Tone Deaf Challenge

Simple enough this week… leave your team name here for 5 bonus points. That is all!

Have fun this week and don’t give Brian too hard of a time.

Come out and see Josh for the last time before he moves away for his new job.  The bonus rounds for the night are all bands that Josh likes (or at least I think he likes).  Trust me, it can be ANYTHING!  Basically, I have seen his iPod and picked artists from it.  I’ve already picked the songs and they’re pretty good.

Send me a text to (TDC) 510-TONE with your team name to let me know you’ll be there and you will get 5 points.

See you Wednesday!

Here’s what I’m going to do now.

Each week, you need to do your best to remember the game.  I’ll ask you a question about it the following Monday.  By getting that question right and putting the answer in the ENTER PASSWORDS page, I’ll tell you a clue as to which number you need to stay away from in the Radio Roulette round.

This will give a distinct advantage without giving bonus points away.  That’ll make the game look more fair for the teams that don’t know about the website while still giving you guys a bit of an advantage.  So instead of giving you guys bonus points, I’ll just save you from hitting the -10 landmine.

Your question for the week:

What was the final song of the game?

Go to the ENTER PASSWORDS page and enter your answer in ALL CAPS.

You know how much I like to change things up.  This week brings another change to the end of the game and a change to the way we award the song swapper chip.

First, let me tell you about the new end game.  I’m changing it because it seems like all we are doing is raising our hands instantly.  The new game is called ‘Risk It All’ and follows the same thinking as Final Jeopardy.

Our top 3 teams make it into this round.  Here’s how it’ll work (tentatively). Each team will send one member up. They will get a category and can wager up to 50 points. If they get it right, the points are added to their score. If they don’t, they’re subtracted. Then, a different player comes up for song 2.  For the 2nd song, you can wager up to 100 points.  Finally, a 3rd player will come up for the final song.  You can risk it all on the final song.  The team with the most points will be the winner.

This may need tweaking. I’ll do that if necessary.

As for the song swapper, it is now only for one team per night.  It will be randomly placed behind a TV theme number.  The chip can be used for any decade or radio roulette.

Let’s see how these changes work.

What are your thoughts?

I’ve just updated the scores for Season 9 and wow is it close.  Here’s how tonight is going to work to make it fair…

The top team tonight will get an automatic bye into the Final FaceOff.  They’ll get their base time of 1 minute plus whatever they have banked for the season.  For example: Trock, who is in the lead right now, would get 60 seconds + their banked 24.5 seconds (rounded to 25 because my countdown software doesn’t do half seconds).  They would get 1:25 on their clock.

Then, the top 2 remaining teams on the season standings will battle for the second spot in the Final FaceOff.  They will get their base time of 55 seconds + their banked time from the season.

This gives any teams who show up tonight a chance to win but they will be at a serious disadvantage because they haven’t banked any time for the season.

The team who wins the Final FaceOff will be Season 9 Champions!

If this doesn’t make sense, ask me!

On a side note… the lightning round category tonight is a hit.  I bat you’ll like it.

One more note… the lyrics in the radio roulette round are gone and replaced with questions with multiple answers.  Each answer will be worth 5 points.

Here’s a quick little blurb with tonight’s category:

LAS VEGAS!

We’ll see you tonight.

Let’s make this simple.

Leave your team name and you’ll get 10 bonus points for the game on Wednesday night.  Just make sure you’re there by 8:00 PM to get the bonus.

You might have noticed the blogroll on the right side of the screen.  It has something called WorkTime in it right now.  The reason for this is because I’ve struck a deal with a company to provide the timer that we use for the FaceOff for free.

In exchange, I’ve agreed to put their link up on the site.

So, if you get a second, check it out.

The program, WorkTime, keeps track of the time you spend on the computer.  If you have a home-office or business, you can use WorkTime to track time you spend working on the projects, bill clients for the job, provide exact reports about your work, track applications and documents you work on, and add notes about your work.  If you have a company, WorkTime is a good product for you, too.

When you get a spare second, head over to Nestersoft.com and see if there’s anything you can use.  Please support the companies that support the Tone Deaf Challenge!

Okay.  So, it’s been a rough week around here.  I had a death in the family and really wanted to get to this sooner.  I didn’t.

Either way, they were done.  I finished the scores a week ago, but ran out of time to put them online.

After a long wait, here they are…

1st Place: 3 Seconds
2nd Place: 2.5 Seconds
3rd Place: 2 Seconds
All Other Finishers: 1 Second

Season 8 Scores

Now, here’s how the finale is going to work…

It’s called ‘The Face Off.’

The 4 teams with the most accrued time will face off in a single-elimination tournament.  1 plays 4.  2 plays 3.  The winners will play each other.

Each team will have their accrued time plus 30 seconds placed on their clock. (ex: Don’t Stop Me Now would have 1:02 on the clock as of right now.)  They will also have 3 of their players.

We’ll alternate songs between teams starting with the lower seed.  Once we hear the song start playing, the clock for that team will start.  Once they give me a title, it will stop.  Play will pass to the other team and another song will play.  Their clock will start.

We’ll repeat the process until one team’s clock hits zero.  They are out.

In the event that a team doesn’t know a song, there will be a 15-second time limit.  Once 15 seconds have expired, we’ll move on to the next song and team.

There’s also one pass allowed per team (per round).  This will pass the current song to the other team.  They can, if they have a pass left, pass it right back.  The 15-second time limit starts at the point of the pass or pass back.

The winning team from the 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 rounds will bank their time for the final championship round.  That time will also get a 30 second pad.

One side note: The songs have all been played in the game before.  There are 100 total songs from different decades and they have been randomly shuffled by my music program.

Make sense?  God, I hope so.  Ha.

I’ll see everyone tonight.  I’m looking forward to it.

Since it’s the last Tone Deaf Challenge of the decade, I’ve found a website the lists the top songs of the decade.  From that list, I’ve taken 5 songs out of the top 50.  Those are your lightning rounds for tonight.

I’ll miss you all again this week, but can’t wait for next week’s game!

Have a happy and safe new year!