As this clairvoyant intern predicted, the YELLOW TEAM emerged victorious from last night's Game Show Mania by at least 2,000 points. All teams demonstrated fantastic amounts of enthusiasm and knowledge of pop culture, but the yellow team's early lead was too much for red, blue, and green to keep up with. Nevertheless, everyone had an awesome time cheering on their teammates and participating in the game, which included everything from fill-in-the-blank questions to song identifications to dance-offs to an extremely short-lived hula hoop contest.
Despite being excellent supervisors, the RAs all seem to lack hula-hooping skills.
Two RAs on each team served as team captains and began the first round, playing at first for 100-point questions and then moving on to 200-point questions that contestants answered for the rest of the night. At the start, red team captains Krystal Robinson and John Fredeking gained a slight advantage for the red team, but that was soon overcome in the second round by a quick-wristed yellow team, who dominated the buzzer throughout most of the night.
RAs represented their teams proudly at the start of the game show.But the yellow team was not just in it to win it. Demonstrating creativity and spirit, the team marched into the theater carrying a sign emblazoned with "575 nm" - the wavelength of yellow light. Meanwhile, the red team won an interactive dance competition in which all teams had to compete to see who could dance the YMCA the best.
However, the road to victory was not all smiles and puppies for team yellow. During an interactive pictionary challenge, groups had to choose two artists and two guessers to go on stage. Each team had two words to portray, and they had to guess in 60 seconds or less; their two scores were added up to determine a final score. Although the yellow team started out fine, their second artist slipped up, using letters to portray the word "size," causing the judges to add 30 seconds to their score and effectively eliminating them from competition. The winning group, the Green Team, completed their two challenges in only 16 seconds!
Another challenge!
At the end of the game show, the lightning round again served as an opportunity for the yellow team to show its prowess when 500-point song identification questions were at stake. Still, everyone got the chance to dance! Everyone also got the chance to celebrate; at the end of the night, all teams were excited to receive their prize.
The yellow team celebrates its victory.
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