In This Edition
This time we launch the 80s competition, give you a chance to influence the choice of artists for the class of 2007, announce a new future competition and reveal the winner from the 70s competition.
Current Competition
Here it is, the most anticipated of our decade champions series, the 80s. This will be the last of the prize years competition for a while, before the artist bias competitions return.
The 80s went from the post-punk new romantics up until Stock Aitken and Waterman, and from jazz funk to house (Acid, Italio). Featuring artists like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Level 42, Heaven 17, Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Yazz.
In order to win you must select the years (1980 to 1989) either from the prize years button or you can use the 80s button. This competition will run for 3 weeks up until 9th March.
Winners and Rankings
First of all a big apology. The results published last time did not feature the last day of play and so missed the bonus prize victory from Michael McCarthy, Michael won his 4th bonus prize. Unfortunately Howie Ross did not win a prize. For the full details including the renewed top 10 check out the revised previous newsletter, below.
http://www.ultquiz.co.uk/newsletters/newsletter33.html
So on to the 70s competition, here are the final top 10 rankings, please note these are the best 70s scores :
1 ( 1 ) Stewart Lennox
2 (Re) Graham Mather
3 ( 3 ) Kim Summers
4 ( 6 ) Howie Ross
5 ( 2 ) Si Harris
6 (12) Steve Cann
7 (11) Vaughan Davies
8 ( 4 ) Michael McCarthy
9 ( 7 ) Michael Ward
10(Re) Lynne Arundell
Highest new entry was at number 14 for Kevan Turner.
Where Re is a Re-Entry (a player coming back into the top ten), and a NE is a New Entry (the first time that this player has made the top ten).
So Stewart is at the top again for a 15th time, but is ineligible for the main prize as he won last time.
So therefore Graham Mather from North Yorkshire wins his 2nd main prize, he has also won a bonus prize previously.
Kim Summers came third and is back in play for the 80s competition.
Game News
There have been some reports of locking in the game again, just when we thought the gremlins had gone. We are looking at this but as a work round, if you experience this, then disconnect your network cable, wait for the message Waiting on server to re-connect, stand-by, then re-connect the cable, and you should then be able to carry on.
Also to make this a little more interesting I have reduced the time a little on level 8, this should make the game a lot more competitive.
Site News
Now is your chance to vote for your favourite artists from 2007, that will feature in class of 2007. The competition itself will feature 10 artists. In order for an artist to become eligible they must have had 6 top 50 chart entries, where they are the main artist. Here are the 26 artists that qualified for 2007 :
Kings Of Leon
Maroon 5
KT Tunstall
Rihanna
My Chemical Romance
Maximo Park
Timbaland
Natasha Bedingfield
The Magic Numbers
The Game
Arctic Monkeys
Fratellis
Amy Winehouse
Cascada
Fall Out Boy
Hard-Fi
Interpol
Biffy Clyro
James Blunt
Jessica Simpson
Simon Webbe
The Cribs
Junior Jack
Kaiser Chiefs
David Guetta
Akon
So if you would like to take part, please reply to this email with your top five and I will make sure that the most popular artists are included. Remember with artist bias competitions you can only score points when you answer 3 consecutive questions, on the 10 chosen artists, correctly.
Competition Schedule
17/02/2008 - 09/03/2008 -- 80s (Decade Champions)
10/03/2008 - 29/03/2008 -- Class of 2007
30/03/2008 - 26/04/2008 -- Madchester
27/04/2008 - 24/05/2008 -- Eurovision
Announcing a new competition this time in the shape of Eurovision. The actual contest in Belgrade this year is on 24th May, so this ties in nicely. This year we will be able to feature a number of Eurovision specific artists like Abba, Brotherhood of Man, Lulu, Sandi Shaw, Olivia Newton-John, Bucks Fizz. Please note Katrina and the Waves did not have enough hits to qualify, only 3, Walking On Sunshine, Sun Street and the winning entry Love Shine A Light.
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