Tone Deaf Challenge

Each team who signs up ahead of time gets a 5 point bonus for the game tonight.  Because we have a guest host, you must sign up here by 7:30 PM!  No exceptions.

Leave your team name for the 5 point bonus.

Remember, British Invasion is the category again.

Hey guys… I don’t always do this, but I figured I would today.

The bonus round category for this AND next week will be British Invasion.  I’m gonna warn you, though… there are a lot more British bands other than The Beatles.  Bonus rounds aren’t meant to be easy all the time, either.

I’ll see you tonight!

Hey guys… Here’s the RSVP thread.  Leave your team name and show up for 10 bonus points!

The bonus round category is Warped Tour bands.

See you there.

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We’re also going to introduce a new space onto the Radio Roulette board.  It’s called ‘Let It Ride.’  It’ll work like this.  If you land on the space, you get to pick the decade.  If you get your title and artist right, you’ll get 25 points.  You can keep it or ‘let it ride’ and go for another song.  The next song will be from a decade picked by the team ahead of you (team on deck).  If you ‘let it ride,’ you’ll play for 35 points.  You can do that one more time with a song from the decade picked by the team ahead of them (team in the hole).  Get all 3 songs (title and artist) and you get 45 points.  If you choose to let it ride and you miss title or artist, you get no points.

We’ll try it and see how it goes.  If we like it, great.  If not, we can tweak it.  This idea comes from Jeremy.  Thanks, Jer!

Last bit of news is that the bridge IS NOT CLOSED as we mentioned it would be.  They postponed the construction to next week.  No need to detour this week.

5 points are yours if you leave your comment with your team name.  If your team has 10 or more players, you’ll get an extra 10 points.  We’re getting down to the nitty gritty, people.  This is week #10.  That means next week is the Championship!

Remember, we’re starting at normal time… around 8:30 PM or so.

The category will be song covers.  I’ll play the cover version of the song and you have to give me the title and original artist for the points. (At least I think that’s what I’m gonna do!)

This is new… We’re going to be doing one word titles and artists for the Lightning Round category this week.  So, I’ve scrambled up a title and artist (and added 3 extra letters).  Your job is to figure it out.

Put the artist before the title in all caps on the Enter Passwords page. — FIXED — Artist first, then title, no spaces, all caps. My bad!

E D V N A G M A O U C P Y O N

Remember, there are 3 extra letters in there.  Good luck.

Oh, and don’t forget… Glee is on tomorrow night at 9:28 (?) on Fox.  Great show.

Last bit of news… the Pens are on Wednesday night.  That means we’ll be delayed.  We had teams struggling to find tables last year during the playoffs.  I’m not sure if that’ll be the case this year or not (probably not).  I just wanted to give you the heads-up.

I’m going to keep tonight’s category a secret until we get there so that people aren’t researching anything.  It’s gonna be pretty easy, though.

Also, I’m bringing back the Lyrics Pyramid since it had a good response last week.

Remember, there’s no Penguins game so we’ll start at our normal time.

That is all.

Lightning Round Image for Tonight

This week, we’re trying something different for the lightning rounds.  There’s no category, per se.  We’re going to play the lightning rounds on the TV screen.

I’m going to show you a morphed or distorted album cover (not anal bumcover) and your job is to guess the artist for 10 points.  If nobody gets it, I’ll slowly un-distort it until somebody gets it right.  If you’re right, you’ll get the chance to name 3 songs from that album.  For each song you name, you’ll get an extra 5 points.  So, just like normal, there are 25 points up for grabs for these.

Once somebody names the artist, the steal opportunity is over.

Take a look to the left for a peek at just one of the albums from tonight’s game.

By the way, we’ll start after the Penguins game!

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

LAS VEGAS!

We’ll see you tonight.

Alright.  It’s time to give away the song swapper chip again.  Because this week is a reverse week, I’ve reversed a song.

Click ‘ENTER PASSWORDS’ at the top of the page and type the name of the song you’re about to hear in all caps and without spaces.

Just click into the post for the song!

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