Good Valentine’s Day to you, avid readers! I’m Billy Tierney reporting live from the desk of room 407 in the Chateau Granville on Granville street downtown Vancouver, Canada. Phew! Say that 80 times fast! Last night’s semi-finals show was, forgive me for saying, bomb-ass. Atlanta (3 seed) took on Orlando (2 seed) in the first half of the show and avenged their one point loss earlier in the tournament with a two-point victory to move on to the finals, which take place this evening. Orlando wow’ed me with a Word at a Time Song as one of their games and Atlanta did a nice little ditty that I will dare to call a Blind Focus Narrative Collage. All in all, a great start to a great show.
We, Bellingham (4 seed) looked to upset undefeated Vancouver (1 seed) in the second half and opened strong with a Switch Right, Switch Left scene that netted 13 points from the audience judges. Vancouver answered back with a decent 14-point scene that for no reason in particular I cannot remember (and since the other two are still sleeping, that’s the way I’ll write it). We chose to do a sentences scene for our second scene and were challenged to involve the theme “Sanctuary” somehow. DK introduced the game and asked the audience what they thought of when they heard the word “Sanctuary” and we were given the suggestion of Yoga Retreat. We had a very fun sentences scene that culminated in DK asking me to take my shirt off, attempting to take my shirt off, taking his own shirt off which concreted the acceptance I needed to make to take my own shirt off – we played the rest of the scene that way and I must say it was quite enjoyable. That scene netted us 14 points, putting us 13 ahead of Vancouver – primed for the upset bid. Vancouver then played a “bungee-jump” scene with Graeme and Michael talking in one voice and earned a sterling 14 points from the audience, giving them a one point advantage going into the ‘team challenge’ last round.
Vancouver challenged us to a scene that would teach them something and so I cockily assured them that they would learn from watching DK and Galen play in a Genre Coaster scene. I received the relationship of “Boyfriend/Girlfriend” from the audience and the scene got underway. DK played the man and Galen the woman and I froze their scene throughout to get the new genres from the audience. They went from a neutral scene to Western to Bollywood to Martial Arts to Sci-Fi to Romance, fitting together a nice little story arc and ending. This scene netted us 13 points and we held a 12-point lead going into the final scene. We challenged Vancouver to do something Tricky in their scene and Michael introduces that the trick they will be performing is to use us in their scene and get triple fives from the audience. He gave us control over calling Cut-To for their scene and asked that we play with them if we felt it necessary. The scene was a lot of fun and we did join them, playing side characters and whatnot. Although the scene struggled a little at the end, it did in fact net them triple fives from the audience judges leaving the final score Vancouver 43, Bellingham 40. There was a little snafu on the scorekeepers side which altered the energy a bit at the end of the show, putting Vancouver up by 5, then tying us at 43, then tying us at 38, then having Vancouver win 43 to 38… point is, we gave it our best shot and lost, but wouldn’t have changed anything if we could go back. It was a great show and we were happy to be part of it, what an awesome festival it has been so far.
The stage is set for the Finals of the 2011 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Vancouver will be taking on Atlanta tonight for all the marbles in the a full show of improv awesomeness. Afterwards will be a Valentine’s Kiss and Tell show that’ll be a mash-up of players from different teams. It’ll be a blast! Until tomorrow, Happy Valentine’s Day!
We, Bellingham (4 seed) looked to upset undefeated Vancouver (1 seed) in the second half and opened strong with a Switch Right, Switch Left scene that netted 13 points from the audience judges. Vancouver answered back with a decent 14-point scene that for no reason in particular I cannot remember (and since the other two are still sleeping, that’s the way I’ll write it). We chose to do a sentences scene for our second scene and were challenged to involve the theme “Sanctuary” somehow. DK introduced the game and asked the audience what they thought of when they heard the word “Sanctuary” and we were given the suggestion of Yoga Retreat. We had a very fun sentences scene that culminated in DK asking me to take my shirt off, attempting to take my shirt off, taking his own shirt off which concreted the acceptance I needed to make to take my own shirt off – we played the rest of the scene that way and I must say it was quite enjoyable. That scene netted us 14 points, putting us 13 ahead of Vancouver – primed for the upset bid. Vancouver then played a “bungee-jump” scene with Graeme and Michael talking in one voice and earned a sterling 14 points from the audience, giving them a one point advantage going into the ‘team challenge’ last round.
Vancouver challenged us to a scene that would teach them something and so I cockily assured them that they would learn from watching DK and Galen play in a Genre Coaster scene. I received the relationship of “Boyfriend/Girlfriend” from the audience and the scene got underway. DK played the man and Galen the woman and I froze their scene throughout to get the new genres from the audience. They went from a neutral scene to Western to Bollywood to Martial Arts to Sci-Fi to Romance, fitting together a nice little story arc and ending. This scene netted us 13 points and we held a 12-point lead going into the final scene. We challenged Vancouver to do something Tricky in their scene and Michael introduces that the trick they will be performing is to use us in their scene and get triple fives from the audience. He gave us control over calling Cut-To for their scene and asked that we play with them if we felt it necessary. The scene was a lot of fun and we did join them, playing side characters and whatnot. Although the scene struggled a little at the end, it did in fact net them triple fives from the audience judges leaving the final score Vancouver 43, Bellingham 40. There was a little snafu on the scorekeepers side which altered the energy a bit at the end of the show, putting Vancouver up by 5, then tying us at 43, then tying us at 38, then having Vancouver win 43 to 38… point is, we gave it our best shot and lost, but wouldn’t have changed anything if we could go back. It was a great show and we were happy to be part of it, what an awesome festival it has been so far.
The stage is set for the Finals of the 2011 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Vancouver will be taking on Atlanta tonight for all the marbles in the a full show of improv awesomeness. Afterwards will be a Valentine’s Kiss and Tell show that’ll be a mash-up of players from different teams. It’ll be a blast! Until tomorrow, Happy Valentine’s Day!
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