Getting Ready to Match the Stars

[kevin_standlee]

Because of the way the Tonopah Convention Center is built, we can't have a stage masquerade. The stage (which is more of a cabaret stage from its days as the USO club) is accessible only by stairs. Building a ramp is impractical. There's no place we could have any sort of back stage/green room for the contestants. So that left us we a hole in Saturday night's schedule. Despite being rather overloaded with other Westercon tasks, Lisa and I agreed to host Match Game SF on the Main Stage from 7 to 9 PM. We wanted to be done by 9 because that's when the parties start and because the Main Hall is also Hospitality. It's a balancing act.

Anyway, this afternoon, I interrupted my work on the Westercon 74 Program Book and worked on setting up MGSF, which takes a few hours of sorting through prizes and questions. While we have a large enough stock of questions that we don't write too many new ones these days, I try to (mostly) avoid repeating questions that we used at our previous show. Those of you who have been to a lot of our shows will recognize the questions, though.

We have, among our panelists, Westercon 74 Guest of Honor Kevin Andrew Murphy, and I'm happy he agreed to participate.

As usual, we will select contestants randomly from the audience. Those who win the main game go on to play the Super Match for a chance to win prizes valued at up to $50. Everyone who is selected as a contestant will get some sort of prize, including the rare and exclusive-to-Match Game SF Lovely Parting Gift. So make your plans now for Westercon to be there from 7 PM to "match the stars" and win prizes!

Comments

[kshandra]

I had wondered if MGSF would make the cut! Happy to be an Emergency Holographic Panelist if you need one (though that seems less likely than it might be at another con), and will enter the draw for the contestant pool if you don't.

[garyomaha]

It's more fun than a ________ of monkeys!

Possible responses:
Astro van
Rolling Stone
Amtrak Viewliner