NTN Encore Question of March 3rd, 2007.
Played at Joe Mercury's in Toronto Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Sean METLCA, Rob COSMO, and Phil PLBAAB. The bar is filling up with people wanting to see the Ultimate Fighting PPV.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...2nd/8...METLCA wins round with 4000. ..........LITBOX...3500/5000...2nd/8. I went 1 for 4 in guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...8500/14000...1st/8...my two and PLBAAB win round. ..........LITBOX...8500/14000...1st/8. 5 right and 4 wrong was pretty bad. I haven't done this bad for quite awhile. I did get the Lil' Kim threw 'hair glue' among the variety of beauty parlour products listed to chuck at the attendant. JukeBox...ROCKET...12036/20000...1st/8...HEVY D wins round. ...........LITBOX...12052/20000...1st/8. My score was helped by getting the two 'O Canada' questions in this round. I think I only got one other for near top marks. Triviaoke...ROCKET...15801/28000...2nd/8...COSMO wins round. .........LITBOX...15804/28000...1st/8. I take three -250 in this round which was just worse than the last few weeks but not a surprise on this night with all the other rounds not going well for me.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Rockers. Well at least maybe I can salvage the P+ points. It's the first time I remember being UNDER their standard before the Encore question.
Encore Question:...'The Best That I Could Be' is the greatest hits collection from which all American rocker?:
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I mumble out Tom Petty but quickly tell everyone that it's John Mellencamp. I have to go back to thinking of whether I bought this CD or not. I knew I thought long about buying it at the old Future Shop in my neighbourhood as I had some of his individual albums but had to wait until I got home tonight to make sure I did eventually buy it. Well we had the answer with 25 seconds to go. If only the rest of the game had gone like that.
Correct Answer:....4. John Mellencamp
[NTN Extra Fact:...The 1997 compilation begins with the US Top 40 hit "I Need A Lover".]
I'm right and win as LITBOX with 23706. I finish 1896th in all North America. The bar is 358th in North America. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 20000 points.
(ntn.com moved our bar up to 29th out of 2113 bars with a 21994 average). It turned out to be tough game for most locations.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 15804 23706 1896 271 ROCKET 15801 23701 1898 272 METLCA 14993 22489 2312 342 COSMO 13890 20835 2878 494 PLBAAB 12826 19239 3423 637 HEVY D 10953 x 5476 ---- 4289 JEBUS 6236 x 3118 8934 6669 DRUID 2563 x 1282 9561 8908 (ntn.com listed 10592 players)
The subways were being rerouted because of track repairs so I was a bit later tonight even though I left to get here early. It acted like an omen.
Other games:...I'm visiting so I don't know what my Players Plus points are.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...0/15000...6th/6...500+ points...I'm 9999th in NA.
I was signing on just as the last question was asked so pressed an answer for 16 points without reading the question and got it wrong.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...9940/14000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 1532nd in NA...COSMO wins.
.............LITBOX...9973/14000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 1504th in NA...bar is 10th in NA with a 10160 average.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10608/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 886th in NA...bar is 108th in NA.
...............LITBOX...10656/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 845th in NA.
No Simpson's questions this week which is great.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13760/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 367th in NA.
..............LITBOX...13748/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 375th in NA...bar is 46th in NA...Phil had left before this game started.
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