Encore Question of December 18th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Dave Matthews
  2. Lenny Kravitz
  3. Seal
  4. Michael Bolton
  5. Elton John

Tonight I'm playing alone with three boards, ROCKET and LITBOX and non P+ TCROAT (named for the CPSL team Toronto Croatia). Mark MARKEE and Doug HEX were here earlier in the evening but they'd left before this music game.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my three boards win round.  
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5.
..........TCROAT...4500/5000...1st/5.
I didn't have to guess anything until the last question as everything I knew or could eliminate the
wrong answer.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/5...my three win round.
..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/5.
..........TCROAT...11500/14000...1st/5.
I score 7 right and 2 wrong which was OK.
JukeBox...ROCKET...14057/20000...1st/5...ROCKET wins round. 
...........LITBOX...14038/20000...2nd/5.
...........TCROAT...13874/20000...3rd/5.
Didn't even get to play this whole round.  The staff suddenly thought they'd play some music through the sound 
system and it cut the satellite signal.  I knew it was off too long so when I got them (all temps) to do something 
about it, NTN was into the second question.  Got the two 'The 1960s' questions in to help recover. This however 
chased my competition away so it was really only my three boards playing after this although someone signed
on later.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...21692/28000...1st/4...ROCKET wins round.
.........LITBOX...21634/28000...2nd/4.
..........TCROAT...21134/28000...3rd/4.
No -250s and every answer in for at least 500 points was the best I've done in this round for a long time.

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Now the Encore answers come up. Hmm. Men of the 1990s?

Encore Question:...He sings about love's healing powers on "Love's Devine":

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I don't know this. Sounds like a good Seal song so I put that in. Can maybe only rule out Elton John but I'm not even sure about that. I get this feeling it might be Lenny Kravitz and imagine him singing that phrase. With ten seconds to go I switch all my boards to '2'. And...

Correct Answer:....3. Seal

[NTN Extra Fact:..."Love is what I need to help me know my name" he sings on the track from Seal IV.]

Hmm. It's from his newest album. I haven't heard that song before so it's not like I forgot it. I wouldn't be as upset if I hadn't switched away from the right answer with seconds to go! Not getting to play the full JukeBox round ensured I wouldn't have got into the Top 20 anyway.

I'm wrong and win as ROCKET with 10846. I finish 1929th in North America. The bar finishes 2009th in North America with a 6757 average. I earn only 1500 Players Plus points for missing this week's standard of 16000. That's 9th on our Hall of Fame scoreboard out of the nine times they've played this game on the new Playmakers. [ntn.com moved us up to 668th out of 1831 bars.]

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	21692	x	10846	1929	2075
LITBOX	21634	x	10817	1950	2081
TCROAT	21134	x	10567	2136	2129
NETBUG	 3113	x	 1557	8841	6740
[ntn.com listed 7975 players]

Well my correct Encore streak ends at 13. I'll have to start all over again in the new year. I realize I won't be here next Saturday (Christmas Day) and the Saturday after that (New Years Day). Maybe New Years Eve I'll be here. I can use the break.

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,108,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 916,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3193/15000 (time for five questions)...6th/6...1000+ points...I'm 6744th in NA.
..............LITBOX...3213/15000 (time for five questions)...5th/6...1000+ points...I'm 6723 in NA... bar is 1430th...MARKEE wins.
lucky it was a low point standard for full P+ score.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9130/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 153rd in NA...bar is 721st.
..............LITBOX...9208/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 148th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...10388/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 1024th in NA.
..............LITBOX...10467/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 956th in NA...bar is 467th.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11353/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 221st in NA.
............LITBOX...11411/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 218th in NA...bar is 1667th.

If someone on the Playback message board posts the Encore question, I'll cut and paste it in my pages here. I'll be spending my music time making a Boxing Day shopping list for any CDs I'm interested in.

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