~ Elwin Longtwig swept back to the middle of the stage followed closely by the center camera.
“Alright then! Now that we've met our competing teams, let's take a look at where they fall on the map compared to their rivals in the race. Jimmy, can you pull up the map for me please?” Elwin gestured behind himself at a large flat square up high on the stage's back wall. Immediately a large but crude diagram of some of the race levels appeared on the screen.
“Now, as all of you know, the map we display here only shows the race stages up to this point. Obviously we don't want to give anything away about the future obstacles for the contesting teams.
"You'll also note that even though two teams seem to be on the same level, they could be facing quite different obstacles, depending on what paths they choose to take. There are many, many different ways to get through each level, some being faster or easier than others. What paths teams choose to take largely depends on their individual skills, and whether or not they even noticed other possible routes. That having been said, let's see how Teams 5 and 6 are doing.”
With that word, another version of the map appeared, identical except for this one had a bunch of little orange dots on it.
“Ok then, here we have Teams 5 and 6.” Elwin gestured to the map and two small labels appeared on the map with the team numbers pointing to two of the dots. “As you can see there are eight other teams on this level as well, four of them taking part in other shows as we speak, to be aired on this network! There are another five teams still in one stage or another of the previous level, and two teams that are not on this map because they have already moved on to the next level, which we're not showing here.
“It is my unfortunate duty to let our viewers know though that Team 10, who had a member get injured on the first level, dropped out of the race during the previous level. Also, even worse, Team 3 was disqualified from the race, as their leader was killed while attempting to overcome one of the race obstacles also in the previous level. The second team this year to have had such a fatal accident.
"Teams who have injured members, but are remaining in the race are Teams 18, 14, and Team 6, who we have here with us right now.
“Now that we've had our progress report, let's play That Sounds About Right, beginning with one of my favorite games: Define It! Let's review the rules of play:
“One player of one team will be given a word to define. They will either define it correctly, or make something up that is convincing enough to bluff their opposing team. Either way, their definition will either be rejected by the opposing team, or accepted by it. If the definition is rejected by the opposing team, that team will be given a chance to give a correct definition, taking the points for themselves. Should they call rejection on a definition that is already correct, they will lose as many points from their total as the first team gained for the answer.
“The only remaining possibility is if the opposing team should fail to reject a false definition, then as many points as the word was worth will be taken from their total score and given to the team with the bluff, plus the original point value for the word, giving the team with the bluff double rewards.
"Are we all clear on what's going to happen?” he asked, looking from one team to the other. “Yes? Alright, let's play!” ~
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