Night 2

Reporting from Le Chateau Granville, Vancouver Canada, I’m Billy Tierney. The second evening of the tournament blitzed the Granville Island audience members and sacked their seat-filling asses. I don’t know the official numbers, but at least one of the three shows sold out and the other two boasted near capacity numbers as well. In the first match of the evening The Upfront wrangled their first victory from the needy mouths of the Seattle team (joined by the ever-entertaining Alistair Cook) by a handful of points. In this match, Seattle was challenged to do something involving transformers or transforming and Alistair set up a game in which the host would, at any time during the scene, do the Transformers changing sound, at which point the scene would switch between two or three audience-given genres. It ultimately wasn’t enough to yank the victory from our sturdy grasp, but a noteworthy and fun-to-watch game nonetheless. Vancouver maintained their undefeated status by beating Atlanta by a narrow margin in the second match. During that contest Vancouver set up a scene three ways by getting two locations and used the verbiage, ‘First, we are going to do a short, unfunny scene and then we’ll revisit it using our locations suggestions’. This was a concise way to introduce the game and felt satisfying as an audience member to hear it explained so succinctly. Atlanta introduced a new game during this match that was SO MUCH FUN to watch. It’s called First Date Hell, in which the caller of the game dings a bell and calls out an emotion and the designated one of the players immediately takes on that emotion (because their crazy!).
            During the second show of the night, Orlando stayed perfect with a win over Calgary, who suffered their second loss of the tournament. We received our second defeat of the tournament in the following match, in which Atlanta earned their first win by spanking us by nine points. The match was closer than the score indicated, however, as we had a lot of fun and provided a badass show for the audience.  In the last show of the evening (11:45pm start!) Vancouver solidified their tournament dominance by beating Orlando and moving to 4-0.
            Tonight, we’re up against Calgary in the 8pm show and Orlando in the late show and these two matches will largely decide our tournament fate. Wish us well, Bellingham viewers!

Here are the standings as they… stand?... now:

Bellingham      1-2
Seattle              0-2
Vancouver       4-0
Calgary            1-2
Atlanta             1-2
Orlando            2-1