SAC hosts Thinkfast Interactive

The Students Activities Council hosted its first event of the spring semester, Thinkfast Interactive on Friday, Jan. 20.

Thinkfast Interactive is a hands-on educational game show where members are split into groups of twos to answer a wide variety of questions in a limited amount of time. The questions are projected on a screen, and a remote is used to choose the correct answer. Audience members are also provided the opportunity to participate in active challenges, such as dancing, singing, sales pitching and persuasion to accumulate more points. Like the trivia questions, the challenges are to be completed in a limited amount of time.

The game show began with a welcome video and general overview from Jay, a representative from TJohnE Productions.

"Welcome to Thinkfast, my name is Jay and on behalf of the family and the entire TJohnE organization, we want to say thank you for coming to the show today. The entire room will be connected via these wireless keypads, keep an eye on them for your team name, total points and position in the game," Jay said. "Captains always take a guess and you can always change your answers. It's anyone's game today. If trivia isn't your thing then be ready for the talent segments of the game. There will be singing, dancing and even debating competitions throughout the program."

Following the video, the host of the show, Mister, provided a breakdown of the rules of the game, which included audience members being given a total of five choices in a question and of the five to choose the answer they see best fit.

"The longer you take to answer the question the more points you will lose. You can change your answer throughout the question as many times as you'd like," Mister said. "But the more times you change your answer the more points you will lose as well."

Similar challenges were available for volunteering for contestants to complete the championship round.

Top 10 teams were displayed on the screen after each question.

Loud screams of excitement were heard when Mister revealed that the team at the end of the show would receive $200 in cash.

Throughout the show, questions were asked involving pop culture, science and history topics.

Some of the other questions asked include: "Disregarding Antarctica, what is the largest desert on earth?," "We lost too many musicians last year. Which artist won the most Grammy's?" and many other questions.

Puzzle pieces disappeared one by one on the screen and teams were asked to guess what was behind the pieces as the clock counted down. One of the puzzle pieces revealed it was Capitol Hall.

Each of the winners of the four challenges advanced to the speed round to max a total of 500 points.

Andrew Capps of team Scooter won the crowd over with his very convincing sales pitch over Coney Island Mountain Jackalope.

"Are you a purveyor of exotic meats? We have Coney Island Mountain Jackalope, only one gram of fat per serving," Andrew said.

He added that Mountain Jackalope is a rare meat that Chartwells serves all the time.

Lyric Nabors's light-hearted rendition of Celine Dion's hit "My Heart Will Go On" from the blockbuster film "Titanic" stole the hearts of audience members in the singing challenge.

In the last challenge, Ashleigh Taylor was not only comical, but also she was adamant in her approach of speaking at the altar to tell a couple they weren't fit for one another. Her persuasiveness also turned into a roast session, which really had the audience laughing.

"First of all, he might already have three baby mamas and a whole bunch of kids. Second of all, a person who can only wear two colors out of their entire wardrobe ain't got no business getting married," Ashleigh said. "Third of all, this fool can't even tie his shoes right. What kind of husband is that gonna be? And he's probably been spending too much money smoking anyways."

The speed round was a close race, but Taylor was the only one to advance to the championship speed round.

The remaining contestants for the championship speed round were representatives from the top three teams, which were Mario, WIFI and BigFoot.

A winner was called in the championship speed round once they collected a total of 1,000 points. Sophomore Kaylen Clemons was the person to reach 1,000 points.

Clemons said he enjoyed his participation in the game show and that he was shocked to win the coveted $200 cash prize.

"I thought the game was really fun, it was very, like, heart-racing, but to be able to win it was great because I honestly didn't think I was going to make it this far because I kept going up and down. But it was great to win," Clemons said.