Encore Question of September 20th, 2003.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Face Value
  2. Hello, I Must Be Going!
  3. No Jacket Required
  4. ...But Seriously
  5. Both Sides

Tonight I'm playing with my two boards. Richard BERGIE and Bill MADDOG (for the first time in months) are at the bar with me although we are only controlling four boards. I'm having one of my best games ever with over 25000 before the Encore round.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/9...my two boards co-win with BERGIE and MADDOG.  
...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/9...Tenth question asks us for a song by Cameo and I just happen to have their 
greatest hits in my walkman.
OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...2nd/8...MADDOG wins round and has lead with 13000. 
..........LITBOX...12000/14000...2nd/8...7 right, 2 wrong...and thanks to Bill for telling us who was 2nd on a poll of the
greatest rock guitarists.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17206/20000...2nd/8...MADDOG wins round and holds lead with 18209.
...........LITBOX...17206/20000...2nd/8.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...25153/28000...1st/5...my two boards win round and take lead.
...........LITBOX...25153/28000...1st/5...no -250s this round for the first time I can remember.

Now the Encore answers come up. OK, so they're all Phil Collins albums.

Encore Question:...Phil Collins shrugs "I Don't Care Anymore" on _______________.

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Like I mentioned when they asked a REM song/album Encore months ago, I'm not good at matching songs with the albums they appeared on. With REM since I didn't own their albums it wasn't so bad but over the years I've bought all these Phil Collins albums on cassette tape or CD. Confusing things even more is I was just playing his CD "Hits" with his sixteen greatest hits not in particular order. [At home it turns out this song wasn't on that compilation as it only made #39 on the charts]. I don't know the answer but I know the tune. Richard says "Face Value". That was Collins first solo, I didn't realize that the five answers were all chronologically listed. "No Jacket Required" was where he had the most hits from but Richard said "It's not 'No Jacket Required'" so I switched to his choice. Bill said later he would have guessed '2'.

Correct Answer:....2. Hello, I Must Be Going!

[NTN Extra Fact:...The 2982 album also features "You Can't Hurry Love". ]

The one board we aren't running, RELIC, wins with 27625, controlled by two men behind us at a table. They probably got some answers from us being as we can be quite loud. I'm wrong and watch my synchronized scores fall to 12577 and tie myself for 2nd. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points by not meeting this week's standard of 19000. I'm ranked 6185th in North America. The bar is 939th. [ntn.com moved us up to 56th of 1872 bars.]

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank	
ROCKET	25153	x	12577	6185	 878
LITBOX	25153	x	12577	6185	 879
MADDOG	24744	x	12372	6247	 921
BERGIE	22957	x	11479	6518	1133
RELIC	18417		27625	1620	 162
ntn.com listed 8851 players

Other games:...I start the evening with 2,698,000 for ROCKET and 528,000 for LITBOX.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12436/15000...2nd/12...1000+ points...I'm 902nd in NA...bar is 94th.
...............LITBOX...12463/15000...1st/12...1000+ points...I'm 883rd in NA...I'm here in time for the last 14 questions.
8:30pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...14787/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 4th in Canada and Florida on the Network Top 20.
..............LITBOX...14787/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 4th in Canada and Florida...bar is 6th in Canada and Florida with a 13415 average...BERGIE also has a Top 10 overall finish. This was not a repeat game but our teamwork was great!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
Now my concentration went downhill as a tape delay broadcast of the Women's World Cup (soccer) match began between Canada and Germany. I didn't know the score except that Canada would take a 1-0 lead at the 3 minute mark. The game was on live on the west coast on Sportsnet but the east was blacked out for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball game. I should have been able to see this at home live but a raccoon had knocked off a chimney pot from our roof and it must have deflected off our satellite dish knocking its aim so it doesn't work. Early this week we're supposed to have it repaired.
I am wearing my Toronto Inferno t-shirt tonight and have a team picture of them I took at their opening home game this year. Diana Matheson of the Inferno plays midfield on the National team.
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8750/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 3749th in NA...bar is 1373rd.
............LITBOX...8750/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 3749th in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8619/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 2303rd in NA...bar is 737th.
............LITBOX...8628/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 2295th in NA.
11:00pm...RetroTV Wipeout...ROCKET...9727/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 1614th in NA...bar is 823rd.
............LITBOX...9703/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 1634th in NA.
11:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...9954/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 1702nd in NA...bar is 1457th.
..................LITBOX...9957/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 1700th in NA.
Staying that extra hour covered the points I lost for missing the Playback standard but I was miserable as the Canadians lost the game 4-1.

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