Game Time Recap

Hah! This is another draft that I forgot to post!

Here's the continued recounting of events surrounding our TV game show experience, which began here.

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July 21, 2009

GAME DAY

• Kei and I leave early to pass by GMA to claim her wallet
• We arrive at GMA at 10am, as scheduled
• We were directed to the dzBB building across the street
• We wait for the contact person
• We meet him, and he takes us to another building where we wait again
  

• Susan Enriquez comes out of the building; she is interviewed by some college girls right there at the building's entrance
  

• The contact person comes out -- it IS Kei's wallet!

• We proceed to McDo at Q.Ave. to wait for Ma
• At the table next to us is Leo

• Ma arrives at 11am, as scheduled
• I order lunch
• We wait for Joe-e

• 12:45pm, and still no Joe-e
• Ma says we should wait outside
• Joe-e arrives at 1pm
• Quick! To the trike!

• We arrive at ABS-CBN
• Aldwin is already inside
• Again with the thermal scanning

• WE'RE IN!
• There's that familiar-looking guy again

• We all go to the dressing rooms
• We're given forms to fill up
• We strike up a conversation with some college students from Pampanga
• Aldwin's mom learns that taping starts at 5pm!
• We go out to eat
• There's that familiar-looking guy again
• He runs up to us, and introduces himself as Cholo from the Folding Water book launch! So that's where I saw him! That was just 2 weeks ago, and I already forgot!
• Turon!
• Joe-e buys bottled water for the college students from Pampanga
• We go back to the dressing rooms
  

• We all go to the studio, where the players for the 1st episode are already suited up
• The set is being tested
• All the reserves go up the stage for a briefing about the set
• The 1st episode begins!
• Yellow team, a team of middle-aged sisters, wasn't able to answer and wasn't eliminated and will return next episode
• After the Taranta Round, all reserve players were called to the dressing room, where the next set of players will be announced
• We hoped to be picked for the next episode, since the 3rd and last episode would end near midnight
• We weren't picked. Among those picked were Cholo's team, another team of UPD alumni, Lou's team and Leo's team
• Mmeal stubs were distributed and we ate dinner

• We go back to the studio to watch the 2nd episode
• Cholo's team gets eliminated in the Elimination Round
• Yellow team, a team of middle-aged sisters, wasn't able to answer and wasn't eliminated and will return next episode -- again! Also, Lou's Green team
• Leo's team gets eliminated in a Taranta Round tie-breaker

• We're called back to the dressing room to wait for the next selection of teams
• Reimbursements for transportation expenses!
• We heard that the UPD team, Violet, won
• Some players were joking around, asking whether anyone was willing to take on the UPD guys
• Announcement of selected teams: WE'RE IN!
• I was telling Aldwin and Joe-e that I hoped we be assigned Black team, so we'd have generic looking jackets we could take home
  
• This was around 9pm

• We suit up! We were assigned ORANGE

• Joe-e and Aldwin put me in the middle, so i'd be the one to answer
• We test the set
• One of Grey team's buzzers is broken, and they had to replace it, after taking too long to repair
• The waiting makes me nervous
  

• Episode starts!
• Thriller dance FAIL

• Eliminations!
• 3 teams already qualify, only 1 more team will be selected
  
• Joe-e and I bang against the metal barrier which dropped too late -- that hurt!
  
• Yellow team gets eliminated
• We're the 4th team to get in!
  

• More briefing
• Joe-e and Aldwin chose me to answer in case of a tie breaker

• Taranta Round starts
  
• Seat is not ergonomic, my back hurt when we were lowered
  
• The question is: Mindanao cities?? Bummer!
• I get picked to answer first!
• Water in the face (and glasses) sucks! Couldn't read the choices for around 2 seconds
• "Digos!"
• Violet team makes a mistake: Jolo is not a city!
• Joe-e and Aldwin answer correctly -- WE'RE IN!
• Lou's Green team gets in as well

• We were given towels to dry ourselves, and they powder us up a bit
  
• We get on the thingies, and we test sensors -- I don't really get when and why swipes don't register somehow.. I decided to bend my knees a bit when I swipe
  

• Diskarte Round starts!
• Joe-e answers first
• I make the 1st mistake! Sucks!
  
• Lou gets the 10K! *gasp*
  
• I send Lou Back To Base!
• Lou passes question to Aldwin, who has yet to answer -- Aldwin knew the answer! Q: US president during Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 -- A: JFK
• Joe-e passes question to Ayean, Q: which philippines peso bill has "Saligang Batas" -- Ayean answers P100, which is wrong! A: P20
• Joe-e makes Aldwin advance
• Joe-e and I are maxed!
• Lou makes a big mistake -- he didn't send either of us Back To Base!
• Joe freezes Lou, and maxes Aldwin
• WE WIN!

• Break, then briefing about next round
  
• Companions and reserve players are sent out of studio

• We play a mock Jackpot Round -- I sucked! I didn't say "Sure na!", I didn't put my hand back to my chest

• The real Jackpot Round starts!
  
• Aldwin is quick on "Mine!", gets first 3 questions!
• We pass on the 4th
• I answer the next question, an NBA question
  
• Jjoe-e answers the next question, on fashion
  
• We bonk the last question: Aling laruan ang inimbento ng isang karpintero sa Denmark noong 1932?
• We answered train, despite knowing it was wrong.. We just knew that we were running out of time
• Joe-e immediately turns to me and asks: wasn't it Lego?
  
• Edu reveals that last question first: the answer is Lego!

• WIIIIIN!!!

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Maaan! Remembering it now still makes my heart beat a little faster!