't write down if COSMO or METLCA won.
8:30pm...Countdown...11491/15000...1st/4...I earn 2000+ points...I'm 153rd in NA...bar is 777th in North America...a fifth board would have helped our ranking.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET 12159/15000...2nd/5...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 717th in NA.
.........................LITBOX 12172/15000...1st/5...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 708th in NA...no bar ranking.
For the first time in four weeks, I earn the full 1000+ points by meeting the standard for the 9:00pm Wipeout game (this week 9000).
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...9821/15000...3rd/7...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 1820th in NA...CRANKY wins.
..................LITBOX...9821/15000...3rd/7...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 1820th in NA...bar is 214th in NA.
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