Encore Question of April 6th, 2002.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Nelly Furtado
  2. Mandy Moore
  3. Macy Gray
  4. Fiona Apple
  5. Dido

Tonight I'm playing with a group of four, Doug CRANKY, Bill OH YA, and behind us Bill MADDOG, and Marlo ZIGGY. I'm playing two boards since just past 8:30pm. A big game of 19 boards was being played for Playback.

  
My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp....ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/19...in seven way tie.
..........LITBOX...5000/5000.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11750/14000...4th/19...METLCA wins round and is in lead. 
.........LITBOX...11750/14000...4th/19...7 right, 1 wrong, 1 not answered that I should 
have had.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17547/20000...3rd/19.
..........LITBOX...17538/20000...4th/19...ROCKET wins round.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...21056/28000...4th/19.
............LITBOX...21049/28000...5th/19...MADDOG wins round. I was upset that 
I switched on the last question at the last moment for a lesser known BareNaked 
Ladies song that I own but took -250. 

Well despite being behind during the game I was scoring well on the questions until the Triviaoke round. My comments when the answers appeared for this recap are repeated after the question because I blurt out the answer.

Encore Question:...What artist made her album debut in 1999 with "No Angel"?

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The answers come up and I can tell this is going to be something about a new artist. I bookmark Fiona Apple and Mandy Moore but don't have enough time for Dido although I say "Dido would be in (my book) as 'No Angel'". And there's the question! Ok we've got this and really got this. Dido Armstrong shares a surname with one of our players. The ad on the back of Toronto's free entertainment newspapers for the Future Shop has this album on sale this week at $9.99. I signal Rob/Sean/LeeAnn with their four boards but they're waving back. (If there's a tournament, we've got to pair up as we dueled back and forth with each other's misses). I don't think this question is going to move our bar up any places this week. I wonder if that survey NTN asked a few weeks ago softened up their Encore. A year ago they would have asked what Dido's last name was like they did with Jewel.

Correct Answer:...5. Dido

[NTN Extra Fact:...The album contains the popular single 'Thank You' which was sampled by Eminem].

I'm right and stay in 4th and 5th place as both our teams controlling the top ten boards get it right. I finish 313th and 317th. The bar finishes 9th in North America with a 32229 average. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points on both boards for meeting this week's standard of 18000. Rob COSMO wins and is 10th on the Network Top 20. Now that it appears that our bar is back on the NTN board our score should stay in their Monday recap.

Here's how the rest of the bar did:
Player 	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn Top 100 rank (restricted to 5 per bar)
COSMO	23031		34547	  10	28	10th on Network Top 20
COSMET	21223		31835	 236	61
OH YA	21072		31608	 306	67
ROCKET	21056		31584	 313	68
LITBOX	21049		31573	 317	69
METLCA	20891		31337	 389
MADDOG	19394		29091	1078
CAPER	18960		28440	1278
CRANKY	18644		27966	1423
ZIGGY	18541		27811	1471
FAT MO	14147	X	12732	6095
GIFF	11954	X	10759	6700
DOPEY	11666	X	10499	6780
MAGOO	 9636		14454	5567
CHERRY	 8607		11189	6568
SHETAT	 7653	X	 3827	8826
MAXXX	 6610		 7271	7770
REZA	 2162		 2592	9204

Other games:...I start the evening with 1925300 Players Plus points for ROCKET (which is more than 200000 points more than when I left last week) and 207500 for LITBOX (50% more than last week). My friends also noticed differences in their accumulated points totals.
8:00pm...Countdown...11455/15000...2nd/12...1000+ points...I'm 671st in NA...bar is 11th in North America with an 11427 average...METLCA wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11453/15000...1st/10...2000+ points...I'm 61st.
grabbing a second board...LITBOX...11436/15000...2nd/10...2000+ points...bar is 16th in North America with a 10735 average...NTN starts the game with another survey with the only important question of if we like the OnBeat style of presentation, there was no alternative of getting rid of it.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...9727/15000...3rd/12...1000+ points...I'm 1314th in NA...bar is 14th in North America with a 10070 average...METLCA wins.
................LITBOX...9727/15000...3rd/12...1000+ points...I'm 1314th in NA...one of my boards was 3 points behind until the last question.
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...13196/15000...1st/15...1000+ points...I'm 17th in NA...bar is 5th in North America with a 12288 average.
..............................LITBOX...13190/15000...2nd/15...1000+ points...I'm 18th in NA...a real team game as I must have been helped by 3000 points on things I didn't know.

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