James On The Chase.....A Possible 2nd Chance......
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:43 am
Well, unless you were on Apterous around about 12:15 this morning, or are of my few select friends who I've told via Facebook, or some other medium, you might not be aware of my recent escapade in the quiz show world.
A few weeks ago, I was a bit under the weather, and Rich Priest suggested that The Chase might be a good quiz to try and apply for, and since I hadn't tried for anything since Perfection, I thought I'd try that, so I sent my form off, and then around 4 weeks ago, I got a reply saying that I was wanted for an audition in Manchester on March 6th (Sunday just gone, if you can't count).
So, I went to the audition full of confidence and I found a whole mix of people in the bunch of 9 (including me) to audition. They included the man who wears the mascot suit at Stockport County, an ex-army man who is recording an episode of The Weakest Link next week, and a woman who mistakenly applied for the show thinking it was something similar to The Cube
I thought I had done very well in the 2 general knowledge audio tests, I think getting roughly 15/20 each time, then after the personal introduction, we had a sort of describing game where we had to make the rest of the team guess what was written on the card in front of me. I was the penultimate person to go on this task, but it was worth the wait, all the clues were things I knew of (unlike some of the others who clearly had some trouble with a couple), such as "things that are red", "Cluedo characters", "comedy duos" and perfectly for me, "James Bond films".
Then in the team game at the end, basically half and half doing GK for 90 secs each, although my team had one extra player. After the other team got 18 in their 90, I thought this could be interesting, and within a few seconds, I'd stormed out of the blocks and left a few people in the room stunned, especially when I answered what B&Q stood for.
In the end, my team got 20, and after some nervous waiting to see if we got through, I found that me and 4 others had made the SHORTLIST!!! 
So, I'm not quite there yet, but as they need 240 people from the shortlist of 400, my chances are 60%, so here's hoping that I might be reappearing on your telly set pretty soon.
P.S. I also thought I'd start a new topic, as the other one was getting a bit long, especially as it was supposedly only for Karen's appearance originally.
A few weeks ago, I was a bit under the weather, and Rich Priest suggested that The Chase might be a good quiz to try and apply for, and since I hadn't tried for anything since Perfection, I thought I'd try that, so I sent my form off, and then around 4 weeks ago, I got a reply saying that I was wanted for an audition in Manchester on March 6th (Sunday just gone, if you can't count).
So, I went to the audition full of confidence and I found a whole mix of people in the bunch of 9 (including me) to audition. They included the man who wears the mascot suit at Stockport County, an ex-army man who is recording an episode of The Weakest Link next week, and a woman who mistakenly applied for the show thinking it was something similar to The Cube
I thought I had done very well in the 2 general knowledge audio tests, I think getting roughly 15/20 each time, then after the personal introduction, we had a sort of describing game where we had to make the rest of the team guess what was written on the card in front of me. I was the penultimate person to go on this task, but it was worth the wait, all the clues were things I knew of (unlike some of the others who clearly had some trouble with a couple), such as "things that are red", "Cluedo characters", "comedy duos" and perfectly for me, "James Bond films".
Then in the team game at the end, basically half and half doing GK for 90 secs each, although my team had one extra player. After the other team got 18 in their 90, I thought this could be interesting, and within a few seconds, I'd stormed out of the blocks and left a few people in the room stunned, especially when I answered what B&Q stood for.
In the end, my team got 20, and after some nervous waiting to see if we got through, I found that me and 4 others had made the SHORTLIST!!! So, I'm not quite there yet, but as they need 240 people from the shortlist of 400, my chances are 60%, so here's hoping that I might be reappearing on your telly set pretty soon.
P.S. I also thought I'd start a new topic, as the other one was getting a bit long, especially as it was supposedly only for Karen's appearance originally.
