Encore Question of April 24th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Abraxas
  2. Fiction Plane
  3. Spacehog
  4. Familiar 48
  5. Something Corporate

Tonight I'm playing with two boards, ROCKET and LITBOX with Bill MADDOG however we're not playing Playback. Nick IAMINU warned me about the bar's satellite problems. The NTN system has supposedly been frozen all week. No bar or player rankings are given again this week. That was disappointing but the 9:00pm to 10:00pm slot gave us two Wipeout games instead. I only found out two weeks ago that Canadian bars were the only place that still earn -250 for a wrong answer in this game. Of course with our boards not reporting out it doesn't matter how other bars are doing.

I wondered how 10139 would score if I scored double that and then was wrong for the Encore question.

Encore Question:...Joe Sumner, son of Sting, is the frontman for the band called:

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I wouldn't have known this and would have only been able to throw out '3' then guess '1' or '2' because I've heard of these bands (confusing Fiction Plane with Fiction Factory) but can't remember anything about them. Maybe it's good I didn't get to play however I would have had at least six of nine in OnBeat including knowing the singer of The Darkness whose album I was playing on my walk down here tonight.

Correct Answer:....2. Fiction Plane

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,997,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 807,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...4386/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...IAMINU wins.
...........LITBOX...4373/15000...4th/5...1000+ points...I'm here in time for the last five or six questions and realize they are the same as last week.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...13650/15000...1st/6...1000+ points.
..........LITBOX...13620/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10081/15000...3rd/5...2000+ points.
..............LITBOX...10097/15000...2nd/5...2000+ points...MADDOG wins.
It's not a RetroTV Countdown though. With the system being frozen, I don't earn any Player's Plus points during the week for not being here so I'm able to watch myself pass 3 million for ROCKET and notice my "+ sign" turn from purple to blue.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...9140/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...MADDOG wins.
...........LITBOX...8987/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I took about four -250s in this game.
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...10139/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points.
...........LITBOX...10148/15000...1st/7...1000+ points.
I leave earlier than usual tonight.

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