Hello all.  Our 10th anniversary celebration of Net Match Game -
Hollywood Squares Hour winds down as 2008 winds down.  Your support
has kept us going -- and will keep us going.  We can't thank you
enough.

Some notes before we commence...

\ Michael Clifford's our current champ with two wins and CY$69,500.
If he wins Hollywood Squares -- or collects CY$30,500 without
winning HS -- he's in the tournament of champions.  So we seek two 
players for Match Game with the winner advancing to play against 
Michael in Hollywood Squares.

\ This is Game 33.  So if you played as a "civilian" in Game 30, 31
or 32, please sit on your hands and let someone else play.  Can't
remember when you played?  Just go to www.nmghsh.cjb.net or
www.c-gate.net/~dougm/nmghsh and click on "Archives" and "Who 
Played When?"

\ We're not the only internet game show turning ten years old this
year.  Net Press Your Luck also is marking a decade.  We welcome to
the panel, in addition to the usual suspects, three members of the
NPYL staff: Brian Sapinski, David Hammond and Alan Mitsugi.  Also
joining us is Brian's wife, Andrea.

...and on to qualifying.  The two players closest to the right answer
get to play Match Game.

As Peter Tomarken often pointed out on the original "Press Your Luck"
series, "four whammies will bring tears to your eyes".  Whether or not
whammies were the cause, the average man cries or wells up how many 
times a year?

(time passes) 

And we're done.  Let's see how many times my fellow man has shed a
tear.
 

(ding)
 
Just fourteen.  Who's the closest?

Andy Silikovitz	14

He's right on the money.  Andy, you'll play against...

Ian Laudato	16  
Josh Warren     16  

(Greed tie sfx)

...one of these two.  Now the rules state the player who locked in
sooner takes the tie-break edge.  Who locked in 16 sooner?

Josh Warren     16 

It's going to be you, Josh.  Ian and everyone else, thanks for playing.
NMG-HSH -- comin' at ya.

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Rich Jeffries: "Tammy Whammette: Live at the Grand Ole Opry" 
(audience laughs) will not be seen at this time -- so that we may
let three players go after BIG BUCKS!  

(audience cheers)
 
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(MG-HSH theme plays)

Rich Jeffries:
Celebrating a decade on VBS,
it's time for the...

...and also celebrating its 10th year, Net Press Your Luck!

Joining us tonight are four members of Team NPYL....

Brian Sapinski

 

David Hammond

 

Alan Mitsugi

 

...and Mrs. Net Press Your Luck...
Andrea Sapinski

 

...plus our center square...
Jay Lewis

 

...and the stars of
the Net Match Game -
Hollywood Squares Hour...
Ryan Morris
and
Doug Morris

  
(NMG-HSH sign rises; MG-esque doors open; Ryan and Doug are 
welcomed to an ecstatic crowd, walk down the stairs, shake hands)

Doug:  Thanks, Rich. Helloooooooo, everybody and welcome to
another session of the Net Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour 
-- as we continue our 10th anniversary celebration.   Hello, stars.

 

 

 

 

Panel: (basically in unison) Hello, Ryan and Doug.

Ryan: Later in the show, Michael Clifford will try for an
undefeated championship and return to our tournament of 
champions.  He meets the winner of Match Game.

Doug: And to find a winner in Match Game, we gotta play it.
So, let the games begin!

(audience cheers) (Ryan and Doug shake hands)  (Ryan walks over
to "the Morris chair" among the panel)  (Doug walks over to the
Match Game players' desks)

Doug: And keep that applause going for Andy Silikovitz and
Josh Warren.

 

 

 

(audience cheers)

Doug: We'll chat with you later.  But let's go ahead and get
into the game.  As you know, we'll give each of you up to 
three chances to match as many...

 

 

 

 

Doug: ...of these members of People for the Unethical Treatment
of Whammies as you possibly can.

(audience laughs and applauds)

Doug: Each time you match a panelist, you earn a spin -- but
we do give you CY$100.   Match everyone and your total goes up 
to CY$1000.  

The player who scores more matches after the third round wins the 
game, another CY$500, and plays against Michael in Hollywood Squares 
for tens of thousands more. 

(audience cheers) (Doug presses button revealing Round 1 questions
on the toaster)

MG ROUND 1 BEGINS