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Doug: And welcome back to Net Definition. John Menjes, our congratulations for making it in to the Mega Playoff. (audience cheers) Now, in a moment, we'll announce the semi-final pairings. But let's see if you can top off your reign with CY$50,000 in the A to Z Round.
You know how this works. Scarlett gives you the bonus definition, I give you letters one at a time from A to Z. When I give you a letter that appears at least once in the solution, I'll stop and entitle you to a guess. The right answer pays CY$1000 for each letter unrevealed.
However, before I give you the A, if you can give me the right answer with no letters exposed, you win CY$50,000.
Doug: Best of luck, John. Here's Scarlett with your bonus definition.
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Scarlett: Winning a gold medal.
Doug: Winning a gold medal. John, before you guess, there is a component of the answer that's not a letter of the alphabet. As always, we give that to you for free.
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Doug: An apostrophe -- next to last character in the first word. That's all we can help you with at the 50-grand level. For CY$50,000, one time only -- winning a gold medal.
John: Olympic's haul?
Doug: Incorrect. Let's start giving you letters with A.
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Doug: Woah, and two A's pop in like a shot. Ten blanks to fill -- means this is worth CY$10,000. Winning a gold medal.
John: How 'bout Athlete's Feat?
Doug: How 'bout we ice that cake with CY$10,000!
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(bells; audience applause; The Mad Dash victory music plays)
Doug: Now John, with this victory, I can tell you your total cyber-cash adds up to CY$128,500. (audience cheers) And now -- we can reveal the semi-final pairings in the Net Definition Mega Playoff.
1. Michael Clifford |
CY$231,250 |
4. John Menjes |
CY$128,500 |
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2. Shawn Wells |
CY$149,000 |
3. Andy Silikovitz |
CY$146,000 |
Doug: Seeding's determined by the amount of cyber-money won by each semi-finalist. Highest seed plays lowest seed -- and the next highest plays next lowest.
John, while CY$128,500 is nothing to sneeze at, that's the lowest amount of cyber-money earned by our final four. That means you'll take on our top seed, Michael Clifford, with an impressive CY$231,250.
The other semi-final game pits second seed Shawn Wells against third seed Andy Silikovitz. And look how close those two ended up -- only CY$3000 difference.
Now, the winners of the semi-finals advance to the finals. And the winner of the finals wins the guaranteed top prize of CY$1,000,000.
(audience cheers) (theme plays)
Doug: Should be a great time and a great tournament. Meantime, we'll hopefully have a great audience game -- here on Net Definition.
ADVANCE TO AUDIENCE GAME
