Brawl 10: Pointless

[xofelf]

{ROUND 10: BRAWL}

Pointless

You know what we really need more of in this game? Game shows. We really need so much more of them, and thankfully Mish Mash has run a fair few to choose from! Pointless was even part of the game show marathon(RIP). If you're really good at knowing the stuff no one knows or cares about, this is the game for you!

Welcome to the syndicated version of Pointless, the quiz show where the popular answers mean nothing and the obscure answers mean everything.
For each questions, the BBC polled 100 people and gave them each 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as possible for each subject. Find out what they didn't know, and you'll end up victorious!

For the first two rounds, teams will answer separately, but you will be able to come up with an answer together in Round III and the Final.

All answers must be thought of by yourself; this isn't a test of how well you can Google answers.

Round I

A category for the question will be revealed and teams will choose who will give an answer for the first pass. The other member will give an answer for the second pass.
The question will then be revealed (see Question Formats, below). Starting with the player in Position #1, they give an answer and it is scored (see Scoring, below). This repeats down the line until the player in Position #2 gives their answer.
After that, the other players in each team will get a chance to answer in reverse order, starting with the player in Position #2 and ending with the player in Position #1.
The team will the lowest cumulative score through Round I will receive a point.

Round II

A category for the question will be revealed and teams will choose who will give an answer for the first pass. The other member will give an answer for the second pass.
The question will then be revealed (see Question Formats, below). Starting with the player in Position #1, they give an answer and it is scored (see Scoring, below). This repeats down the line until the player in Position #2 gives their answer.
After that, the other players in each team will get a chance to answer in reverse order, starting with the player in Position #2 and ending with the player in Position #1.
The team will the lowest cumulative score through Round II will receive a point.

Round III

The two teams now go head-to-head for the Pointless trophy and the chance to try to win the Jackpot. Team members can confer with each other before giving their answers in this round.
The team with the lowest combined score during Rounds I and II gets to go first and gives an answer for the first question. The other team then gives an answer. If it is a Clues and Answers question and they believe the first team answered incorrectly, they can give another answer to the same clue.
Once both answers are given, the scores for those answers will be revealed. The team that got the lowest score receives one point.
The team that gets to answer first then changes to the other team and the next question is asked. The first team to score three points (factoring in the points given during Rounds I & II) wins the game, and the losers are eliminated from Clash of the Mash.

Question Formats

There are three possible formats of questions in Rounds I-III.

• Original Format
  : The questions will have been posed to 100 people by the BBC. Each person polled had 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as they could. Each player will choose an answer, with no prompts or possible choices given.
• Possible Answers
  : The question will have been posed to 100 people by the BBC. Each person polled had 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as they could. A number of possible answers are given on each pass (7 in Round I, 6 in Round II and 5 in Round III), and each player will choose one of those answers. On each pass, at least one answer is incorrect.
• Clues and Answers
  : The question is a two-part subject. A number of items for the first part of the subject will be listed for each pass (7 in Round I, 6 in Round II and 5 in Round III), and each player will choose one and give the corresponding other half of the answer.

Scoring

After an answer is given, the answer will be scored. If the answer is incorrect, it scores the maximum of

100 points

.
If the answer is correct, a number of points will be given equal to the number of people polled who also gave that answer.
If a correct answer is given that nobody polled came up with—a Pointless answer—

0 points

will be given.
If the two teams are tied at the end of Round I or Round II, each team will give an additional answer until the tie is resolved. If scores are tied in Round III, nobody gets the point and another question is given.

A dice roll will determine which pair goes first. Five minutes will then be given for every answer.

[xofelf]

Klick and racefan, please pick which pair you would like to go against. You may not pick Ani and piggy. You may pick from:

• Cephrir and Radja
  Xalxe and Shadoweh
  Red Coyote and Zoraster
  Save the Dragons and Haschel Cedricson
  pablito and DeathRowKitty

If scheduling is a problem, the live nature of this can be dropped but it would be MUCH appreciated if it didn't have to be. Also with American Thanksgiving being this week, it's entirely understandable if it's gonna be a bit problematic.

[Klick]

I want to pick Haschel. But racefan says he's a trivia genius. So we compromised.

Ceph and Radja, let's go.

[xofelf]

Well, I've already been informed by Radja that it will probably be damn near impossible to schedule a time where this can be done live, but what the hell, let's see if it MIGHT be possible to find something.

[Radja]

yay timezones!

[Klick]

What times can you make this happen Radja? I have a pretty open schedule so name whenever and I can try to be there.

[Radja]

on weekdays, 2pm-5pm xofy time

[Klick]

I can do that, easily. Don't know how great that time is for racefan/Ceph though.

[Radja]

I've been told racefan has a dayjob so I don't think he can make it.
I have no idea about Ceph

[xofelf]

Okay so like, obviously this isn't like saying HA YES XOF CAN BE HERE AT EVERY TIME EVER thing here. This is simply, a doodle of, knowing that: one of you lives in Willy Wonka land, three different timezones, two of you work away from internet things, two of you have significant others who would probably want to see you at some point, and three of you may have to do Thanksgiving things during this week MAY mean that schedules are super extra fucked so let's find if there's any hours of time where all 4 of you are even going to be online all at the same time during the next week before I just say let's fully scrap the live portion of this. I will note that tonight I personally can't run this because I have already booked up my entire night. BUT if this isn't live, I can start this tonight.

Please fill out this doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/qdmstzh6sfif9ra7

[Radja]

Show all 200 options.

LMAO

[xofelf]

^_^ YES SHOW ME ALL THE TIMES

[racefan12]

I want to pick Haschel. But racefan says he's a trivia genius. So we compromised.

Ceph and Radja, let's go.

I just want to clarify that the "he" here refers to Haschel.

[Radja]

We get it, you're both afraid of Haschel so you choose to lose against Ceph and me

[racefan12]

Also I'm not quite sure how this Doodle thing works but just looking at Radja's responses, I don't see this happening.

[Radja]

Welcome to Willy Wonkaland

[Radja]

I'd say fill it in anyway and we'll work from there.

[xofelf]

This is only to see if live things work. It's totally fine if they don't It can work without that.

Basically, you're filling out your availability. Yes is you can be here, (Yes) is if you HAVE to you can, No is nope never. And it defaults to No.

Also, I'm not entirely sure how long this should take. My best guesstimate is 2 hours or more. But I could be entirely wrong on that.

[Cephrir]

In lieu of checking off 400 boxes I'm just going to tell you when I'm available here

If it's not thanksgiving day I can probably do anything

[xofelf]

Okay, well, Ceph, does 3-5 EST next Saturday or Sunday work for you? Those are the only times where everyone else overlaps. And while I'd rather not wait a whole week, if that's what we have to do to schedule people, that's what we'll do. /Or/ would you all rather just not wait for that and play this non-live but with the awareness that as soon as you possibly can answer things would be preferred?

[Shadoweh]

If they do it non-live it might take a week anyways considering how every other game has ggone <.<

[xofelf]

Yes, well.

[Cephrir]

Those times should be fine

[xofelf]

Mkay, since you're all the most accommodating guys on the planet(no really, ALL of you said whichever is fine, no preference) in the interest of not dealing with a surprise work emergency deciding to take away the for sure time for the live challenge, scrapping the live deadline part to this. Just asking that as soon as humanly possible submit. But the first part of this will be going up

Tomorrow, November 20th at 3 PM EST

.

[animorpherv1]

Welcome to Willy Wonkaland

Can I have a golden ticket?