Get Ready to Match the Stars... Again!

[kevin_standlee]

According to discussions I had at BASFA tonight, and subject to being able to work out the staging and technical aspects, we appear to be booked to do Match Game SF at BayCon as the Masquerade Half-Time show. This may turn out to be the most challenging venue in which we've ever done the show, on account of having to quickly turn the stage after the end of the run-through without losing the audience and then get the game going. And there are plenty of details, like getting people's names into the drawing to be contestants.

My biggest concern right now is getting new questions. We've run through the deck too many times, so the show is stale if we re-use many questions. I'm okay for tie-breaker and bonus-round matches -- we have lots of them -- but main game questions are all used up.

I would expect to be able to play at most four games during the time we have allowed (and I suppose we could to a "rerun" by using old questions if we somehow needed to fill time), so we need sixteen new questions. I could use you folks' help. Either send them to me in e-mail or as comments here.

Comments

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

2 ideas

First, put a mike in the hands of someone who can "carny-bark" the room -- talking, getting them excited about the show, getting them involved. If I'm there, I'd do it in a heartbeat -- but I bet you can find someone who can handle it better (Roche comes to mind :>). That keeps the audience there while you're setting up.

Second, use carny tickets -- 2 parters with matching numbers. Either pass them out as people come into the masque (unless they're doing that for a people's choice awards) or have 3 or 4 gophers run 'em down aisles as your "mike guy/gal" is doing his/her thing on the room. Have your "mike guy/gal" tell 'em to write their names on 'em and pass collection baskets (protestant style) back to the center aisle where a couple of gophers can be collecting them.

It's a start anyway :>

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

You're quite right about that need; in a mundane game show, it's the person who "warms up" the audience. This would be happening while they load the room where the Masquerade will be happening.

Alas, while Kevin Roche would be very good at doing this, and Kevin and Andy together are both great panelists, they're both going to be busy running the Masquerade which makes them unavailable as panelists.

Chris Garcia, on the other hand,... Hmm.