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

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I thought maybe numbered raffle tickets, a la a door prize drawing, might be fast enough to work, especially if we have multiple people circulating through the audience. We _don't_ want something that slows load-in. But you're right that a way of randomly segregating the audience would work. And for that matter, pre-recruiting contestants is a pretty good idea, too, if we advertise in the newsletter from the start and then tell protential contestants to be at a certain place and time pre-show in order to make selection. We only need a maximum of eight contestants, after all, and if by some ill chance we have fewer than that, we can have "winner continues," which would reduce the number of contestants needed to five.

Thank you!